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Tax Si Offered iproiDS Regional Edition 57th Year Price 10 Cents Kennedy Says Tax iMEDFORD Tribune ut Minus Reform IN LUDGATE CIRCUS Escorted by Canadian Mounties, Canadian Prime Minister and Mrs. John Diefenbakcr ride in an open landau through Ludgate Circus this morning on their way to Guildhall to receive the Freedom of the City of London. Diefenbaker, 17th living recipient of the Bomber $363 Million Is Added to Build Two More Planes Washington - (UPD - The House Armed Services Com mittee reopened the RS70 bomber controversy today by voting to authorize the Air Force an extra $363 million to build two more of the planes. President Kennedy has said repeatedly he does not want the authorization and the 31-5 vote set the stage for another congressional battle with the administration. The House committee also added two nuclear powered attack sub marines which the adminis tration does not want. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara maintains any more money spent on the pro posed RS70 would be wasted and Kennedy has backed him up. The actions boosted Ken nedy's arms authorization bill, already the largest ever introduced in Congress, to $15,856,391,000. This was $497,700,000 more than Ken nedy requested last month and would also increase the over-all $53.7 billion defense budget by that amount. Want Manned Planes Chairman Carl Vinson (D Ga.) said in a statement after ward that it was "a deep and abiding belief of the Armed Services Committee that manned systems should con tinue to be a major part of our military force." "There is no doubt," he said, "that our missiles, and particularly our interconti nental ballistic missiles, arc a major part of our arsenal. Neither I nor the committee members would for a moment think of minimizing their im portance or cutting back on the missile program. "But the committee sees a growing tendency on the part of the Department of Defense to place more and more em phasis on missiles and less on manned systems. PREDICTS BETTER TIMES Havana-HPI-Fidel Castro, the announcement of new ilf,lVSC?,!illEFS ITEMS FROM fc M0UND tHI 0lOM dieted better times ahead for the Cuban people. "What we have now are the fruits of the past." Castro (aid in an address to a medical congress attended largely by delegates from Russia, the Soviet satellites and Communist China. "One day wt shall reap the fruits of the present." INFORMATION ON PILOTS KILLED Washington-ilPI-Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen laid today he has information that four American pilots, presumably civilian, were killed in the illfated Bay of Pigi invasion attempt Dirksen told newsmen the the GOP staff investigating he assumes. Is known to government officials. PROGRESS SAID IMPOSSIBLE He said that the amount Geneva-tPIThe United States said today that progress was only an estimate, on a nuclear test ban treaty it impossible unless the Rus-j Brooks explained that at slant ease their rigid position on verification. approxinuteiy 40 per cent of Chief U.S. negotiator William C. Foiler. who just return-1 the homes contacted Sunday ed from consultation with President Kennedy in Washing- afternoon there was no one ton, appealed to the Soviet Union to remove its "substan-j nome He stressed that per live and procedural obstacles" to nuclear negotiations, j sons not contacted by the workers are encouraged to CONFERENCE SCHEDULED I send their contributions by New York-'lPIPublisheri of nine New York City dailies : maj, ,0 ,hc Hcart f-umj, in were scheduled to conler today on deadlocked strike negotia-1 care o tne jocal postmaster, tions and report their views to Mayor Robert Wagner. , Mcdford Wagner and a spoKesmen tor ine ruDiiiners Association of New York declined comment on the purpose of the meet ing. But Bertram Powers, president of the striking Local 6 of the International Typographical Union, said the publish ers will get together to decide whether to hold face-to-face negotiations requested by the printers. Controversy Reopens Complaint Against Ed For Seizing Stowe, Vt. - IUP1I - A spokes man for the Vermont Publish ing company said today a for mal complaint will be filed against Sen. Edward M. Ken nedy (D-Mass.) for allegedly seizing the camera of a news photographer who snapped his picture at a ski lodge. Richard E. Gallagher, gen eral manager of the corpora-, tion, said the complaint is be ing prepared by a lawyer. He would not disclose the nature of the complaint. Philip N. Lawson, 21, a staff photographer for the Vermont Sunday News in Burlington, said Kennedy grabbed his camera Saturday after he took a picture of Ken nedy in ski garb outside the lodge at Smugglers Notch. Lawson said Kennedy ex posed the film to light, ruin ing it, and then returned the camera with its flash attach ment bent and a scam on its leather carrying case torn. A spokesman for Kennedy quoted the senator as saying, "The story is ridiculous. It has been distorted." Kennedy Side of Story The spokesman said Ken nedy had spent plenty of lime over