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mm taslto tori Dead Rogue Valley Edition Medford 20 Pages Two Sections PLANE LOSES ENGINE Eleven of the, 17, ,men, aboard , (bey are Terry Gallagher, D.' J: Hansen, Jack Baker and a Navy RD5 transport plane pose at? Galveston,. Tex., "be, Jerry Williams.' From left in the back row are Scott John fore the wing from which an engine fell while the plane son. Gene Bell,, Earl Mutchler, J. C. Varzal, Ernest Thorn was flying over the Gulf of Mexico. From left, front, row, fiij H. .R. Eilera'and' A; J. Casser. (UPI) , Vessel Dispatched For Evacuation of Eruption Victims Jakarta, Indonesia-(UPD-The Indonesian navy today ' an nounced it had sent a ship to help evacuate residents of the coastal town of Karangasem, Isolated by a volcano eruption that killed at least' 1,500 per sons and possibly hundreds more on the island of Bali. The official news agency Antara said the death toll in the eruption of sacred Mt. Gunung Agung had reached more than 1,500. It said most were either trapped and burn ed to death by floods of lava or killed by baseball-sized rocks spewed out by the vol cano when it erupted last Sun day. Higher Death Toll Feared W. R. Kerns, a free lance writer from La Jolla, Calif., predicted the final death toll "would be in the thousands." Kerns flew over the devastat ed region, twice last week. He said on his arrival in Singa pore today that it was still "too dangerous" for search crews to check the north and northeastern slopes "where there likely have been thou sands more buried by the lava or hot ashes." Government officials also feared that hundreds of vil lagers may have fled into the sea to avoid the eruption and drowned. They said "many" bodies had been recovered from the sea by Indonesian army units in motorboats. WSCBRIEFS ITIMS WOM ttJ MO" 01OM AGREEMENT CONCLUDED FOR BRAZILIAN AID Washington-itPlt-Pretidenl Kennedy and Brasilian Finance Mlnitttr San Tiags Dantai today concluded a financial agree ment involving up to S62S million in help for Branl't be leaguered economy. POLARIS SUBS DUE IN MEDITERRANEAN Washington-W-Tht first of several U.S. Polaris sub marines earmarked for operations in the Mediterranean is expected to be on station there about the first of April, the State Department said today. DRUGS SAID NO. 1 CALIFORNIA PROBLEM 8acramento-an-Atty. Gen. Stanley A. Mosk said today thai use of dangerous drugs had become California's No. 1 law enforcement problem during the past three years. SOVIET UNION CLAIMS THE U.S. RENEGED Genve-lPt-Tht Soviet Union charged today that the United States had agreed to accept "two or three" on-site Inspections under a nuclear test ban treaty and then re neged on its alleged promise. K MEDFORD, OREGON, 822,263 . .... J- Hirifi:: For County-Budget So Far in Meetings The Jackson- county budget committee will meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow, but no interviews have yet been scheduled; So far, the committee has approved a total budget allo cation of $822,263 compared to total proposed allocations of $857,159 presented. , .. County Purchasing Coord inator William Cochran esti mates the committee! is- one fifth the way through the budget requests.. So far the commitW has trirnnied $34, 896 off all approved budgets. Multiplying the $34,986 by five, it would appear the com mittee would be able to keep the total ' budget allocation well under the $112,000 they estimated would have to be trimmed to meet estimated in come for a balanced budget. However, a number of budget requests are coming up which can be trimmed little if at all. Budgets to Ba Approved The committee has yet to approve budgets for the sher iff, assessor, court house ex pense, miscellaneous general county, surveyor, watermas ter, district attorney, fruit in spection, county agents, board of equalization, constable, planning, commission, parks and recreation, print shop, weed control, dog control, Jackson county library fund, emergency fund, building im provement and maintenance, capital improvement fund, county school fund and Jack son county historical fund. Tribune MONDAY,' MARCH 25, Approved V I The capital Improvement fund includes money for con struction of the public health center at the fairgrounds and tentative allocation of $80,000 for a basic ball park develop ment on the Cheney field .it the fairgrounds. ,', ,: Most of these budgets have been covered by interviews al ready. The sheriff's depart ment and road department are the only