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57th Year Price 10 Cents
Walkout Expected
At 6 P.M. Today
As Talks Continue
Decision Climaxes
Three-Week Parley
San Francisco-fflPD-Federal
mediators bargained against
the clock today in final ef
Medford
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MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1963
No. 292
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COOLING FEET Pam Lyons, Hedrick Junior High school
student in Mcdford, (foreground center) raises a foot as a
group of McLoughlin and Hedrick Junior High students
stopped to refresh themselves Saturday before the return
trip from Jacksonville to Medford. The next walking trip
is planned for Ashland and back. Students making the 10-
mile roundtrip as a warm up for an eventual 50-mile hike
were Lauri Baldwin, 14, Pam Lyon, 14, Judy Wooldridge,
IS, Maureen Phillips, 15, Lana Cunningham, 13, Linda
North, 15, Mary Anne Raapke, 14, and Martha Downing,
14, all of Hedrick, and Vicki Seeberger, 14, McLoughlin.
11 Billboards To
Be Erected Along
Freeway in Ciiy
Despite an ordinance passed
by the Medford city council
last week, a total of 11 bill
board signs will be erected
soon along the Interstate 5
freeway viaduct through Med
ford, according to information
received from the city build
ing department.
Two of the permits for the'
F ign were obtained by Electric
Products company late Thurs
day afternoon, a few hours
before the council passed the
restrictive ordinance.
Electric Products holds per
mits to construct signs at the
southeast corner of 12th st.
and Franquctte St., at the
southwest corner of 12th st.
and Spencer ave., and at 844
end 841 South Riverside ave.
Medford Neon has a permit
to erect a sign at 427 East
Main st.
Allied Neon has been issu
ed a permit to construct a sign
at the corner of East 10th st.
and Riverside ave.
Ryan Outdoor Advertising
holds five sign permits: at
401 East 12th St., the 400 block
of East 12th St., and three
for the 800 block at U.S.
Highway 99 and Austin st.
Signs already have been
erected by Dick Walsh com
pany on locations in back of
333 and 835 South Riverside
ave.
The new city ordinance pro
hibits billboards within 270
feet of the center line of In
terstate 5 inside the city limits
of Medford.
Rural School Board
Reviews Sections
Of Proposed Budget
The Jackson county rural
school district budget com
mittee Monday night review
ed all sections of the proposed
1963-64 budget.
No tentative figures were
released by the committee,
head by Don Patterson, Cen
tral Point, chairman, and Sam
Harbinson, Medford, secre
tary. They said there would be
little, if any, increase in the
budgets of the administration
and the curriculum materials
center.
In the field of special educa
tion, if the two additional
classes recommended are
established, there will be an
increase, but this is not a
levy item, they pointed out.
The special education of rc-
Khrushchev Schedules
Major Talk Wednesday
Moscow - IUPP - Premier
Nikita Khrushchev will make
a major speech Wednesday
during an election rally in the
Kremlin, the Foreign Ministry
announced today.
It is expected he may give
gome indication of Soviet in
tentions on issues ranging
from nuclear disarmament to
Cuba and Berlin.
Opposition Voiced
To Licensing Law
Salem - IHPH - Opposition to
a proposed psychologists li
censing law was hurled at a
Senate health and welfare
committee Monday by prac
ticing psychiatrists and repre
sentatives of the Oregon State
Medical society.
Five medical witnesses lam
basted the proposed legisla
tion for two hours. Commit
tee Chairman Sen. L. W. New-
bry (R-Ashland) said a third
hearing on the bill would be
called so testimony lrom pro
ponents could be heard.
Proponents who had plan
ncd to testify at Monday's
hearing were left sitting as
medical men argued against
wording in the proposed law.
and indicated they felt li
censing of psycholo gists
would grant them respecta
bility they do not now enjoy
The opposition seemed
based in part on professional
jealousy.
Psychologists do not have a
medical degree. Psychiatrists
do have a medical degree.
tarded children is financed by
the state and the school dis
trict served.
The committee recommend
ed that the rural board set up
a salary study committee
which will report back to the
budget committee next year.
Members asked that this com
mittee be appointed early in
order that a thorough study
can be made before budgeting
time.
The committee instructed
the county school office staff
to compile figures tentatively
approved by the budget com
mittee to be presented at an
other meeting next Monday.
The original expectation of
the department was that the
present program would be
continued without any major
changes, Alf B. Mekvold,
county school superintendent,
said. If a speech program,
which the county has never
had, is developed as desired,
it will be fully reimbursed.
