Drastically Pared State
Civil Defense
Oregon House
Budget Passed by
TRADITIONAL EGG ROLL The White House gates were
thrown open to the public today for the traditional Easter
egg roll on the south lawn. Here members of the kinder
garten class of Sidwell Friends School in Washington, D C,
Government Reorganization
Salem - (DPI) - Boards and
commissions can become "ag
gressive and autocratic,"
Gov. Mark Hatfield re-emphasized
at a news conference to
day. The governor is urging re
organization of state govern
ment so departments would
be directly under the gover
nor's control with assistance
"v.u.. -
He made the comment '":
repiy w rerasus -
the Game Commission
1'. t
"In any board there is an
.la
inherent attitude of indepen
dence from review by the leg
islature or the executive,"
Hatfield commented.
"Such boards are not re
sponsive to the people. The
power to appoint doesn't nec
essarily carry with it the pow
er to remove," Hatfield add
ed. When questioned he said
his comments also included
the Board of Higher Educa
tion, and said that was why
he favored combining the
Boards of Education and High
er Education into a single
department.
He termed a uch.amenri j
ea OHl 1UI d iioiuiai , "-o-ju, ..m,
commission "barely satisfac
tory," but "a step in the right
a,' '?".'. ... .u u I
Hati.eia saio n. u u u
amended nroposal. lt is a
start, and it can be corrected
in future sessions of the leg
islature." He warned against strict
"buy-Oregon." or "buy-America"
policies as inviting re
taliation tnai coma ne ., -
till to urcgon.
C. w ."broad" Hat'
WP mUSl OUy auru-U, "'-I
Y.Vit i u u.. .,. , I
we siiuuiu ,,.,. ....
can get the best deal for the
Oregon taxpayers
Tn HiioniMoiyrni,
recently voicea-p.-" iu ww
American" whenever possioie.
There has in the past been ;
riticism of the use of Jap-!
anese steel on the Astoria
bridge.
The governor also argued
against statutory limits on
salaries for technical people
He said such limits hamper
ed the state's ability to hire
top caliber experts.
Park Planner To
Arrive Here Tuesday
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to. of the San Francisco firm:
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forrf Tnerlav mornine to ore-
nt a redevelopment plan for ,
ti in lho ntv
j .mmi
pdllV rtllll iniLoumi tv,,, , nil ..... -
si0n. tonight at the airport. Gen-
Parks and Recreation Direc-! eral orchard heating is expect
Inr Robert L. Haworth said ed. according to William Rog
,..;n aHHrnc t h p rr fruit frost warninc fore-
r-.,. i ir, ,1 ihoir TiKodav
, h' n ihn nhirrt
nf Bear creek improvement,
HEWS(?BRItfS
ITCMS ftOM W ' WOUND TMI O10M
MARCHERS BATTLE POLICE IN LONDON
. j iii-l. mlimaied
narchers. many chanting the
hideaway battled police today in a noisy invasion ol Lon-
don. The marchers stormed to the walls of Buckingham Pal-
ace and surged past Parliament.
VOLCANO ERUPTS OFF ECUADOR
Quito Ecuador-ln tne
'"Z d'sund.; 3T V.m Vew.ng sm lav,
nd asn today according to reports reaching he,..
ana .
, tni-1 v nil. LOON LAUNCH
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Alamogordo. N.M.-m-oirong winu. iw...w nw..i. , Vi ,,F.o v,.... ... -...."...
tDonement of plans to sard a balloon and two men IS ed Arab Republic merging should get under way lmme
' miles high to study the stars.) epPt Syria and Iraq. irtiately.
Renews Drive for
Thresher Inquiry
Board Hears of
Object Being Seen
r-orismouin. .n. - mm -
A naval officer testified tnHav
hnlinved tn he
' J .
submarine was seen a lew ;
k... .,,,. t n,.w nW !
He said the object disap- D , was a nsnerman. be questioned about the rec
pcared and it may have been j He sald .,ne Skylark did not . enl Groceteria Super Market
a fishing boat Dur,sue 'ne, obec' Lj i robbery in Medford.
Lt. Cmdr. Stanley Hecker, ' Askd ,f hlP r bJect State police apprehended
3fi, skipper of the escort ves-
sel' Skylark which was nearby 1
wlicn the Thresher sanK wea- ,
ncsday in the Atlantic with
129 men aboard, testified at
a naval court of inquiry.