major budgets left. The roads department budget is yet to be turned in. The sheriff is asking for $137,522 compared to the current year's $110,704 for the crim inal department; $30,929 for the tax department compared to $29,029; $23,337 for the civil department compared to $21,430 and $63,082 for the jail compared to $56,855. Ma jor increases in the overall budget are for two new. dep uties, two new clerk-stenos and replacement of four ve hicles, i Application Sought For Built Facility Because of changes in the rulings of the Federal Power Commission, the Pacific Pow er and Light is seeking an ap plication for a license for con struction which already ex ists. When the Prospect plant of the California Power com pany (predecessor of Pacific Power and Light here) was constructed, Rogue river was not included in the list of riv ers for which federal licenses were required before power facilities could be con structed. The classifications have been changed and the Rogue is now listed as one of 'the streams for which federal li censing is required before any construction is permitted. The application for a license from the Federal Power commis sion at this time is to fulfill that requirement in respect to the existing Prospect plant of Pacific Power and Light. It is not concerned with any proposed construction, power company officials here noted with filing of the notice of application. OFFICE BURNED Greenwood, Miss. - 1TD -Negro leaders said a voter registration office in this rac ially troubled Mississippi Del ta town was burned early tndsy by two white men. 58th Year Price 10 Cents 1963 No. 3 Travel Requisifc Board Criticized Salem - (UPI) - Sen. Thomas Mahoney (D-Portland) today criticized the Board of Higher Education's" requests, for out-of-state travel, funds. ( : ! Mahoney said on the Sen ate floor" that higher educa tion has . asked $877,657' for out-of-state travel for the com ing .two years. He said higher education had spent $838,266 during the 1961-63 biennium. 'I suggest we put the brakes on this," Mahoney said. - Sen. , Ward Cook (D-Port-land), cochairman of the Joint Ways and Means committee, said the committee "has been looking with a careful eye" on travel requests. , Sen. Tom Monaghan (D Milwaukie) called upon sena tors to take action on his proposal to outlaw profession al boxing in Oregon. He cited the case of Davey Moore who died after being injured in a California match last week. He said he may amend his bill so it would got to the peo ple for a vote. The Senate today approved a bill to repeal a law which prohibits more than three per sons to occupy the front seat of an automobile. The meas ure, which earlier won House approval,, now goes to the governor. Musn't Obstruct View The bill would remove re strictions on the number of persons in the front seat so long as the driver's view is not obseructed and his ability to operate the vehicle is not impaired. The Senate also approved a House bill outlawing the firing of bows and arrows or firearms over highway or rail road rights of way. The senate Committee on Alcoholic Control approved a bill to do away with the per sonal permits required for purchase of liquor. WEATHER FORECAST: Varlahl rlourllnni with ehanre of few showers mm Mr over mountains tnnlfht and Tuesday. Low tontbt H-i2. Hifh Tueiday lo-SS. Temp. Hllheit Yesterday Lowest This Morning 22 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . f:2K p.m. Sunrlte tomorrow i:Ha.m. In Moon set i 5 p m. tontht and Is In Perigee. First Quarter ...March 11 PROMINENT STARS The Big Dipper, kifh In north at midnight. Vtftllll.r PLAVFTS Mars. In fhe west 12:19 a.m. flatnrn and Venus, rite 4:51 .n. Oregon State Coed Object of Search Corvallis-OJPIi-Police today were extending their search for an Oregon State University coed who disapparered Thursday night. Edna Pemberlon, 21, foster daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter C. Kraft, Corvallis, was last seen when she left home for a Corvallis theater. She was driving a 1950 tan Chrysler coupe. . Her father said she was disappointed that she was unable to begin practice teaching today. She also faced the possi. bility of having to postpone her wedding this summer, he said. She is engaged to David Heggiani. Oakland, Calif., an OSU graduate now attending Navy officer candidate school at Newport, R.I. She is five feet two inches tall and weighs 105 pounds. She was wearing a black cloth coat with iur collar and a brown cotton dress with long