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of Civil Defense Mgeroy im mat noun Urged I GIRLS START HIKE Five of the seven Congressional secretaries who are on dawn-to-dusk hike along the old C&O canal, are shown about 10 miles from their starting point, Washington, D.C., about mid-morning today. At that point the girls were going Girls on Hike; Salinger Has Second Thoughts Washington-fflPD-A group of congressional secretaries set out today to prove on a dawn-to-dusk hike that they are in belter shape than White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger. Salinger, whose measure ments top to bottom are 43-40-43, conceded defeat in ad vance Tuesday by admitting that "my shape is not good." He called off plans for a marathon hike of his own Fri day. The Capitol Hill girls, more in the 36-27-37 class, gloated that Salinger had "capitu lated." They went ahead with their planned trek along the tnwpath of the Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, the same route Salinger had chosen. Long-legged Jacq u e 1 i n e (Jackie) MacDonald, 23, a leader of the congressional hikers, said. "We have felt all along that we were in better shape than Mr. Salin ger. Besides, we can t see where it would be detrimen tal to our health." Salinger, backed by a state ment from the President's Council on Youth Fitness which he denied having insti gated, used potential danger to health as an excuse. He said persons not in good shape shouldn't overdo it. Damper on Craze The council's statement put a damper on the walking craze launched by President Kennedy's suggestion that Ma rine Corps officers should find out if they still could take 50-mile hikes as President Theodore Roosevelt ordered in 1908. In advising caution, the council said the long-distance marches might be fine for Marines but they might be too strenuous for the ride-to-the-drug store set who arc not used to such vigorous activity. Saturday Sessions Of House Planned Salem 1TP Saturday ses sions of the House may bej,in about April 1, House Speaker Clarence Barton said today. He said the Saturday meet ings would be called as soon as bills begin to flow out of committees and it was neces sary to keep the calendar clear. MEWSd)BRIEFS fTWS MOM py MOONB THI OLOII U. S. 'REGRETS' CUBA AID PROJECT w..hininniiriwThe United Stale expreiied "regretf today that Sl.S million United Nations agricultural aid .-- r..k. taiud lince 1961. now it aoina ahead. Th. nmi.ri will nrovide grasslands management and MALAYA STEPS UP ARMY EXPANSION Kuala Lumpur. Melaya-JlPt-Tht Melayen sovtrnment to dav announced immediate slept to expend its irmed forces as a reiult of the "hostile altitude" of Indonesia toward the poposed Federation of Greater Malaysia. RECONNAISSANCE PHOTOS MAY BE SHOWN Weihington-IPI-The Defense Department may moke pub lic additional reconnaissance photographs of Cuba in response to aer!ioni there wn a "blank space" in U.S. intelligence -n the Soriet arms buildup. ( ' strong in the clear, cold weather. From left, they are Shia Green, New York; Caroline White, Washington; Jackie McDonald, St. Louis, leader of the group; Mary McCassie, Washington, and Patricia Hughes, Wash ington. (UPI) Fichtner Presented Plaque for Record In Public Safety Medford Police Capt. Clyde C. Fichtner was awarded the I r e a n Grigsby memorial plaque last night for out standing achievement in the field of public safety. The presentation was made by Mayor James Dunley at the annual safety awards ban quet at the Rogue Valley Country club. About 250 per sons attended the banquet. Past Council President Russ Jamison was master of cere monies. Keynote address of the ban quet was delivered by Sidney Planners Budge! To Be Discussed The budget committee of the Jackson county planning commission will present the proposed budget for the group for next fiscal year at a meet ing at 8 o'clock tonight. The present budget for the commission is $21,179 and an increase of $868 has been asked lor next year, it was re ported. Also on the commission's agenda arc reports of three public hearings which were held recently. The hearings were held since persons sought variances in zoned areas. The planning commis sion will take action on two of the requests for signs-one in the South Talent area and the other in the North Central Point area. Other business will include a progress report by George Brenner on the Bear Creek urban planning project. City Parks Group To Meet Tonight A representative of the Jackson County Horsemen's association and related groups arc expected to attend the Medford Parks and Recreation commission meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight. They will discuss the pos sibility of establishing ridmg trails along the banks of Bear creek. Reports will be given on the Jackson park development and the rcdclopment of Haw thornc park. technicians in animal huibandry, plant pathology in Cuba. B. Lewis, chairman of the state industrial accident com mission. Lewis warned this country's advancing tcchnol ogy is creating increasing problems