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Story Colmti 5 - Firebomb Explodes in Home Where Negro Congressman Is Guest Natural Resources Regional Edition 58th Year Price 10 Cents Medford Tribune Department Given Committee Vote 'Intimidation' Charges Hurled Salem - OP - The gover nor s proposed Natural Re-1 sources Department won com mittee approval Thursday amid a flare-up over charges f'at its opponents were en gaging in "intimidation" of the legislature. The House Natural Re sources Committee voted 6-2 to recommend passage of the bill. Chairman Clinton Haight (D-Baker) said he will give minority report against it. It would group natural re sources agencies, boards and commissions into a depart ment with six division: For estry, fish and game, mineral resources, agriculture, water, resources, and boats and har bors. Parks and recreation would not be included. The whole department would be headed by an ap pointee of the governor. Most Agencies Opposed Most of the agencies in volved in the reorganization plan have fought it. The committee approval came hours after committee members William Holmstrom (D-Gearhart) issued a state ment accusing state employ ees of trying to defeat the bill by intimidation, threats of political reprisal, and in-1 accurate statements. Holmstrom particularly ac-. cused the State Game Com mission and its staff of an "arrogant1 attitude and "leg- islative brow-beating." Strongest Argument He said the action of the state employees "is the strong-1 est argument . . . for reor- i ganization and reduction of the number of empire - build-; ing boards and commissions i to a manageable size." Gov. Mark Hatfield gave statement saying "there is no excuse for arrogance." The game commission and those employees who have openly fought my program are not being criticized for having contrary opinions, but for their attitudes and actions which accompany those opin ions." To Eliminate Abuses "The time has come," he said, "to establish a depart ment of natural resources to eliminate such abuses." Sen. Harry Boivin (D Klamath Falls) who has cham pioned an interim investiga tion of the game commission, joined in accusing the com mission and its employees of taking a "high-handed atti tude." He said, however, the flare up "further shows the neces sity" for an interim study of the game commission, not for a natural resources depart ment. Douglas Silent On Divorce Plans Wshington-IUPU - Associate Supreme Court Justice Wil liam O. Douglas, 64. had no comment today on his second wife's announcement that she planned to seek a divorce. Mrs. Mercedes Hester Doug-! prevent youngsters from hav 4fi urifa nf the iustico for ! ing to appear in court more eight years, said through her lawyer she planned to file for divorce sometime this summer when she returns to Iter ranch at Glenwood, Wash. She gave no reason. Douglas' first marriage to the former Mildred Riddle, a boyhood sweetheart, ended in divorce, after two children and nearly 30 years of marri age. She charged she was left "abandoned and alone" during his work and world travels. Douglas, appointed to the high court in 193 by the late President Franklin D. Roose velt, married his present wife in December, 1954. She had been divorced from C. Girard Davidson, former assistant secretary of the interior dur ing World War II. NEWS($Bfi1EFS mm not T moono thi mom NEGRO LEADER PLAr'S PRAYER MARCH' Birmi.ighm, Alexin-Integration leader Dr. Martin Lu ther King Jr., plenned to lead a "prayer" march on city hall today despite court order aimed at squelching a series ot racial demonstrations here. RUSSIA HINTS AT NEW COSMIC FEATS Moicow-lft-The Soviet Union celebrated cosmonaut $ day today, marking the second anniversary of Yuri Gagarin's pioneer minned space flight with hints of new "spectacular" cosmic fetls to come. HUSK TO DISCUSS BERLIN ISSUE Washington-trl-Secretary of Stele Dean Rusk, just back . m 1 1 i n -, . . . -. i- - - -c Wpf lin from Allied aeienss ,, 1,1. today with Soviet TO TAKE OATH Al Bradford, 42, Medford city council man, will become acting postmaster of Medford at midnight tonight. He was to receive the oath of office at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon at the Medford post office from Keith Rice, postal inspector of Eugene. J. A. Eidswick, postal inspector for this area, who has been acting postmaster for several months, resumes his position as inspector only, tomorrow morning. The vacancy in the Medford office occurred with the death of A. Moore Hamilton last August. The. vacancy was filled for a month by diet L. Langslet, Klamath Falls postmaster. Medford