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Railroads Win Hate M on Lumber Shipments To last Story Column 5 Cuban Mills Fir on kimfumi Shin 1 PRACTICE RACE - Women of Liberal, Kan., run down a street while practicing for the 14th- annual International Pancake Race. The race, which will talce place next Tues day, is run each year between women of Liberal and Olney, England. Olney has won 7 of the 13 races since Kennedy Presents 36-Point Program Of Medical Care for Senior Citizens Washington-IUPll- President Kennedy today asked Con gress for sweeping legislation to help the aged. His 36-point program for the country's 17.5 million "senior citizens" featured an expanded version of medical care. Administration officials put a price tag of nearly $10 bil lion on the over-all program for its first five years. To pay for hospital insur ance for virtually all Ameri cans over the age of 65, Ken nedy asked that Social Securi ty contributions by both em ployers and employees be in creased one-quarter of one per cent. He also requested that the annual earnings base from which Social Security taxes are collected be raised to $5, 200 from the present $4,800. The medical plan would start Jan. 1, 1965, and require an extra $13 contribution yearly from both employee and em ployer. The President in a 16-page message to the House and Senate called his hospital in surance plan "our number one objective for our senior citizens" and "the most im portant health proposal pend ing before the Congress." Health Dominates Message The health section domi nated the message. Kennedy asked for federal power to require states to provide for all persons receiving old-age assistance medical protection equivalent to care provided for those only medically in digent. Other benefits for the over 65 section of the U.S. popula tion proposed by the Presi dent were covered to a large extent in earlier messages to Congress. Kennedy regrouped almost every prior proposal involving older people under the single tent of today's mes sage. These plans included the $300 tax credit for each per son over 65, establishment of the national service corps and federal assistance for housing developments which include special aids for the elderly such as facilities for group dining, recreation and health services. The President called again for measures to protect the elderly from fraud in sales of "health foods," devices and nostrums. He also proposed HEVS(w)BRIEFS rriMS mom lr ound thi olom FIRING SAID 'ACT OF AGGRESSION' Washington - an - Speaker John W. McCormack today termed the MIG rocket firing on an American shrimp boat "an act of aggression." He said "strong measures" should be taken to arert any similar actions in the future. HUMPHREY FAVORS APRIL DEADLINE Geneva-'lrl'-Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-Minn.) said today an April deadline should be set lest ban treaty with the Soviet JET CLAIMS DISTANCE RECORD Scott ABF, lll.-1rl-An Air Force jet pushed by 200-mile an hour "tridewindi of the skies" today flew nonstop from the Philippine Islands to McGuire Air Force Base. N.J. The flight was an unofficial world's for cargo aircraft. plans to facilitate employ ment opportunities for older workers. The purpose of his over-all program, the President said, was "to enable our senior citi zens to achieve both a better standard of life and a more active, useful and meaning ful role in a society that owes them much and can still learn much from them." Apparently hoping to coun ter in advance charges of fos tering socialized medicine, his message pointed out that the insurance plan, known last Bill Would Reduce State Contribution; To Area Colleges Salem - (UPIt - Measures cutting community college funds and calling for a study of Oregon's system of high er education were introduced in the Senate today. A bill by Sen. Al Flegel (D Roseburg) would reduce state contributions to community college from to V4 of the operating expense, and from to V4 the building con struction expenses. Sen. Alfred Corbctt (D Portland) submitted a bill calling for the Legislative Fis cal committee to study the higher education system. The probe would be aimed at bud get and accounting systems, methods of cost allocation, Dock Damage Is Being Repaired Parks and recreation de partment personnel are re pairing dock damage caused by the wind storm two weeks ago at Howard Prairie lake, County Parks and Recreation Director Neil Lcdward said today. Ends were torn out of some of the docks as they smashed together by the winds. Six concrete tub anchors are still missing, he said. At Emigrant lake work is being done on restrooms. A crew is seeking to put