sleeves. California Man Killed, Five Are Hurt in Accidents A California man was killed and five persons were hospitalized in two separate automobile accidents in Jack son county during the week end. Five more persons were treated at hospitals and re leased following the acci dents. Killed Sunday was Willis W. Waters, 68, of Ft. Jones, Calif His southbound ve hicle attempted to pass a a slowed vehicle at the inter section of Highway 99 and Crowson rd. south of Ashland and met a pickup head-on, ac cording to Oregon state police. The accident occurred shortly after 1:30 p.m. and four persons, a passenger in the Waters vehicle and three persons in the pickup truck, were treated at Ashland Com munity hospital. . - Hospitalized Saturday night at Rogue Valley hospital were Velva Novella Lumpkin, 20, of 832 North Central ave., driver of the westbound ve hicle; John Jensen, 18, of 1121 South Oakdale ave., operator of the second vehicle; William Bradley Heyerman, IS, of 125 Winema way; Michael Wright, 18, Sacramento, Calif.; and James Stanley Yoder,, 18, of 1624 Stafford way, all passen gers in the. Jensen ear.- .,., .s. idefcwafc.duicnajged -Sun?. aay mormnu, Anoiner passen ger, David Todd Elmgren, 19, of 3300 Jacksonville highway, was . treated . and . released. They all were reported suf fering from contusions and abrasions. According to state police, the Jensen vehicle was mak ing a left turn into a private drive when it was hit by the westbound vehicle. The acci dent occurred on Highway 238 near Janney lane. Treated for cuts and abras ions Sunday were Wesley Ken Zufelt, Durango, Colo., a Navy man serving aboard the USS Salisbury, passenger in the Waters vehicle; Carl Bailes, 87, of route 1, box 80, Rogue River, driver of the pickup truck; his granddaugh ter, Rita Jane Bailes, 16, Rogue River, and Sue Robert son, 17, of route 1, box 722C, Eagle Point, both passengers in the pickup truck. According to police, a car operated by Robert Lyle San derson, 32, of 582 South Holly St., Medford, was southbound on - Highway 99 when it slowed, waiting for traffic to clear before making a left turn onto Crowson rd. The Waters' vehicle, also south bound, attempted to pass the Sanderson car, meeting the Bailes' pickup truck head-on. Neither Sanderson nor his passenger, John L. Flynn, 136 Sherman St., Ashland, were injured. The fatality was the second in Jackson county this year. Sanitary Officer to Assist on Ordinance R. E. Hatchard. Portland, state sanitary officer, will be invited by the city of Med ford to assist it in compiling an ordinance to control air pollution, according to City Manager Robert A. Duff. The air pollution committee met this morning. The city has been check ing into the possibility of writ ing such an ordinance since the city, in cooperation with the Oregon state sanitary au thority, conducted tests here several years ago. The report on Medford's air pollution problem was received Febru ary. 1960. During the tests here, the city maintained several test ing sites throughout the city. STUDENTS DEMONSTRATE Istanbul (UPt More than 3,000 student demonstrators stormed the Ankara head quarters of the opposition Justice party Sunday to pro test the release from prison of former , President Celal Bayar. a Justice party leader. op 4 I (UPI) EDNA PEMBERTON Police Extend Hunt Oregon Medical Care for Aged Declared 'Flop' Salem fUPD Oregon's med ical care for the aged pro gram .was described as "a flop" today as a House com mittee opened hearings on ways of improving it. "Will it be a flop again this biennium, or will it really reach the people it is intend ed for?" asked ' Reo. Grace Peck' (D-Portland). chairman of the House Committee on fiH8dthnd.-Waifrerw,-r!y . Oregon s program was start ed two years , ago under the federal Kerr-Mills act. Feder al grants are combined with state money to finance It. Estimates then were that some 55,000 persons over 65 with small incomes would par ticipate, only a fraction of that number did so. The bill now before the committee would expand the program and increase bene fits. It also would enable the Public Welfare commission to provide nursing home care for elderly patients under the medical care for the aged pro gram. Dr. Ennis Keizer of North Bend, chairman of the Wei fare commission, estimated such a transfer would have gained Oregon some $1.7 mil lion in federal aid during the current biennium. SP, Clerks End Automation Dispute San Francisco- (UPO -Southern Pacific Railroad and