Board Asks Meeting to Discuss Insurance Policies The school board of District :H9L tins week requestea meeting in Salem to settle dis puted coverage of insurance written by the California Life Insurance company of Oak land, Calif. At a special meeting this week, the board requested a meeting between Oregon In surance Commissioner Walter G. Koiiann, the California in surance commissioner, repre- Sex Offender Bills Approved By Oregon House Salem - DPI - A trl scx offender bills whipped easily through the Oregon House to day and a fourth measure, de feated Thursday, was revived Only .a handful of mem bers voted against each of the three bills, which go !o the Senate. One would clarify the of fense of a "peeping tim." The second would permit enhanced penalties, including indeterminate sentences for second and subsequent sex offenses. Changes Jurisdiction The third would put juris diction over sex offenses in volving children in the cir cuit courts. Rep. Shirley Field (R-Portland) said this would than once, since the Circuit courts are courts of record and keep a transcript, while lower courts do not. The revived bill would transfer juvenile jurisdiction from county to circuit courts. It was sent back to the J'laici ary Committee, where an amendment may be made to exclude counties of small pop ulation. Package of Six The four bills are part of a package of six aimed at sex offenders. The other two, expected on the House floor before long, would provide for commit ment and treatment of per sons who are demonstrably sexually dangerous, and would set up a central police filing bureau for sex offend ers. n ru " Ambastauoi Analoly F Dobrynin. sentatives of the insurance company and representatives of the school district, along with other school districts which obtained insurance from the company. The board asked for a meet ing as soon as possible since the insurance contract expires with the end of the school term. The board also asked that the commissioners of insur ance in Oregon and California intervene in the case, specif ically "in connection with stu dent and faculty accident and medical insurance written by California Life Insurance com pany under their policy of in surance No. 4963 for which the district and its patrons have paid in excess of $20,000 and which California Life In surance company refuses to honor in the form delivered and paid." Assistant Super intendent Elliott Becken, in a letter of transmittal, said a meeting such as requested appears to be imperative. "Billing for medical, hos pital, and laboratory services which are long delinquent are now being presented to par ents for payment, even though these many students were cov ered under the policy with the California Li,fe Insurance company," Becken said. Seven Months in Arrears In a letter to Korlann, Beck en said: "You undoubtedly have many more details re ' garding this case, but to date we are in the dark as to what we can inform our parents and physicians as to the pay ment of student accident claims that are seven months in arrears." Korlann said earlier this week an investigation into the case is continuing. It involves agents who sold the policies under the name ot a Portland agency no longer in existence. Korlann had received com plaints that parts of the pol icies are considered invalid by the insurance company, which informed Korlann that dis crepancies between policies written by the agents and those sent into the home of fice were discovered. The number of policies in volved in the Medford dis trict is not as great as the number involved in other Ore gon districts which obtained the insurance, school officials indicated. Kiwanis Easier Egg Hunt Is Tomorrow Youngsters by the hundreds arc expected to he at Haw thorne park here tomorrow when the Medford Kiwanis club stages its annual Easter egg hunt at 9 am. Boys and girls will take part in three age divisions, one to three, four to six and seven to 10 years. A total of 10.000 candy eggs, individual ly wrapped, will be scattered over the lawn. The Dalles - OIPli Edward Richard Risig. 