The staff was asked to sub-
mil a figure, without material
ly increasing the budget,
which would give balance to
the program which now em
phasizes mathematics, science
and foreign language. Since
the subjects have had the ma
jor attention under the Na
tional Defense Education Act
it is felt that other subject
fields have been slighted,
Mekvold stated
Log Drivers Fight Fee Hike
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U.S. COPTER FLIES OVER BERLIN
Berlin-4P1-The U.S. Army sent a helicopter over East
Berlin today in still another demonstration oi Allied travel
rightt. It was the first helicopter flight over East Berlin
since Dec. 19. American official said.
Ashland Man Dies
When Hit by Car
Wheatland, Calif. -IUPD- Wil
liam C. England, 50, Ashland
was struck and killed by an
auto Monday when he crossed
U. S. 99-E on foot south of
here.
England apparently was
running across the highway
and either failed to sec an on
coming car or misjudged its
distance, the California High
way patrol said.
The auto that struck him
was driven by Kathleen J
Miller, 30, Yuba, Calif., the
CHP said.
ANTI-DE GAULLIST ARRESTED
Paris-'IPI'-Former Army Col. Antoint Argoud. a lead
ing member of the anti-De Gaulle Secret Army Organita
iion. has been arretted here alter apparent betrayal by hii
own men, police sources said today.
POSSIBLE COMPROMISE AT TEST TALKS STUDIED
GeneTa-lPI-Neutral dates at the 17-nation Disarma
ment conference met today to study a possible compromise
bid to break the East-West nuclear test ban deadlock.
Early Planning of
Basin Project Is
Hope of Directors
Hopes for early planning
and subsequent construction
of the Rogue Basin project
were indicated in a report
given last night by Gerald
Latham, a member of the
board of directors of th
Rogue Basin Flood Control
and Water Resources, at
board meeting.
Latham and Ben Hilton,
chairman, recently returned
from a trip to Washington,
D.C., regarding the Rogue
Basin project. The board is
seeking funds for project
planning in 1063.
The first funds budgeted
for the Rogue Basin project,
which will ultimately cost
some $106 million, were in
cluded in President Kennedy's
iM tiscal budget. This was
for $100,000 for advance en
gineering and design work for
the Lost Creek reservoir.
If funds are obtained for
1963, the board expects the
1964 budgetary request to be
increased.
Explains Request
Latham explained that the
request of funds this year is
unusual since generally such
appropriations are not made
until after the regular appro
priation has been budgeted.
The board of directors is at
tempting to make Congress
aware of the necessity of act
ing as quickly as possible on
the project, Latham said.
William Jess, board mem-
ber, submitted a letter to be
sent to the Oregon Congres
sional delegation emphasizing
the need to halt erosion, the
decline of anadromous fish
runs, flooding, the decline of
the area's economy, hardships
on those living in the reser-
voir areas, and delaying im
provement and planning on
Highway 62.
The letter also explained
that the majority of the crops
to be raised on the land to
be irrigated by the project
arc not basic farm crops now
in surplus. This answered the
objection raised by some that
the Rogue Basin and similar
projects should be delayed
due to current crop surpluses.
It was stated that only 15
per cent of the annual bene
fits from the Rogue Basin
project would be from irriga
tion. The letter explained that
specialty crops such as legume
and garden seeds and truck
crops and grasses would be
grown on the irrigated land
within the Rogue Basin
project.
The letter was approved by
the board.
Many Claim Raise
Would Force Them
Out of Business
400 Truckers Jam
Into Group Hearing
Salem-OJPIV-Flatd-shirled log
truckers jammed into a hear
ing room Monday to oppose
bill to raise the fees they
pay for driving their uucks
on Oregon's roads.
They said higher fees would
force many of them out of
business.
"I can think of no time
when the financial aspect of
the logger and the log trucker
has looked so grave as now,"
said trucker Ray Offord of
Medford.
Darrcll Davis of Medford
said it would be "strange in
deed" to raise state charges
when help for the lumber in
dustry is being sought at the
federal level.
Nearly 400 truckers filled
the Senate Highways Commit
tee room and spilled into the
hallway where a loudspeaker
was hastily set up.
Before the committee is the
governors bill to revise
weight-mile highway use fees
for trucks, based on the
weight of the truck and the
distance traveled.
At issue for the loggers was
a section to repeal the option
al flat fee of $95 a month
they may pay instead. The
loggers said the change in
many cases would double
their fees.
The loggers arguments in
cluded two major points'.
Much of their hauling is
not even done on state sup
ported roads, but on second
ary roads and forest "trails,
Thus log truckers fail to bene
fit fully from the fees they
pay, while damage to trucks
is more costly. Furthermore,
they noted, log trucks are
banned from major highways
Saturday afternoons. Sundays,
holidays and much of the tour
ist season.