a boom around the main boat launch ing ramp to keep debris from hindering boat launching ac tivities. for an agreement on a nuclear Union. distance record of 9.882 miles 1947. The race is run over a 415-yard course with women carrying a skillet and a pancake. The record time is 1:5.2, set by Olney last year. The race is said to have originated in Olney in 1445 and was revived in 1947. (UPI) year as medi-care, would pay for "hospital and related serv ices" for those over 65, but "would not interfere with the way treatment is provided." "It would not hinder in any way the freedom of choice of doctor, hospital or nurse," he said. "It would not specify in any way the kind of medi cal or health care or treat ment to be provided by the doctor." A variable medical benefit program would be available to all aged Social Security and railroad retirement bene- and administration of funds including research grants. The committee would re port its findings to the 1965 legislature. A bill by Rep. Philip D. Lang (D-Portland) would re quire that the office of the chancellor and administrative offices of the State Board of Higher Education be moved to Salem. Two House measures direct ed at Congress were intro duced. One memorializes Congress to provide money to widen the shipping locks at Bonneville Dam to con form with the width of locks at The Dalles and McNary dams. The other asks an in crease in fire patrol and sup pression appropriations up to $20 million. A bill by Rep. John Dellcn back (R-Mcdford) would con fer the power of eminent do main on the land board in acquiring real property in the Boardman Space Age Indus trial park. Another bill by Lang would change the date of the pri mary election from the third Friday to the fourth Tuesday in May, 1964, and biennially thereafter. The Military Affairs com mittee introduced a bill which would exempt from liability, except for wilful misconduct, owners of buildings designa ted as fall out shelters for injury, death or loss sustain ed by persons going into such a building to seek refuge. Shady Cove Man Is Fined, Sentenced Gerald LaGrave, 20, Shady Cove, this morning In Jack son county district court was sentenced to six months in the county jail and fined $500 on a charge of driving while his license was suspended. He pleaded guilty. LaGrave had been found in nocent of charges of driving while under the influence of intoxicating liquor following a Jackson county circuit court trial. LaGrave was arrested May 26 following a high speed chase. The charge of driving while license is suspended was pending at the time of the circuit court trial. ficiaries with costs paid from new funds provided by the new Social Security rale. Health insurance coverage for those not participating in So cial Security programs would be paid from general tax rev enues. Gives Costs Administration off i c i a 1 s said the hospital program for its first five years would in volve expenditures of $5.2 billion from Social Security trust funds plus another $360 million to put under federal protection 2.5 million persons not now covered by Social Se curity. The "Senior Citizens Hos pital Insurance Act" was to be formally introduced in Congress, probably shortly after transmission of Kenne dy s message, by Sen. Clinton P. Anderson (D-N.M.) and Rep. Cecil King (D-Calif.). The medicare program foundered in Congress last year, being blocked in t h e Huose and rejected by the Senate on a narrow 50-46 vote. Chances for a favorable 1963 vote in the Senate im proved due to the elections last November, but Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.) has an nounced he will not schedule another Senate vote this year unless the House acts. Property Settlement Made Out of Court A settlement has been made out of court for one piece of property needed by the city of Mcdford for right-of-way along the extension of Bar- nctt rd. to Melrose ave. The condemnation suit had been scheduled to start this week in circuit court. City Manager Robert A. Duff said that a "compromise" had been reached between the city and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ghelardi and Mr. and Mrs. Bob Reynolds for the property which fronts on South Grape st. Duff said the city council must approve the settlement before it becomes final. Scheduled to begin Thurs day, Feb. 28, in circuit court is the condemnation suit re garding the property owned by Dr. G. A. Gitzen, to the north of the Ghelardi Rey nolds property. Duff said negotiations are under way for the remaining property needed for the street right-of-way, owned by Nye-Naumes packing compa ny and Crystal Springs Or chards. Extension of the street is awaiting