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Newspaper Page Text$1 1 .5 Million One-Shot Money Bill Passed by Oregon House BODIES REMOVED Rescue workers are shown removing bodies from a bus which went out of control and rolled down a slope into the Feather River Canyon about 18 Reno Authorities Seeking Slayer 01 British Skier Reno - DPI) - Puzzled Reno police, trying to find the slay er of British skier Sonja Mc Caskie, 24, today awaited re sults of laboratory and finger print tests to provide a lead. "We're pinning our hopes on reports from the pathology lab and a fingerprint check by the FBI in Washington," Detective Sgt. Carl Shoemak er said. The body of the attractive blonde divorcee was discov ered Friday night in her Reno apartment. Washoe County Disl. Atty. William Raggio, heading the investigation, hinted that a break might come in the case this afternoon. He said that more than 40 persons, includ ing the skier's ex - husband, had been questioned. No Motive Uncovered Raggio said that as yet no motive for the killing has been discovered. Jeff Schmidt, 31, ex-husband of the Scottish - born Miss McCaskie, was given a lie-detector test along with four other persons. Police said results of the test cleared all five of any complicity in the slaying. Miss McCaskie, who work ed as a secretary for a Reno meat-packing company, com peted for Great Britain in the 1960 Winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley. Calif. She came to the United States as a child. Draft Goldwater Movement Started Washington-(UPP - Forma tion of a draft-Goldwater-for-prcsident movement was an nounced here today. Peter O'Donnell Jr., Repub lican state chairman of Tex as, and Mrs. lone F. Harring ton, Republican national com mittecwoman from Indiana, said they will be cochairman of the national draft-Gold-water committee. O'Donnell and Mrs. Har rington told a news confer ence they had not consulted Sen. Barry Goldwater (R Ariz.) about forming the com mittee. Goldwater previously had requested those wanting ! Ilea DCIOrc snarling pu hira to run for the presidency'1 dogs held on leashes by to give him a year to consider police. Several persons were whether he wanted to make i bitten. the race or not. I Others climbed on top of Pnrlrc Rperpatian Meeting Postponed - The regular meeting of the i Medford park:--?nd recreation dog with a knife. Police fiscal year makes it neces commission has been post-! chief Jamie Moore twisted I sary to hold all budgets down, poncd from this Wednesday j the knife from his hand. I lie explained then. The county to April 17, according to Rob-' Twentv-six Negroes, some budget committee feels the crt L. Haworth. parks and recreation director. The change was made, Haworth said, so the com mission could meet with a representative from Royston Mayes, Hanamoto and Beck, a San Francisco planning firm, who will be in Med - 1 tul ! ? In r.niur.l oreliminarv plans for the re- development of Hawthorne park. NORTH VIETNAMESE SAID We.hinalon-'lPIThe Uniled Stales said today there are "indications" that Communis! North Vietnamese military personnel are .upoortlna local Communist troops who have resumed fighting in Laos. . nns'urwT DEFENSE PREPARING FOR TFX PAYMENT Washington-lPI-The Defense Depsrlmenl preparing o make a $23 million payment to General Dynamics Corp. in il.i u.- ntantinn nt p.v.rnna award turther evidence ine. i. -- oi the TFX warplane contract. ADVANCED VERSION OF Cape Canaveral. Fla. - IH , ..rtinn ol .. . :, . .k. sue t.uuu m im TtjnED IN BUS WRECK u,... w.h in-Eiaht children end two adults were . . r J , ..u;.. ran off the highway and hit west ol here. Eighth Person Dies As Result of Bus Crash in California Oroville, Calif. - lUPD - An eighth person died Sunday as a result of injuries received when a Geryhound bus plum meted into Feather River Canyon Saturday. The latest victim of the ac cident was Verner Scott, 84, a retired University of Nevada professor of agricul ture. His wife also died in the accident on rain-washed High way 40-Altcrnatc. One person remained in critical condition at Oroville Medical Center and 12 others were hospitalized with in juries. Going 'Too Fast' The California Highway Patrol said the bus, carrying 23 passengers, was traveling "too fast for conditions" when it skidded off the highway and plunged over a 100-foot cliff. Capt. Ralph Walker of the patrol said there were no skid marks on the highway. He said his investigation was con ducted "largely on statements from witnesses." The bus was en route from Reno to San Francisco. It had bypassed the more direct route via Highway 40 in fav or of the scenic trip through the rugged Feather River area. A heavy rain was fall ing at the time of the acci