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Newspaper Page TextIChnishcbev L Pearson Bitterly Denies Charges By Hatfield Salem-OJPlJ-Gov. Mark Hat field's charge that legislators were "thin - skinned" drew sharp rebuttal today from Sen. Walter Pearson ID-Portland). The governor's views were included in an exclsive Unit ed Press International inter view published Thursday. When the Senate convened today Pearson told the law makers: "I read that Cassis Clay Hatfield has again opened his big mouth to criticize the White City Drag Strip Now Closed To Unauthorized The drag strip at White City is now closed to unau thorized and unsupervised car racing and any related use by racers, District Attorney Alan Holmes said today. The property owner, White City Really, has agreed to post the area with "no tres passing" signs, Holmes said. Law enforcement officers will patrol the area and re move any unauthorized per sonnel found there and arrest all persons who are believed to be committing crimes there, the district attorney added. "People may feel we are being very stern," Holmes continued. "We are. If we don't jump on it right now somebody will be hurt seri ously." Innumerable Fights Holmes noted that there have been many juveniles using the area at all hours. Such use has involved drink ing and "innumerable fights." One boy is under arrest on charges of assault and battery and is accused of being in four separate fights On the drag strip, the district altor- nov caiH Annlhni- ronniroH six stitches' to close a cut in his cheek after being struck with a full bottle of beer. However, he filed no com plaint. "The drag strip was leased by the Southern Oregon Tim ing association formerly, but that lease is no longer in cf Jcct. Properly supervised, as under the association's super vision, it was well run and fulfilled a definite need," Holmes commented. "Now the unsupervised activities are causing a great disturbance to the area people." Clerks, Railroad To Debate Issues San Francisco - (UPP, - Nego tiators for Southern Pacific and the Brotherhood of Rail way Clerks who ended five weeks of stormy contract de bates by agreeing to arbitra tion of the issues, met today to debate which issues should go to arbitration. The White House announc ed Thursday that both the railroad and the union had accepted President Kennedy's proposal to let a three -man team of arbitrators break their deadlock over the displace ment of clerks by automation in seven western states. However, federal mediator Frank O'Neill, who has been mediating the dispute since Feb. 6, said the negotiators have not agreed on which is sues should be submitted to arbitration. HSBRIEFS ITEMS MOM OBSTACLE FACES NEW YORK NEWSPAPERS New York-'ll'I'-Newipaper guild reluctance to change a "sacred and strategic" contract expiration date loomed larger than ever today at the main obstacle to getting eight daily papers back in print early next week. KENNEDY LEAVES FOR COSTA RICA Washington-aCh-President Kennedy started out today on this third venture in personal diplomocy in Latin America, stopping for the week end in Palm Beach. Fla., before flying Monday to Costa Rica lor a three-day conference with Central American presidents. MILITARY PAY RAISE TARGET OF 'ECONOMISTS' Washington-aH-A House Republican "economy task force" today warily picked at itt next savings target a Sl.S billion pay raite tor more than tour million servicemen, reservists, and retired officer! and enlisted men. SENATE APPROVES EXTENSION OF DRAFT Washinglon-ari'-The Senate today approved a four-year extension of the Military Draft Law after 10 minutes of debate. -..,-t- m mi iiNnrncnollND TEST innn. . Perit-in-Frnce plans an underground nuclear explosion in the Sahara on Sunday ii conditions are favorable, reliable French sources ia loaey. legislature. "The governor says when we criticize him it's personal, but when he criticizes us it is not personal. "He says we are thin-skinned. Well, I don't know any body in either house that is thin-skinned. "In this case I'm going to punch back at the governor. "This session has before it the most important legislation of any session in my memory. We are giving it great consid eration. "The governor's bills, which are submitted without his name, are the poorest drawn bills in the session. It's extra work for us to straighten them out. "The governor had better learn what the legislature is doing before he criticizes." Pearson later cited the most important items being considered as budgets, the tax program, a revised constitu tion, natural resources and workmen's compensation bills. Musa't Quip During today's outburst, Sen. Walter Leth (R-Salem) charged that Pearson was en gaging in name-calling. When asked for his com ments on Hatfield's statement, Senate President Ben Musa smiled and quipped, "I'd rath er be thin-skinned than thick headed." He had no other comment. The Senate today approv ed a House concurrent reso lution expressing sorrow at the death of Eleanor Roose velt. A House joint resolution calling for a study of lighting in the House and Senate chambers