a decision of the public utilities commissioner regarding a grade crossing of the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. OFFICES CLOSED Federal, state and county offices will be closed tomor row, Washington's birthday However, offices in Mcdford's city hall will be open. ROCKET LAUNCH ABILITY Moscow ITU The com mander in chief of Soviet strategic rocket forces said today the Russians can launch rockets from satellites at command from earth. Regional Edition Medford 52 Pages Fivfe Sections Election Set for Proposed Budget Patrons of School District 549C will vote April 3 on a proposed budget for fiscal year 1963-64 which is $2,766, 272.64 outside the 6 per cent limitation. A general fund budget to taling $4,683,457 was approv ed by the district budget com mittee earlier this week. The total represents an increase of $429,165, about a 10 per cent increase over the pres ent budget. A public hearing on the pro posed budget will be held at 7:30 p.m. March 15 in the speech room at Hedrick Jun ior High school. District pa trons will vote on the amount of the budget xceeding the 6 per cent limitation. Two Months Work The completed budget is Railroads Win Lower Rates on Lumber Hauling Washington - IUPD - Rail roads today won a $10 mil lion-a-year rate cut on lumber shipments from the Pacific Coast to the eastern United States. The three-member division 2 of the Interstate Commerce commission, which acts for the full commission in rate cases, authorized railroads to trim lumber rates by 7 cents per 100 pounds on minimum shipments of 55.000. 70,000 and 75,000 pounds. The divi sion action made permanent the reductions that went into effect Nov. 30, 1961 when the legal suspension period ex pired. The rates were bitterly fought by intercoastal water carriers, by Southern and Southwest Lumber producers and various Port of New York interests. ' Railroads said the rates were designed to encourage heavier carloadings, to reduce the number of cars and car miles required in the trans continental movement of lum ber. The division found the rates reasonably compensatory and concluded "the dominant mo tive of the railroads was not predatory in character." It said it was "unable to attrib ute the difficulty experienced by Southern shippers in com peting with Western shippers to any transportation cause." Will Boost Revenue The division said the pro posed "incentive" rates would boost net revenues of rail car riers by about $10 million a year, even if traffic volume failed to increase. The division noted however "the importance of lumber to the economy of the Pacific Northwest and the South and Southeast." But it pointed out that because the ICC had de termined that the case was an issue of "general transpor tation importance," that "par ties dissatisfied with the de cision may petition for recon sideration by the entire com mission. An example of the new rates would be to reduce to $1.54 the $1.61 rate per 100 pounds from Portland, Ore., to New York City. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable, elntKll nrtt throuth Friday- Some patrny valffr tot early lit morning. Low tonight 11-41. Hlfh Friday Sl-SS. Temp. Illihrtt Veiterday 51 Loweat Thla Mornlni 11 Prec. to le a.m. Today, Trace. Our Skies Tonight sumet todiiy l:e p m. Sunrlte tomorrow .. : a.m. Moonrtie tomorrow.. S:lt a.m. New Moon . ... Feb. Zl PROMINENT STAR Arrlurui, rltea .... 1:21 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, low In wen I II p m. Mart, In the wait 1:1? a m. Venal, rtftei 1:13 a.m. MEDFORD, OREGON, Date Vote on the cumulation of about two months concemratcd effort by school administrators and budget committee members to provide funds for the edu cational program next year. Budget committee members noted that the proposed budg et is an austercr one, but one which will not weaken the academic program offered in the Medford district. The largest increases in the budget are for salaries for teachers, $219,416 and for capital outlay, ($121,326), principally for new class rooms and additions. The teachers' salaries were increased through a revision of the basic salary schedule, wnich brought the starting salary to a more equitable basis with districts of com parable size in the state. Provides Recognition It also provides for recog nition of teachers who as sume additional tcachinc loads, extra non-tcachinc du ties, increased responsibili ties, mctitorious teaching and similar services. The $219,416 increase In teachers' salaries from $2,360,- 853 to $2,580,289 is for pres ent members of the faculty and includes about $72,000 for 12 additional teachers who will be needed next school year to help teach