dent. The site of the tragedy was Jarbo Gap, about 20 miles northeast of Oroville, on a winding section of the down hill grade leading into Oro ville. End-Over-End Survivors told patrol inves tigators that a sudden gust of wind sent the bus tumbling end ovcr-end down the preci pice. The crumpled bus came to rest in a muddy cow pasture Dogs Used To Chase Praying Negroes Birmingham, Ala. - (UPD -Patrolmen and police dogs broke up a Palm Sunday anti segregation "prayer pilgrim age" Sunday and sent 600 Ne groes scurrying. Screaming demonstrators i automobiles to get a way from the dogs. the ground after police said ' he had tried to kill a police i who knelt to pray, were ar rested when they did not heed police warnings to move. NATO PLAN ATTACKED Moscow UPD - The Soviet Union, in notes to the United States and otner western r.a- tions. attacked the proposed i W A Tn nuplpar fnrrn toHitV i and hinted to retaliatory ' measures if the West Ger-, ' mans receive nuclear arms. IN LAOS ........ - POLARIS LAUNCHED - The Navy today successfully ii lona-rsnae Polaris A3 mil- i.iantir Or.in. .k.m rm Palm Sundav services a leiepnone poie aooui a mne a miles north of Oroville. Calif., Saturday. Eight persons were killed and at least 20 injured. UP1) at the base of the cliff. Dtlu llla ajr.usx, ; MemifedReas0' ! laenimea as. t Howard A. Humphreys. 49, j Reno, the driver: Kenneth Yingltng 23 Oroville. Calif.; Ethel M. McEwan. 60. San j rriuLisco, ora Bene Chris- ty. 68, Reno; Lars Ness, 79, Portola, Calif., and Mrs. Betha Alma Morris, 74, Eagle wood, Colo. Miller Replies to Statement Made By Library Board County Judge Earl M. j highway construction. Truck Miller this morning angrily crs have long argued they Sfrom the board of the Publ iook issue witn a statement I Library of Medford and Jack son county in Sunday's Mail Tribune. "I blew my top yesterday and called Omar (Librarian Omar Bacon) on the phone. I told him this statement was not giving the public a true picture. If he wants publicity we'll give him a front page story!" Other budget committee members agreed with Miller that a second meeting should be held with representatives of the library board "to get this thing straightened out." Committee members also said that the county should not sign a contract with the li brary if it is going to curtail services. The county judge said he had received many telephone calls from local residents pro testing the board's threatened curtailment of school servi ces. The statement from the board said the Jacksonville library will be reduced from 30 to 20 hours per week un der the pared program; re quests of school students at the branch libraries will not be forwarded to headquart ers; special classroom collec tions of books to schools will be eliminated, and student use of the headquarters li brary will be limited in some I way. Position Explained T.act u-f.pk the rniinlv iiiHw called the librarian to meet : with the county court to ex-! r,i i th ntfi nrf h,,rfooi I step pay increases for all county employees the next greater wage increases pro posed for the library staff under the new city of Med ford pay scale arc unjustified, Bacon was told. At last week s meeting Bacon said he had to hire two rtjcr teachers to maintain j and help students studying I in Iha lihrarv al nioht Prtiin. : ty Commissioner Don Faber said the school libraries j should be kept open for stu dent study. This morning Miller re marked that the county's ai- I location to the library budget j has increased from $31,000 to S73.000 in two years. Only j 20 cent of the current over all budget request (the city of Medford contributes, also) is for books. If books are needed we ... ... .. unt iH . -Perhaps thc county should conijder cstabishjng a county library in the future," Com- missioner Faber suggested ,hjs jr(, ou, firs, (q thinking we are going to build a new county IlkMm ' Miller an.uiarnH EXERCISE PLANNED Tampa. Fla. - X'PI - The U.S. Strike Command an- nounced today it will conduct I an exercise involving some 40.000 Army and Air Force men in tho YaWma. Wash., and area Deiween Apru ju 2" Hatfield Wins Truck Tax Vote In State Senate Levy Reduced For Large Trucks Salem - WPP - The Senate voted unanimously today to revise Oregon's truck mile tax schedule as proposed b Gov. Mark Hatfield. The bill raises the weight ' mile tax for smaller trucks, and reduces the levy for large I trucks. The "flat fee" option fea ture for log truckers was in creased 15 per cent. Tlln kill nr.... n Ik. House Leader' An- (hony yturrj (R.0nUrio) said the measure had the approval of the governor, the highway department and the trucking industry He said whilp lh revised fee schedule would indicate a S500.000 a year loss in rev