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Kennedy Stepping Up Pressure Get Troops Out of OuEia On Russia Said To 7 Vvl V7 GOVERNMENT OVERTHROWN Radio broadcasts from Baghdad report that a mili tary revolution has overthrown the Iraq Iraq Army President New Pay Plan for City Employees Is Adopted by Council A new pay plan for city I biliiy pay may be awarded employees, compiled by the after five years service, when Portland research firm of the employee will receive H2 Griffenhagen - Kroeger, Inc., was adopted by unanimous action of the Medford city council last night. The plan, which will be im plemented as of Jan. 1, 1963, will affect 175 city employees. Immediate salary adjust ments, retroactive to Jan. 1, will be received by 162 em ployees under the new plan. Eleven others will receive ad justments in stability pay Dec. 1, 1963. The plan does not include 28 employees of the city water department or 15 employees of the Public Library of Med ford and Jackson County. Average Increase Under the new plan, em ployees will receive an aver age increase amounting to 7,'i per cent of their present sala ries, or about $11.43 a n onth. The minimum raises will be $1 per month; the maximum . Increase will amount to $30 a month. Cost to the city of convert ing from the old plan (adopt ed July 1, 1954) to the new plan will be $12,000 for the period from Jan. 1 to June 1, 1963. Of that amount, be tween $7,000 and S8.000 has already been budgeted, while the remaining S4.000 to $5,000 will be taken from a special fund created for certain sal ary adjustments by action of the city council and the budg et committee last spring. The new plan contains pro visions for growth step in creases, rewards) for excep tional service, and stability or longevity payments. As a reward for exceptional serv ice, an employee may be re warded financially for a pe riod of 3, 6 or 9 months. Sta- New Hospital Fund Reaches $590,600 The campaign fund for con struction of the new Sacred Heart hospital lias reached S590,600, the New Sacred Heart Hospital Development Program Community commit tee has announced. Sunday, Feb. 10, has been designated "Sacred Heart Sunday" and n i .t rnm munity arive will be launch ed, the committee reported. Persons wishing to volun teer as workers in the drive have been asked to contact Terry D. Green, chairman of the community committe at 773-6611. FLOOD DAMAGE CURBED Portland - UPH - Flood con- trol dams in the Willamette River basin prevented an es timated $335,000 in flood damage during the recent heavy water runoff, Col. Sterling K. Eisiminger, Port land district engineer, said to day. naiiiA rrtMS FROM U.S. RtbUMLS iLSimt, iw wtVADA Washington-'IPI-The United Slates resumed underground nuclear testing today at its Nerada test lite, the Atomic Energy Commission announced. Tht AEC said the detonations were oi iniermeuioi yieid or VENEZUELA TERRORIST DEN RAIDED Caracas, Veneiuela-lPi-Police raided a terrorist den hare Thursday night and seised Communist plans for attack on U.S. oilfield installations and other enterprises In Venesuela, it was reported today. UNITED STATES SUSPENDS AID TO CEYLON Waihinglon-lPI-The United States today suspended eco nomic and technical aid to Ceylon because of its iailurt to compensate American oil companies for property it seised. government and Kariin Kassem, Units Rebel; Kassem Slain per cem ui nis uHse raie, run- ning up to 5 per cent of his base rate after 20 years of meritorious service. The Griffenhagen Kroeger study was compiled on the basis of a study of salary scales in cities of comparable size in southern and central Oregon and northern Cali fornia. B. C. Satterfield Dies in Hospital Following Rescue Benjamin Cecil Satterfield, 46, 1815 Prune st., Medford, died at Rogue Valley hospital about 4 p.m. Thursday about five hours after he was res cued from a pond where he was pined under a scraper at the Lininger Sand and Gravel plant. Satterfield was revived by Central Point fireman, who used a resuscitator and under doctor's orders, took him to the hospital. He nev er regained consciousness, however, hospital attedands said, though his breathing was restored. Police said Satterfield was operating a self - propelled scraper which tipped over, pinning