He said that during the
search for the Thresher Wed
nesday afternoon the Skylark
spotted an object which was
believed to be a submarine
"sail" or fin.
"We were anxious and pos
sibly hoping it was I h e
Hecker said.
No Answer to Challenge
Hecker said the Skylark
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longed the
object. It refused !
- the challenge, he
Snow in Area;
Heating Expected
.. - , ,
While rain early Easter I
morning dampened sunrise
,,, " ,h, lho mainrilv '
services so that the majority
in southern Oregon were ticio
in southern Oregon were held
indoors, snow was not report-1 more (nan 35,000 feet in the I George B. Reed, 21. Port
ed on the valley floor until pacific three years ago, was land, was killed Sunday when
ing.
hes of rain was
,rlnrt -i , Medford sta-
- - Weather bu-!
on of the :U S We. her bu
,rj ,hp 'oj.hour ,
j -
ocriod
Crater Lake National park
reported 15 inches of new
snow for the past 24 hours
with snow still falling this
. - . ., a
morning. There ! now a to
tal of 90 inches of snowpack
there. The temperature at 8
o'clock there was 17 degrees.
reporUtcdlnoCiiCho'th Green I
Springs and Siskiyou moun-
asningiun - unr - aen
Winds at the airport were
i.j oi hioh nf tn
sl u, ,hi,h ,, ,t :
2 n m Sunday
Forecast for today is for j
BhiuMsa nf rain nr nnw with
1 .v.eieH w of 58 HeurPM
raster, with temperatures rx-
necird to din to 25 decree
i in the coldest orchards.
35.000 young Dan-me-Domo
location of a secret government
unico oiwnu n
L. ,.J, .J ,u.
roll their Easter eggs. Neither Caroline Kennedy nor her
two-year-old brother, John Jr., was participating in the
egg roll. They are spending the holidays with their parents,
President and Mrs Kennedy, in Palm Beach, Fla. (UPI)
said. At one point, the Sky-
saio. ai one point, tne any-
lark was within fi.OOO yards
01 lne "W" vvnen " aisap-
r.-,..,i U
cu- "L MIU' .
peared, he said
was lying 10.
he said.
"f i
Ders,' Hecker said. "No, it .
,rfr , X
, 11 was y coior i
" "" lu
Hecker testified that be
cause of the deep depths in
which the Thresher apparent
ly plunged, his vessel, the
Skylark, was in nn position to
offer assistance.
Log Read at Inquiry
Hcckcr read off to the in
quiry board the Skylark's log
of the Thresher's last minutes
in water one and one-half
miles deep 220 miles east of
CaPe Cod-
niS WSIUIIUUJ wc-. nnuui
the same as that of Skylark j
oincers wno lesuueo. oaiur-
day.
Meanwhile, nceanographers
continued to bounce sound!
waves off the floor of the I
Atlantic where the Thresher
went down jn cffort (0
pinpoint her final resting I
place. I
Th, Jn.rfi,.inn h3ihvtnh !
Trieste
Trieste, which descended
Hue to leave San Diego. Calif.,
tnria ahnard the dork landine
zry - ,:
' p lZT.lm .,
seek V.su.l Observation
" ana wncn Ine .lnrc5n-
rr s crusneH tin l is located.
the Navy hopes to lower the
Trieste to the ocean floor
nearby to permit visual ob-
. ".' v
of the submarine
Three Tongue Point
USGS U nClCf Study
Morse (D-Orc ) said to-:
day that three possible uses
for the Tongue Point Naval
station al Astoria. Ore . are
"id" study by the White
House:
-Transfer nf Coast and Geo
dctic Survey staff personnel
from the national capital to
the Oregon site.
-Use of the site for the
orientation of foreign
ex-
chanEe students
-Use ol the 872-acre base
as a Peace Lorps training ccn-
ter
the Oregon Democrat told
the senate
last week that a
andal" was in the
:ausc of the Ken-
serious sea
making beca
nedy Administration's failure
to find a use for the $14 mil-
lion base
Morse accused the General
Services administration,
which is resnons b e for the
disposition of surplus govern-
meni property, of "complete
inefficiency and malfeasance"
n connection with handling
of the Oregon property. He
said the GSA should be inves-
uEaiea irom lop to oouom.
STATEMENT PREPARED
Cairo fSK Arab dip lo-
mats today prepared an offi
rial statement of constitution
1 n.mrmlnc In- the new ITnif.