31. died today at The Dalles General Hospital of a bullet wound suffered during an altercation at Rufus I Tuesday night 22 Pages Two Sections State Sanitary Hearing Due in Southern Oregon Medford Said Like Dropping Into Cave Portland-illPlI - The State Sanitary Authority decided Thursday to hold its next meeting in southern Oregon to investigate air pollution in the Rogue River Valley. The meeting will be held June 21 in cither Medford or Grants Pass. Acting chairman B. A Mc Phillips told the agency he went through Medford twice in February. "It was just like dropping down into a cave, the air was so thick," he reported. Placer mining pollution of the Rogue river and its trib utaries also may come up at the meeting. The authority received a letter at its meet ing Thursday complaining of pollution in the Agness area. ; Request Refused In other action, the author i ity refused a request from the city of Sherwood for a ; six-month extension of its ! deadline for filing plans for ! a city sewer system. The city , and Portland Canning Co. have been unable to agree on a financing contract. An application by Wood burn for $75,990 in federal funds for treatment facilities was approved. The money, along with $75,000 from a bond issue and S93.500 from Woodburn Senior Estates and the General Foods Co., is needed to handle new sewer connections. The authority was advised that Silverton's sewage treat ment plant is expected to be back in operation soon. The city has been dumping raw sewage into Silver creek. Howard Prairie Resort To Open Fishing season is still one week away but the Howard Prairie resort will open to morrow to "avoid the rush," Bob Johnston, of Johnston Stores, concessionaire, an nounced today. Opening of the resort will permit fishermen and other rccreationists to take house trailers and boats to the lake in preparation for the official opening of the fishing season April 20. The restaurant and store will be open Saturday and from then on throughout the season from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. The dock store on the wat er will be open from dnylight to dark throughout the season. Trailer cabins have been "booked out" for Friday and Saturday nights of the fishing season opening, Johnston said. There are still some boats and boat and mc'or combinations available for re servation for the o;xnlng days. Advance reservations and information are available at Johnston's Medford store. Groceteria Bandit Suspect Arrested Medford police are Investi gating the possibility today that a man arrested early ' Wednesday near Spokane, j Wash., may have been the armed bankit who robbed the Groceteria of $1,800 last Friday night. The suspect, Keith Barlow Lang, 27. was apprehended at a roadblock set up by law enforcement officers follow ing an early morning robbery I of a hotel in Moscow. Ida. Lang, who also goes by the I name James Milton Rayc, is known to have been in Med ford recently. Medford offi Can said he was emplnvt-d here at a local bar on New Year's eve. City detectives said they are waiting today for pictures of Lang to arrive fro.n Mos cow and Klamath Fa'ls. where he also has l.ved so they can be shown to p.i.ploy ees of the Groceteria for iden tifi' ation purpose Lang had been sought by I the FBI on a charge of unlaw ' lul flight t avoid confine ment in conne;'i n with an rmed robbery in Washington. Efforts To Locate Lost Sub Thresher Intensified Bomb Explodes in Home of Negro; Solon Is Guest No One Injured in Mississippi Incident Clarksdale. Miss. IUPD - A homemade firebomb was hurled through a window and xploded into flames early to day in a home where Negro Rep. Charles C. Diggs of Michigan was asleep. The device, a bottle con taining flammable liquid. spewed flames over the front room of the home of Aaron Henry, Mississippi president of the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People. No one was hurt. Diggs, on a civil rights fact finding trip to Mississippi, Henry and his wife and young daughter were awakened by the crash of the bottle through the picture window about 2 a.m. Henry said he sent his family outside and he and Diggs put out the flames be fore they spread to other rooms of the three-bedroom house. Police in this northwest Mississippi Delta community of 21,000 said the incident was under investigation. Of ficers called in the state fire marshal's office for assistance shortly after the fire-bombing was reported, Diggs, in a telephone inter view with a New York radio station, said he would leave Clarksdale today and will go to Washington Monday in hope of conferring with Pres ident Kennedy and Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy. He said he would take with him a preliminary report of his survey of "the intimida tion activities" used against Negroes in many sectors of Mississippi. He said he also would testify before the House Judiciary Committee when it begins hearings on civil rights legislation May 8. The Incident occurred less than 12 hours after two Negro residents filed suit in U.S. District Court seeking racial integration of the library, parks, hospital, city hall and county courthouse. Landslide