also was approved by the Senate. Action on a teachers' mini mum pay increase, slated to day in the upper house, was put over until Monday. Local Man Victim Of Freak Mishap Buster Tiffany, 47, of 806 West Main st., Medford, vic tim of a freak accident Wednesday evening at his home, is a surgery patient at Sacred Heart hospital. Tiffany was mowing the lawn at the Lydia apartments, which are managed by him and his wife, when the pow er mower picked up a piece of nail and hurtled it into his abdomen. The man's intestines were punctured in five places, his wife said. Mrs. Tiffany was in the house listening to a news broadcast when the accident occurred. She said her hus band was unable to call her but when he regained his breath he stumbled into the house and a neighbor, Wall Miller, took him to the hos pital. All he could tell his wife was that something had struck him. There was no external bleeding from the punctures but the injured man lost 3'i pints of blood in internal bleeding, Mrs. Tiffany said. He underwent surgery and the piece of nail was remov ed. He was given two blood transfusions. His condition was satisfactory today. NIXON CRITICIZED Hollywood - (UPD - Gov. Ed mund G. Brown Thursday night criticized Richard M. Nixon for "second guessing" President Kennedy on the Cuba situation and also be littled prospective Republican presidential candidates. AROUND TMI SlOU f ply "4- GIRL'S CONDITION SATISFACTORY Frances Jean Carr, 18, is said to be in satisfactory condition in Warren General Hospital at Warren, Ohio, where she is suffering from frostbite and gangrene of the feet, as well as malnu trition. Sheriff's deputies said the girl had been kept lock Hearing on Budget For District 4 Is Scheduled Phoenix - The budget com mittee of the Phoenix-Talent School District 4 approved a proposed budget totaling $862,624.50 at the final com mittee meeting recently. The total includes a gener al fund of $702,012, an in crease of $50,274 over this year's general fund, and $70,- 612.50 in the bond interest and redemption fund. A public hearing on the budget will be held at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 3, in the Phoenix Grade school gymna sium. An election on the amount of the budget exceeding the 6 per cent limitation, which next year will be $491,272.70. will be held between 2 and 8 p.m. Monday, May 6. Increase in Instruction The budget committee pointed out that the bulk of the increase in the general fund was for instruction, in cluding teacher annual salary raises, two new teachers to handle increased enrollment, a summer reading improve ment program at all grade levels, and allowance for spe cial education. Other items approved by the committee were for im provement of the playgrounds at the Talent and Phoenix grade schools, painting both gymnasiums, and purchase of needed equipment. Increased budget expendi tures could entail about a 5 Soviet Troops Quell Uprising in Cuba Miami-lUPIl-A Cuban exile leader said Thursday night his underground agents re ported that Soviet troops were used to quell an uprising in a province in southern Cu ba. Seven Russian soldiers, in cluding an officer, were kill ed in the clash with "Cuban patriots," said Dr. Luis Conte Agero, leader of the Chris tian Anti-Communist Front and the National Resistance Front. Conte called upon Defense Secretary Robert McNamara to investigate the report. Mr. McNamara has said that if the Soviets use troops to put down any Cuban up risings, the United States will act," Conle said. "The Soviets have done axactly that. I urge the sec retary to check it out and then I believe the next move is up to him." Conle said the battle oc curred during the week of Feb. 17 at the town of Bnta bano. near the southern coast of Cuba in Havana Province. WEATHER POnRL'AST: Cloudy wtfh rsttn or mow dhnwer tonight jnd earlv Jin turd ay. Gutty souther ly wind tn plarrs Uiu rv? ntnf . Partly rlmiriv Saturday afternoon, t.ow tonight 36-35. lll(h Saturday 40-13. 1mrt. Iltrhm VMKrtiv 41 Lowest Ttm Morninc .. 3d Prrc. to It a.m. Today . .04 Our Skies Tonight Htinirt lotJay . :I7 p.m. SunrKp tomorrow . . 6:23 a.m. Moon r he tonight 1 :3K p.m. I. a it Quarter Monday PRilMINfcNT CONSTELLATION ftrorpln. follow the Moon. VIMBLF, PLANUS Mars, In the west I M a m. Venn, rites S i a.m. Saturn, follows Venus. 5 g April 3 mill tax raise, the committee noted. However, this increase will be considerably reduced if additional county school funds and additional state ba sic school support funds now being considered are made available. Reduced Further An increase in the millage rate could be further reduced, the committee added, by an expected ineVease in assessed valuation of property because of additional construction in the district. The budget committee not ed that the present millage rate in the Phoenix district is 56.2 mills, about 4 mills under that of any other school district in the county with the exception of one. Iron Gale Dam Hatchery Ordered Washington - WPP - The Federal Power commission Thursday ordered Pacific Power and Light Co., Port land, Ore., to construct