him under it in the small pond. It took rescuers five minutes to get a bull dozer and remove the equip ment. On Rescue Car On the rescue car were Unit Captain Eloy Sttuon, As sistant Fire Chief Don Mull gan, Battalion Chief Cal Bow ers and Francis Marshall. Satterfield is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bangtamae Sat tprfieUl M e d f o r d; three daughters, Mrs. Frank Glenn Medford, Shirley Satterfield, Oregon State University, Cor vallis; Mary Helen Satterfield Shasta College, Redding Calif.,; two grandchildren and several brothers and sisters. He was a member of the McMinnville Elks lodge and the Grants Pass Eagles lodge Funeral services being ar range by Perl Funeral Home ve MC"jh ('-'!! lauvely sched uled for Monday. Fraternities Target Of Proposed Measure Salem-UPH-A bill aimed at two fraternities in Oregon is being drafted, a spokesman I for 'he National Association for the Advancement ot Col ored People said today. Wally Priestly said the bill would prohibit recognition of fraternities or sororilies whose national charters con tain discrimination clauses, even if discrimination is not practiced in Oregon. AROUND THI OlOM is. BRIEFS assassinated Premier Abdel shown at left. (UPI) Rebels Claim Support From Throughout Land Tehran, Iran-IUPll-Army and air force units reoeliea in Iraq today, overthrew the government and ai.nounced that Piesident Abdel Karim Kassem was slain. The rebels apparently were sympathetic to the United Arab Republic, whose radio in Cairo hailed the revolt as 'the dawn of a bright future for the Iraqi people and army." Headquarters Bombed Word of the revolt came from rebel radio broadcasts and diplomatic dispatches to capitals throughout the Mid dle East. Reports reaching Ankara, Turkey, said Kassem's head quarters in the Defense Min istry Building were bombed at 8:30 a.m. and the structure reduced to rubble, with Kas sem possibly buried in the wreckage. But rebel broad casts indicated his body may have been dragged into the streets for the public to see. Brigadier Abdel Karim Mustafa was named leader of the new ruling junta. He was identified as commander of the Erramadi garrison in the suburbs of Baghdad, but little else was known about him. Claim Military Support The revolt apparently had its focal point in the cap'tal of Baghdad, legendary, "Ara bian Nights" city. The rebels also claimed military support throughout the country. They indicated they were in con trol of the situation and that officers and officials loyal to Kassem had been arrested or were in flight. Weight Label on Bread Proposed Salem - IUPD - A bill to re quire loaves of bread to bear a weight label in letters one inen high was announced to day by Rep. Winston Hunl (R-Woodburn). The measure offers one pos sible solution to the contro versy over balloon loaves. The Hunt proposal also would repeal the present law, overthrown in court, that was intended to let the Agricul ture department specify the size and shape of bread pans Hunt said he opposed the phMosc.y Hi letting an agen cy specify the size of a loaf of bread. "Under the terms of my proposal," he said, "t h e weight of a loaf of bread will be where the purchaser can see it at a glance and if some baker wants to bake a new loaf in the shape of a star I say let him do it." Electrical Strike At Coos Bay Ends Coos Bay -IUPH- An agree ment was announced today by State Conciliator Paul Tin ning ending a strike of elec trical workers in this area. Tinning said an agreement was signed Thursday night for a new two year contract between the Coos Area Elec trical Contractors Association and Local 932 of the Interna- tinnul Rrnllirhftf,H nf Flnr-. ! trical Workers. No details ! were announced, ! Tnc unjon ,'B(j gone on ! stn(e Jan. 29. saving It want- cd t0 brjn(( its 9cae up tt to what was paid other areas in the state. SEARCH CONTINUES Salem - lUPH - Searchers concentrated in the east end of the Columbia Gorge today in a hunt for Portland air man Ronald Myers, 21, miss ing since last Saturday on a (light in a light plane. Regional Edition MEDFORD 20 Pages Two Sections Southern Water Supply Is Reduced The residual February through September water sup ply forecasts for all areas in southern Oregon have been reduced in