the week end posing (or professional and amateur pho tographers and that when the senator asked Lawson not to use the film the photographer "was very cooperative and handed over the film." But the photographer's em ployer, William Locb, pub lisher of the newspaper, said the incident illustrated the "naked arrogance of the Ken nedys." "Being a U.S. senator has apparently gone to Teddy Kennedy's 31-year-old head," Locb said. Kennedy was at the resort with his wife, Joan, Atty. Gen. and Mrs. Robert F. Ken nedy and their children, and Mrs. Robert S. McNamara, wife of the defense secretary. A spokesman at the lodge speaking a few hours after rationing measures, today pre information was developed by the 1961 Cuban invasion and, 700-year-old honors others include Queen Elizabeth, Sir Winston Churchill, and Dwight D. Eisenhower made a brief speech at Guildhall for stronger Commonwealth ties. (UPI) Planned Kennedy Camera said Kennedy regretted the incident but had made it clear earlier that he would be hap py to pose for pictures on the ski slopes but did not want any pictures taken when he was dressed in after - ski clothes. Lawson said he took his flashbulb picture after a Montpelier photographer had snapped the senator without using a flash. He said Ken nedy had returned from ski ing shortly before and was still dressed in his ski togs Kennedy apparently was unaware of the first picture but observed Lawson s flash Three Killed in ; Week End Crashes By United Press International Three persons lost their lives in Oregon traffic acci dents during the week end. Robert Albus, 28, Aums- villc, was killed in a one-car accident near Albany Sunday. His car plunged off State Highway 226 into Thomas creek. Margaret McGlynn, 76, New berg, was struck and killed by a car on U.S. Highway 99W north of Newburg Satur day night. Francis Burnside, 51, Vcn- cta, was struck and killed by a car on U.S. Highway 126 near Eugene Friday night. State police arrested Raymond Johnson, 59, Blue River, on a charge of hit-and-run driv ing. Two Sentenced for Throwing Debris Two young men charged with throwing debris on a public highway were placed on probation for six months this morning in district court. David Elton Fisher, 19, of Suncrest rd., Talent, was di rected also to work for 20 hours in the county court house. David Thompson Lau ranee, 21, of 310 North Main st.. Talent, was directed to do no social driving and receiv ed a 10 day suspended county jail sentence. They were charged with throwing a glass bottle con taining a dynamite cap onto Interstate 5 from the Barnett rd. overpass Feb. 9. Heart Fund Drive Nets About $2,000 Approximately $2,000 was donated to the Heart Fund : during the annual house-to- house drive held Sunday, ac cording to William Brooks, chairman. TO GREET DELEGATES Salem - Xft - Gov. Mark Hatfield will greet delegates to a health, education and wel fare meeting Wednesday. Pay Increases for County Employees Being Discussed The Jackson county court discussed a possible one-step county employee pay increase plus a merit raise, wnen it met with representatives of department heads this morn ing. The county budget commit tee, which includes the county budget members, will meet with Jackson County Em ployees' association represen tatives Tuesday, March 5, at 11 a.m. to discuss the cm ployees' requested three-step pay increase, plus fringe ben. efits of 90 days accumulated sick leave. County Assessor Thad Hat ten and County Clerk Marvin Madden explained the coun ty's department . heads had met with the employees' as sociation last week to discuss the wage increase requests The department heads met later in the week and agreed to the one-step merit increas es. County Engineer Robert Carstcnsen was present this morning also, but to discuss road matters. Excess Cited Judge Miller said 90 days accumulated sick leave was too much and had been turned down last year by the budget committee. Few Employees use the present 45 days ac cumulated sick leave, he pointed out. County Commissioner Don ald Fabcr said the county court has written comparable counties for more details on their wage scales. The one-step, across-the- board increase would cost the county about $90,000, County Purchasing Coordinator Wil liam Cochran said. The in crease would be $17 to $20 for approximately 380 em ployees. Assessor Hattcn said he is losing some of his help to private industry. The increase would help attract qualified people, he indicated. Applegafe Rancher Hurt in Accident Applegatc rancher Lcroy Offenbacher, past president of the Jackson County Stock men's association, was repor ted in fair condition this morning at Rogue Valley hos pital after an accident with a crawler tractor laie Satur day afternoon. He is being treated for broken ribs, bruises and possi ble internal injuries. The tractor, which Offen bacher was operating, rolled over three times when com ing down a hill during irriga tion ditch work on the Offen bacher ranch. Man Changes Plea To Conduct Charge A man who pleaded inno cent to a disorderly conduct charge in Mcdford