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Newspaper Page Texten for internal Prorata Lit In ope 161 PilOH Rebukes Labor, Management Governor Warns Economic Trouble Due This Summer Program Slated to End Work Stoppages Salem (UPD A stinging re buke of labor-management in terests for abandoning an agreement on voluntary set tlement of labor disputes, and a warning of "economic rack and ruin" facing Oregon this summer, was issued today by Gov. Mark Hatfield in a spe cial message to the Legisla ture. The message also included labor-managements' alternate to the earlier plan, and a pol icy suggestion by the governor. Hatfield also revealed he had been working on a pro gram to halt work stoppages on state projects. The governor also called for "single anniversary dates" to be established for negotiat ing industry-wide contracts. Another Cloud Hatfield warned, "Today I would give the most possible emphasis to another cloud on the horizon - the repetition of a shutdown of the construc tion industry in the summer of 1963 . . , I would be remiss if I did not alert you to what may lie ahead unless we find solutions." The governor called for "action which will facilitate both free collective bargain ing and protection of the pub lic interest." The message revealed that both labor and management members of the 1961 gover nor's commission which pro posed a voluntary labor-management relations mediation board had switched positions and rejected the idea. "I have been informed by spokesmen for both the asso ciated general contractors and for the construction crafts that they do not sup port this concept . , . and I' have even been told that there is nothing the Legisla ture could write in this area (because of the interstate as pects) that would be heeded," Hatfield said. Under Consideration A bill to create the gover nor's labor-management rela tions committee as suggested by the governor's commission and the interim committee is now under consideration by the legislature. The governor said "When I learned there was a repudia tion of the proposal ... I pre vailed upon the primary con struction unions and the asso ciated general contractors to suggest a workable alterna tive." The alternative proposal calls for an "Oregon construc tion labor-management com mittee" made up of labor and management representatives. Labor would be represent ed by a member from the teamsters, pile-drivers, car penters (including mill wrights, hoisting and portable engineers, cement finishers, laborers and ironworkers. On the management side would be an equal number nppointed by the Portland chapter of the associated gen eral contractors. Portland Woman Dies In Vehicle Accident Portland - HTD - A woman was injured fatally when struck bv a car here about 6:15 a.m. today. The victim was Mrs. John Sullivan, 68, of 6933 North Atlantic. Portland. MWS(BRIEFS itims from V 0UN0 Ml 010 CHEMICAL CORPORATION INDICTED New York-'in-Olin Malhieion Chemical Corp. was Indicted Thursday on charges of failing to report allegod payments of $150,000 in kickbacks and commissions on drucs sold to South Viet Nam and Cambodia. SENATE STUDIES CANADIAN LUMBER CURBS Washington-HTI-The drie to ilash Canada's S280 mil lion a year softwood lumber tales in the United States moved Thursday into the senate. TREATY GETS SPEEDY APPROVAL Bonn, Germany-'IH'-The Bundersral senate gave speedy lint-reading approval to the French-German "friendship treaty" today after Chancellor Konrad Adenauer declared it would not affect West Germany's responsibilities to its other allies. U.S. PROPOSES NEW TEST BAN TREATY Washinglon-l!1-Th United States today was preparing a new nuclear test ban treaty which would rely mainly on policing Russia from a distance. This became known as Republicans mounted new charges that the administration has been conducting a test ban "give away" with a "parade of concessions." and s an administration spokesman rose to rebul these charges. t POST TO RESUME PUBLICATION Mrs. Dorothy Schiff, publisher of the New York Post, is surrounded by members of the press yesterday after she announced that she had resigned from the New York Publishers as Apricot Trees Now In Bloom; Pears Developing Rapidly Apricot trees are in full bloom and pear,, buds are swelling at a rate which indi cates that the Rogue valley fruit crop will be 10 days to two weeks ahead of normal in 1963, Jackson County Hor ticultural Agent C. B. Cordy said today. This development creates a number of problems for grow- Perennial Green Stamp War Begins Salem lliPH The perennial Green Stamp war formally began Thursday. A leading stamp firm warned a proposed bill would "effectively stop the use of trading stamps in Oregon." The bill, sponsored by Rep. Eugene Hulctt (D-E u g e n e) would require stamp firms to issue stamps to any merchant who wants, them. It also would require a stamp com pany to pay a S5.000 annual license fee to any county in which the company does business. John Howarth, district manager of the Sperr and Hutchinson Stamp Company, said the bill would not regu late, but in fact would end the use of stamps in the state. PANTHER LOOSE Thousand Oaks, Calif.