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3,000 Soviet Troips withdrawn from Mm Regional Edition MEDFORD 22 Pages Two State Proposals Would Relieve Property Taxes (Last in Seriei) State R e p r e s e ntative Richard Eymann, Marcola, chairman of the House Tax ation committee, in a recent letter to the School Dis trict 549C board, said in creased taxes will be re quired "to even maintaine support at its present level, let alone raise it." He was referring to, and acknowledging, a resolution forwarded to state legisla tors by the budget commit tee of Distict S49C concern ing additional state finan cial aid for schools. Eymann said he was "par ticularly grateful for that part of the resolution which states that the ten budget committee members will ac tively support a legislative program to accomplish" ad ditional state aid, "since it will require increased taxes to even maintain support at its present level, let alone raise it." Tax Relief Measures "Your committee may be interested in the local prop erty tax relief measures which are current in this session, including my House Bill 1245 which would in crease income taxes about 20 per cent (over and above the increases which are nec essary to balancee the next biennium's budget) and re turn the money to the local level as a direct offset of . county, city and school property taxes. It would have the effect of reducing property taxes 10 per cent,, on the average." ''' Area educators, however, have indicated that this v ' form of raising-additional money for basic school sup port is not as desirable per haps as a sales tax, point ing out that federal and state icnome taxes amount to considerable sums nows. State Representative Shir ley A. Field, Portland, said "you could pursue your fi nanical problems, I would think, on a local level to see that some of the O and C timber receipts are used for school purposes to that you could help relieve your loc al property taxpayers." Fair Appraisal She said: "A fair apprais al of all of the assets with in the state that could be d e v o te d to educational needs should be taken into account as we try to in crease the support for edu cation from the state level." Local educators have pointed out, however, that if too much O and C money is used to support the schools, the county could find it necessary to levy a tax, which would be on property, to help finance its government. This would have little effect in lower ing local property taxes. A portion of recepits from the sale of timber on O ' and C lands is returned to each county in which the lands are located because the government docs not paytaxes, as such, on it. The O and C funds are, in effect, taxes on the land " owned and managed by the federal government. Series of Meajurei The House Taxation com mittee has under considera tion a series of measure which would Increase the state's share of basic school HEVSCBRIEFS OVER 1.100 KILLED IN ERUPTION Jakareta. lndonesia-itrT-More than 1,100 ptrsoni were ' officially estimated to have been killed in Sunday's erup tion of Bali's sacred Gunung Agung volcano but the actual toll is believed much higher, it was reported today. PRESIDENT SLATES TRIP TO EUROPE Waihington-'IPI'-Prtiidtnl Kennedy's next venture in ptrsonal diplomacy, a lata spring trip to Europt, it being expanded to include Watt Berlin. London, too, taemt to be a likely addition to itinerary. AGREEMENT TO BREAK DEADLOCK REACHED GeneYa-iin-Tht United States and Russia today war reported in igreamani en how to break the procedural deadlock it the 17-naiion diiarmamant conference. JFK SENDS WIRES TO GOVERNORS Waahinglon-'IPIi-Pretident Kennedy tant telegrams to 23 governors today urging tham te tek ratification by their slate legislators this year of the anti-poll tax amend ment to the Constitution. Sections support and modify the method of allocating the money. When the measures have all been considered, they will go to the Ways and Means committee, which will determine which of the bills will be submitted to the legislature for approval. Frank Bash, Medford, president of the Oregon School Boards association and a member of the board of District S49C, has en couraged area residents to write to the Ways and Means committee express ing opinions. One of the bills consider ed by the House Education committee is a measure sponsored by Representa tive John Mosser, Beaver ton, which would increase the present basic school sup port amount of $120 per census child by almost $20. The House Education com mittee recommended the bill last Friday, but it has not been moved to the Ways and Means committee. According to Salem re ports, the Ways and Means committee is expected to act on the basic school issue later in the session after most other money bills have been recommended, and the committee knows how much money will be available for basic school support. Area educators have ex pressed concern over the fact that funds to help sup port public schools usually are considered toward the latter part of the session after funds have been rec ommended for the largest