Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 27, 1963, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextYears's ExtensionFroposed inProgram To Bring Mexican laborers Into I. I T f ' 3 till l Jll " : J GREETINGS FOR KING-As President Ken- Union Station in Washington. At left is nedy looks on, Mrs. Kennedy greets King Chief of Protocol A. Biddle Duke. (UPI) Hassan II of Morocco as he arrives at Senate Votes Property Tax Relief for Senior Citizens Salem - (UPD - The Senate voted 28-1 today to grant property tax relief to Oregon s senior citizens. The measure now goes to the House. The bill provides a per centage exemption for persons over 65 who do not earn more than $3,000 a year. The exemption would apply to the first $10,000 of the true cash value of the taxpayer's principal personal residence.. Exemption Increases To age 68 the exemption is 10 per cent; up to 71, 30 per cent; to 74, 50 per cent; to 77, 70 per cent; 79, 90 per cent; and over 80, 100 per cent exemption of the first $10,000 value. - Sen. Vernon Cook (D Gresham) opposed the meas ure because it would narrow the property tax base and "subsidize children unwilling to support their elderly- par ents." He suggested a pension to the elderly as an alterna tive. . Sen, Alfred Corbett (D Portland), Edward Fadeley (D-Eugene), Walter Pearson (D-Portland), Boyd Overhulse (D-Madras) and Walter Leth (R-Salem) argued for ap proval. Fadeley and Leth warned of the danger of narrowing Miller To Discuss Range Study Plan The Jackson county budget committee yesterday after noon directed County Judge Earl M. Miller to discuss with Carroll Brown, Rogue River National forest supervisor, the Jackson County Stock men's association request for approximately $3,500 for - a government range study. Although cattle graze on both forest service and bu reau of land management land, the study would be only ot forestry land. I Gordon Stanley, Lake Creek, association president, indicated the association would contribute to the study. The cattlemen did not know exactly how expensive the range analysis would be, or how long it would take. E. R. Jackman, retired OSU range and pasture specialist, has been contacted and he may require one or two as sistants, it was explained. County Commissioner Don ald Faber said the cattlemen should bear in mind that the committee has more than 50 budgets to consider. Such a range analysis would serve a corr.partively small group in the county, he pointed out. The small businessman also is hard hit economically, he said. rastfBRIEFS ITEMS OM JP KING SAUD SAID SERIOUSLY ILL Nice, France-aPh-King Saud of Saudi Arabia, whose an nual income is estimated at $300 million, today was report, d "seriously ill" from a variety of ailments. ESTES JURY GOES INTO SECOND DAY El Paso, Tex.-IA Jury of 10 men and 2 women deliber ated for the second day today on the multimillion-dollar mail fraud trial of Billie Sol Estes, the bankrupt fertiliser tycoon. RUSSIANS PROTEST ATTACK IN SHIP Moscow-U'l-The Soviet Union today lodged a formal pro test with the United States against the "piratical attack" by Cuban exiles on Russian ship at a Cuban port last week. COMMUNISTS STRIKE IN VIET NAM Saioon. South Viet Nam - 'IPI predawn raid today, wiping 75 miles soutn oi saigon. the property tax base, but said the measure should be approved. Corbett termed the bill "a self respecting measure for self respecting people . who want to stay off the welfare rolls." Overhulse said it would benefit those who were "poor but proud." The Senate also approved a measure allowing school dis Hatfield Accused Of 'Forced Savings' At State Hospital Salem-IUPll-Gov. Mark Hat field was accused today of or dering "forced savings ... at the Oregon State Mental Hos pital to a point where patients are aciually dying .' . ." "Patients are actually dy ing of bed sores for lack of enough aids to dry and turn the patients," charged Rep. Beulah Hand (D-Milwaukie). "There are 74 fewer staff now at Oregon State Hospital than authorized by the 1961 legislature," she said. Mrs. Hand referred to Hat field's charge Tuesday that the legislature is "more in terested in dollar signs than humanity." "When it comes to per formance and interest in hu manity the administrative deeds of Governor Hatfield do not measure up to standards that his press statements say he expects of legislators," Mrs. Hand said. Meeting on Game Problem Scheduled Hunters of this area will be given an opportunity at a meeting here April 9 to give their views to the state game commission regarding the big game hunting seasons for this coming fall. Time and place of the meet ing is yet to be