-ilTP-An "extremely dangerous" black panther was believed loose in the foothills north west of San Fernando Valley today only 10 miles from heavily populated Los An geles suburbs. sociation and that the New York Post will resume publication on March 4. Mrs. Schiff said the 85-day old newspaper strike had gone on long enough. (UP1) ers, Cordy explained, voicing the hope that cold weather may change the picture. This has happened in other years when early indications were that trees would be in full bloom and the fruit form ed two weeks in advance of normal. The ground is still too wet for application of dormant spray, for installation of heat ers in many orchards; and pruning has not been complet ed. An early bloom means a longer frost season and al though statistics show that this does not always mean that orchard heating will be required over a longer period of time, it does mean that nights will be colder and the heating period more intensive. Done Before Bloom In order for pruning to have the desired stimulative effect upon the crop it must be done before orchards are in bloom, Cordy said. In 1941 when the fruit crop was the earliest on record in the Rogue valley, the pear buds were at approximately the same stage they are today at the same date, the county agent recalled; In 1958, how ever, the buds were develop ed in the same manner and cooler weather came to the rescue and the crop was ready for harvesting at "almost nor mal times." Bill Rogers, federal frost expert, who directs the warn ing service during the danger season, is scheduled to arrive in the Rogue valley betwen March 7 and 10. He usually starts the season about March 15. Shorter Session Seen by Leaders Salem - UPD - Legislative leaders today predicted at least two weeks will be shav ed off the 1963 session be cause of cooperation between the House and Senate on the tax program. House Speaker Clarence Barton (D-Coquille) said he feels "the house is way ahead" this session. He added "the committee work is very good. Thtt's where the work is be ing done." Senate President Ben Musa said he had revised his esti mate of a 150 day session down to 120 days. DIVIDEND TOLD Seattle - d'PP - The directors of Pacific Northwest Bell Telephone company Thursday declared a quarterly dividend of 22 cents a share on com mon stock, payable March 29 i to stockholders of record MarcJ 13. Shr Publishers Plan Firm Stand in Newspaper Strike New York - IUP1I - Publish ers planned to stand firm to day in reopened joint nego tiations with striking print ers despite the New York Post s decision to leave their ranks and resume publica tion. The Post was one of five papers which had voluntari ly shut down when printers struck four others. Mrs. Doro thy Schiff, Post publisher, an nounced Thursday night that her paper would reappear on the stands Monday under a "day by day" arrangement with the printers. Cross Bridge "I think this strike has gone on long enough," she said. "I don't see any immediate set tlement in sight." No separate settlement with the printers will be made by the Post, she said. "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it." Bertram Powers, president of the striking Local 6 of the International Typhograph ical Union (ITU) said he thought Mrs. Sch ill's deci sion would "speed up the settlement of the strike." The Publishers Association of New York (NYPA), which had called the strike a "test of economic strength," had based its strategy in the dis pute on closing down all pa pers if any were struck. Area Firms File lo Incorporate Salem, Ore. - WPIi - Articles of incorporation were on file today for these Medford area films: Capital Growth Corp., signed by Hugh Collins. Rob ert C. Browne and Robert J. Keeney. A Bee Hive Auto Lease, Signed by Gail P. Hammond, Lorene Bowling and Shirley Christensen. Bel-Air Heights Water as sociation, signed by Archie C. Pierce, John R. Dellenback and William H. Leever. New York - iUPIi - News paper columnist Lee Morti mer, 56. died at his hotel apartment today following a heart attack. WEATHER FORECAST: Varlahlr cloudi ness throuch Saturday with Mile temperature chance. Low ton. CM 2833. Hicta Saturday 5-60. Temp. HUhest Yesterriav 54 lowest This Mnrntnr 3i Prec. to It a.m. Today .11 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today ... p in. Sunrise tomorrow . .. i:47 a.m. Moonset tomorrow 1:01 a.m. First Quarter March I Hifhligtus of thf phenomena In the shies above In March will be