a fish hatchery at its Iron Gate dam on the Klamath river in northern California. The FPC also said Pacific should pay 80 per cent of the operating and maintenance costs of the hatchery, and that the California Department of Fish and Game should pay the remainder. The commission said it was aware that it could not order the California department to pay the 20 per cent costs, but it said it believed the state will find the cost division fair. It said it would retain jurisdiction, however, to set tle any disputes in the matter. The ruling upheld in part an examiner's decision Dec. 14, 1962, that Pacific should build the fish hatchery, but that the stale should operate and maintain it. Russia Keeping Promise on Troops Washington - (UPD - Russia appeared today to be keeping its promise to remove "sev eral thousand" military per sonnel from Cuba by mid March, but the great bulk of the Soviet forces remained. U.S. officials said almost 2.000 Soviet, personnel had been pulled out during the I past monin, anu a snip uuw loaning appeared capaDic 01 carrying nearly 1.500 addi tional. They acknowledged this would barely meet the accepted idea of "several ( thousand." American officials lndi i cated some uncertainty as to whether the Russians leaving included any ol the S.000 men in four combat battalions. The United Stales estimated a month ago that there were 17.000 Soviet military person nel in Cuba. Medford High Choir Gues's of Legislature Salem - t'PI - Members of the Medford High school choir were guests of senators and representatives in bolli houses of the legislature dur ing today's sessions. The choir traveled to Sa lem to witness the legislature In action and to provide a choral program under the raiiol dome. ml Demanded by Chine ed in a lack room in a barn and much of the time was locked in a wood and metal box, shown at right. The box, with a sheet-metal covered top, measures 34 inches long, 21 inches wide and 20 inches deep. A left the girl is shown in a snapshot in April 1961. The center picture I Regional Edition Medford 22 Pages Two Sections Medford Planners Deny Requests; Suggest Others Following public hearings last night, the Medford plan- ning commission denied re-i quests for a variance and a change of zone, but recom mended approval of two other variance requests. The group voted . unani mously to deny a request by Donald Furtick for a change of zone from single-family to limited commercial for prop- erty at the northwest corner of Crater Lake ave. and Stev ens si. The applicant told the com mission he wanted to con struct a gasoline station on the properly. Following the vote to deny the request, Fur tick indicated he would ap peal the matter to the city council. . Other Negative Action The other negative action concerned a request by James Eskcw, who was represented by Attorney Ronald Rickets, for a use variance in multiple family zones to convert a house at 28 Myrtle st. into the site for the operation of the Southern Oregon Dental Supply company. Commission er Hank Hart was the only member of the group to vote in favor of the request. A request by Armin Rich tcr for a variance to setback requirements in multiple-family zones for property on Eighth st. between King and Laurel sis. won commission approval. Richtcr informed the group he intended to construct an office building on the prop erty, and that he desired trie extra space . to provide off street parking next to the building. A request by Floyd Lawson for a variance to allow con struction of a garage at 1418 Reddy ave. also was approved. Public Hearing On Budget Is Tonight A public hearing on a pro posed budget totaling $5 mil lion for School District 540C for next year will be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the speech room at Hcdrick Jun ior High school. The budget includes a gen eral fund totaling $4.68:1.457 and a bond interest and re demption fund totaling $377, 600.07. The time and place for the public hearing was changed this year by the budget com mittee lo provide more of an opportunity for dis.net pa Irons to attend, school offici als noted. Previously, the hearing had been held in the rchool administration office Inte in the afternoon. Bonneville Man Auto Crash Victim Grcsham - OiPli - Edward William Van Horn Jr., 40, Bonneville, was dead on ar rival at Grcsham Gen eral hospital today following a one-car crash near the park ing lot of Multnomah Falls si 1213 .r today. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1963 Disbanding Phoenix Community Club Is Favored by Groups Phocnix-The Phoenix Com - munity club should be dis banded, more than 25 repre sentatives of 12 community organizations voted at a spe cial meeting last night. The Community club board of directors will take final steps to disband the 15-year- old organization at a special directors meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Bourne, 3825 Calhoun rd., next Thursday night. Following background ex planations by the directors, the various representatives of member groups voted unani mously to discontinue the or ganization. Opposing Vole The Phoenix Grange repre sentative was the only one opposing the vote to turn over the Community club equip ment, in trust to the Lions club. The Lions club will leave them there for use of various community organizations. If the city should want the various kitchen equipment such as the stove and refrig erator moved later, the Lions club will sell il and use llic proceeds for a parks develop ment program. Approximately $200 in the Community club treasury was also voted for turnover to a trust fund for the Lions club park development program. Lack of Interest Noted Lack of community interest and support, take-over of the building spearheaded by the Government Levels Huge Back Tax Claim New York-lliPli-Thc largest single assessment for unpaid back taxes ever levied against an Individual by the U.S. gov ernment has been directed at John A. T. Galvin, a former Australian newspaperman. The government has given Galvin about two months to contest claims that he owes $21,546,808 In back taxes. Galvin, who now lives in Dublin, Ireland, made $150 million In mining, shipping and other ventures. Kreisman The United States Is the eighth wonder of the world," Dr. Arthur Kreisman, South ern Oregon college, told mem bers of the United Crusade last night at its tenth annual meeting. The country has developed a new attitude toward human beings, he continued. The U.S. is the only country that fought a great war on two fronts, then helped to build up the defeated countries. This is something new and different, the speaker added. He spoke on "The Value of Volunteer Agency Service to the Community." "This American spirit has built a society that Is unique In this world." Individual Initiative "How do we do it? Through ''dividjiifl initiative, enter mm T ': "Oi".. ; ::..... : ( shows her in the hospital where her weight was said to be 78 pounds. Her father and his sister-in-law have been charged with torturing the girl. They have entered pleas of innocent. (UPI) . former mayor due lo lack of iiiatiacillclH Uy CHI UUI U!lt' munlty club officers, andfin lly the city moving Its of fices into the building at the west end of First st.. all led to the move to disbandon the club, it was related. . Hie club representatives i unanimously voted a resolu tion urging the city council to use rental moneys from rental of the Community club facilities and equipment for a parks and recreation pro gram fund.'! Planners Urge Tract Development The Medford planning com mission last night formally doplcd a resolution urging against any further capital improvements on the publicly owned tract of land In the vicinity of the Jackson coun ty fairgrounds until a master development plan has been greed upon. The resolution will be sent to the city council for consid eration. The city park and recreation commission unani mously passed a similar reso lution Wednesday night. The planning commission resolution recommended In part that "property lying south of Barnctt rd. and east of Riverside ave. be develop ed only through joint plan ning between the city of Med ford and county of Jackson, and that the city of Medford and county of Jackson refrain from further capital improve ment In said area until a de velopment plan acceptable to both agencies is adopted." The area in question com prises about 97 acres, portions of which are owned by city, county, slate and federal gov ernments. AGENCIES BRACED Astoria (UPD Clatsop coun ty law enforcement agencies and the Oregon state police were braced today to prevent any recurrence of last year's Labor Day riots on the eve of the college spring vacation. Says U.S. Eighth World Wonder prise, more freedom, collec tive action, and governmen tal and private volunteer agencies. "We are in the business of filling vacuums," Dr. Kreis man continued. "When some thing needs to be done, the individual docs it. The gov ernment takes over If there is no one else who will. If the government won't and things arc bad enough, the government falls. "You In United Crurade represent the very best in (he American spirit," the speaker said. "Your arc re sponsible for making it grow." Lawrence Horlon was elect ed president of the United Crusade during the annual board meeting. Brian Mullen was elected ftrrt vice presi 57th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune No. 307 Brookings Area Being Scanned lor Missing Airplane Crescent City Wreckage of a small airplane which crasnea nearly 10 years ago was sought by searchers today in the Sourdough Mountain area east of Brookings, Ore. Four Oregonlans were be lieved to have been aboard the plane. s Ralph McGinnis. heacT"of the State Board of Aeronau tics at Salem, said he had re ceived a telephone call from an unidentified prospector saying that he had found the wrecked plane with the bod ies inside It. ' Disappeared in 1953 The plane disappeared in May, 1053, while on a flight from Gold Beach, Ore., to Grants Pass. Aboard were Howard Shafcr, Grants Pass; his brother, Harold, of Mc Kinlcyvllle, Ore.; Bonnie Wil son and Mrs. Carrie Hanna, both of Grants Pass. McGinnis arranged to fly to