an expected increase of about 425 students throughout the system The capital outlay increase of $121,326 (from $89,779 this year to $211,105) includes $118,750 for new buildings and additions. This includes construction of five element ary school classrooms and four temporary classrooms and a book room at Medford High school. In General Fund Budgeted for the general fund next year are $81,987 for administration, an in crease of $990; $3,361,976 for instruction, an increase of $303,413; $28,656 for attend ance and health services, in creased $4,722; $119,535 for pupil transportation, a de crease of $7,932; $345,160 for operation of plant, a $998 de crease; $234,639 for mainten ance of plant, a decrease of $2,301; $260,755 for fixed charges, an increase of $23, 084; $14,943 for food services and student body activities, a decrease of $10,071; $1,653 for community services, a de crease of $3,576; $211,105 for capital outlay, an increase of $121,326; and $3,048 for pay ment to other school districts, an increase of $508. No change was made in an emergency fund of $20,000. Of the total general tuna, $1,407,784.36 is the estimated receipts and available casn balances, and $644,400 is within the 6 per cent limita tion. Curb, Gutter Work Slated Downtown A contract is expected to be awarded March 14 by the stale highway commission for new concrete curbs, gutters and pavement in the down town Medford area. The project will be on Main st. between Front st. and Cen tral ave. and Fir and Holly sis.; Riverside ave. between Sixth and Ninth; its.; Central ave. south of 13th st. and the Intersection of Court St. and Central ave. Bids on the project will be opened in Salem March 12 at 9 a.m. by the highway com mission. It includes less than one-half mile of grading and paving. The project will improve drainage along the streets, the highway department slid. Present pavement will be re moved eight feet from the curbs. The project Is expected to take more than Iwo months Tribune THURSDAY, FEBRUARY LEAVES WHITE HOUSE - President Kennedy escorts Vene- iuel.nPK.ldentR.mulo Betancourt, with glasses, as the latter leaves the White House following their meeting. Ken- nedy pledged his full support to Venezuela to resist "the all- out campaign of the International Communists" to overthrow ....u.n tu.cwiiiiciii, otuiiituuii went iu new mm Thdaanyt,0,l,Pn Ce"n8 With Uniled Na"0nS SCCrCUry Dellenback Favors Restoring Speaker To Hatfield's Desk Salem -IUPD- Several House memocrs arose in a nun to day and demanded to De tuned back in to the gover nor s office. They questioned the action of the chairman of the House nd Senate Rules commit tees Wednesday in visiting the governor's office to ob ject to a six-year-old system by which the governor could listen to floor debates in his private office. The governor responded to the visit from Sen. E. D. Potts (D Grants Pass) and Rep. Katherlne Musa (D-The Dalles) by handing them his speaker and saying "take it." Question on Floor Rep. John Dellenback (R- Medford) brought the ques tion up today on the House floor. Confining his remarks to the House, he questioned the Local Man Pleads Innocent to Charge Lyle Vernon Doty, 24, of 421 Oak St., Medford, plead ed innocent in Medford mu nicipal court this morning to a charge of disorderly con duct. Trial was scheduled Monday, Feb. 25, with ball set at $25. Doty was arrested by Med ford police about 2 o'clock this morning when an officer observed him disobeying a stop sign. According to re ports, the officer followed Du ty's vehicle through the resi dential area before stopping at a service station. According to the police, Doty swore at officers and re fused to cooperate with them prior to being arrested ior disorderly conduct. He was lodged in the city jail. Building Permit Is Issued for Sign A building permit for an other sign near Interstate 5 In downtown Medford has been issued by the Medford building department. The per mit was issued to Medford Neon Signs Inc. to erect a sign, valued at $10,000 at 427 East Main st. The address is that of the Clark Walker real estate agency, Just at the west end of the Bear creek bridge. Earlier this week five per mits were issued to erect signs In other areas adjacent to the Interstate S freeway overpass through the .'. . One sign has alrrar'" n constructed on 10th it. adja cent to the freeway overpass. 