The rates log truckers re
ceive for hauling logs are set
by "open competition," not
regulated by a government
agency, as are most other
transportation charges. Thus
log truckers lack protection
to accompany higher fees. In
addition, log truckers cannot
afford to pass along higher
fees, since the timber industry
already is struggling to keep
its nose above water.
PREDICT TAX REFORMS Democratic leaders said after a
meeting with President Kennedy today that a tax cut, bill
containing "certain reforms" would be enacted by Congress
this year. House Speaker John W. McCormack (left) shown
talking to newsmen outside the White House following the
weekly breakfast meeting between Kennedy and the legis
lative leaders, said, "Everybody recognizes that the taxes are
too high." Right is Vice President Lyndon Johnson. (UPI)
Democratic Leaders
Predict Some Tax
Reforms This Year
Washington - IUPII - Demo
cratic leaders said after a
meeting today with President
Kennedy that a lax cut bill
containing "certain reforms"
would be enacted by Congress
this year.
"Everybody recognizes that
the taxes are too high, House
Speaker John W. McCormack
said after a weekly breakfast
meeting between Kennedy
and legislative leaders of his
party.
'A reduction is needed and
the tax reduction bill will re
duce the high rates," McCor
mack said. He added that he
and other Capitol Hill leaders
High School Boys
Hike to Grants Pass
Two high school boys from
Medford hiked from Medford
to Grants Pass and returned
within 15V4 hours Sunday.
The boys exceeded the 50-
mile distance since they walk
ed part of the way via High
way 99. The distance between
Medford and Grants Pass by
Interstate 5 is 25.3 mile.
The boys are Dick Hana-
walt, 341 South Oakdalc ave.,
a freshman at St. Mary's High
school, and Ron McGcc, 543
North Riverside ave., a sopho
more at Medford High school
The pair left Medford at
1:30 a.m. Sunday and reached
the Grants Pass city limits at
8:30 a.m. They arrived back
at the Medforr" city limits
approximately 5 p.m.
REDEFINITION OF MONROE DOCTRINE ASKED
WeshinoIon-'IPl-Gualemala atked the United States to
day to redetine the Monroe Doctrine in stiff new terms to
force the Soviet Union and 'Xuropean colonialists" to
Abandon Latin America. t
Estranged Couple
Wounded by Shots
Klamath Falls - UPD - An
estranged couple were in
separate hospitals following
family argument that ended
in a gun duel at the commu
nity of Bly 55 miles east of
here early today.
Hospitalized in K I a m a t h
Falls was J. D. Kncss. about
! in PnlwA cuiri ho was in fair
condition with bullet wounds
in the abdomen fired from a
94 calihrir automatic
Hi, wfe r.loria. about 30. "O NEWS CONFERENCE
was in a Lakcvicw hopital Washington-'ITI-Thc White
suffering 22 caliber bullet j House said Monday that Presi
wouods of tiic leg and ihoul- duit Kennedy would not hold
dcr.' I?icw conference this week.
County Equipment Is
Damaged by Rocks
A Jackson county grader
parked at the corner of
Bellinger lane and Hull rd
was object of an apparent
rock attack by vandals some
time last night or early this
morning, the Jackson c unty
sncriff s department reported
The county engineer's of
ficc estimated damage to the
equipment at $150.
CHAIRMAN ELECTED
Salem -'IW- William Shinn,
Salem, was elected chairman
of the governor's import-export
committee at the group's
organization meeting Monday
in the state department of ag
ricultural building.
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Four Accidents
Reported in City
Four accidents involving
eight vehicles were investi
gated by Medford police Mon
day and Tuesday morning.
Two persons were Injured
shortly before 1 o'clock this
morning when a vehicle op
erated by Stephen Phillip
Farris, 20, of 205 Palm St.,
hit a guard rail on Corona
ave. near Highway 82, accord
ing to city police. Farris was
taken to Rogue Valley hos
pital and was discharged later
today.
. Also injured was a passeng
er in the car, Richard Lawr
ence Wilson, 493 Siskiyou
blvd., Ashland. Police cited
Farris for not having an op
erator's license in his posses
sion.
Two vehicles were involved
in an accident about 7:30
o'clock this morning on In
terstate 5 and Harnett rd. Ac
cording to police reports, driv
er of the car was Le Roy Paul
Ncufeld, 28, of 207 Hillcrcst
dr., Ashland, and the school
bus driver was Alvin Louis
Fenton, 39, of 117 Pacific
highway. Phoenix. No cita
tions were issued.