in the area of public safety. To counter this, the com' missioner said, we must "be alert to new ideas in safely eaucauon. Awards Presented Jaerry Bignam, vice presi dent of the Medford Safety Council, presented awards of merit to about 20 area firms, utilities and agencies. New hard hats were given to three men who prevented serious injury to themselves sometime during the year by the safety headgear they were wearing. New members of the "Turtle Club" were Leonard J. McNcw, Herman Simpson and Vester Ferguson. SIAC Commissioner Mrs. Emily Logan Rave awards of merit to Sgt. Tom Eaton, Ore gon state police, and Ed Col lins of Mt. Pitt Lumber com pany for accident-free records during last year. Save-a-Life Awards Bignam gave "Savc-a-Lifc" awards to Bruce Matheney, John Reid Jr., Lloyd F. Brown and Morris Kollcns. Matheny rescued a man from an overturned boat at Howard Prairie reservoir. Reid saved drowning youngster from Twin Plunges pool in Ash land, and Brown and Kollens, employees of Pacific Power and Light company, restored a fellow worker who was suf fering from carbon monoxide fumes. Fichtner. newly reelected president of the Medford Safe ty Council, gave traffic safety awaras to two Medford taxi drivers. Bill Bailey and Rob crt Blass, or having driven without accident during 10H2. Radio station KBOY was presented with an award of commendation for cooperation in bringing safety education information to the public last year. Fichtner also introduced the 1962 officers and board mem bers of the council, and re viewed the activities of the organizaiton during the year. Tanker Search Shifts Eastward Miami, Fla.-H'Pli-The search for a tanker missing for 10 days with 39 men aboard shifted eastward today to the north coast of Cuba. The Coast Guard used two planes today in its search for the Sulphur Queen, the 524- foot vessel which mysterious ly dropped irom ngnt on a routine run between Beau- I mont, Tex., and Norfolk, Va. Four search planes Tuesday found no clues. In its hold the ship carried a cargo of molten sulphur, which, if exposed to the sea water, could have touched off an explosion that would have blown up the ship. Planes and surface ships have combed .the sealancs for six days hunting for anything that would give a clue to the hij'i fate. Regional Edition Medford 22 Pages Two Sections Autumn Vote on Tax Program Proposed in Bill Elfstrom's Measure Sets Oct. 1 8 Date Salem - 0IPU - If a new tax program is referred to the voters, they would vote on it this fall instead of waiting until 1964 under a bill in troduced today in the Oregon Senate. The measure, by Sen. Rob ert Elfstrom (R-Salem) sets Friday, Oct. 18, 1963, as the dale for a special election "on all tax measure referrals, if any 1963 tax measure is sub jected to referendum." A referral could be initi ated either by the legislature or the people. Compromise Proposal The proposal is, m effect, compromise between vari ous tax election ideas floating around the legislature. The governor has called for an election on a tax program while the legislature still is in session, though he has not sub mitted a bill. Rep. Joe Rogers (R-Inde- pendencc) today introduced his bill calling for a double barreled election on whether the voters want any major tax changes, and whether they would prefer a sales tax or another kind of tax increase. Sentiment Against On the other side, legisla tive sentiment seems strong against the legislature send ing a tax program to the peo ple. The problem is, under pres ent laws, if the legislature fails to set an election date and the people carry a lax program to the ballot, any new program would be sus pended until the general elec tion in the fall of 1964. Elfstrom's proposal would move the date o decision up a year. To Hear Report The Senate voted formally today to join the House Fri day to hear Gov. Mark Hat field and Son. Wayne Morse report on the Boardman proj ect. There were only two votes against the joint session. Sen. Edward Fadeley (D-Eu- gene), referring wryly to Hatfield's recent out-of-state speech-making, told the Sen ate the real question was not whether to meet, but whether the governor would be there. Tax Committee Discusses Plans Salem (UPI) Discussion of cigarette taxes and a "one shot" revenue plan occupied the House Taxation Commit tee Tuesday but no mention was made of sending Rep. Joe Rogers' sales tax bill back to the House. Rogers charged Monday that Democratic leadership was delaying action on tax measures. House Speaker Clarence Barton threatened to call Rogers' bill out of committee. Tax Committee Chairman Richard Eymann indicated the committee might take such action. Rogers' bill would establish a 3 per cent sales tax on all but agricultural sales. Tx Commissioner Fred Hoefke termed the proposed 4-ccnt cigarette tax " a tre mendous source of revenue," and said other states collect more than $1 billion a year from cigarette taxes. Oregon is the only stale that docs not levy a cigarette tax of some form. FUND BENEFITS Portland - (UPH - Portland's symphony maintenance