Police Question
"an on "oldJup
Aiiempi junaay
Michael Jamison West,
alias Jim West, about 40, Ash
land, was being questioned
Mlla mnrninr, ,...,.,!,,,, bS
mmninj rhw,. nf vnrtnn'. I
Market in Phoenix last night.
... . .
W est is an ex-convict
from Nebraska stale peniten-1
sjwy, ii was rcponeu. ne nas
admitted to committing four
r.rBinri i ih i.uij
area fou, in Talenl anri nnp
'
in Phoenix, according to re
ports at mid-morning. He may
West early this morning
r,aVon Norton and Mayne
Norton had just locked the
store about 9 p.m. and started
to their cars when they saw
! a masked man sitting behind
the wheel in Mayne s car
La Von told officers that
they dropped to the ground
and he pulled a .38 caliber re
volver from his pocket and
yelled at the guy to get out
of the car.
He fired two shots in the
air then the man threw the
car door open and fired a
shot at the Nortons. The man
then ran toward Church st.
LaVon Norton said that he
firnH t h rnr mnrn chnlc at ihr
fecinR mani but ne disap.
pearcd bpnind a house.
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By United Press International
Four persons died in Ore-
ann ivppk nnrt traffic ar-ri-
dents
a motorcycle overturned. Don-
na Schrantz, 20, a passenger
on tne motorcycle, was nun
critically.
Oregon Traffic Toll
April 1-15, 1963: 17
April 1-15. 1962: 11
To April 15. 1963: 130
To April 16. 1962: 104
Merle Worley. 58. Swiss
home, and his wife, Isabelle,
; 48, died early Sunday when
; their car plunged off State
Highway 38 into the Siuslaw
river near Mapleton.
Worley's body was not re-
covered
Charles Cook. 20. a Forest
Service employee, died in a
onc-car crash on U S. High -
way 101 near Gold Beach bat -
urday.
Siuslaw Boat Basin
Study Authorized
Washington -UPC- The Sen-
ate rupnc worKs Lommmre
loaay renewea me r.ny r.u-
gineers auuiuruauuu 10 siuuy
consirucuon oi a smaii uui
basin near the mouth of the
Siuslaw river, according to
Sen Maurtne Neuberger 'D-
Ore.)
Mrs. Neuberger noted that
'he site of the proposed basin
is within the boundaries of
'he Oregon Dunes National
scasnorc sne nas aovocaica
However, she said the boat
basin would be consistent with
the recreation objectives of
the Dunes park.
Interior Secretary Stewart
Udall has been asked to co-
uiuiimie u ytuuim vl ,aj
access to the area between
the Bureau of Land Manage
ment and the Corps of Engin
eers. Mrs. Neuberger said she be-
1, tho nnqina,,,' t,,Ht,
Rogue Valley Edition
Medford
20 Pages Two Sections
Big Three'
To Boost Steel Prices
First of Major
Companies Tells
Selective Plan
Prices Advance
On Stock Market
Pittsburgh, Pa. - fUPD - Re
public Steel Corp. today be
came the first of the "big
three" producers to raise steel
prices.
The company, the nation's
third ranked producer, thus
gave impetus to the price in
crease movement inaugurated
last Tuesday by Wheeling
Steel.
Republic, like Wheeling
and Lukcns Steel, announced
would put in effect Tues
day selective price increases
averaging S5.34 a ton. Wheel-
ing nad cstimaled ltj hikes at
aboul s6 a ton average, and
Lukcns about the same.
Stocks Advance
Republic's action came aft
er these other developments
Steel stocks advanced on
the New York Stock Ex
change, some reaching new
highs.
-Sen. Barry Goldwater (R
Ariz.) said President Ken
nedy's current attitude on
price increases was "com
mendable" and in contrast to
his attitude last year when he
forced a rollback of similar
nrice increases by what Gold
water termed "uncalled - for
intervention."
-Sen. Paul Douglas, chair
man of the House-Senate Eco
nomic committee, announced
his group would open hear
ings next week into tne steei
price situation.
Still to be heard from were
U.S. Steel and Bethlehem
Steel, the No. 1 and No. 2
producers.
The higher prices already
were in effect. Both Wheel
ing and Lukcns said the price
increases were "selective"
and affected about half of
their products.
In Washington, a spokes
man for Kaiser Steel said re
ports that the firm has reach
ed a decision concerning steel
prices "are inaccurate."