An accident involving three
cars occurred Monday after
noon at the Intersection of
Table Rock rd. and Highway
norm. Drivers of the ve
hicles involved were Kenneth
Charles Tropplc, 1262 Spring
St., Bobby Dean McClearcn
4574 Table Rock rd., and
Edgar Lozo Smith, 204 Van
couvcr ave., who was cited
by police for failing to obtain
an Oregon operator's license
and for violation of basic rule.
in another accident, ve
hicles operated by Adon
Othane Wheclcss, 33, of 1314
Northeast Foster ave.. Grants
Pass, and Merle Bales Clover
82, of 208 Ross lane, collided
at the intersection of South
Riverside ave. and Eighth St.,
according to city police. The
accident occurred about 1:30
p.m.
told the President that "tax
reduction with certain re
forms will pass."
Democratic leaders also
said after last week's White
House meeting with Kennedy
that they had not give up on
tying tax reforms to tax cuts
However, in spite of today
reiteration of this it appeared
that the President appears
have harpooned his tax re
form proposals.
Surrendered Leverage
Kennedy apparently sur
rendered Monday whatever
leverage he might have held
for enactment of revenue-producing
reforms in the same
package as tax cuts.
He did so by saying that
he was willing to abandon
every one of his lax reforms,
if necessary, to win enactment
this year of a net income tax
reduction of $10 billion or
more spread over three years.
This had been implicit all
along. But the fact that the
President publicly acknowl
edged it strenthencd the posi
tion of those battling against
the tax-tightening reforms.
ranee Rebuffed
By Partners in
Common Market
Aid Plan Declined
For Africa Nations
Brussels, Belgium - tUPD -
France received a rebuke
from its Common Market part
ners today when they declined
to give final approval for an
economic aid program for
former French colonics in
Africa.
Still angered over France's
veto of British membership in
the market, the five partners
failed to reach agreement on
association treaty with
African nations, most of them
former French colonies. A
$739 million aid program was
at stake.
Authoritative sources said
the program probably will be
delayed at least six months
by the disagreement. The
trench want the program
badly and had hoped to get
unai approval today.
The issue came up at the
second session in two days of
the Common Market's Council
of Ministers. The atmosphere
was tense because of French
rejection Monday of continued
contacts with Britain on eco
nomic matters.
Authoritative sources said
Italy and The Netherlands,
known to be particularly biU
tcr over the French veto of
Britain, blocked the associa
tion treaty by refusing to ac
cept it.
County Planners
Set Special Meeting
A special meeting of the
Jackson county planning com
mission will be held at 4:30
o'clock this afternoon to dis
cuss the Northwest Develop
ment Corporation's subdivi
sion to be developed near
Ashland.
President of the corpora
tion backing the Green
Springs subdivision is William
Dawkins. The area involved
is in the Oak Knoll golf
course area.
Earlier this month, the cor
poration had submitted the
preliminary plat for the de
velopment, containing an ex
pected 300 residences, '.o the
planning commission's sub
division committee for ap
proval. At the commission's
monthly meeting Feb. 13 they
agreed to expedite the request
as soon as all state and county
agencies had approved the
plat.
School Support
Increases Urged
Salem - IUPII - The people
of the state would be more
likely to support tax increases
if they were paralleled by sub
stantial increases in state
school support, the House edu
cation committee told here
Monday.
A stream of witnesses urged
increases above the $130 per
census child recommended by
the governor. The current
sum contributed by the state
Is based on an appropriation
of $120 per census child.
The present state contribu
tion now amounts to about 34
per cent of school costs. The
rest is paid by property taxpayers.
Lou Norrls of the Oregon
Farm Bureau Federation said
he would like to see the
amount raised to 70 per cent.
He said farmers would sup
port new taxes to support
such an increase, if a corres
ponding limit were put on
property taxes.
Frank Bash of the Medford
school board said the state
should work toward a goal of
paying ou per cent.
Bash, presldont of the Ore
gon School Board association,
said the organization would
support tax legislation to
broaden the tax base.
"The property tax situation
ha become so acute that
something must be done,"
Bash said.
forts to avert a strike by rail
way clerks against Southern
Pacific, the West's largest
railroad. The walkout is
scheduled for 6 p.m. PST.
The strike would idle 50.000
SP employees in Oregon, Cali-
tornia, Nevada, Utah, Ari
zona, New Mexico and west
Texas.
Three weeks of negotiations
camo to a climax Monday
when the Brotherhood of Rail
way Clerks announced its de
cision to stop work tonight.