57th Year Price 10 Cents 21, 1963 No. 288 right ot Mrs. Musa to appear - 1 to represent Hie House, or even tne Rules committee, in - 1 the matter, Dellenback said the speak- er should be restored to the governor's office. He said the legislative and executive branches "should and must . . . cooperate closely," and this in one way of doing it. Rep. Joe Rogers (R-Inde- pendence), backed up Dellen back. Citing a rule. Rogers said a committee's action must be "purely advisory." mrs. Musa replied she was instructed by her rules com mittee "to hear what the gov ernor had to say." Dellenback responded. "I think It was made clear that this action was not taken on behalf of this body or on for mal committee action." Rep. Grace Peck (D-Port- land), said she would prefer the governor to hear House debate over a speaker sys tem, than from one of his aides or from news reports. ' The only discouraging thing is that he docs not al ways listen," she added. The argument broke up on a motion to adjourn. Dellen back said he will bring the matter up again. Jackson Reappointed To Highway Position Salem -flJPD- Glenn L. Jack son of Medford today was re appointed by Gov. Mark Hat field to the State Highway commission. Jackson is chairman of the commission. The new three year term runs to March 31, 1966. QsO n Possible Survivors of Sulphur Queen Sought Miami -IUPD -Marine invest!' gators hoped today to get some clue to the fate of the missing tanker Marine Sul phur Queen and Its 39 crew men from a life jacket and debris found in an oil slick. Discovery of the flotsam in the Florida straits Wednesday touched off a renewed air sea search for possible sur vivors of the 524-foot vessel, last heard from Feb. 3 on a voyage from Beaumont, Tex., to Norfolk, Va., with a cargo of molten sulphur. The search was concentrat ed in an area from Miami southwestward through the Florida Keys to Dry Tortu gas, a group of small islands Kennedy Orders Forces To Guard Against Repeal Protest Demands Full Explanation Washington (UPD President Kennedy today ordered U.S. armed forces to take "all necessary action" against any repetition of Wednesday's Cu ban MIG attack on an un armed American shrimp boat In the Florida Straits. The State Department, act ing on orders of the chief executive, also fired a strong diplomatic protest to the Cu ban government. It demand ed a full explanation of the incident from the regime of Fidel Castro. The Defense Department announced that two Cuban based MIG Jet fighters fired rockets in the vicinity of the shrimp boat about 2:30 p.m. (PST). U.S. Jets Arrive The Pentagon said the MIGs were chased off by U.S. super sonic jet fighters - Marine craft based at Boca Chica Naval Air Station, Key West, Fla. Following Defense Depart- mg inciT fnwhicV Rut ltaiirSnilf tilLSl!!!: th hni HM nrT Th u the Whe Ho .M. brief .uument " "A slrorin nrntoii ho. Hi, matic cnannels against the attack, by. Cuban aircraft ert an unarmed American tuning veBseti --- "The United States sovern- ment will expect full explana tion irom Cuba. "Orders have been issued to the armed forces to take all necessary action against any repetition of such an attack." Sent to Switierland The V. S. note was trans- mifr4 hu lh clot. r . ment to the Swiss government which is representing t b I f country in Cuba during the current break in diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States. The Swiss were to deliver the message to the Cuban gov ernment in Havana. The Pentagon's statement announcing the incident did not say so outright but the Implication was that the rock ets were fired at the boat. Council to Consider Request for Sign An appeal by Standard Oil company to erect a 50-foot sign adjacent to the Biddle rd. freeway interchange will be considered by the Med ford city council at 7:30 o'clock tonight. The Medford planning com mission voted last week to recommend against the sign. The oil company has appealed to the council for reversal of that negative recommenda tion. A public hearing will be held on a proposal to with draw the recently annexed Chestnut st -Stewart ave. area from the Medford Rural Fire Protection district. EXPLOSION ON TUO Seattle - lUFD - A flash fire exploded In the engine room of the Alaska-bound tug Tar ter about an hour after it left Pier 16 in Seattle Wednesday night, but none of the 10 crewmen aboard was injured. about 70 miles west of Key West. A Maritime Union port agent told a Coast Guard hear ing at Beaumont Wednesday that the Sulphur Queen had undergone series ot fires at sea on previous voyages and the crew had asked that pro visions be made to control "spontaneous fires in the tanks" of the ship. The life jacket plainly sten ciled "Sulphur Queen," an oil can bearing similar markings, a conical shaped piece ot de bris which appeared to be part of a fog horn also marked with the name ot the missing ship plus part of broken life raft and other debris were sent to Miami board a Coast Guard cutter. 1 r