all cases from 10 to 15 per cent over last month's outlook, Robert D. Church, meteorologist at the Medford station of the U.S. weather bureau, reported to day. Temperatures during Jan uary were five to six degrees below normal and precipita tion was light, about 30 to 50 per cent of the 15-year 1943 to 1947 period, Church said. Practically all the precip itation fell during the last days of the month, and fell as warm rain, which created another problem. As a result, Survey Indicates Driest Year Yet, MID Report Notes The Billie Creek snow sur vey indicates the driest year on record, according to a Medford Irrigation district res ervoir report today. Billie Creek snow pack wa ter content Feb. 1 measured 1.9 inches compared to the previous driest year of 1934 showing 7.8 inches water con tent. Records there go back to 1929, irrigation district offi cials said. Reservoir supplies, snow pack and precipitation to date are well under the 15-year average. This indicates a dry year for the area east of Bear creek served by MID. How ever, the area west of Bear creek will be In good shape since it is served from the MID storage share of the Tal ent Irrigation district reser voirs. This is a percentage of the available water stored by MID. The snow survey indicates no snow pack at Fish lake, a trace of snow at Rye Spur, 1.9 inches of water content at Billie creek snow pack and 2 inches of water content at the Four Mile lake snow pack. Conditions Could Change "Thi jc only a comparison and it should be realized there is approximately 60 days re maining in this accumulation period and conditions could change," MID officials said. The 15-year average shows 10.3 inches of water content at Fish lake, 17.6 inches at Billie creek and 20.3 inches at Four Mile lake. Rye Spur is a new course. At Fish lake ll-.c district has a general storage of 4,661 acre feet at this time, com pared to a usable capacity of 8,300 acre feet. Four Mile lake has 6,000 acre feel, compared to usable capacity of 18,800 acre feet. Howard Prairie has 40,107 acre feel, and a usable capaci ty of 00,000 acre feet. Hyatt lake has 12,560 acre feet com pared to 16,100 acre feet usa ble capacity and Emigrant lake has 24,678 acre feet com pared to usable capacity of 39,000 acre feet. Bidding Possible For Grazing Land Washington - HOT ern cattlemen were warned today that the alternative to I grazing fees on public lands might be competitive bidding. i The warning was made by I Asst. Interior Secretary John ! A. Carcr Jr., before the Sen- ate public lands subcommlt I tee during a hearing on fed ! eral grazing policies. I An increase in the fees ap peared almost certain as Car ver continued a hard-hitting defense of the Interior depart ment's grazing policies in the lace of criticism by stockmen. The question of whether further hearings would be held in the West remained open. Oregon in Month much of the already light snow pack was washed down the river leaving little snow for runoff during the critical water use period later in the season. Close to 70 Per Cent Forecasts made Feb. 1 in dicate that the flow yet to come will be close to 70 per cent on the Rogue, Umpqua and Klamath basins, Church stated, and near to 85 per cent to the east on the Che waucan basin, The complete residual fore casts, February through Sep tember, listed by Church are North Umpqua river below Lemolo reservoir 170,000 acre feet, 73 per cent; Rogue river below South Fork 730, 000 acre feet, 72 per cent; Upper Klamath lake net in flow 683,000 acre feet, 71 per cent; Williamson river below Sprague river 459,000 acre feet, 70 per cent; Sprague riv er near Chiloquin 428,000 acre feet, 86 per cent; Che waucan river near Paisley 11, 000 acre feet, 89 per cent. On Jan. 1, in his forecast, Church said indications were that the residual flow Janu ary to September would be below the 15-year average. He also warned of critical water shortages, which he said could be experienced in the southern Oregon area un less late winter and early spring deposited heavy snows. Some snow fell, but most of it was melted by warm rains. Engineering Work Sfarfs on Sewer Jacksonville Engineering work in preparation for con struction of Jacksonville's sewer system has started. Workmen, using a