the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks have ended their five year dispute over automation with binding agreement on final issues. A three-man arbitration board announced the settle ment Saturday and said key issues in the settlement in cluded: -Positions abolished during an emergency will be re-established and filled within 30 days of the end of the emer gency. -Agreement on Job security provisions. -Establishment! of "waiting time" compensation and per diem allowances for out-of-town work. -Job retraining opportu nities without reduction In pay or seniority. Bill Would End Permits for Liquor Salem-iWIi-The Senate Al coholic Control Committee to day approved a bill to elim inate the personal liquor per mit. The committee approved another bill to change the food sale requirement in li quor establishments to 15 per cent of sales instead of 25 per cent. The committee also gave a "do pass" recommendation to a bill growing out of last year's Seaside riots. It would empower the State Liquor Control Commission to cut off sales in a community dur ing riots or threatened riots. It has passed the House. Out-of-State Accidents Kill Two Oregonians Ashland Collision Kills Californian I By United Press International Seven persons lost their lives in Oregon traffic acci dents during the week end. Out of state accidents killed a Portland man and a Univer sity of Oregon student. Willis Waters, 68, Fort Jones, Calif., was killed in a three-car collision on U. S. Highway 99 half a mile south of Ashland Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Thelma Welker, 46, and Jery Hobbs, 19, both of Gresham, died In separate one-car accidents in Multno mah county Sunday morning. Mrs. Joan Atkins, 28, Burns, was killed when a car in which she was riding collid ed with another car on U. S. Highway 20 at Hines Saturday nignt. Mrs. Annie Meserve, 53, Portland, was killed in a two car crash in Portland Satur day afternoon. Theodore Stringfield, 36, Prineville, was killed early Saturday when lite loaded lumber truck plunged off U.S. Highway 26 and overturned 15 miles east of Prineville. . Richard Butterworth. 23. Albany, died Saturday from injuries suffered in a three car accident at Albany Friday night. In addition, a University of Oregon student was killed and two others critically injured when their car collided head- on with a diesel truck and trailer on U. S. Highway one mile south of Orland, Calif., Sunday. Killed was John Lee, 20, Burlingame, Calif. Mark Smith, 21, Los Altos, Calif., and ' Rowena Polak, 20, San Rafael, Calif., .were critically injured. They were en route to the Eugene school from their homes for the resump tion of classes after spring vacation. Leroy Rundberg, 36, Portland,-was killed early Sunday when' his car overturned on a city street at Spokane. Three People Held In-Burglary Caser Two people, are. being held in the Jackson .county jail to day on charges of burglary involving local schools, and a third is being held in Grants Pass on traffic violation charges. , Being held are Melvln Ed win Snodgrass, 23, of 803 North Main st Ashland, and a 17-year-old girl, also of Ashland. Snodgrass has admitted in a signed statement, the sher iff's office said, to 10 burg laries in this area within the past month. I The third member of the trio, now In- Grants Pass, is wanted on a second degree burglary charge by Okanogan county, Wash., authorities, the sheriff's office reported. Of ficials from another Washing ton county are interrogating Snodgrass this morning con cerning burglaries in that area. Engravers Delay Strike Settlement . New York IUPD - A dead lock between publishers and 320 striking photoengravers today pushed the New York newspaper blackout into its 108th day, despite a 3-2 vote by printers to end their walk out. The printers, who had re jected a $12.63 weekly pack age Increase proposal a week earlier, reversed themselves Sunday and voted 2,562 to 1, 763 to accept the contract terms. The photoengravers are de manding a cut in the work week from 30t hours to 35, which they claim would be in line with their craft's work week in commercial firms. Publishers contend that re sulting increases In overtime pay would be too costly. Two Rescued Weeks in Sub Winnipeg, Man. - (UPt - A man and a young woman were rescued today from a seven week ordeal during which they lived off the land after their plane crashed In Cana da's frigid Far North. The two were tentatively identified as pilot Ralph Flor cs of San Bruno, Calif., and Helen Klaben, 21, of Brook lyn, N. Y. They disappeared Feb. 4 en route from White horse, in the Yukon, to Fort St. John, B. C, and were bound ultimately for the Unit ed States. Royal Canadian Air Force 89 m Li V.'".yM " " ItlSJmilllaMIIMaaM 'I 1 ' ( III II "rTlfl A III I . .