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Newspaper Page TextTornadoes Leave 12 Dead In Midwest States AT CONVENTION Frank Bash, Medford school board member and president of the Oregon School Board As sociation, is shown at left with other members of the Proposed New Constitution Goes To Floor Monday Salem - DPI) - A proposed new state constitution won 8-1 committee approval today and was sent to the House floor for action Monday. The "do pass" recommenda- Offshore Lands Bill Clears House Salem - (IM - A bill that would give Oregon .200,1)00 more acres of leaseable off shore lands passed the House Tuesday and sent to the Sen ate. Lands within three miles of the shore line belong to the state. The bill redraws the three mile limit to conform with federal mapping. The federal government has decided that 72 rocks jutting out of the water off the coast constitute part of the shore line. The effect of the bill would be to move the three mile line out farther than it is now. Volunteers Needed At Prospect Park Prospect - More volunteers are needed to work on de velopment of the Prospect public park if work is !o be completed in time for the Prospect Jamboree in August, it was announced this week. Members of the Prospect Lions and Community clubs have been working at the park, but much work still re mains to be done. Rest rooms still must be constructed, as well as a few other facilities. If park development has not been completed by the date of this year's Jamboree, the event will again have to be held in the community hall, which is considered too small for it, persons connected with the project have reported. Most of the work is being done on week ends, weather permitting. SITE RECOMMENDED Eugene - HOT - The Board of Managers of the Oregon Congress of Parents and Teachers voted Monday night to recommend that Portland be the site for the 1964 state convention. NEWS(f)BMErS (TIMS MOM Wy t0M FEDERAL AID TO EDUCATION SNUBBED Denver -1 !'i - Delegates to the convention of the National Association of School Boards snubbed federal aid to educa tion Monday but could not agree on proposal to industrial relations type handling of teacher contract disputes. BALLISTIC MISSILE A DAY SCHEDULED Washington IPt-The United States will deploy inter continental ballistic missiles at a rate of one a day during the remainder of 1963. the Defense Department said today. LAOS COMMISSION TO BE SET UP Vientiane. Laos i ! I -Neutralist Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma returned to Vientiane late today from a meeting with Pathet Lao leader Prince Souphanouvong and said a "mixed Commmion" will set up to work out an effective ceasefire. i - - Ui -i eea BotVt Ls aast'-gj BassaBsi BBaaasai H HjiK. jB : 1 s-jft I tion from the House Commit I lee on Constitutional Revision I culminated more than three j months of committee work on the document. The dissenting committee vote came from Rep. Robert Chappel (U-Portland). Chap pel said the legislative com mittee had made too many changes in the document, writ ten by the Commission on Constitutional Revision. Now, the proposed consti tution faces' Its hardest test so far. It needs a two-thirds vote of the House, and then Jacksonville City Council To Meet Jacksonville - The fate of proposed relocation of the Medford Provolt highway through Jacksonville may be decided tonight when the city council meets to consider peti tions on the matter. The meet ing starts at 8 o'clock tonight. Mayor E. O. Graham said he had been notified by the State Highway commission that the decision on the pro posed route will be left pretty much in the hands of the city council. The council is being given a choice of either accepting the highway department's proposed route or calling off the whole relocation project, Graham explained. No alter nate routes will be considered at this time. The highway discussion will be the second item of business at a special meeting, origin ally called to conduct a pub lic hearing on a proposed water line on Cluggage rd. The council hopes to tabu late signatures of persons for and against the proposed high way route at tonight's meet ing. Graham said he under wood all petitions sent direct ly to the highway commission In Salem would be returned to the council for tabulation. TO RECONSIDER BILL Salem -(ITU- The Senate to day reconsidered Monday's i defeat of a bill to extend the r marriage waiting period from i three to seven days, and sent lit to the Health and Welfare committee. Oregon delegation at the National Board Association con vention in Denver. Next to Bash is Dave Densely and Dr. Howard Cherry, right. (UPI) of the Senate, to be sent on to the people for ratification next year. Rep. John Dellenback (R Medford), chairman of the House committee, said he will ask to have the constitution made a special order of busi ness Monday. The proposed constitution would replace one written 106 years ago and amended 111 times. Joint Meetings The House committee has met jointly with its Senate counterpart most of this ses sion. Since the constitution faced action first on the House side, however, the House com mittee made some final deci sions on its own. If the document is not kill ed in the House, a few differ ences with the Senate commit tee will have to be ironed out. The proposed constitution sheds a number of obsolete provisions, modernizes lan guage, shifts details to the laws, retains much of Ore gon's traditional government al framework, and makes some substantive changes. 