the continued promt nence of the planets. Mars (in the eventnc k r and Venus (in the morntnr sky) and the return of fraturn as a morning planet. Regional Edition Medford 20 Pages Two Sections Red Chinese Hit Khrushchev with Hard Party Line Italian Official Used as 'Cover' Tokyo - UPB - Communist China blasted Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev again to day with its massive defense of its "hard line" commu nism in which it has charged the United States with try ing to build an empire among the Western and neutral na tions. In the second installment of a marathon exposition of Pckin's views in its ideologi cal struggle with Moscow, Red China accused Khrush chev and other critics of claiming that "they alone are the 'reincarnations of Len in.' " EighlPart Article Radio Peking and the New China news agency began broadcasting simultaneously tonight the second of an eight part article on the issue in Fred Flag, official theoreti cal journal of the Chinese Communist party. As in the first installment broadcast Thursday, the ar ticle uses Italian Communist party boss Palmiro Togliatti as its target. But its real ob jective was a denunciation of Khrushchev and his policy of peaceful coexistence with the West. The second part, quoting statements by Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung and V. I. Len in, immediately launched into a new defense of Peking's contention that wars are in evitable as long as capital ism thrives. No Coexistence It said there can be no peaceful coexistence between the Communist and capitalist worlds, as Khrushchev has contended. "Does this sort of peace and peaceful coexistence imply- that - the ' U.S. ' Imperial ists will voluntarily lay down their arms and disband their troops?" it asked. In the first part ef their Red Flag defense, the Chi nese Reds also accused Khru shchev of responsibility for the ideological dispute in the Communist world. They described him as an "opulent and lordly philan thropist" who is betraying the basic tenet of Marxism-Leninism. $630,000 Collected In Hospital Drive Paul W. Ha viland, general chairman of the New Sacred Heart Hospital Development program, announced today that the campaign now totals $630,000. Haviland said the commun ity phase was bringing daily results and that the commit tee has now accumulated $45,- luu. It was also suggested that any people who have not yet taken part in the program may do so by contacting the Development Office at Sacred Heart hospital, telephone 773 6611. Plans for the nursing units have been completed by the architectural firm of Edson and Pappas and submitted to the state board of health for approval, hospital officials said. It is estimated that groundbreaking will take place this fall on the site at Crater Lake ave. and McAn- drews rd. Game Commission Measures Approved Salem -WPD- Two controver sial measures calling for an investigation of State Came commission activities were unanimously approved Thurs day by the Senate State and Federal Affairs committee. They call for an interim legislative committee to study the commission and its activi ties over the next two years. The study would be financed by S35.000 from commission funds. The bill also must go to the Ways and Means com mittee. A group of sportsmen has complained bitterly thai the commission's manage men) policies are letting deer and elk herds vanish. The commission and sports men who support it have ex pressed willingness for a study to clear the air. A sore point, however, has been the proposal to finance the study with commission money. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY. MARCH 1, Moderate Tax Change Seen In Legislature Salem - (DPI) - A moderate income tax route will be taken this year as the way out of Oregon's immediate tax troubles, 14 members of the house and senate tax com mittees indicated Thursday night. In an informal expression of opinion, most of the nine representatives and five sen ators said they are not in the mood for anything dras tic. Nine of the 14 rejected a sales tax. They indicated a broader income tax base may well be accompanied by a cigarette Delinquent Tax List Received by Sheriffs Office A 42-page list of 1962 de linquent personal properly tax accounts has been receiv ed by the Jackson county sheriff from the assessor's of fice, District Attorney Alan E. Holmes has reported. The list includes the names and accounts of all taxpayers to whom personal property taxes were assessed as of Jan. 1, 1962. The due date for at least one fourth of the tax as sessment was Nov. 15, 1962, and the taxes became delin quent for non payment on that date. Oregon law requires the publication of the entire list four times at "no little ex pense to the county and some embarrassment to taxpayers who have overlooked paying these