Studying Subject
"No statement has been
made by any official of Kaiser
Steel." he said, "other than
the fact that the company is
continuing to study the sub
ject." There also was no com
ment forthcoming from Inland
which with Kaiser were the
two firms which balked at
similar price increases by oth-1
er producers, including U.S. i
a vear acn. President i
Kennedy forced a roll-back of
' those increases.
Sgt. York Said in
Critical Condition
Nashville, Tenn. - 0IP1) -Sgt.
Alvin York, one of the
nation's mightiest fighting
1 mpn remained in critical con
; dition wjth botn heart and
1 ,unR trouble today and a boa
pital spokesman reported
could go cither way.
Hospital officials said that
York had told them pain
"comes and goes in me rigm
chest, shoulder and back.
Earlier a hospital spokesman
v,ari said the old soldier "had
a very good night and rested
vcry well.
me o-year-oin worio war
j ner0 was nrougnt to tne si.
Thomas Hospital here Satur-
' day by ambulance from his
Pan Mall. Tenn.. home He
had been in the same hospital
two weeks ago.
WEATHER
t DtlCAtll I'o mldVriblr
rloudlnttft ind cool with ihow
t of riln or ,nnw tonight.
Parllv rlntlflv TurtAiV hut ulttl
rontinufd chinctt of ihowrrt. :
I.nw lonljhl Hlh Tunday
Temp.
Iltcht-st Vttrrdy S3
i i Thl Mornlnc M
Preclp. to in m. Today JS
Our Skies Tonight
SuniFt utdiy :S2pm
sunrise lomorro-f . 5:10 i.m
The Moon rises I 111 a.m. to
morrow and rtdes low.
Last Quarter Tuesday nlfht
The planet. Mercury, low in the
west after sunset. Is now bealn
nlnc one of Its elusive appear
ances Mercury Is the smallest
planet.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 15,
hi n
H i
(urn
THOMAS L. BEAN
Tripped by Camera
. . .
VLriAr r I Aniarcari
Slayer To Face
Charge of Murder
Reno aiPH Thomas Lee
Bean, 18, a stringy tousle-halr-
ed youth who has confessed to
the strangulation slaying of
British ski star Sonja McCas-
kie, 24, was to be arraigned
on a murder charge today.
He was arrested Saturday
after a camera missing from
the apartment of the victim
was found in a pawn shop,
and the pawn ticket was trac
ed to Bean.
After police questioning, he
admitted strangling the
blonde divorcee with a piece
of twine and methodically
dismembering her body.
Prowling Neighborhood
It was the sight of women's
underwear hanging on a
clothesline. Bean told police,
that determined his victim.
1 He said he was prowling Miss
. ii 1 ii c I j, ii uuiiiuuu
when he saw the underthings.
He entered through an un
locked rear door and stran
gled the attractive skier when
she awoke.
Dr
Rudolph B Toller,
psychiatrist, questioned the
youth for three hours Sunday
at city jail.
Disl Atty. William Raggio
said he would seek a murder
indictment from the grand
jury, eliminating the need for
a preliminary hearing.
Crime Re-Enacted
Bean re-enacted the crime
after his confession Saturday
! nl(,h( H(t said he spent five
and a naf nours in tn(1 modcst
: .., M. ,,:,: -ir
Jl.n u.
Brjsco sajd the youth, son
; of an itjncrant door-to-door
Saicsrnan, had spen
t eight
montns jn a Nevada reforms
( or attempting to stran
lc a woman in Sajt Lak
it
Lake
City.
Centra Point Boy
Hurt in Accident
Central Point
Brady J.
Murray. 0, of 312 Maple it
i suffered minor injuries this
morning when he was in
volved in a collision with an
auto while walking to school.
The accident occurred at
3:05 a.m. at the intersection of
Fourth and Pine sts. Accord
ing to Central Point police,
witnesses said the boy darted
out in a crosswalk and was
hit by a car driven by Walter
George Ross, 17. of 212 South
'Seventh st No citations were
i.vsa; ri
i
Tribune
Producer
Supreme Court
To Hear Appeal ol
'Freedom Riders'
Land Condemnation
Appeal Turned Down
Washington -OIPD- The Su
preme Court agreed today to
hear the appeal of 10 north
ern clergymen convicted of
unlawful assembly for their
1961 "freedom ride" protest
against segregation at the Tal
ahassee, Fla., airport.