Pacific Power and Light company post hole digging machine, are drilling holes at various locations to test the depth and type of material at points where the sewer lines will be installed. The holes are being filled up again after testing is com pleted. Conducting the engineering work is the firm of Cornell, Howland. Hayes and Merry- field of Corvallis. Jacksonville's sewer system is scheduled to be installed this spring and summer. Vot ers approved bonds at a 1961 election to finance the project Mother Sues for Injured Student Portland (UPP The moth er of a seventh grade student i.ijurta in a physical educa tion class at Sunnywide grade school filed a $75,000 civil suit Thursday. Mrs. Norma Joan Ryther complained her daughter, Rita Blair, 13, was injured seriously while attempting a forward tumbling exercise last March 1. The suit said the daughter suffered spinal injuries which caused her to become paralyzed and crip pled. Named as defendants were Dr. Leon P. Mincar, slate su perintendent of public inul ruc tion; Betty Owen and Ralph Dyson, directors of health and physical education for Oregon elementary schools; Principal David Wright of Sunnyslde school, and John P. Sanders, Hk...ln..l nJ....t!..n Jt.nin- - ''. i the school. WEATHER FOKHCAhT: VarUhU rloudl nts? and mtlrj tmpr (tturei i nuhi and Saturday. Chance ot a little lulu rain haturday att rriiituii or rvrtiiliR. Low tonight 4J-IR. Hlih gaturday t-bb. Ten: p. Highest Ytitrrday 5 t.uweftt Thli Morning 52 free, to JO a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Htintfl today 3:34 p.m. ftunrlie tomorrow .. 7:1? a.m. Moonrlte today 1:52 p.m. I.att Quartrr . . Feb. I I'KUMINfcNT STAR Rrgutii, near ihr Moon. VIHIMLK PLANKTS JuplUr. low In wett 7:2J p.m. Mara, dtir eatt 7:4R p.m. Venus, low In wulh MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1963 CONGRATULATED Winners of awards at an Ashland banquet are congratulated by Glenn L. Jackson, second from the left, speaker of the evening. Receiving awards Youth Injured as He Tries To Flee Arresting Officer A 15-ycar-old Medford boy is in Sacred Heart hospital today with severe head in - juries he received last night when a city police officer fell- ed him with a rock as the youngster was attempting to flee after being surprised in the act of breaking into a coin machine at the Econ-O-Mat self-service laundry, 918 King st. According lo reports, the officer observed the youngster crouched in front of a coin machine about 12:25 o'clock this morning. I he officer entered the laundromat, confronted the youih, who readily admitted he was attempting to break into the coin machines. He had some candy burs on his person from one machine he had broken into before the officer arrived, police said. The officer placed the boy under arrest, took from him a rock and chisel he had used to break into the machines, and started to lead him to the patrol car. Youth Breaks Away As (hey nearod the car. the youth broke away and ran. The officer gave pursuit, but the bov beaan In nlrii him. The officer then threw his flashlight, hilling, but not slopping him. Rather than ucc his service revolver, Hie offi cer then threw the only thing ii-ft in his hand, the rock he had taken from the youth. It struck the boy in the back of the head and ho fell. He was immediately taken to the police station, where he was treated bv a doctor fnr n 'laceration on his sealo. When the hoy began to complain of dizziness, he was taken to the hospital for further ex aminzaliun, ofiicei's said. The laundromat l.as been burglarized four times in re cent vccks, and cunsidcrabie damage has been caused to the coin machines In each care. A charge of larceny is being filed against the young ster, pulice said. No Settlement Near In SP Strike Talks San Francisco-HPII - Chair man Frank O'Neill of the Fed eral Mediation Board, at tempting to head off a strike by the Brotherhood of Rail - way Clerks against Southern Pacific railroad, today report ed no settlement in sight fol lowing a meeting with com pany representatives. O'Neill then left for n meet ing with union official!, who have warned that time i run ning out. "Today is the last day,'' said Junes E. Weaver, chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks SP