fund benefited to the tune of some $20,000 from the Manhattan West week end ball early this month. Some 1.342 tickets were sold for $25 each. UNESCO Booklet Describes Russia As Brotherhood of Equal Paris -ttPIi - A United Na tions body, whose largest fi nancial support is given by the U.S. government, has pub lished a booklet denouncing "colanialist oppression" by Western nations and describ ing the Soviet Union as "a brotherhood of free and equal peoples," it was learned to day. "It was the Communist party which showed the peo ples of Russia the true way to free themselves from social and national oppression," the booklet asserted. MEDFORD, HC03H0 '3N3M3 ,3 ,963 N 28, if 0 PISSS Tabeled WRECKAGE INVESTIGATED Civil Aeronautics Board and Federal Aviation Agency officials are shown as they started an on-the-spot investigation of the wreckage of the Work on Budget Of District 549C Nears Completion Work is expected to be completed late this week on a proposed budget for fiscal year 1963-64 for School Dis trict 549C so it can be prepar ed for publication and public hearing and election dates set. The budget committee last night indicated that an elec tion on the amount exceeding the 6 per cent limitation may be held early in April. What this amount is, however, has not yet been determined. The committee tentatively approved most of the remain ing items in the proposed budget last night. A tew items remain to be considered when the budget is presented in its final form, among them is capital outlay funds for con struction of elementary school classrooms needed" next Sep tember. Funds Approved Funds were approved last night in administrative, in struction, pupil transporta tion, operation and mainte nance of plant and some capi tal outlay categories. Many of them were items on which consideration was delayed when reviewed at previous committee meetings. Major increases in items considered last night includ ed about $17,500 in instruc tional staff other than teach ers, and $11,434 in capital outlay for remodeling and renovation work. Funds Are Reduced Salaries for custodial serv ices was reduced $3,946, and the cost of repairing and maintaining buildings was re duced $7,337 from the amount budgeted this year. The proposed budget prob ably will tolal more than $4.6 million, compared to a budget of $4.23 million this year. Most of the increase Is be cause of a revised teachers salary schedule and funds for additional teachers next year. Some adjustments will be made in some categories be fore the final budget is com pleted, the committee noted. Newbry Designates Three Successors Stale Sen. L. W. Newbry (R-Jackson) has designated his successors to the office under the emergency Interim Suc cessors provision, specified by state law. They arc Hugh Jennings, 1414 Crown ave., Medford; Edd Rounlrcc, 552 Beach si., Ashland, and Eric W. Allen Jr., 48 Windsor ave., Med ford. ELLSWORTH ELECTED Salem - ll'PIt - Harris Ells worth, Roscburg, today was elected chairman of the Stale Civil Service Commission. The booklet entitled "Equality of Rights Between Races and Nationalities in the U.SS.R." was published re cently by the United Nation' Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNES CO), with headquarters in Paris. UNESCO, a UN subsidiary body, has an annual budget of $39 million, of which the United States pays nearly one third. The Soviet Union pays about 15 per cent. Britain pays 7.23 per ccnl. The booklet, bearing a UNESCO symbol on Its front yfA IT 57th Year Price 10 Cesl J.'..MMJrtkVl'V'. MvMVU44i .WJ; s.vW.: ing the Airliner May Have Shattered in Sky, Evidence Indicates Miami, Fla. -IUPII-Scattered wreckage of a Northwest Ori ent Airlines jetliner indicated today that the plane may have shattered in flight before it plunged into the Florida Ever glades with the loss of 43 lives. Newsmen at the scene found wreckage scattered over an area of about two square miles. A score of government aviation experts at the crash site 43 miles west of Miami declined to speculate on the cause of the crash as they House To Be Burned As Part of Program A house at 360 Freeman rd. Central Point, will be burned Sunday, Feb. 17 as part of the instruction program being conducted by the Jackson- Josephine Firemen Instructors association. Secretary Arlo Miller, Ash land fireman, said that the burning time will be at noon. Instructors from the Cen tral Point, Medford, Ashland, Eagle Point and Jacksonville fire departments and Central Point rural district are to convene from 2 to 4 p.m. Sat urday at the burning site. Miller said that firemen from all departments of the area will be welcome at the instruction session. Robert Walker, Central Point, president of the associ ation reported that the resi dence was severely damaged in a fire. The structure was turned over to the Central Point city fire department to burn. Central Point firemen turned the project over to the instructors. Space Age Park Group Reelects President Boardman - WPD - William H. Belt, Hcrmiston, was re elected president of the Space Age Park Industrial Develop ment association at the group's annual stockholders' meeting here Tuesday night. WEATHER FORKCAST: Partly rlouilv tn ni(M and ThiirMlay. I'aU-hv morning f"(- low InnUht 30 35. High Thurhday S0-3V Temp. Ilijrh'st Yfilrrdav M l owest Till Mnrnlnj Prrc. to 10 a.m. loday 04 Our Skies Tonight HuniM today so P m. MinrlKf tomorrow . .. 