announced. The commission at its monthly session last week ap proved a series of meetings in various communities through the state prior to the big game hearing of May 24 when the hunting seasons will be set. A meeting will be conduct ed April 8 at Klamath Falls. Other meeting sites are Enter prise, Baker, Bend, Coos Bay and Gold Beach. The cities represent regional centers and hunters from outlying towns are asked to attend the ses sions for their respective AROUND THI OLOM - Communist rebels struck in out t government militia post tricts to provide transporta tion to public high schools "other than the nearest one," with parents to pay the addi tional transportation costs. A measure authorizing pay ment of repairs of damages occasioned by the Columbus Day storm also won approval. The measure allows for pay ment of emergency repairs to schools ordered without normal bidding procedures. 'Hatfield's humanity to man is only fop press . con sumption and evidently does not extend to the homely task of caring properly for the quiet unfortunates placed un der his care in state institu tions," she said In a state ment. N.Y. Newspaper Strike Settled New York UPD Publishers and striking photoengravers came to terms early today, all but ending a newsnaner shutdown of almost three and one-half months in the na tion's largest city. The presses were ready to roll, and it was virhmiiu cur tain that they would be turn ing Out nanprs InnioM Ttia papers had their staffs on tele- pnone alert, and 5.7 million readers looked forward In ra. gaining their prime source of iniurmaiion. Jubilation prevailed at City Hall early today as a weary but haDDV Mnvnr Rnhort P Wagner announced the peace pact. : One detail rpmainari Ttaan. cation of the agreement by the 320 members of the Pho toengravers Union. But Frank mcuowan, president of Pho toeneravprs T.nrai i uled a ratification meeting for p.m. (st) today, and pre dicted his men would vote yes within an hour. Walter N. Thayer, presi dent of the Herald Tribune, said that if this were done his publication would be on the streets tonight with the Thursday morning edition. The other idled morning pa pers - the Times, Mirror and the News - have indicated thpv rnnlri nnhlish within n few hours after pickets were withdrawn. Man Charged With Operating Still A Rube Goldberg contrap tion, consisting mainly of a five-gallon cream can, was confiscated and its owner, Orville Edward Daggett, 43, route 1, box 24, Jacksonville, was arrested by Oregon state police and an Oregon liquor control enforcement officer Tuesday afternoon. Daggett was lodged in Jack son county jail on a charge of operating a still. In a signed statement to officers, Daggett admitted making one batch of moon shine from corn meal and grain. The still was located in a mine cabin about 10 miles southwest of Jacksonville. Daggett told officers he had made between two and three gallons, which he drank himself. Labor Secretary Urges Protection For Domestics Efforts Urged To Give Job Preference Washington-IIPD-Labor Sec retary W. Willard Wirtz rec ommended today that a con troversial program to bring Mexican nationals into the United States to work on farms be extended only one more year. If extended one more year the so-called bracero program would expire Dec. 31, 1964. Wirtz made the recommen dation before a House1 agri culture sub-committee hearing on legislation calling for ex tension of the program for two years. Wirtz also recommended that the program be changed to give greater protection to domestic workers. 'This amendment would re quire employers seeking to obtain Mexican workers to of fer to domestic workers work men's compensation or occu pational insurance coverage, housing and transportation ex penses, equivalent to that fur nished to Mexican workers," he said. The secretary noted that U.S. unemployment now stood at 6.1 per cent and said mi gratory farm workers were among those in the "most dis advantaged position. - He said every effort should be made to assure that quali fied domestic workers be giv en preference in jobs. For ex ample, he said, California im ported 127,000 Mexican work ers during 1962 while at the same time an estimated 395,- 000 domestic workers were unemployed. Wirtz said the amendment to provide greater job oppor tunities for domestic workers would not impose "any oner ous burden" upon agricultur al employers. ;"None of its provisions would require employers to incur any greater expense in obtaining domestic workers than they are. now assuming in obtaining and utilizing Mexican workers, he said. Proposal Criiciied ' . Wirtz : also criticized an amendment proposed in legis lation to extend the program which would allow Mexican nationals to operate machin ery. This, he said, would "lend itself to subterfuge and abuse." In testimony before a House appropriations subcommittee made public today Employ ment Security Administrator Robert C. Goodwin said an estimated 138,000 Mexican workers would be brought into the United States for farm labor between July 1 and the end of the year when the program expires if it is not extended by Congress. 