share of state services. Some educators believe the state has more of an obli gation to the education of its youth than it appears to have, an obligation which should have a higher prior ity than is apparent. House Speaker Clarence Barton told United Press International earlier this week he did not expect the Ways and Means committee to complete work on its bills until about May 1, thus indicating it may be late in April before the basic school support issue reaches the floor of the House. Legislators and educators agree there will be no easy solution to the problem of finding more money with which to operate schools without raising local prop erty taxes. It is one of the most pressing problems facing the legislature this session. And as Bash has pointed out, state legislators will not know which way to turn unless they have opin ions from their constituents' concerning present prop erty taxes, and what they would be willing to support along the line of a broader base to support education. No Orchard Heating Predicted Tonight No orchard heating is pre dicted for tonight and tomor row morning, according to William Rogers of the fruit frost warning service. If true, this will be the fifth consecutive no heating night so far this fruit frost season. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, TALKS WITH NEWSMEN Deputy Defense Secretary Ros well Gilpatric talks with newsmen following his appearance before the Senate Investigating subcommittee in Washing ton, D.C., yesterday. He acknowledged that he was one of the anonymous Pentagon spokesman who had criticized the subcommittee's TFX inquiry. He told reporters he felt the group would treat matters in complete fairness. (UPI) 'New Disclosures' Promised by Group On Plane Contracts Washington -IUPP- The Sen ate committee investigating the controversial award of the $6.5 billion TFX fighter plane contract has promised new disclosures of "enormous er rors" in cost estimates of the plane. Jerome Alderman, chief counsel for the Senate inves tigations subcommittee, told newsmen that errors uncov ered by his staff could be "very, very damaging" to the Defense Department's deci sion to award the contract to General Dynamics. The panel is investigating whether political favoritism Kennedy Receives Special Report On Foreign Aid Washington (UPI) Presi dent Kennedy today received a report by a special Whito House task force which is ex pected to touch off a major battle in Congress over the U. S. foreign aid program. The report prepared by a 10-man group headed by Gen. Lucius Clay is said to be critical of many aspects of the aid program although not calling for major reductions in the total cost. Several lead ing congressional opponents of the program have been holding their fire until they saw the report. It will be made public Saturday night. Rep. Otto Passman (D-La.), chairman of the key House Foreign Aid Appropriation subcommittee, said he hoped the report would recommend deep cuts in the dollar outlay of help to foreign countries. He said, in effect, it would be "meaningless" unless it recommended cuts of more than $1 billion from the $4.9 billion asked for fiscal 1964 by Kennedy. Newspapers, Radio Station Get Awards Portland (UPD - Two Ore Ron newspapers and a Port land radio station were hon ored by the Oregon Educa tion association today. The Medford Mail Tribune, a daily, and the Hood River News, a weekly, were cited for their outstanding interpre tation of Oregon education at the state OEA convention. Radio Station KGW, Port land, was cited for its'weekly program "Classroom Chalk talk." Receiving the plaques were Eric W. Allen Jr., managing editor of the Mail Tribune: Wallace Eakin. editor of the Hood River News, and Pat Crafton, manager of KGW radio. WEATHER ! FORECAST: Centrally lair through Saturday txrept for Mmr morning clnurllnrfti. Low tonight near 32. High Saturday H. Temp. Highest Yetterdav ft9 Loweil Thli Morning 14 Our Skies Tonight Pree. to la a.m. Today. None Sunset today 9:15 p.m. Sunrlte tomorrow .... (:ll a.m. Moonrlte tomorrow . 3:30 a.m. New Moon . . March Zi PROMINENT STARS Rlxel. In aotithwett 1:SS p.m. Betelgeute, high above Rlgel. Arrlo-ua. rltea 7:31 p.m. Regiilui, high In aoulh ie:ll p.m. Tribune MARCH 22, 1963 was involved in the award. It contends that evidence so far indicates the Boeing Co. sub mitted a superior design at a lower bid than General Dy namics. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara told newsmen aft er appearing before the com mittee Thursday that a thor ough review of the award dur ing the last three months, "leads me to an even firmer view that the program should properly be assigned to Gen eral Dynamics." , Other congressional news: Education: Democrats and Republicans accused each oth er on 'Thursday of blocking President Kennedy s aid pro gram for medical schools House leaders .had scheduled the $237 million aid bill as the main business next week. But the Rules Committee, on a 7 to 7 vote Thursday, refused to clear it for floor action. Tests: Sen. Hubert H. Hum phrey (D-Minn.) said Rep, Craig Hosmer (R-Calif.) is "b o I h totally misinformed and the victim of his own bias" in opposing the adminiS' tralion's test ban proposals, He accused Hosmer of "inject ing personalities into the controversy by attacking top officials of the disarmament agency. Mrs. Day Lives in Medford District Mrs. Agnes Day, whose dog, Chubby, apparently raved her from the fire which was started by an electric blanket in her home early Thursday morning, docs not live within the Phoenix fire district, Dave Haggard, Phoe nix, fire chief, reported last night. Haggard said that although his department did not get Mrs. Day's call, he could not have answered it if he had. Only people living within the Phoenix city limits are given protection by the Phoenix fire department. The only excep tion to this ruling is in case of a mutual aid call. Mrs. Day, like many other people living in rural areas, although she has a Phoenix telephone number, Is within the Medford rural fire district and not the Phoenix. The Medford department did an swer her call and put out the fire. John Dellenback To Be Here Saturday Representative John Dellen back (R-Jackson) will be in Medford all day Saturday to meet with his constituents, ac cording to word received to day from Salem. The Jackson county legis lator will fly from Salem and will be in his office, 110 East Sxith St., from 10 a.m. on. Persons wishing to talk to him regarding legislation arc asked to telephone 772-5268 for appointments or to drop in at the office Saturday. Hatfield Breakfasts With Rockefeller New York -JlTu- Gov. Mark Hatfield of Oregon was a guest at breakfast today of Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, The two Republicans after wards declined to comment on their morning meeting. 57th Year Price 10 Cents No. 1 Duncan Supports Civil Defense; Hopeful on Dunes Congressman Visits State Legislature Salem - (UPI) - Congressman Robert Duncan said today Or egon needs a civil defense program, even though the leg islature has a right to de mand changes in the present one. Duncan also said he wants hearines in Oregon before Congress passes any legisla tion to create an Oregon Dunes National Seashore. The fourth district Demo crat made a brief visit to the legislature during a four-day trip home from Congress. He said civil defense is as important as arms. Failed to Perform A legislative committee wants to virtually abolish Oregon's CD agency on grounds it has failed to per form when needed or to set up an energetic program. "It is important for the legislature to see that the job is done, to get value from the money spent," Duncan agreed. But, he said, civil defense performs necessary services, and "if even one life is saved, it's money well spent." Duncan said civil defense is particularly important since the first strike never will come from the United States. Time Later He said doing without a civ il defense program is like "air men who don t want to wear their parachute harnesses be cause they think they won i need them or there will be time to DUt them on later." "I'm not saying we need an office with civil defense written on it, but we need a program," he said. Duncan said he "hopes' Dunes National Seashore will be approved this session, but he wants hearing in Oregon first. It might not be possi ble to arrange those before this summer or fall, he said. , Duncan said he expects to introduce his dunes bill Tues day, Boxcar Shortage Reported Easing Albany - (UPI) - A shortage of wide and double door rail road boxcars which has threat ened closure of Northwest plywood mills was reported casing today. Noble Chownlng Sr., presi dent of Coquille Valley Lum ber company here, said the plywood mill would remain open today after some of the boxcars arrived. Earlier, it was planned to close the mill today. Chowning added, however, that the mill would be closed Saturday and there probably will be a curtailed program next week. In Salem, Oregon Public Utility Commissioner Joncl Hill said the shortage should improve soon. The PUC has wired the Interstate Com merce commission asking for immediate return of such cars as soon as they are unloaded. James R, Turnbull, execu tive vice president of the Douglas Fir Plywood associa tion, said In Portland the shortage was "spotty" but "se rious." If things don't get bet ter soon, he said, It will be come "critical." KILLED BY SNAG Milton-Frccwater-fllPIl-State Police said John McEwen, SB, Milton-Freewater was killed Thursday when a Cottonwood snag fell as he burned slash on his property southwest of here on the Walla Walla river. Sports Bulletins Eugene l'Pli Under dog Molalla gave Portland champion Marshall a tear today before bowing 44-43 in a consolation round gam of the Oregon class A 1 high school basketball tour nament hare. Marshall's win advanced it to the consolation finals at 1:30 p.m. Saturday against the South Salam Seuth Eugene winner. Mo lalla was eliminated. South Eugene was elimi nated from the tournament this morning whan it was dumped by South Salem, 73 to S4. 