Area To Be Corrected The Jackson county roads department will correct land slides along a 2 2-mile seg ment of the Lake of the Woods highway in the near future, County Engineer Rob ert Carstensen wrote the coun ty court this morning. The work will be about 25 miles southeast of Eagle Point, ! he explained. Road crews propose to move the road into the hill side in places, Carstensen said. In other places, material will be removed from the up- per side of the roadway, and excavated materials will be placed at the "toe" of the slide to form a counterbal ance. Drains will be installed in i the counterbalanced material to intercept the ground water. he said. Stockman to Discuss Elimination of Funds The Jackson County Slock men's association will hold a special directors' meeting in the extension service auditor-! ium at 8 o'clock tonight to discuss the elimination rounty support of two state Attorney rranx a vn predatory animal hunters. , Dyke, representing Elk Lum The county budget commit- company, owners of the tee removed the allocation of j property, assured the com t7 7ii in. th,. ,.uj firal vear mission that construction of starting July 1 and added $1,000 to the county bounty. All interested stockmen and other livestock men have been invited to the meeting. Plans for the annual stockmen's as sociation spring meeting in the Central Point Grange hall at 7 p.m.. Thursday. April 13. also will be discussed. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1963 91 -JEtViCtfk SEARCHING FOR THRESHEH This view was taken from a window in a Navy search plane and shows the destroyer USS War rington as it participates in search opera Planners Approve Request to Rezone 30 Acres of Land A request to rezone 30.3 acres near the Biddle rd. free way interchange, which would clear the way for de velopment of a tourist motel complex, won approval of the Medford planning commission last night. The matter will now go be fore the city council for final action. Planning commission ers voted unanimously to recommend the zone change. Attorney Manville Heisel, representing owners of the property located on the south side of Crater Lake highway between Biddle rd. and Hilton rd., described the property as "a hub" location, one ideally suited for a tourist motel de- veiopmeni. Heisel noted the property -ueier acuun until io ,m,r g yt.r ago. remained si- was 1.4 miles from the air-1 on a request for a change of , lent botn on lhe Wheeling ac port terminal, and 1.3 miles ! "nc for property between lion, announced Wednesruy, from the Medford Shopping Old Biddle rd and the re- and on the presidential state Center. He said a tentative i aligned Biddle rd. menl. lease has been negotiated with Texaco Oil company for con struction of u gasoline station on two acres of the site. Approve Zone Change The group also approved a zone change request which will permit construction of a Southern Oregon Conserva tion and Tree Farm associa tion office building on a par eel of land on the north side if Highway 09. immediately east of lhe state highway de partment and state police of I property the building "would not inter fere with residential uses to the east of the site on Berry dale avc." Van Dyke said a small tri angle of land Immediately in front of the site which is owned by Medford Corpora tion v.ould not interfere with the development. He said tions for the Thresher in the England coast. Medco joins With Elk Lum ber company In the zone change request. The measure passed by a 6 to 1 vote. In other action, the com mission voted to: -Deny a request for a change of zone for property located on the south side of West Main st. between Mistle toe and Orange sts. -Approve a zone change re-J I quest from single and two I family to multiple family for j ! the si nth half of six lots lo- cated at the northeast corner j ! of Eighth and Hamilton sts. ' i Request Is Denied -Deny a request for a vari- i ! anee to allow a 4 by 6 foot i sign at 2520 Mcrriman rd. : ..... .... -Defer action until June 13 -ljcicr action until may h on a request for a change of zone for property located on i the south side of Bamett rd. 1 east of Bear creek -Deny a request for a vari ance to operate a gun and re loading shop as a home oceu- , pation at 214 Haven St. -Approve a request for a variance to allow construction i of a garden and tool house at 2009 Falrvlew place. WEATHER MMlCr. AST : italny prrlotl. and windy al llmea ovr week end. Low i.. i. Kin 41. Illlh Katur- I day SR. Temp. HUhe.t V-.terday l Ltmeal Thli Morning 41 Our Skies Tonight mum. i lodav ft It p.m. sunrlar lemerrow S:13 a.m. Mofinrlar Ionian! 