The railroad immediately is
sued an embargo on freight.
Plan To Meet
Chairman Frank O'Neill of
the Federal Mediation Serv
ice and Assistant Secretary
of Labor James J. Reynolds
said they planned to meet
with both sides up to the
deadline.
The 11,000-member union
and the railroad have been
at odds for five years over
the fate of clerks displaced
by automation. Three earlier
strike threats were averted by
federal mediators.
The strike deadline was an
nounced by William McGov-
ern, vice president of the
brotherhood, and James Wea
ver, SP unit chairman of the
union.
Inability To Negotiate
Their announcement said,
"This action has become nec
essary as a result of inability
to negotiate with the man
agement an acceptable agree
ment within the framework
of the report and recommen
dations of the Presidential
Emergency Board to dispose
of the long-standing dispute
over stabilization of employ
ment.
The presidential report was
issued last fall as a result of
a union demand that work
era displaced by automation
should be retrained for other
jobs within the company. SP
maintains that the union de
mand would create unneces
sary jobs and hamper tech
nical advances.
Disaster Area Noted
In Eastern Oregon
Washington -WPD- President
Kennedy today declared
flood-raked areas of eastern
Oregon a major disaster area,
the White House announced.
Gov. Mark Hatfield had re
quested the President declare
the region a major disaster
area.
McNee Takes Stand
In Picard Case
O. R. McNoel. Medford
building safety director, was
called as a witness by the
plaintiff, Roy Picard, Med
ford Jeweler, as his suit
against two Medford officials
continued in Circuit Judge
James Main's court Tuesday
morning.
Picard, seeking $50,000 in
general damages, plus S50.-
000 in exemplary and punitive
damages plus costs, has named
McNeel and former city at
torney Joel Reeder as defend
ants in the case.
Daroll Huson. Medford re
corder treasurer, testified
Monday in reference to an
exhibit of the city's records
as to Picard's alleged violation
oi me city ordinance.
The case arises from the
city's handling of charges
against Picard for selling
electrical equipment and sup
plies without registering with
Vie director of building safety.
Motions Denied in
Ex-Senator's Trial
Portland - WPD - Three mo
tions for a mistrial were de
nied today In the -jecond day
of the trial of former State
Sen. William Grenfell on a
charge of falling to remain at
the scene of an accident.
Circuit Judge Virgil Lang
try denied the motions, made
late Monday by defense attor
ney Burton N. Bennett. The
state then began calling witnesses.
Cabinet Urges Youth Work Bill
GRANT ANNOUNCED
Washington - H'pli - Hep. Al
Ullman (D-Orc.) announced
Monday afternoon a $210,000
federal grant to help areas of
Malheur county hit by flood
ing inflate January and early
February.
Washington-WPP-Five cabi
net members today urged top
priority status In Cr i gross for
President Kennedy's youth
employment bill.
They told a Scnale hearing
that the legislation is badly
needed to meet the increasing
problem of unemployment
among teen agcrs.
Testifying were Labor Sec
retary W. Willard Wirtz. Atly.
Gen. Robert F. Kcnndy, Inte
rior Secretary Stewart L.
Udall, Agriculture Secretary
Orville Freeman, and Welfare
Secretary Anthony J. Cclc
brczze. Similar to CCC
Winston L. Prouly (R-Vt ),
a member of a labor subcom
mittee hearing the testimony,
commented that the adminis
tra'. n may be trying to cope
with the problem of the '60s
with solutions of the '30s.
Prouly referred to the pro
posal to set up a Youth Con
servation Corps similar to the
Civilian Conservation Corps
of the 1930s.
Prouly said the appearance
of five cabinet members be
fore a subcommittee at one
time in behalf of administra
tion legislation Is "without
precedent In the history of the
Senate."
Wirtz said the Joint ap
pearance was an indication
that the President had put a
"top priority" label on the
youth employment bill due to
the critical nature of the na
tion's unemployment situa
tion. Wfctz said the unemploy
ment rate among youth now
stands at 13 per cent and Is
getting worse every day. Ho
said the country may not be
aware of the seriousness of
the situation.
About 3.8 million young
sters will turn 16 this year,
Wirtz said. "That is the emer
gency crisis we are facing at
a time when there is a serious
slacking of job . opportuni
ties," he asserted.
Administration leaders in
Congress are trying to make
passage of the youth employ,
ment act the first major ac
tion of the 88th Congress.
The bill would aet up a
19,000 to 60,000 member
Youth Conservation Corps to
work in parks and forests and
a SO.OOO-member home towai
youth corps to carry &ut com
munity projects.
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