7:11 a.m. Thp Moon rUrs . . I0:S1 p.m. tnnlrhl and It In Apofrr. Last quartrr .. rl. M The planrt. Marcury. briefly hren JnU before Minrlae for the next few mnrnllin. U now about !I2 million mllea from the Kirch. Peoples cover, was wriuen ny iwo Russians, I. P. Tsamarian, identified as a "doctor rf philosophy." and S. L. Ron in, identified as a "doctor of law." Edmund Rehak, Szcch-born secretary general of the As sembly of Captive Nations of Europe, denounced the book let as "a brochure of the worst kind of lying Soviet propaganda." A UNESCO spokesman re fused any comment when asked why the International body sponsored and issued the publication. IBUNE m-y- Northwest Orient jetliner which crashed in the Florida Everglades Tuesday, killing 43 persons. (UPI) began their painstaking ex amination of the wreckage. Fifteen miles away, a morgue was set up in a little two-room Indian school house to begin receiving the charred and broken bodies of the vic tims. There was no furrow to In dicate that the pilot of the ill-fated Miami-to-Chicago air liner, which disappeared seven minutes after takeoff Tuesday, had attempted any sort of emergency landing. Trail of wreckage Other witnesses at the scene also reported small broken pieces of wreckage scattered In a path lor eight miles lead ing to the major portion of the fuselage that lay crum pled like a cigar ground under foot. The detailed Investigation that began at dawn continued into mid-morning. None of the bodies of 33 passengers, most of them mid-westerners re turning from a Florida vaca tion, and eight crew members had yet been taken to the school by waiting helicopters. Most of the passengers were still in the shattered remains of the charred fuselage that lay crushed almost flat to the ground. The top and sides of the cabin were gone, appar ently burned away. A Coast Guard helicopter pilot found the wreckage of the four - engine Northwest Orient Airlines Boeing 720B about five hours after the plane lost radio contact with Miami International Airport. Lumber Industry Petition Rejected Portland (UPI) A lumber group today described as a severe blow ' a rejection by the Western Railroad Traffic Association of a petition seek ing limited free hold time on casl-bound lumber shipments. The Western Lumber Mar keting Association, a group of mills and wholesalers, had filed the petition. Hershal Tanzcr. president of the lumber group, said the proposal "would have grant ed a significant measure of assistance to hundreds of smaller mills who must ship by rail rather than by water." Tanzcr said the petition was aimed at allowing the lumber wholesaler to ship un sold lumber to eastern mar kets competitively. After rail roads removed a 13-duy de lay without charge the WLMA applied for five days of free holding time for box cars with seven additional days at $3-a-day charges. Railroad Clerks Ask For Saturday Deadline San Francisco - (UPI) - The chairman of the Southern Pa cific unit of the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks has called for a strike against the rail road at "the earliest possible moment", but national offi cers of the union continued efforts loday to avert the walkout. James Weaver, head of the SP unit, said Tuesday he feels that further talks in the lengthy dispute over auto mation are "a waste of time." Me said he asked the pros) dent of the union to order the withdrawal of clerks from SP service "at the earliest possible moment, and under no event later than 6 p.in Feb 16, 1003." tH Ashland Woman's Death Is Caused By Suffocation Death of an Ashland wonv an whose body was found near the Siskiyou summit Feb 3 was caused by suffocation due to drowning, an inquest jury decided at 11:30 o'clock this morning. The jury also directed that no one be held in connection with the death. District At torney Alan B. Holmes who conducted this morning's ques tioning of witnesses said evi dence on the death would be I presented the grand iuryl I probably on Tuesday. Dr. Robert Buck, Medford DatholoEist. said in his onin- lion Mrs. LaNelda Nan Mar (lows, 31, of Ashland, could - 1 have suffocated due to drown ing. There is no evidence to indicate violence, ne aaia Dr. A." Erin Merkel," Jack son county public health of ficer and medical investiga tor, confirmed this. The body, when found, showed it "had been submerged In water at some time," he said. Dr. Merkel explained that the lungs do not have to be filled with water to cause drowning or suffocation. A spasm can lighten the muscles in the throat and cause suf focation, he added. The public health officer In dicated alcohol may have been the contributing factor. A re port from the state hospital, where Mrs. Marlow had been at one