'Hate America' Group Seeks Order Nileroi, Brazil -dlPD Dele gates to a Communist - spon sored "hate America" conven tion sought today to obtain a court order, and perhaps the help of federal troops, to force local authorities to let them hold meetings in Rio de Janeiro. Gov. Carlos Laccrda of Guanabara state (Rio and some closeby suburbs) ruled Monday night that the Reds could not hold sessions there. Tuesday night his state police arrested S3 Brazilians who tried to come from Rio to the convention's temporary head quarters here. . A cordon of Guanabara po lice stood guard at the ferry landing in Klo, ready to pre vent any convention delegates from entering the city. PPL, Copco Bonds Slated for Exchange Portland - (UPli - New Paci fic Power it Light Company bonds will be exchanged April 1 for seven scries of outstanding bonds of the for mer California Oregon Power Company, It was announced by Paul B. McKee, PP&L board chairman. Pilot Tells Story Of Crash in Yukon California pilot Ralph Floras, who with Helen Klaben of New York spent 48 days in the cold, wild country of the Yukon Territory when their light plane crash ed, tells his story from a hospital bed in While horse, Yukon. His story is on page 2A. Regional Edition MEDF0RD 20 Pages Two Pearson To Attack Smoking Ban Salem-iUPH-The much battered bill to permit smoking on buses came in for some more attention Tuesday this time in a lighter vein. The Senate State and Federal Affairs committee heard testimony on the measure from its author, Sen. Walter Pearson CD-Portland). The committee room was decorated with "hazardous area, no smoking" signs, and smellcd of incense. The signs were installed by the committee. The Incense was an unexpected and un welcomed gift of Pearson. Pearson also presented each committee member with cigars before he began testimony. He refused to submit to the committee's request that Pearson said he was "serious" when he introduced the regulations agencies are making. This no smoking rule is not a state law, it is a Public Utility Commission rule." He added: "You can smoke on trains, boats and airplanes, but not on buses. That's rank discrimination." Sen. Thomas Mahoney (D The committee considered ditioned buses, but took no Cost of Equals Citrus Fruit, Vegetable Prices Continue Higher Washington - (UPD - Living costs tied an all-time high in February as prices for citrus fruits and fresh vegetables continued to climb the Labor Department reported today. ,The ; department said the price index rose by one-tenth : .. San Franciico..l) Re tail food prices dropped one tenth of one per cent in Portland in February, the regional Bureau of Labor Statistics said today. The decline still left the city's prices 2.7 per cent above a year ago. of 1 per cent last month. That put it at 106.1, a figure reach ed only one time previously. That was last September. Apparel Prices Higher The department's Bureau of Labor Statistics said higher prices for apparel also con tributed to the increase in liv ing costs. The index was 1.2 per cent above a year ago. Food prices rose by three- tenths of 1 per cent in Febru ary, largely because of ine higher fruit and vegetable prices. Prices of oranges ana orange juice concentrates ad vanced sharply. ' Prices of most vegetables, especially lettuce and cab bage, increased substantially In the wake of freezing weath er in the producing areas during December and Janu ary. Bananas Decline But banana prices dropped as supplies returned to nor mal following the end of the East and Gulf Coast dock- workers' strike. Prices of green beans also fell as the Florida crop was supplement ed by shipments from Mexico. Seasonal increases in the supplies of pork and some de cline in beef prices dropped the meat price average but poultry prices were up slightly. French Railway Workers Walk Out Paris IUPD French rail- waymen called a series o: harassing walkouts today and leaders of 200,000 striking coal miners urged restraint from further violence In the drive for higher wages. President Charles de Gaulle summoned his cabinet for a report on the labor crisis from Michel Maurice Bokanowski, mlnister,of industries. The 350.000 railwaymcn