taxes." the district at torney' stated." ' ' Suggest Paying Taxes In order to avoid publica tion of the delinquency, it is requested all persons, firms or corporations involved pay to the sheriff as tax collector the full amount of principal and interest due within the next 10 days. After that time, publica tion of the delinquent list will be started and cannot be altered during publication. After publication the delin quent tax warrants will be filed with the county clerk and will become a judgment lien on all personal and real property of the taxpayer, bearing interest at the rate of 6 per cent per annum until paid together with costs paid together with costs borne by the county in the proceed ings. The district attorney em phasized that it is the sincere hope of county officials that the delinquency list will be reduced in size. Talent Boy Burned When Fire Backfires "Talent-Terry Rch, 11-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Vern on Reh, Foss rd., was burned Wednesday night when he threw a bucket of oil on a fire in a wood stove. The fire backfired, burned the boy and ignited a nearby chair. There was damage to the chair, wall and window, and smoke damage through out the house, according to reports. The boy's parents were in Klamath Falls at the time. His 12-year-old sister, home with him, ran to a neighbor's house to get help. The Talent rural and city fire depart ments responded. The boy was treated at Ash land Community hospital and released. Gun Discharges in Demonstration Naomi Erickson, 33, of route 2, box 20A. Jackson ville, was demonstrating the proper handling of a gun when it was accidentally dis charged, shooting her left hand, the Jackson county sheriff's office reported Fri day after interviewing Mrs. Erickson. The Jacksonville woman is hospitalized at Rogue Valley hospital for treatment of the wound in her left hand. Of ficers were called about 10 25 p.m. Thursday In connection with tjie case. Tribune Income tax, a speedup in payment of withholding taxes, a tax on property sales, modified cap ital gains provisions, and per haps one or two smaller rev enue raising items. The joint meeting, with only two senators absent, was held for the two committees to get together on tax poli cy as they try to raise some S29-49 million to finance a S385 405 million general fund budget for 1965. The fi nal figure depends on the legislature's success in budget-cutting. w All the tax revenue bills are in the house committee. Final Product Not all of the members gave their views on various income taxes. But most of those who did indicated the final product will broaden the tax base to pick up new taxpayers, and perhaps ad just rates, but without far reaching changes in the pres ent personal income tax laws. They indicated the compro mise will contain features of the moderate Musa plan and the governor's more radical net receipts plan. The committee members, prodded by Sen. Walter Pear son (D-Portland), dwelt at length on the property tax burden in Oregon. Pearson, one of two sales tax champions present from the senate side, said it was time for Oregon to turn to a third tax base, the sales tax, to relieve local property tax payers without overburden ing income taxpayers. Mrs. Minear Named Woman of Year Mrs. Robert C. Minear, box 331, Stage Road south, was named 1963 Woman of the Year by Medford Zonta club at . an annual dinner of the woman's service club last night at the Medford hotel. Mrs. Minear was honored because of her Volunteer work with handicapped chil dren, particularly the mental ly retarded. Mrs. Minear is on the board of directors of the School of Hope, and was a member of the mothers' study group re sponsible for the organization of the school. She also is a member of the committee for visitors for Oregon's Fairview home which acts in an advisory ca pacity for the home's superin tendent and for the Oregon Board of Control, having served on the committee since it was organized in 1959. She is a member of the Jackson County Association for Re tarded Children. In addition, Mrs. Minear is secretary of the Jackson County Mental Health associ ation, has been on the board of the Jackson County Tuber culosis and Health associa tion, is a vice president of Medford League of Women Voters, has worked with the Griffin Creek Parent-Teacher association and has been a volunteer in the Cub Scout movement. if r- 1. 