time, stated she had had epileptic seizures, al though she had been discharg ed as safe to drive a car. William Henry Moore, 31, of Jasmine rd.. Medford, relat ed how he met Mrs. Marlow at an Ashland tavern, and drove to Colcstine rd. where later she left the truck, run ning in the wrong direction from the highway. He testi fied he called to her and wait ed for her rclurn. Moore said he drove to a cafe at the sum mit and returned and looked for her again, before going home. Mrs. Marlow's husband, Ralph J. Marlow, testified that he saw his wife last about 2 p.m. Saturday when she left home to walk up town. Malheur Disaster Designation Asked Ontario-WPP-Malhour Coun ty Judge Ellis White said Tuesday he has asked that the county be declared a disaster area because of recent flood damage. Indicator of Growth Seen Au authentic indicator of Medford's growth during the 20th century was reported this week by J. A. Eidswick, acting postmaster at the Med ford post office. Going through some old files, he uncovered forms gathered by several postmas ters, who apparently started to record the history of the Medford post office. The sta tistics tell the growth story more vividly than words. In 1891, business totaled $349.93 for a two-month pe riod. The postmaster, Med ford's first, James S. Howard, was still In office. He received $166.67 for two months sal ary, his monthly pay being $83.33. A po: office clerk, accord ing tr the same form, which Group Suggests Addition To Governor's Staff Action Climaxes Stormy Hearings Salem-OJPI) - Elmination of Oregon's civil defense agency was recommended today by a subcommittee of the Senate- House Ways and Means Com mittee. The subcommittee voted 5-0 to abolish the present 18-man department, and replace it with the addition of one man to the governor's staff to co ordinate civil defense-related activities. Gov. Mark Hatfield's budg et had requested $195,125 for civil defense. The action climaxed a series stormy hearings during the department was a "do nothing" agency was inoperative dur Columbus Day storm. Separate Review A separate Military Af fairs committee is conducting a separate review of the agen cy. The subcommittee's recom mendation now goes to the full Ways and Means com mittee for action. Shortly before Sen. Alfred Corbett (D-Portland) moved for abolition of the agency and asked for an alternate budget, Sen. Walter Pearson (D-Portland) visited the com mittee. He urged that civil defense be abolished "as the biggest boondoggle and waste of money the state has ever seen. Pearson added, "I've never yet seen them do anything. If you want to save money, this is one way to start. Get rid of It." Sen. Lynn Newbry CR-Ash- land), who seconded Corbett's motion, had suggested retain ing nnn tttnto mntrhino funds for federal aniirODria- Uons. The committee decided the slate should get out of the business . and Newbry . - 1 dropped' his amendment, Men and women from three Oregon cities -told the mill-. tary atlalra- sroup Tuesday they don't want a fallout shel ter program. They said the money and " effort spent on civil defense should be spent instead on attaining permanent world peace and disarmament. Shelters are futile and de ceptive, they told the commit tee as it continued its review of civil defense. And, said Dr. George Streisinger of the University of Oregon, it is ridiculous to talk about living underground and then emerging into a post- nuclear war world where civilization is gone, animals and plants are dead, and in- -sects and disease are ram pant. Many of the witnesses stressed a false sense of secur ity they said is caused by shel ter programs. They said this impedes peace efforts. They make us "more and more resigned,' said Mrs. Harlan Bosworth of Medford. She said shelters also delude the enemy into "believing we will take anything rather than compromise." . , No Defenie . . . "There is no defense against nuclear attack," said Mrs. Ben Bradlyn of Portland. The real solution is to ar range world disarmament un der law." Officials connected with civil defense disagreed. "Our job is to save lives." said Dr. Richard Wilcox of the State Board of Health, "and a great number would be saved with some prepar ation." "I am fully aware of the horror of war," said Portland Civil Defense Director Jack Lowe, citing World War II ex periences, "but I believe it would save lives." Medford's in Records did not list his name, was paid $33.33 and costs for rent and heating of the building totalled $26.67, again for two months. One special delivery letter was delivered during the two months and a fee of eight cents was collected by the postmaster for same. The sworn statement of bus iness is notarized by Willard Crawford on Oct. 3, 1891. The Medford post office, estab lished Feb. 6, 1884, was then seven years old. In 1962, during a two months period the Medford post office did $153,000 worth of business. During two months the post office deliver ed 040 special delivery let ters. Total rccepits (or the year were $015,110.98, an in crease of $50,000 over 1961. i