4 imp' ?m tfi I l&c JkM mm DURING NEWS CONFERENCE President Kennedy, shown during his news conference in Washington, D.C., yesterday, said that an estimated 3,000 Russian troops have been withdrawn from Cuba in the past ew Council Approves Parking Meter Time; Annexation In a meeting Thursday eve ning, which lasted slightly less than an hour, Medford city council approved chang ing part of the parking met ers tn tne aowniown area from one to two hours, ap proved annexing approxi mately 28 acres north of Cap ital ave. and east of the city's reservoir site, and asked the city manager to have the state speed control board re view the 70 mile an hour speed limit on the freeway viaduct to see If it should be reduced. N ' Only five councilmen were present for the session. Ab sent were Dick Travis, Rob ert L. Baccus and William Singlcr. ... . The .council approved changing all of the 395 one- hour parking meters in the central business district to two hours, with the number to be changed to be left to the discretion of the city mana ger. City Manager Robert A. Duff said that the rate for parking will remain the same except that the vehicles may remain in one parking space for two hours Instead of the present one hour limit.. Shop pers may still park for any period from 12 minutes to two hours. Cost to the city for chang ing the dials Is 70 cents per meter, Duff said. No opposition was voiced at the hearing on the annexa tion request. It was explained that this was the first prop erty annexed to the city un der the statute which permits annexation without a vote when petitions are submitted representing two-thirds of the area, two-thirds of the proper ty owners and two-thirds of the assessed valuation. Eight of the twelve property owners in the area consented to the annexation. They represented 94 per cent of the area and 67.19 per cent of the assessed valuation. Following a suggestion by Councilman Joe Hosick, the council referred the matter of freeway viaduct speed limits to the city manager for refer ral to the state board. Some of the councilmen thought that 70 miles per hours was too fast for travel through a populated area. It was men tloned that there was more for the driver to see, which might distract him from his driving, than on a straight rural section. Civil Defense Budget Tentatively Approved by Group Jackson County Civil' Dc- travel and $800 for transpor- fnnen rniipiupri a hllricpt alio- .... V nno ..-..,j afternoon for the new. fiscal year. ! This Is an Increase of Sl,- 980 over the current year al location tit $13,126. The allocation was made by the Jackson county budget committee in spite of recom mendations from Mrs. H. P. Bosworth Jr., Applegate, that some budget Items should be eliminated. Both she and her husband, Pacific Power and Light company official, argued for almost an hour against the Civil Defense fall-out shelter program while Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, county civil defense coordinator, steadfastly de fended his program and po sition. . In her printed statement Mrs. Bosworth asked, "Can we reduce the budget by one half and still get the services we need? "By curtailing Civil Defense expenditures of time, money and emotion we leave our minds and funds free to work for a ban of all nuclear tests, step by step disarmament, in spected' and safe - guarded. and the development of a world under international law and order," the board member of the Oregon United Nations association urged. She 'asked the following items be deleted: $300 for Civil Air Patrol, $900 for sheriff's reserves uniforms, $5,388 for Civil Defense dep uty, $300 for office supplies. $50 for printing, $450 for Railroad Crossing Approved The public utilities commls sloner today approved an or der for the extension of Bar- nctt rd. to cross the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. The order allowed for the continuing usage of the 11th st. crossing, which had been ordered closed In a previous PUC order If the Barnctt rd. was opened, and set the speed limit for trains at the new crossing at lb miles per hour. With this order, effective March 29, the city has finally removed the final major ob stacle to the extension of Bar nctt rd. to South Holly st.. some 1,285 feet. The street will intersect with Holly at Melrose ave. Appeal Ordered Following the previous or der regarding the grade cross ing, signed Aug. 11, I960, the city appealed it to the Jack weeks. He indicated that the U.S. would wait till the end of March to see If Soviet Premier Khrushchev needs more prodding to get Russian personnel out of the island. (UPI) I tatiOn The budget' committee granted the deputy a $240 salary increase, from $5,388 to $5,628, allowed $450 for uniforms and allowed other items Mrs. Bosworth sought to eliminate. The Civil De fense director's salary was cut from $2,880 to $2,000 and the secretary allowed a half time at $1,638 instead of full time as originally requested. Bosworth explained he is a registered professional civil engineer, a members of the American Nuclear society and was a World War II colonel