scheduled two-hour walkouts at each shift change to back the miners' strike against de Gaulle's wage austerity poli cies. Gas and electricity workers called for more walkouts Thursday, and there was talk of a possible general strike by France's 2 million-man nation alized work force unless the government backs down. Sections Burns - Portland) agreed with Pearson. amending the measure to make it effective only on air con action. Living Record r MISSING A search contin ued today for Doreen Haskett, S, of Napa, Calif,,' who has not been since since Monday afternoon when she left home to play at a girl friend's house. She never arrived there. Some 400 persons are engagd In a house-to-house search and a statewide alert has been issu ed for the child. The blue-eyed blonde was wearing a blue jumper and white blouse. (UPI) Colleges Present Building Plans Salem -IUPD- Plans for more buildings sought by higher education . were pre s e n t e d Tuesday night to members of the Ways and Means commit tee. University of Oregon Presi dent Arthur Flemming urged two science additions to cost $5,1 million. He said if they were approved, federal funds probably would be forthcom ing to help pay for them. Dr. Elmo Stevenson, presi dent of Southern Oregon col ege at Ashland, presented plans for a $955,000 classroom building. Plans for an $875,000 science building at Eastern Oregon college were shown by Eastern Oregon College Presi dent Frank Bennett, and plans for a $1.7 million engineering building at Oregon State uni versity were discussed by en gineering dean George W, Gleeson. Legislature Sets 'Terry Baker1 Day Salem -OlPfi The legislature has designated next Tuesday as "Terry Baker" day, and the Senate approved a con current resolution citing the nationally-known football and basketball star from Oregon State University. WEATHER roHKCAHTr CI unify, itroni southerly wlndi diminishing, by mtdnlllit. Ha In tonight. Hhnw en and fooler Thnridiy. I,w tnnlKlit 40-45. High Thursday 48-53. . Temp. II I Kh fit YMtrrdny SO l.nwest Thlt Morning 42 Prec. in 10 a.m. Today IS Our Skies Tonight fltinset today 6:10 p.m. ftunrlti tomorrow .... i:M m. Mnnntet tonight t:lZ p.m. f lrt quarter . March 11 MORNlNU PLANETS Katurn, Hies 4:44 a.m. Venm, rlti-B 4:JT a.m. (Saturn elrrlei the Kun every 39 yean at 21.40 mllei per hour; Venut circlet the Hun In 22 dayi at 78,410 miles per hour) 1 r t- it , J- MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, Incense he stop puffing on his cigarette. measure "to show the kind of Two Arrested at Esquire Theater By Local Officers Two men were apprehend ed in the projection booth of the old Esquire theater this morning by local law enforce ment officers after a burglar alarm in the building sound ed. Arrested In connection with burglarly not In a dwelling were Harold Homer Patter son, 34, of Salem, and Lewis Elroy Stephens, 53, who was released from the Oregon state penitentiary last Friday. A burglar alarm at the Timber Room, 3 South Rlver side ave., about 3:20 o'clock this morning alerted police, who discovered that an at tempted entry , had been made on the roof. :., . , ... Officers reached the roof with the assistance of the Medford fire department's aerial ladder. Officers Arrive Officers from - the Oregon state police, Central Point po lice department, and Jackson county sheriff's deputies sur rounded the block from River side ave. to Bear Creek and each building and roof area was searched. The two men were located in the projection booth in the Esquire theater, police said. Entry had been made to the theater through a vent win dow on the roof. - Police confiscated a num ber of burglary tools near the point where entry had been attempted in the Timber Room. Unrest Threatens Macmillan Regime London (UPD The fester ing unemployment problem. which set off a riot at the houses of Parliament, loomed today as a major threat to Prime Minister Harold Mac- mlllan's government. The riot by an estimated 5,000 unemployed Tuesday brought new demands from the opposition Labor party that Macmillan take firm ac tion to ease the problem. The Tlmea of London called the storming of the govern ment buildings "the wildest, most determined demonstra tion" outside Parliament since World War II. Nine men were arrested and more than a score were in jured after squads of 500 po licemen broke up the riot and forced the demonstrators back out through St. Stephen's Gate, the main entrance to the houses of Parliament, HEADS CONFERENCE Spokane - (UPD - Bruce E. Colwell, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Tuesday was named president of the Intermountain Logging Conference at