Years's ExtensionFroposed inProgram
To Bring Mexican laborers Into I.
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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
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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)
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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
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Tribune
MARCH 27, 1963
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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
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- -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.
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