1 - CONDEMNED TO DEATH Brickland and Sunny Birch, the two Irirh Setters shown above with a Pittsburgh, Pa., veterinarian, were condemned to death by the terms of their mistress' will. The owner, Miss Ida M. Capers, who died in January at the age of 72 feared the dogs would not be treated 57th Year Price 10 Cents 1963 No. 295 11 TOUGH TONY DIES - An thony (Tough Tony) Anasta sio, 57, overlord of the Brook lyn waterfront, died early to day of complications follow ing a heart attack suffered two months ago. He was an international vice president of the International Long shoremen's association. (UPD Condemnation Suit Expected to Reach Conclusion The condemnation suit of the city of Medford for prop, erty owned by Dr. G. A. Git zen wanted for city right-of-way was expected to reach conclusion in Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly's court to day. Testimony had been com pleted and attorneys for the Gitzens and the city were making their closing argu ments early this afternoon. Testimony was presented yesterday by Dr. and Mrs. Gitzen, John Billings, Ash land appraiser, and Guy Hays for the defendants. Hays also testified for the city and other witnesses were Ray Vaughan of the city engineering depart ment, Cap C. Vandagrift, Medford appraiser, and E. L. Bartholomew, Medford ap praiser. The Gitzen properly want ed by the city is located to the north of the Ghclardi Reynolds property, which fronts on South Grape st. The veterinary hospital, op erated by the Gitzens. a green house on the grounds, and a sprinkling system are in volved in the settlement, testimony-revealed, lso consid ered by witnesses was a fence which will probably be con structed if the street extension is constructed. The fence would provide protection and privacy, pre sented as necessary by the property owners. Former Conductor Goes To Grand Jury Salem - IUPH - Hcimo Hailto, 37, ex-conductor of the Capi tol Symphony Orchestra here, waived preliminary hearing in Marion county court today and was bound over to a grand jury on a charge of ob taining money under false pretenses. Police said the charge stemmed from one of between $4,000 and $6,000 worth of bad checks Haitto Is accused of writing last winter. r - Cmjp p ' - ... ' fiitirrs hi' iifi' nil CIA Chief Makes Prediction Before Senate Committee Castro Pressure Makes Small Gains Washlngton-m-Central In telligence Agency Director John A. McCone has told con gressmen he sees little hope for an internal uprising in Cuba, it was disclosed today. Rep. Armistead Selden (D- Ala.) chairman of the subcom mittee on Communist suber- sion in Latin America, report ed McCone's pessimistic view to newsmen in releasing a transcript of the CIA chief's closed-door testimony before mo subcommittee last week. No Mention The transcript, considerably censored for security reasons, made no mention of a possible overturn of the Fidel Castro regime ai the hands of the Cu ban people. But a reporter asked Selden if McCone had held out hope for such an up rising, and Selden said he had not. Cuba is a police state." Selden said. ' Under the pres ent circumstances it would be extremely difficult for an un armed popuation to rise. The chances are not good." Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara said Thursday the United States would not stand by and tolerate use of the Soviet garrison in Cuba to quell a rebellion on the is land. ' Not Allow . McNamara said at a news conference that this country would not allow the Russian soldiers to put down an in ternal uprising, let alone launch' an attack against an other nation. McCone told Selden's sub committee that "great" sub versive pressure is being ex erted through the Castro re gime on all Latin America but that "so far" this had had only limited success. His testimony indicated that between-1,000 and 1,500 persons from all other Latin American countries came to Cuba for- indoctrination and training In 1962, with the largest contingents from Ven ezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Argen tina and Bolivia. i Increase Planned By Phone Company The Oregon Washinelon Telephone company plans to file with the Oregon Public Utility commissioner for a combined rate increase and adjustment in its operating areas, E. R. Dean, president of the company, said today. The new rates would in crease the company's revenue 5.63 per cent annually. The increase is necessary to bring the company rate of return to a more reasonable level which will support the added investment, increased taxes, and other operating ex penses and permit the com pany lo obtain finance for fu ture improvements and ex pansion. Dean indicated that in spite of steadily rising costs, the company has had no advance in rules since 1951. The Oregon Washington Telephone company, whose home office is in Hood River, serves 26 exchanges in Ore gon with a total of 15,707 telephones. Exchanges served in Jack son county include White City, Shady Cove-Trail, Prospect, Eagle Point and Butle Falls. I . well by their new owner. Death was better than cruelty, she reasoned. But now slat officials, including Gov. William W. Scran, ton, are taking legal steps to prevent tha dogs' death, which li scheduled for March 17. (UPI)