municipal court last Thursday, changed his mind in court this morn ing and pleaded guilty. After he changed his pica, Lyle Vernon Doty, 24. of 412 Oak st., was fined a total of $35 by Judge Justin Smith Jr. The charge grew out of .in incident early Thursday when officers attempted to cite Doty for disobeying a stop sign near Fourth and Fir sts. 16 PAGES Ex-Superintendent Of Medford Schools Dies After Illness E. H. Hcdrick, 74, retired superintendent of the Med ford schools and one of Ore gon s foremost educators of the twentieth century, died at his home on South Oakdale ave. this morning. He had been ill for several months. Hedrick began his teaching career as a youth, qualifying through teachers examination in 1908; and retired as Med ford superintendent in 19SS after serving in that position for 30 years. His entire teach- E. H. HEDRICK Retired Superintendent Legislators Get Bill Revising Tax On Oregon Timber Salem - CUPU - Timber tax revisions, repeal of exclusive electric service areas, nd a ban on Communist speakers in public buildings were called for today in bills intro duced In-the House. The-Scnate received bills to give officers greater powers in combatting drunk driving as the legislature began its seventh week. Two major timber tax measures landed in the House. One would increase Eastern Oregon severance taxes on pine from 5 to 7'i per cent. House Tax Committee Chair man Richard Eymann (D-Mar- cola) said the present rate, set in 1961, has failed to raise the expected revenue. The new Western Oregon timber tax bill, also spon sored by Eymann, is similar to the minority report that was defeated when the present Western Oregon timber tax law was passed two years ago. Eymann said in addition to increasing revenues on doug las fir, the new proposal would move closer to the principle of paying most taxes at the time of cutting. It would establish a severance lax, while reducing the ad valorem tax on standing tim ber. A bill to repeal the 1961 law permitting the public util ity commissioner to ratify agreements between utilities for exclusive service areas was sponsored by Eymann and several others. It also would void any agreements made under the law. At the request of the Ore gon Veterans' Joint Legisla tive Committee, Rep. Philip Lang (D-Portland) introduced a bill to prohibit use of tlx supported facilities by mom bers of any organization re quired to register under the internal security act or the subversive activities control act. AGAINST AFFILIATION Portland -flJPli- Employees of Grants Pass Moulding com pany have voted 19-2 against affiliation with Local 3009 of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, the national Labor Relations Board said today. WEATHER FORECAST: Chance of little rain tonight. Partly cloudy Tuekday. except patchy mornlnf fof. Low tonllht 10-tS. Huh Tuesday H. Temp. Mlchrtt Yeterday it Lowetl Thli Murnlni 31 Our Skies Tonight Runiet today S:3 p m. Sunrlr-e tomorrow .. :31a.m. The Moon, 3M.QQ0 mllei from the Earth tonllht, tela at t: p.m. r Irit Quarter March z PRCIMINtNT STAR Arrttirut. In the east l:it p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mara, hljh overhead . It II p m. Venua, rliea .. 1:04 a.m. t 1 MOM itliw.13 aaarran MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1963 ing and administrative ex perience was in Oregon. Hcdrick Junior High school on Mcdford's east side, con structed in 1955, was named and dedicated as a tribute to his outstanding service in the field of education. Contributions Were Many His contributions to educa tion were many, particularly from the 1920s on, but he was probably most widely known for the manner in which he held the line against any watering down of public school education. Theories, advanced by Hcd rick during those years and frowned upon by many, were forerunners of present day thinking and the projects it has developed in team teach ing and ability grouping. Born Oct. 24, 1888, near Merlin, Ore., Hedrick was the son of William and Lurclta Hedrick, both former school teachers. His father's father moved to Oregon in 1852 and taken up a donation land claim in the area in which the city of Drain is now located. His father taught in Josephine and Douglas counties for a few years and when E. II., as he was known, was five years old, the family moved to a ranch near Drain. Elementary Education He received his elementary education in the rural schools, which were then operated for three months in the spring and three months in the fall. Since his parents had been school teachers, he was tu tored at home and when near. ly 18 entered Central Oregon State Normal school then lo cated at Drain, planning to study law. He was permitted to carry extra studies at the Normal school because of his age and background. He at tended the full year of 1906- 1907, then took the teachers examination in Roscburg in 1908, received his certificate and withdrew from normal school in April to teach the Hayhurst Valley school near Yoncalla. While teaching he continued his studies through a special arrangement with the Normal school, which was discontinued later that year. He entered Monmouth Nor mal school through the same arrangement, which enabled him to finance his education. He graduated in June, 1909, and was elected to the princi palship of the Dorcna school on the Row river near Cot tage Grove. (Continued on page 11 A) Bill Designed to Expose Pay Problem Portland-IUPD-State Rep. Ed Whelan (D-Portland) said Sat urday that a bill he int i duccd to ban women from working where liquor is st d was designed to expose an un equal pay problem. He replied to .