in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. : - He said he Is against the shelter program from a prac tical point of view. He noted that the explosive force of nu clear bombs has Increased tre mendously the last few years. Shelters would not make good bomb , protection struc tures. General Hicks admitted that some scientists oppose the Civil Defense program, but noted that President Ken nedy and the secretary of de fense are boosting the shelter program. The $200 for building a. the CD budget is for mainte nance of emergency hospital facilities at White City, it was explained. Little of the budget pertains to shelters. Portland - IUPH - The West Coast Lumbermen's associa tion elected Nils B. Hult, life long Lane county lumberman, as president at its 32nd annu al meeting Thursday. son county circuit court. LIU gatlons have continued since that time, culminating in a hearing Jan. 8, 1963, In Salem at which time new evidence was presented. At that time the Southern Pacific railroad withdrew its opposition to the new crossing. The city will pay all costs, plus utility pole relocation and the Installation of signal devices at the crossing. Estimated cost of the road's extension, railroad crossing, and related expenses is $43, 650, according to City Engi neer Vernon Thorpe. The crossing will be equipped with flashing lights and gongs, it was stated. Negotiations Under Way City Manager Robert A. Duff explained today that all of the right-of-way for the street h. hen obtained by Russian Ships May Be Preparing to Remove Others Departure Revealed At JFK News Meet Washington - (DID - Presi dent Kennedy took a wait-and-see attitude today on So viet troop withdrawals from Cuba even though there were indications Russia might be preparing to pull out more forces. The President told his news conference Thursday night that the Russians were esti mated to have withdrawn "approximately 3,000 troops In these past weeks." We are waiting to see whether more will be with drawn, as we would hope they would be," he added. Other sources in Washing ton cited reports that one or more Soviet ships might be getting ready to remove addi tional Russians from the is land. There remained a big ques tion in U.S. intelligence cir cles whether the Soviet per sonnel who have left Cuba were combat forces or mere ly military technicians. It was learned that so far the Kennedy administration has not seen equipment leav ing the island which would in dicate that the recent depar tures included combat forces at least not many. Aerial photographs of per sons leaving on ships does not indicate the nature of the personnel. This must be learn ed from intelligence inside Cuba and from watching the kinds of equipment moved out. The absence of shipments of combat-unit equipment was not regarded as conclusive, however. The Kremlin promised on Feb. 19 to remove "several thousand" of its military forces from Cuba by mid March, t .. ' Kennedy gave the Russian! the benefit of the doubt on the timing. He declined to answer specifically when ask ed whether he though the Kremlin had "honored" 1U commitment. -. - ... , .. "The month of March is not finished yet," the President said, "and we should have a clearer idea as to what the total numbers should be in the coming days." Sewer Bond Bids To Be Studied Jacksonville The Jack sonville city council will meet at S o'clock this after noon to decide which of three bids it will accept on the pur chase of $290,000 in bonds to finance construction of a sew er system here. - Bids were opened by the council last night, but a final decision was not reached. The bids submitted were from U. S. National Bank, 3.911 per cent interest; First National Bank of Oregon, 3.988 per cent interest; and Dominick and Dominick of Portland, 3.9808 per cent In terest. In other action the council signed an agreement with the Jackson county court to pro vide that the county board prisoners under sentence by the Jacksonville municipal court at a rate of $2 per day. The council pointed out that the ctiy has no facilities in which to keep prisoners for any length of time. A proposed ordinance to prohibit bicycle riding on city sidewalks was read, discussed and then tabled indefinitely. The public was reminded of a hearing set for Tuesday, March 26, at the city hall at 8 p.m. concerning the pro posed annexation of the old Fleming house and surround ing property to the city. the city except for a strip ap proximately 38 feet wide . along the north side of the . street from South Grape st. to the railroad right-of-way. ' This property, owned by Nye Naumes and Crystal Springs Packing company, Is current- . ly being negotiated for by the city, he said. Plans and specifications for the street's extension were previously approved by the city council. Duff said that plans are to present an ordinance to the city council soon authorizing the call for bids for the street. It was brought out at the January hearing that changes in railroad operations in the 11th ct. area were such that practical operation of trains in the area no longer required closure of that crossing.