In another action regarding
the racial issue, however, the
court refused to examine a
lower court decision that al
lowed the all-white Chicago
suburb of Deerfield, 111., to
condemn land intended for
Integrated housing. The com
munity held the sites were
needed for parks, according
to an Illinois Supreme Court
decision.
The high federal court
turned down an appeal from
that ruling without comment.
It also took these actions:
-Agreed to examine the fed
eral case against David Thom
as Healy and Leonard Malcom
Oeth who in 1962 forced an
airplane pilot al gunpoint to
fly to Cuba. A U.S. district
judge in Miami dismissed
charges against the two on
grounds that the crime did not
fall within the scope of either
the federal kidnaping or the
. aircraft piracy acts. The Jus
'" Department appealed to
the Supreme Court.
-Let stand a Texas decision
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even though the federal bov-
crnment has taken action for
the same violations.
In the Tallahassee "f r e e-
dom rider" case, the Supreme
Court will schedule arguments
later on the appeal and hand
down a written decision, prob
ably in its next term.
Tax Committee
Offers Proposal
Salem WPfl- A progressive
rate structure with a top rate
of six per cent, designed to
raise about $35 million, was
proposed today by a subcom
mittee of the House rax com
mittee.
The House committee al
ready has adopted an overall
program calling for a flat
rate on all earned income
above $500. Oregon's present
top rate is 9.9 per cent
The subcommittee also rcc -
ommenaeo mai me one per
cent net receipts tax apply to
the first $18,000 of income,
Instead of the first $15,000 as
originally proposed by the full
committee.
Another subcommittee rec
ommendation was a $22 tax
credit, instead of the $20 rec
ommended by the full com
mittee This would replace the
present $600 personal and de
pendency exemption.
The subcommittee proposed
rates which would range from
one per cent on income up to
$500, to 8 per cent on all in
come over $14,000.
Accord Signed in
Laos Fighting
Vientiane, Laos - fflrt
Leaders of the pro-Commu-
nist Pathet Lao and neutral
ist forces signed an accord
today to permit sending o
iooa suppin ii neuiidj.au
bottled up between the battle- '
scarred Plain of Jars and,
Dhan Dong i
Signing of the agreement j
was disclosed by members of
the International Control;
Commission and the British
and Soviet ambassadors who
returned here today after ac-' The bill would ban picket
companying Laotian Prime ing except by regular farm
Minister Souvanna Phouma to employees. A regular cm
the plain Sunday. 1 ployee is defined as one who
The group, including diplo- jhas worked at least 15 days
mats from five nations, was on the farm.
capitalizing on a temporary
j cease lire to press mediation
efforts among rival Laotian
factions in an effort to head
off new fighting in this
troubled Southeast Asian
gangdom.
58th Year Price 10 Cents I
1963
No. 21
BILLIE SOL ESTES
Took It Calmly
Estes Sentenced
To IS Years lor
Fraud, Conspiracy
El Paso, Tex
HIPD - U.S.
District Judge R. E. Thoma-
son, 83, sentenced bankrupt
fertilizer king Blllle Sol Es-
tcs to 15 years In prison today
for commuting mall fraud
and conspiracy "In one of the
moat gigantic swindles In the
history of our country." Estes,
38, took It calmly.
"I have not entered in con
spiracy and have not intend
ed to defraud anyone," Estes
said.
i Fatal rnmsin, freenn 1(l(l.
I Ann hnnnV .TiiHito Thnmfltnn
rejected defense motions for
a new trial and a delay in
passing sentence.
freed on Nine Counts
A jury of 10 men and two
women convicted him on four
counts of mail fraud and one
of conspiracy March 28 In a
trial that lasted almost three
weeks. He was acquitted on
nine other counts of fraud.
siaie court at iyier, icx..
previously sentenced Estes to
eight years for swindling a
farmer. Today's sentence
means that he now
faces a total nf 23 years in
penitentiaries and 32 state
and federal counts against
him remained to be tried.
Officials Sentenced
The judge told Estes that
his swindle, involving mort
gages worth $24 million in
nonexistent anhydrous ammo
nia tanks, could not have
been perpetrated without help
r,f SuiiMVinr TnnU Mnniifalnr.
1 ina COmnanv of Amarilln. Tex
; Xnrec official, of Superior.