enues, increased use of hich- ' ways by trucks would offset I the loss. from the weight mile tax in 1E62 was S16.7 million, and due to increased volume should be about $17.5 million this year. The weight mile tax is de signed so truckers will pay about one-third the cost nf were paying more than one- third the cost A bill to change the truck mile tax was approved by the 1961 legislature, but vetoed by the governor. Hatfield said he wanted to see results of road tests being conducted in Illinois before the rates were changed. Yturri said the measure ap proved in the Senate today represented a "compromise" between the 1961 bill, and results of the Illinois tests Two Teen-Agers Treated After Sunday Accident Two Medford youngsters were treated as out-patients Sunday afternoon after they were injured when the motor bike they were riding hit a bump and careened out of control at the entrance to an alley on 13th St., according to city police. Injured were the driver of the vehicle, Manfred Bruno Stamm, 16, of 1315 West Main St., and his passenger, Tela Mae Bell, 15, of 944 South Ivy st. Police said the girl was u,,rown ,lrom lnc motoroiKe YVIIl'Il II Illl llll' UUIIIM, UUl boy struggled to regain con trol of the vehicle for about 10? feet before crashing into i a tence. ine acciaent occurred about 2:42 p.m. ryucc disu ukviwu two other vehicle accidents Sun day and two Saturday. No injuries were reported, offi cers said. B. M. Knotz, route 3, box 226B, reported to police that his car was struck and dam aged by an unidentified ve hicle about 2:15 a.m. Sunday while it was parked at 1225 North Riverside ave. Sheridan Wilson Scott, 129 While Oak dr., notified police I that his car was damaged by an uniaeniinea vcnicic aooui 11:55 p.m. Sunday while it j was. Parked m a lot at iJJU Crater Lake ave Vehicles operated by Betty Lou Grissom. 33, of 871 Swing lane, and Leonard Talmadge Harris. 41. Horsecreek, Calif., collided about 8:39 p.m. Sat urday al Central ave and Fourth si. Harris was cited j feel tall with brown hair and no orthard heating was inter ior disobeying a traffic sig-1 blue eyes, entered the grocery rUpU.d thjS mrning when nal. about 9 p.m. when the propri-1 ,,, healers were fired in a Chester Glenn Bowies, ait) Chestnut si . reported to po - lice that his car was damaged by an unidentified vehicle Ome time between 3:15 p.m. and 7:45 p m. Saturday while it was parked in a lot at West Main si. and North Oak dale ave. Civil Delen$e Power ; Fyfension AoDroved " ' Salem - UTt The Senate todav aDnroved and sent to the governor lor signature, a measure to extend the gover- nur's civil defense emergency powers for two years, and three Port of Portland bills to authorize the port to ex- tend ils boundaries, construct wharves, and develop water Regional Edition MEDFORD 20 Pages Two Sections Rusk Renews To Resist Red SEATO Meeting Hears Secretary Promise Victory South Viet Nam Fight Seen Bitter Paris -WPP- U. S. Secretary ! of State Dean Rusk warned sion and aggression still con- stitute a major threat to peace in Southeast Asia. With strong backing from the British and French, he pledged the United States would resist Communist ag gression threats "wherever they arise." Rusk said the United States has a "vital interest" in main taining the independence of embattled South Vict Nam, where American troops are helping fight the Communists. Victory Undoubted The struggle may be pro tracted and bitter, he said "but we have no doubt of ultimate victory." Rusk addressed the opening session of a three-day meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization Council of Min isters. He spoke before meeting with French President Charles de Gaulle and Premier Geor ges Pompidou In what appear ed to be a determined effort by both the United States and France to lift their relations out of their current deep freeze. A preliminary talk w i t li French Foreign Minister Mau rice Couve de Murville Sun day was described by Ameri can officials as "cordial and friendly." Broad Field Discussed They discussed a broad field of issues ranging from Berlin and the European Common Market crisis to President Kennedy's plan for an inter allied nuclear force in NATO. American sources said Couve de Murville showed 'some interest" in the nuclear force project, though he said France still wants to know many more details. De Gaulle was reported by French government sources to have decided on a display of diplomatic "charm" to prove to his partners, particularly the United States, that France remains a loyal member of the Western Alliance, despite recent bitter disagreements over nuclear policy ana tne torpedoing of the Common Market talks with Britain last January. Roseburg, Medford Robberies