Division. "We have to set a deadline sometime." The 1 1,000-mcmber union, which claims the support of 39,000 other SP employees, originally was scheduled to stop work any time after mid night Wednesday. Tribune were (left to right) Frank Davis, Duane Baker and Dr. Charles E. Brown. (Whit land Locke Photo) Three Ashland Men Presented Awards At Annual Ashland Recognized and nonorea tor meir ouisuinaing ! community service were three Ashland men chosen for the ( annual awards of Man of the ,. . .i. .1 1....,- I Year- Senior Citizen and Dis- tlngulshed Junior Citizen The Thursday evening ban quet In the Mark Antony ho tel attended by more than 130 persons is a yearly event spon sored jointly by the Ashland Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwimis club and the Junior Chamber of Commerce. I Duane Baker won the title Man of the Year. The award plaque given by the chamber was presented by Bill Patton chamber president, who listed Baker's many activities. Ba ker is a member of the city council; serves on the YMCA board; is vice president of Ki wanis club; is a member of the United Fund board; has been chairman of the eco nomic development commis sion of the chamber; is on the board of deacons of the First Baptist church, and is vice president of Jackson County Insurance Agents association. Senior Citizen Named Senior Citizen was Frank Davis, 87 Scenic dr., whose CGn'ii'iiunity Service dales from 1905 and includes a wide variety of Interests. Presentation ot the Kiwanis award was made by elub President Martin Elie, Davis retired several years ago after serving as superin tendent of streets and super intendent of the city ceme tery. He was for five years a member of the Jackson coun Lv scnnol hoard. He has been on the budget committee of the Ashland schools; on the YMCA board; on the United Fund, beard. For three years he was treasurer of Tudor Guild and served as Hey Day chsirman. In the First Meth odist church he has performed practically every duty of a layman. Dr. Charles E, Brown, op tometrist, won the Distin guished Junior Citizen award. It was presented to him by Jaycee President Lawrence Burghart. From Scoutmaster to Methodist church choir, from Fourth of Juiy publicity to Lions club projects and Toastmastcr activities t h e award winner has taken an enthusiastic part. 1 Runners Up Runners up for the annual civic honors were Emll Kroe ger and Dr. Arthur S. Taylor, Speed of Automation Noted in Address Cottiige Grove-iliPii-A union official said Thursday night that automation is advancing so fast that soon there will be computers which will put other computers out of work. Irving Blucstone, adminis trative assistant to United Automobile Workers Chief Walter Reuther, spoke to a group of about 100 educators, industrialists and business men here. 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 277 Banquet , senior citizen; the Rev. James I . .... Sinclair ana ration, aisun-i guished junior citizen, a n d Edd Rountree and Dr. Alvln Fellers, man of the year. Names of nominees were I submitted by Ashland civic clubs, church groups, and pro fcssional and business organi zations. An anonymous panel of judges made the selection of three finalists in each cat egory and from them chose the winners. Master of ceremonies was I Sidney Ainsworth and guest I speaker was Glenn L. Jack - son, Medford lumberman and industrialist recently appoint ed chairman of the slate high way commission. Keating Provided With Photographs Washington - IUPI1 - Defense Secretary Robert S. McNa mara sent Sen. Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.) photographs Thursday which he said prove the Soviets have abandoned their medium and intermedi ate ballistic missile sites in Cuba. ! Keating had promised to eat his hat if he wan proven wrong about his contention that medium range mis'lle sites remain intact on Cuba. McNamarn, in his letter, commented lightly thut "It is not my purpose to expand the sales of the hat manufactur ers." "Enclosed arc photographs of each of the nine medium range ballistic missile or in- iunaediaiQ-raiige taiiistic mis sile sites established by the Soviet Union In Cuba. . ." he said. "You will note that nil of the ctmcrslr Imjrrhing pads some at 1UEM sites, some at MRBM