11 1" p.m. t.ail Quarirr April IS ntOMINKNT STAR Antarrt. below the Moon. VIHIIILi. PLANBTS l Mart, high In aoufh. weat p m. i Saturn, rl.ea lift a.m. Venua, low In eaat . I I a-ra. missing nuclear submarine Atlantic Ocean off the New (UPI) I Period of Waiting In Steel Price Hike New York - MPl - Business men, politicians nnd labor leaders, studying reaction to ! President Kennedy's warning j ugainst a general increase in steel prices, settled down to I day lo a week end of wait Ing for news from Pittsburgh, j Pa. The President's statement, issued in Washington Thurs day, predicted grave econom ic consequentes should there be a general price hike in steel in the wake of Wheel ing Steel Corporation's boost in prices on some grades. But he said that "selected price adjustments" are to be expected in a healthy econo my. U.S. Steel, target of admin istration wrath because of a proposed price nine nronosed price hike little Higher Student Tuition, Enrollment Salem - UPH Hikes in student tuition fees and lim its on stale college enroll ments for a saving of S400, ium . w,.rn voted Thursday J by ,h(, Wliys nna Means sub- committee on education They were the first major policy decisions made by tnc subcommittee, which is study ing the governor's proposed $81 million budget for high er education for 19B3 05. The decisions, if approved by the full committee and the legislature, represent a recommendation to the Board of Higher Education, which Is supposed to live within iiai ever budget upon which the legislature decides. The subcommittee made these guideline decisions for budgeting purposes. Total enrollment on all No. 19 Search Narrowed In Area of Last Reported Position Preparations Mad For Use of Camera Washington - ftw - The Navy today intensified Its ef forts to locate the presumably crushed or shattered hull of the nuclear-powered subma rine Thresher, lost with 129 men off Cape Cod. Mass. Four more ships were or dered into the search area. now narrowed to a 30-mile radius about the submarine'! last reported position. Prep arations were made to use un derwater television when the search area has been narrow ed still further. Negative Results The Navy announced, how ever, that the nuclear-power ed submarine Seawolf has completed lti part In the search with "negative re sults." The Navy command Thursday night and today vig orously discounted reports that the Seawolf might have heard "tapping" or electronic sound signals bounded off the hull of the Thresher. Rear Adm. John McCain Jr.. Navy chief ot informs. tion, said the Sealwolt com pleted It minion at 4:20 a.m. (PST) today. 'Adm. George W. Anderson, chief of naval operations, said Thursday night there la no possibility that anyone on the Thresher could be alive. Camera To Be Lowered It is expected that the tele vision camera will be lowered by cable almost to the bottom. a mile and a half below, from the oceanographic research vessel Atlantis II, which la already taking part in the search. McCain explained that an exact location of the Thresh er Is necessary before the bathyscaph Trieste, due to leave San Diego tonight by rail, can be lowered to ob serve the hull. The Trieste is a deep-diving observation de vice, carrying two men, but it is also lowered by cable and cannot move around to search. May Determine Cause "If there Is any conceivable way we can get a look at the Thresher's hull, we may be able to determine why she was lost," McCain said in emphasizing the Importance of the operation. Reports from the scene of the search said high seas were seriously hampering ef forts to find a trace of the Thresher. The destroyer Ha zelwood, carrying electronic gear, arrived at the location of the disaster hours late be cause of the difficult condi tions. TRAIN TAKES PLUNGE Jakarta, Indonesia fOPt A ynnndlng Bandung-Jakarta ex press train leaped the track and plunged into a 250-foot ravine, killing at least 28 per sons and injuring 35 others it was: reported today. Limit Urged campuses would not be above 31,230 the first year and 33, 750 the second year. That in cludes 3,808 out-of-state stu dents the first year and 3, 385 the second. Tuition tor out-of-state students would be raited to $900 a year at the University of Oregon. Oregon State Uni versity, and Oregon Techni cal Institute. The present fee Is $830. At the same time, 10 per cent of the out-of state fees would go Into a scholar ship fund for out-of-state stu dents now at the schools. Tuition for students from Oregon would be raised from $300 to $330. The in-atate tuition figure and the enrollment limit were approved unanimously by the committee. 4