- BODY FOUND Jane Langdon, 21, a Fort Worth, Tex., socialite, has been found shot to death at the entrance of mine tunnel near Phoenix, Ariz. She was en route to visit her ailing mother. (UPI) . Authorities Seek Clues in Slaying Of Texas Phoenix, Ariz. - flJPll - An autopsy report today may shed some light on the slay ing of a 21-year-old Texas so cialite found at the mouth of "a" prospector' " tunnel tn- the desert. June Langdon, daughter of a Texas state judge, disap peared last Thursday. Her body was found Saturday by two. men and a boy on a tar get practice, outing. . Forced To Walk -"- ' Sheriff's Capt. Ralph Ed- mundson said evidence show ed the Texas Christian coed had been forced to walk to the tunnel where she was shot once in the foreneact ana twice in the stomach. The au topsy was expected to be com pleted later today. - She was last seen by a taxi- cab driver who drove her to the luxury apartment her fam ily maintained in north cen tral Phoenix, Edmundson said. The brown-haired Fort Worth, Tex., socialite had Just arrived aboard an airliner to visit her ailing mother. The cab driver told officers he let her off at the entrance to the apartments after he carried her baggage to the door. The sheriff's captain specu lated Miss Langdon, a for mer Arizona State university De Gauffe Plagued By Threat of Strike Paris - (UPI) - Fresi dent Charles de Gaulle; his hopes of European economic leader ship plagued by growing labor unrest, faced the threat today of a possible nationwide strike by France's 2-milllon- man nationalized labor force. The stage was set Sunday when union leaders of 200,000 striking coal miners rebuffed government offer that would boost salaries 8 per cent over a 6-month period. No new negotiations were scheduled. After Spending Seven - Zero Cold of Far North search and rescue officials said wreckage of what appear ed to be the couple's white and yellow single engined plane was located Sunday by bush pilot Chuck Hamilton. The plane was partly burned. Two people, apparently a man and a woman, were seen near by. The wreckage was located near Aeroplane Lake, about 65 miles from Watson Lake, B. C, and near the Yukon British Columbia border. An Air Force spokesman said an "SOS" was itamped out In the snow near the wreckage, and an arrow point ed toward a small campsite. Socialite student.- mav have hnen rnn. fused about which apartment to enter since members of her tamlly had previously stayed in a different unit. . Shrwas not seen again un til the target shooters saw the tunnel and decided to explors it. ' Her father,' Jack Langdon of the Texas Second Court of Civil Appeals, and a Fcd erall Bureau of Investigation agent arrived here Sunday. Orchard Heating Widespread Sunday - No orchard heating was re ported last night or early this morning. However, heating was wide spread, starting about 1 a.m. Sunday and continued until sunrise. Heaters were fired throughout the valley. Temperatures dropped to 25 degrees in the coldest areas. Some buds were dam aged in the colder, unheated orchards, but nothing com mercial, it was reported. County Horticultural Agent Clifford B. Cordy said the amount of heating so far is about average for this stage of bud development, Buds are generally showing pink and white and will stand temper atures at 27 degrees for Bart lctt, Bosc, D'Anjou, and 26 de grees for Cornice and Nelis for 30 minutes. Orchardlsts must hold the temperature one or two degrees higher when heating. Fire Claims life Of Grants Pass Man Grants Pass-IUPD-Ray Baker, 45. died When A ffra Hplrnv. ed his house four miles south of here Sunday. Firemen uniH Rakpi. nnnnr. ently suffocated. His body was found in his bed. Firemen said cause of the blaze was believed to be smoker's care lessness. Hamilton, who works for Yukon Air Services, radioed his Watson Lake base and another plane flew over the area to confirm his find. One person was seen at the campsite, waving frantically. Hamilton flew around a while and reported seeing an other person apparently re luming to the campsite. Flores was a civilian em ployee at a Distance Early Warning Line station In the Far North. Miss Klaben work ed for the U. S. Bureau of Land Management at Fair banks, Alaska. A