sites have been broken up." East Feels Renewed Grip of Bifrsr Cold By United Press International Bitter cold weather clamp ed down on the East today and drove temperatures as low ns 33 degrees below zero. The cold stretched from the Mississippi river to Maine and there was snow, fog or rain through much of the East. interim Power Committee Requested in Salem - 0TPD - Creation of a seven-member Interim elec tric power committee was tailed for today in a bill in troduced by Rep. Edward Whelan (D-Portland). The bill would provide $100,000 to finance the study of power rates, utility lobby ing, and the performance of the public utilities commis sioner. A bill by Kessler Cannon (R-Bcnd.) would prevent most occupational licensing agen cies from regulating advertis President Plans Personal Message To Khrushchev Presence Called 'Matter of Concern' Washington -IUPD- President Kennedy was reported today to be stepping up pressure on Russia to pull its military forces out of Cuba. Informed sources said the President planned to send a personal message to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev asking him just when he was going to keep his promise to remove these armed units from the doorstep of the Unit ed States. These sources said they did not know whether the message had actually been dispatched as yet. The President said Thurs day the continued presence in Cuba of an estimated 17,000 Soviet military personnel, in cluding about 6,000 organized into regular combat units, was a "matter of concern to us." Under Discussion He told a news conference this "unfinished business" was under discussion with the Rus sians. Kennedy said he wanted to get a more specific idea of what Khrushchev meant when he promised last November that his military forces would be pulled out "in due course." At the same time, the Presi dent warned that any Soviet effort to sneak offensive mis siles or bombers back into Cuba -would "produce the greatest crisis which the world has faced in Its history." I He said he doubted that Russia would risk war by making any offensive move ' J J, h 1 continue our dally aeriafand 1 naval surveillance." n r-iiKn onvih nn t,ao 1 I mam . R nAvln iiivAfl When Hit by Car Michael Eugene Ford, IS, of 804 West 10th st, Medford, was treated at Sacred Heart I hospital Thursday for injuries I he suffered when lie was 1 struck by a car while he was I walking on South - Oakdale ave., according to city police. Driver of the car was Mary Ethel Sullenger, 53, of 100 South Stage rd. She was cited for failure to yield the right of way to a pedestrian. The accident occurred about 3:50 p.m. Ford was reported in good condition today. In the first of two non-in jury vehicle accidents in the city Thursday, Ronald Orvin Thomson, 24, of 344 South Grape St., was cited for fail ure to stop at a sign after his car collided with a vehicle op erated by Arthur Donovan Roe, 26, of 904 Bcekman st., about 5:28 p.m. at King and Inih Th fore? o? th im pact knocked the Thomson ve hicle Into a nearby telephone pole, Hie report noted. A vehicle operated by Paul Herbert Elgin, 1221 Withing ton St., struck a parked car registered to R. O. Rolf Holm Strom, 2908 Old Stage rd., about 11:55 p.m. on Central ave. between .?, . ncr1. IVfc sts., officers said. No injuvlos wrn reprice1 nnd r." "'"tlortS ' were issued. - Mvsa Doubts Fassagt -Of New ConsffuflOil Salem-iUPD-Senate President Ben Musa said today he rinnhlpH if the proposed new Oregon Constitution would be able to get through the House this nessuu. He added, "it will have rough going In the Senate." RIGHT TO WORK SIGNED Cheyenne, Wyn. -!'!- Wyo ming today became the 20th right to work state with the signing by Gov. Clifford P. Hansen, a Republican, of a bill to ban union shop agree ments. House Bill ing unless such authority Is provided by statute. The measure also would prohibit falsi- or misleading advertising, and includes ra dio and television broadcasts in its provisions. Penalties for violations would be increased to a $1,000 fine or 90 days in the county jail. A Senate Education com mittee bill would add a school board member to the State Textbook commission, and would assign to the Board ot Education the final responsi bility for textbook adoption. 5