-iticism of the measure. Whelan said he was not op posed to women bartenders but was against women being hired as waitress working as bartenders. He said waitresses were paid only about half as much. What has actually hap pened is that many employers in the Portland area have used women as bartenders but have not paid them bar tender salaries, the Portland Democrat said. "It is my contention there must be equal pay for equal work, he said. Tankers Collide, Block Belgian Port Flushing, Holland-IUPII-Two tankers collided today in the Scheldt River, turning one vessel into a vast "ball of fire" and blocking all ship ping on one stretch of the channel that leads to the giant Belgian port of Antwerp. The vessels Involved were the 20,776-lon Panamanian tanker Miraflores, loaded with a cargo of crude oil, and the 13.350-ton British tanker Aba- desa. Within 20 minutes, the Miraflores was engulfed In flames, some shooting 100 feet into the air. The Abadcsa was damaged but did not catch fire. Tugs plucked 28 of the Miraflores' crewmen from the river after they Jumped over board, but the captain was reported missing. JOHN W. To Join State Board Snider To To Higher Board for Former M e d fo r d Mayor John W. Snider will be nam ed to the Oregon State Board of Higher Education, the Mail Tribune learned today. Announcement of the ap pointment was to be made at press conference at 3:30 o'clock this afternoon by Gov. Mark O. Hatfield In Salem. . Snider will succeed Mrs Cheryl Scholtz MacNaughton in the board post, f he declin ed to accept reappointment The term begins March 2, and ia for six-years. The appoint ment requires confirmation by the state Senate, The nine-member board is the governing agency for all public universities and col leges in the slate. Member- Medford Officials Involved in Trial Jury selection is expected to take most of today as the case of Roy Picard, Medford Jeweler, against two Medford officials - opened in circuit court this morning. Picard is seeking $50,000 in general damages plus $50,- 000 in exemplary and puni tive damages plus costs from former City Attorney Joel Rcedcr and Medford Building Safety Director O. R. McNccl. The complaint arises from the city's prosecution of Pi card ' on charges of selling electrical equipment and sup plies without registering with the director of building safe ty. A municlpa lcourt case was dismissed in 1961 be cause McNccl, the principal witness, was ill. Picard alleges that two complaints were filed against him without probable cause and with malice toward him. He also charges that the pros ecution was malicious and without legal or factual foun dation. Hearing the case is Judge James M. Main.v Rogue River Board May Be Eliminated Salem - lUPli - Elimination of the Rogue River Coordina tion Board and transfer of its river control functions were called for todHy in a bill in troduced by Rep. Richard Ey mann (D-Marcola). The State Sanitary Author ity would be given Jurisdic tion relating to conditions of tubidity in the river. Eymann said the bill was intended to settle feuding be tween fishing and mining in terests. The coordination board In cludes a mine and a fishing representative. In place of the coordination board, Eymann's bill would create a Rogue River Advis ory committee. REPORTS TO KENNEDY Washington - (UFH - A sena torial study group has report ed to President Kennedy that after seven years of U.S. aid to South Viet Nam the coun try still lacks a stable government. No. 291 Brtuiterd Pholo SNIDER of Higher Education Be Named Education Oregon ship on the board is generally considered to be among the most prestigious public serv ice appointments in the state, Resided In Medford Snider, a graduate of Uni- i vcrsity of San Francisco, has resided in Medfori" all' his life, except for Army service (lie was a master sergeant) and his college years. He is operator of a dairy founded by his father and mother. and of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling C.n of Mrmfnrri He recently completed three terms as mayor of Med ford, and before that was a member of the cilv council He has served as president of the League of Oregon Cities and on committees of the Oregon Centennial commis sion, and until last week when he resigned, was chair man of the slate board of aer onautics. Mr. and Mrs. Snider live at 2500 Argonne pl and are the parents of three children, John, a student at the Univer sity of Oregon, Douglas at Notre Dajnc, and Mary Ann, at home. Mrs. MacNaughton has Ions been