the 25th anni versary convention here. $7.5 Million Missing From Washington UPD- The Fed cral Reserve Board announced today that it is Investigating the "unexplained dlsapcar ancc" of $7.5 million in treas ury certificates from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank. A spokesman said it ap peared they may have been "accidentally destroyed." The spokesman said the certificates, which actually : ' 58th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune MARCH 27, 1963 r ' . ; To ARRIVES FOR TALKS-Sovlet Ambassador Anatoly Dobry. nin steps from his limousine at the State Department in Wash ington as ne arrives for a new round of exploratory talk! on the Berlin issue with Secretary Dean Rusk. (UPI) District Attorney Given Non-Support Special Investigator "The Jackson county budget land Rogue River libraries re commit tee allowed District I ceive allocations of $7,497 Attorney Alan Holmes his spe-j and $516.20, respectively, the cial investigator yesterday, same as the current vear.' . ; afternoon for checking on non-support cases. Salary was set at $5,148. More than 14 applications have been received.. The. committee stipulated the investigator would .be hired on a one-year trial basis with a special report due the budget committee at the end of the year. The committee trimmed the requested county allocation to the deputy district attorneys' salaries. The investigator would cut some of the work load, the committee said. It also cut $1,000 off the district attorney's proposed salary al location of $3,000. . Pays Attorney's Salary The state pays $11,000 of the district attorney's salary, part of the chief deputy's salary and the county pays all v of . the second deputy's salary. The chief deputy received a $228 increase and the sec ond deputy a $296 increase. The revised district attor ney's budget was approved at $34,936, up $7,945 over the current year. The committee also approv ed a revised county health department budget of $90,592. This budget is down $3,838 from the current year's total of $103,430. County Judge Earl M. Mil ler noted earlier that Dr. A. Erin Merkcl, public health of ficer, had a nurse recruiting problem so the committee granted nurse pay raises rang ing from $120 to $240 a year. Library Budget Unchanged In spite of a plea from the library board for a budget in crease, the budget committee left the county's share of the budget the same as the cur rent year for the Public Li brary of Medford and Jack son County, $73,943.04. Judge Miller noted that 65 per cent of the proposed II brary budget consists of salary Increases. Earlier the budget committee opposed the Med ford revised salary scale for library personnel, Ashland Worth of Certificates Federal Reserve Bank are short term government lOUs were first discovered missing last August. He iiaid the board, the Treasury De partment and the Secret Serv ice had been . investigating since then. He said none of the certifi cates, which are completely negotiable, have been cashed. "It's an unexplained disap pearance and the conclusion No. 5 --. - J - - -The county emergency fund I was apprpved. at $50,000. , . The budget-committee also approved a revised assessor's budget at $168,706, up $11,528 over the current year's $157,- l ia. Winds of 55 MPH Strike Ashland Ashland - IUPD - Southerly winds with gusts up to 55 miles an hour struck the Ash land area today as a storm front moved in from the Pa cific. Limbs were reported blow ing off trees, but there were no other immediate damage reports. Local officials said the 55 mph winds compared with those of 65 miles per hour which struck here during the Columbus Day storm. The weather bureau issued a revised forecast for the Ash land - Grants Pass - Medford area at 10:30 a.m. calling for southerly winds with gusts reaching 50-55 mph in a few places. Small craft warnings were hoisted along the coast. Intermittent rain was ex pected over most of Oregon through Thursday. The weather man forecast increasing winds for the Wil lamette Valley this afternoon with gusts to 40 mph at Salem and to 34 mph in the Portland area. The Pendleton area in East ern Oregon was expected to get westerly winds to 40 mph this evening. PLANS ABANDONED Salem IUPD Plans to speed processing of bills in the House through use of a con sent calendar for uncontested measures have been aban doned. is that they have been acci dentally d e s t r o y e d," the spokesman said. He said another develop m e n t st rcngthenlng this theory was that since the 12 certificates were discovered missing there had been an in terest payment date, but the coupons were not presented ! fnr the payment. 4