Similar Medford city police learned today that an armed bandit. matcning ine oescripiion oi a Ill-Ill WHO III Ml Up INI Ml'" tcria Super Market here Fri day niglit, robbed a Roseburg grocery at gun point Sunday and escaped witli about $2,500, much of it in checks. Roseburg police said the man, described as about six eior was aione aim new nun 1 up with an automatic pistol He escaped without a trace, ; o'clock as the temperatures 1 legislature to a farmer s ac Roseburg officers said. approached 28 degrees In .he livity, "nothing to show until The gunman was believed j coldest spots. Orchardisls put j harvest time." to be thc same one who es-, out their heaters about 8 a m caped from thc Groceteria Orchardists must hold . , with about $1,800 around 9 temperatures at 30 degrees President Opens p.m. Friday after holding a due to the full hloom stage Pnt-I,nI cMuln number of store employees at bey lor several minutes with a chrome-plated, hammcrlessl pistol. I Medford police said today thev had checked out a num her of area suspects over the week end. but none of the. ipads nrnveri fruitful. 1 CONFERENCE OPENS Yakima. Wash. - UT1 - The Pacific Northwest I radt A( - ' sociation opened its 49th gen iral conference here Sunday, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 8, STUDENTS KILLED Three Central Michi gan University students were killed Sunday and 12 other persons were injured when a portion of this brick wall collapsed on them. WEATHER FOKFC.XST: Skirt, - prln tii nijrht. Fatchy early morning tog In vn1lpys; othrrwloe, fnlr and mild Tuesday. Low tunlclit nrar 30. High Tuesday 0-65. Trmp. IflRtiest Yesterday .17 Low oil 'Ins MnrnltiR . J2 l'reclp. to 10 a.m. Today Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . ..m, Minnsc tomorrow ilit a.m. IMoonrlhc today 6:1.1p.m. t nil .'Moon today 1:47 p.m. Splca is tlie star seen near Hie Moon tonight. 110 light years away, this star Is actually i i times as hrighl an the Ktin. Courthouse Budget a I a Lawrence ol nrauia, a, ADorovcd bv brouDlmu,ii mii,ion d,ur spectacle nrr""v" ' w ,WMr filmed abroad, was expected The county budget commit- to ije5t picture honors, tee this morning approved , should Miss Davis win for $56,529 as the corrected al- her role in "What Ever Hap location for courthouse ex-1 pencd to Baby Jane?" she will penscs and went on to the seven other budgets it hopes to approve this week. The approved allocation is S1.716 more than presented I and 52,848 more than the cur rant year's allocation. Main budget items are sal aries, heating oil. building re ' pairs and supplies- Ail salaries for janitors, I the gardener and telephone operator were increased one slcp oil was left at Heating $6,000, building repairs at $4,500 and supplies were in- creased from $3,100 lo $3.50U Few Heaters Lighted As Temperatures Dip Almost -a week's ncriod of i ft.w areas. Heating started about 3:30 when the buds are pretty ten- der. it was noted. April 2 was thc last umc i orchard heating was reported - prior lo this morning SHOULD SHARE IDEALS Boston -itPt - America snouia snare its locals Willi ' 'he world and show by exam- pie that poverty can be con- quered through technology. - ! eaucainn'i aim mvvniiuu. oc:i - ! Wayne Morse (D-Orc ) said today Tribune U.S. Pledge Aggression Favorites For Academy Awa rds Selection Santa Monica, Calif. - (UPD - Belle Davis and Katharine I Hepburn, two of Hollywood's grand dames, were sentiment a favorites to win the best actress Oscar tonight at the 3 5th annual Academy Awards. be the first actress in his- lory to collect three Oscars. A victory for Miss Hepburn in "Long Day's Journey into Night" would span 30 years Opposition Seen to State Tax Increases ; Salem lUfl - There is grasa I roots opposition to any majo iriTcasc in slate income taxes, I Senate President Ben Musa (D-Thc Dalles) said today. He said "The Ways and ; Means committee has a pro found understanding of what the people back home want," and added "the legislators are closer to the people than any - one else." He said thc House Tax com- mitlce was not treating light - ly" a propos i income taxes. He likened the present Washington-'UPl - President Kennedy unlcased a right- -handed throw that almost went into thc dirt today to I inaugurate thc 1963 major league opening baseball game between the Baltimore Orioles and the Washington Senators Kennedy's ceremonial open ing pitch waH wide to thc left and low. Washington catcher Ken Rclzer snagged ; it with hij bare hand only a few inches from the ground. 