prominent In Oregon ed ucation. She was the wife of the second president of Reed College, and after his death served as dean of women and director of admissions at that Institution. She later married the late E. B. MacNaughton, and was his wife when he, too, be. came president of Reed. She has served on the state board for a number of years. Rural Districts May Join to Educate MR : Salcm-IUPU-The Senate ' to day approved a bill which would enable rural school dis tricts to Join In providing ed ucation services for mentally retarded children. The bill, introduced at the request of the State Board of Education, now goes to the House. Hiking Fad Reaches Area As Groups Walk Saturday Two Southern Oregon col lege athletes, Howard Hart man and Ken Coffman, ran, Jogged and hiked approxim ately 50 miles of the Rogue river trail In 11 hours on Sat urday. They led a party of seven who made the Jaunt. Robert Huff, Medford High school cross country and tennis coach, made the trip In 12 hours. Two other Southern Oregon college runners, Jerry Arndt and Doyle Bransotn, complet ed the trek in 12V4 hours and two other college men, Kerm Bennett and Bill White, were overtaken by darkness along the rugged oath and spent the night Just one mile from the end trail. Huff, in telling of the Jaunt, said the athletes were not cer tain of the exact distance but "we sure felt like we had been 50 miles The group started out at 6.15 a.m. on Saturday from Mt. Reuben rd., at the begin Plan Acceptable Cuts Vital to Avoid Economic Recession Washington -OTP President Ken ncdy emphasized today that he would accept a tax cut of $10 billion or larger from Congress this year with out tax reform in order to avoid a recession. The chief executive deliver ed an address to a symposium on economic growth sponsor ed by the American Bankers association, and then partici pated in a question and an swer session during which he emphasized his desire for tax reduction affecting calendar 1963. Only a week ago, Demo cratic congressional leaders said that the administration planned to continue its efforts for the over-all tax reduction- and-reform package. This in volved a gross tax reduction of $13.5 billion with about $3.5 billion being returned to the government through re form measures to tighten loopholes and correct inequi ties. Wants No Delays Kennedy told the bankers today that "quite obviously" he did not want his reform recommendations to delay tho tax reduction so much that it might not be sufficiently ef fective this year. "If we cannot get reform. obviously we are going to have to rewrite the package." the President said. "If Con gress were to come up with a $10 billion cut, we would then have to adjust all the rates." The President said that from his viewpoint a cut ot less than $10 billion this year might be preferable. But at the same time he said he would prefer to "err on the side of a large enough tax reduction" and thus would ac cept a $10 billion reduction without the reform provisions if It became necessary. In the formal speech, the President ' said there was nothing deeply wrong with our economy, . but that the "a"on must release the brake of excessive taxation which has been holding back demand and momentum . . ." Proposed Reductions He called for an- end to "squabbles over who will benefit' most" from the pro posed reductions. He challenged critics of his program to come forward with a solution of their own and not concentrate entirely on "partisan . . , exasperated rash talk about swollen federal payrolls, a higher de ficit and "a crushing debt bur den. - He said he was "not pre dicting a recession for 1963." But he said that if no tax cut is enacted this year, he would be willing to make this pre diction. ar-Trailer Wreck laims Three Lives Spokane -UPD- Two airmen and the woman driver of the car in which they were rid ing were injured fatally early today when the car skidded broadside into a big truck trailer on icy U.S. Highway 10 one mile west of here. The dead were Identified as Beverly M. Griffith, 26, Spokane, the driver, and Bit lie R. Darby, 36, and Gerry L. Eaches, 21, both stationed at Geiger Air Force base west of here. The driver of the truck, Vernon D. Coulter, 49, Port land, was not hurt. ning of the trail. Hartman and Coffman reached the end of the trip about three miles above Agncss about 5:15 p.m. and Huff around 6:15 p.m. Bransom and Arndt came along a half-hour later. The Medford high faculty man said the members of the group ran for about 10 miles then Jogged off and on and were walking at the finish. He said that lie stopped three times for about five minutes on each occassion and that Hartman and Coffman, who took a big lead at the start. halted about 15 minutes at Marial. Downed timber from the Oct. 12 storm hampered the runners and Huff said that it was much worse at the lower end ot the trail. Bennett and White stopped about 10 p.m. and built a large fire. Meanwhile, nine Medford Junior high school girls, hiked from Medford to Jacksonville and return. The group plant to hike to Ashland next.