Brooking to meet the pros pector but the man did not show up. Curry County Sher iff Glen Sabin, with a party of Civil Aeronautics workers and volunteers, went into the Sourdough Mountain area to try to find the wreckage. Bidault To Push De Gaulle Fight Munich, Germany (UPD Former French Premier Georges Bidault said today he would go "to the end of the earth" to continue his efforts to overthrow President Charles de Gaulle. Bidault said he would like lo stay in West Germany to continue his fight against De Gaulle, and asked the Bavari an government to spell ut the exact terms It would im pose in giving him permanent or temporary asylum. But he made it clear that he will not give up his anti De Gaulle role. He said he would not cease all political activity, and asked that the Bavarian government make "some concessions." dent; William S. Cobb, second vice president, and Peter A. Ruef, treasurer. Elected to the board of di rectors for three-year terms were Cobb, David P. Ester gard, Glenn Harrison, Horton, and William M. Parkinson. Richard Travis, submitted his resignation from the board. Division Chairman Mrs. Scott V. Davis, who has served in many, capacities with UC and last year was chairman of the special gifts division which made 121 per cent of Its goal, was named an honorary member. She Is the first honorary member to be named for the corporation. In appreciation they pre sented her with an engraved silver dish. Sixteen firms and 18 Indi vlH"' were presented Charge Made in Manifesto-Type Party Outline Leaders Accused Of Revisionism London - OJPft - The Mos cow - led Communist camp charged today that Red Chi na has demanded the "remov al" of Soviet party leaders, . apparently including the purge of Premier Nikita Khrushchev. The charge was contained in a manifesto type Moscow backed Communist policy out line, published in the current Marxist Review, the ideologi cal organ of international Communism. The publication reached here today, "Outright attacks were lev eled against the Communist party of the Soviet Union," the manifesto said, "its lead ers were accused of revision ism and cries were raised for their removal." Blow Struck "In a word, a blow was struck against the Soviet par ty which now bears the main burden of the struggle against imperialism, a party which is the rallying center" of all the forces fighting for social ism, it added. The manifesto said differ ences (with Red China) are on "cardinal issues" and "cause grave concern." It terms them "serious indeed" and warned bluntly they may lead to "a split in the inter-' national Communist move ment." At the same time, the man ifesto laid down terms for a settlement which follow close ly the line pursued by Khru- shchevs policy of peaceful coexistence, leaving little lee way for compromise with the hard line of possible war be ing pushed by Peking. The manifesto listed 14 communist parties supporting Moscow against China. Partiei Listed . They included the parties : of the United .States, Italy, . France, Finland, Britain, Po land, Czechoslovakia, Bulgar ia, Hungary; Spain, Indone sia, Japan, Argentina,-Chile "and many others." - Red China withdraw from the Communist International Marxist Review last Novem ber. The Review is published in Prague and is considered the successor to the Comin- form apparatus.' The manifesto was to all appearances a well-prepared joint reply by the Moscow led wing of Communism to Peking's violent attacks against Khrushchev's so-call ed revisionist and Trotskyite deviation from the pure Marxist-Leninist line. Its publication coincided with current moves for a . Sino-Sovlet meeting at sum mit level to attempt to com pose the differences. Powder Explosion Leaves Three Dead Allentown, Pa. (UPD Three men were killed and eight others injured today in a fire and explosion which wrecked a building of the Trojan Pow der company six miles from here. The explosion which rocked a wide area and sent a col umn of smoke soaring high into the sky, left only two concrete walls of the build ing standing. The bodies of Clair Metz ger, 27, Germansville; Harold Henry, 50, Lynnport, and Carl Bleller, 23, New Tripoli, were recovered from beneath the crumbled concrete. The eight injured, none se riously, were taken to the Allentown hospital by volun teer ambulance and rescue squads which raced to the scene. About 25 other persons were in the building when the fire started, but they man aged to scramble to safety. plaques in recognition of their work for UC. Plaques were also presented to the news media, Robert Heffer nan, 1S62-63 campaign chair man and Douglas Gordenier, retiring president. Other speakers were Wil liam J. Williams, president of the Medford Chamber of Commerce; Heffcrnan, Gor denier, and Jerald McGrew, 1963-64 campaign chairman, Mullen was master of cere monies and the Rev. Wilton E. Martin, president of the Medford Ministerial associa tion, gave the invocation and benediction. Several selections were sung by the Medford High school sophomore choir under the direction ot Gary , Frame. The salute to the flag was conducted by BoJ Scouts.