58th Year Price 1 0 Cents 1963 No. 15 They were trapped in the debris of the burn ing structure, pur! of a five-story complex next to the campus, as they were watching firemen fighting the blaze. (UPD Listed Tonight between awards for the voter- an actress Gregory Peck (To Kill a Mockingbird) and Jack Lem- mon (Days of Wine and Roses) were expected to wage a spir ited battle (or the best actor award. Both stars will be among the movie heroes and bejew cled glamor girls who debark from limousines for Holly wood's biggest blowout of the year. Nominees, presenters and past winners were lo gather at Civic Auditorium overlook ing the Pacific Ocean for the nationwide telecast and broad cast (ABC-TV 7 p.m. PST) honoring the artistic achieve ments of the movies for 1962. Frank Sinatra leads the star-studded stream of celeb rities as master of ceremonies with such other popular fa vorites as Joan Crawford, Olivia DcHavilland, Ginger KOgerl and c,va iviarie aaiiu on hand to present glittering statuetls to the winners. For the first time in acad emy annals all presentations will be made by past Oscar winners, including the four performers who won lasl ! year. Sophia Loren. Maximill - an Schcll, Rilo Moreno and George Chakins. , . e a Week End Lives of Four By United Press International Four persons died in traffic j accidents in Oregon during ! the week end. The deaths were recorded Sunday Leslie Walter, 23, Scio, and j Oregon Traffic Toll April 1-8, 1963: 8 April I S. 1982: 5 To April 8, 1963: 121 To April 8, 1962: 97 his daughter, Margaret, 3, were killed In a two-car col lision on State Highway 226, about Vi miles south of Sclo. His wife, Nona. 21, wascrit- T !.4I T-w uyaicnc i qa Debate Opens; Motion Opposed Withholding Tax Payment Speeded Salem - (UPD - The House passed an $11.3 million one shot revenue bill today and opened debate on a cigarette tax. The House rejected an ef fort to send both bills back to committee. The one shot bill would speed up payment to the state of withholding taxes. It would involve employers who with hold at least $100 a month -about 7,000 of the state's 52,- 000 employers. The speed-up means an es timated $11.5 to $13 million would be collected before the end of the 1963-65 blennlum instead of just after the end of the blennlum. Basttt Object. Rep. Sidney Bazett R- Grants Pass) objected It would take $72 million out of cir culation over the blennlum. putting it instead in the state's coffers where It would earn interest at only low rates. Rep. Richard Eymann (D- Marcola), who carried the bill, noted the state must raise some $60 million in new rev enues in the next blennlum to balance a budget that will fall between $385 and $405 million. He said the one-shot bill would mean raising that much less in "permanent" new taxes. The one shot bill passed 33-28 and went to the Senate. The speed up means the em ployers Involved will remit withholding taxes to the state monthly Instead ot quarterly. Move Unsuccessful Debate on the cigarette tax bill came after Rep. Joe Bog era (R-lndependence) moved unsuccessfully to send it back to committee, Rogers, a sales tax advo cate, said he objected, how ever, to a "selective sale tax of cigarette." He said the proposal did not have any property tax offset features. Rogers said the House was putting "the cart before the horse" by acting without hav ing the rest of a tax program before it. Reward Announced For Information Jacksonville A $50 re ward is being offered for In formation leading to the ar rest and conviction of thc per son or persons responsible lor damaging thc Jacksonville cemetery, Jacksonville Police Chief Frank Carter an nounced this morning. The reward money is being olfered by a private individ ual, Carter said. Anyone with Information about the case should contact Jacksonville police at 899-1231. About $500 worth of dam age was discovered in the cemetery last week. Forty five tombstones were knocked over. Many of them were broken, some beyond repair. At present police have no leads on Ihc case, Carter said. Slate police are working with him on it. 1 60 Smelt Consumed To Win Bating Contest Kelso, Wash. - (UPD - Fred Lautermilch, a maintenance worker from Vancouver, Wash., ate 160 smelt in a little over two hours Sunday to win the sixth annual smelt eating title here. Lautermilch defeated de lending champion Gene Van Der Zanden of Troutdale, Ore., by one smelt. mm es p tojc Takes in Oregon Ically injured. She was taken Eugene hospital. Taken lo hospital at Stayton were a younger daughter and four Albany youths In the other car- mrs. L,aura Aaonsen, wmthrop, Wash., died in a one-car crash on U.S. High way 30 one mile north of St. Helena, The car went off the highway and slammed into a rock bank. Her husband, Lelf, 33, was seriously injured and was taken to a St. Helens hospital. Kent Tilllnghast, 56, Eu gene, was killed in a two-car collision on a Lane county road 10 miles west, of Eugene.