Coleman D. McSpaddcn, Ruel
Alexander and Harold Orr,
were indicted with Estes. They
pleaded guilty to five counts
Ol what was at first a 2D-
count indictment and have
been sentenced to 8-10 year
year terms in the peniten
tiary. Police Break Up
Birmingham Marchers
Birmingham, Ala. - 0IPD -Police
broke up an anti-segregation
protest march by 1,500
Negroes on a sunny Easter
Sunday that saw Negroes at
tend services at two white
churches.
But the Negroes were turn
ed away at a number of other
white churches.
Bill Restricting Right
TmML tmmm
(Wis III I I V IXC 3 rUa.C.
Salcm-Hlt-Thc Senate to-Hand) said the bill put the
day passed 18-0 a bill which "entire weight of state gov-
woud restrict the right of ! "nmen,1 ln. hecalea against
,orm m,,.. , -i-u.t Th i th0,e lea,t able to Protect
tnemseives the migratory
""
I House.
Sen. Lynn Ncwbry (H-Asn-
j land) said the bill in no way
1 restricted the rights of reg -
i ular employees to bargain col -
I lectively, to strike or to pic-
ket.
1 jgen Don Willner (D-Port-
Dmnnril T C-J
riupujai iu jcnu
Measure Back to
Committee Loses
$50,034 Approved
For Three-Man Staff
Salem (UPIt The House ap.
proved 32-27 today a drastic
ally reduced state civil de
fense budget after defeating
by a narrow 31-28 vote a
move to send it back to com
mittee. The vote came after almost
90 minutes of debate.
The budget is $50,034. It
would finance a three-man
civil defense staff attached to
the governor's office.
The governor had aaked
$195,000 in general fund
monies to finance a 20-man
civil defense staff.
The measure now goes to
the Senate.
Hunt's Attempt Fails
Rep. Winton Hunt (R-Wood-burn)
almost succeded in hav
ing the budget sent back to
the Ways and Means Commit
tee for reconsideration. He
proposed that an alternate
$150,000 CD budget be enact
ed to provide an agency that
would concentrate on leader
ship, communications and re
organization.
Several other Republicans
joined Hunt's request. It was
defeated 31-28 In an almost
party line vote.
Two Democrats, Jake Ben
nett and Ray Donley of Port
land, voted with the Republi
cans, but two Republicans
wno are members of the Ways
and Means committee, George
Flltcraft Klamath Falls) and
Stafford Hansel! (Hermlston).
voted with the Democrats.
Rep. Carrol B. Howe CR-
I Klamath Falls) waa excused.
Hand Bays 'Adequate'
Rep. Beulah Hand (D-MU-
1 waukte), who urged passage
I of the stripped-down budget.
said "This budget will pro
duce an adequate civil de
fense program at reduced
cost."
The failure of the state CD
agencv during the Columbua
day storm wai again cited as
the measure waa debated.
Voting against the cut-
down budget were Hep. Ati-
yen, Bazett, Bennett, Bone-
Steele, Branchfield, Cannon,
Chappel, Chuinard, Crothers,
Dellenback, Deterlng, Dickin
son, Dooley, Elder, Gallagher,
Hagan, Hoyt, Hunt, Jones,
Lang, Manor, Meek, Montgom
ery, Ouderklrk, Packwood,
Rogers, and Robert Smith.
There had been speculation
before today's House action
that representatives might
not approve the budget, and
thus wipe out the state's civ
il defense agency.
Sharp Reduction in
Unemployment Noted
Washington - (UPI) - A bet-
ter-than-usual spurt in man
ufacturing and trade jobs was
chiefly responsible for the
sharp reduction in the nation's
unemployment rate In March,
the Labor Department report-
i rd today
Paeky Celebrates
First Birthday
At Portland Zoo
Portland (CPIt Packy.
Portland's much-publicised
elephant, celebrated hit
first birthday Sunday.
Some 1,000 persons visit
ed the Portland Zoo during
the week end to with the
baby pachyderm a happy
birthday.
Packy was reunited with
his mother Belle, for his
birthday alter being separ
ated irom her in February
o that he could be weaned.
He wai presented with a
gigantic cake made of
Hour, peanuts, apples, car
rots and bananas.
" ' worKers.
Willner said the bill would
put restrictions on a single
group which are not placed
on any other groups.
Sen. Alfred Corbett ID
Portland) said he believed the
bill was unconstitutional.
Sen. Walter Leth, (R-Salem)
said the weight of government
iwas against the farmer at
1 present because when a picket
la at a farm the employment
service is directed not to send
i migratory workersjlhere.