86-Unit Motel Is Planned in City A permit for construction of an 86-unit motel at 500 North Riverside ave. was is sued by the Medford building department Monday. The permit for the $285,000 development was Issued to Knights Inn Motels, Inc. Ochi ners Construction company, Redding, Calif., is the con tractor for the project. According to plans sub mitted to the building depart ment, the motel will have a 16 by 36-foot swimming pool, surrounded by a lanai and game area, located in front of the development, facing on Riverside ave. Road access to Jackson st. from the retr of the motel is planned. The complex was de signed by Dick Ebeling, con sulting structural engineers, Portland. Castro, Khrushchev Relax in Country Moscow-IUPIi-Cuban Premier Fidel Castro and Premier Ni kita Khrushchev took a break in their private talks in the the Kremlin today and joined Ihe Soviet leader's family for a day in the country. With them were Presidenl Leonid Brezhnev and Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and their wives, the news agency Tass said. The agency gave no details of what appeared to be chief ly a social event, and said Khrushchev and Castro struck up a lively conversa tion." Other Cuban and Soviet of ficials joined the party at the country house. Tass said, fol lowing the two leaders' ap parently satisfying private talks Monday on military and economic aid for the Carib bean Communist state JFK Renews Bid For Deductions On Contributions Washington -IUPII- President Kennedy today renewed his plan to broaden the base for political contributions so can didates will not be as depen dant on big contributors "with special interests." The President sent the House and Senate two bills designed to help assure the public that candidates for high office have not mortgaged themselves. The Kennedy proposal, sim ilar to one suggested last year, would: -Offer a federal income tax credit for half of an indi vidual's contributions up to a maximum of $10 in credits a year. -As an alternative, allow a lax deduction for political contributions up to a maxi mum of $900 per tax return per year. The second Kennedy bill would remove "existing un realistic statutory ceilings" on contributions for presi dent and vice presidental candi dates. It also provided that reports be "required of indi viduals and families contribu ting or spending, singly or in combination, $5,000 or more per year in the aggregate" in connection with presidential or vice presidential cam paigns. Deputies Investigate Attack, Burglary The Jackson county sher iff's office today is investi gating a reported attack upon an 1 1 -year-old girl and a house burglary. It was reported an 1 1-year-old girl was attacked yester day by a man described as heavy set and wearing a red plaid shirt, light blue pants and red sandals. Joe Riley Maynard, 1840 East Main st., reported to j deputies his house was brok en into when his sister was ! babysitting with his two-year-! old daughter. She said she heard a noise I in the bedroom, removed the I child and barricaded the ' door. Later a shoe track was : found on some clothing on a chair and the window was open, deputies reported. Expansion Program Noted by Hatfield Salem -lUPl'- An investment of some $13 5 million in 14 plant expansions or new plants was reported in Oregon in March. Gov Mark Hatfield said today. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable Seal through Hedneaday. , few ilgnl wittered ahowera Low tonight IO-4S. High Wedneaday S-7e. Temp. , Hlgheat Yettrday tt ! I.oweat Ttui Morning t" Our Skies Tonight Kunaet today "'' p.m. STinrlar tomorrow :g a.nt j Moonaei tomorrow 311 a.m. l ull Moon May S ! Th planet, Mara, arm quite cloae to thr Moor tonight, la ! now 113 million mllea from the Earth. Poring the next S : montha Ihtt dlatanc trill be doubled. Hurricane Winds Roam Midlands; Warnings Hoisted Pounding Rains Follow Tornadoes By United Press International Tornadoes and powerful thunderstorms killed 12 per sons in five southern and Mid west states Monday night and winds up to hurricane force roamed the midlands today. The latest of a vicious serlei of springtime twisters and storms killed five persons in Mississippi, three in Tennes see, two in Missouri, and one each in Alabama and Indiana. Damage to wrecked homes and businesses totaled mil lions of dollars. Onslaught Continues The onslaught continued to day, with hurricane force winds of 98 miles per hour slamming through the south Texas community of Kenedy. Torrential rains lashed the town and the high winds blew outbuildings apart and knock ed down power lines. To the north, whole gale warnings were hoisted on Lakes Michigan, Erie and St. Clair. Coast Guard vessels plowed through waves 10 to 20 feet high on Lake Michigan in search of a 25-foot powerboat reported missing Monday night with two Ludington, Mich., men aboard. The boat set out for Ludington Sunday night from Sheboygan, Wis. Heavy Rain Recorded Pounding rains and freak ish, wintry weather followed the tornadoes. The Weal her Bureau reported an unoffic'al measurement of eight inches of rain in seven hours at Fort Payne, Ala. Springfield, III., had more than an inch of rain in 60 minutes, plus 60-mile- an-hour winds. There was two inches of rain at Rockford, 111., atiu 3.25 inches of rain at Oak Lawn, 111., near Chicago. A cold wind blew snow flurries through Chicago streets and Loop workers bent into blasts worthy of mid-Februiry. Temperatures Drop Before the snows came, Chicago had 2. 57 inches of rain in 24 hours. The tempera ture fell to 24 degrees at near by Glencoe and 32-mile-per-hour winds howled through the city. The Chicago river rose three feet above its nor mal height and floodgates at Lockport, 111., were opened to bring down the level. More snows fell across the northern Wisconsin and Michigan, with a total depth of up to three inches fore cast. Iowa rivers, swollen by spring rains, surged toward flood stage. Freeze warnings were posted as far south as the southern tip of Illinois. Downtown Parking Meters Are Changed Thirty-six parking meters on Main st. between Front st and Riverside ave. have been changed to two-hour opera tion, Medford Public Works Director Vernon Thrope said today. The change-over from one hour operation was author ized at a recent meeting of the Medford city council. Of the 395 one-hour parking meters in the city, 200 will be changed to two-hour opera tion over a period of time Thorpe said. Parking fees at the meters 5 cents an hour remain unchanged. The- change-over will not affect those parking spaces at block corners, where the fee is 10 cents an hour. Music Dean Chosen at University of Oregon Eiifiene-WPIi-Dr. Robert M. Trolier, chairman of the De partment of Music at UCLA, has been named to take over as dean of the Univeresity of Oregon School of Music July 1. He will succeed the late Dr. Theodore Kratt California Housewife Takes Off on Solo Flight To Brisbane, Australia Oakland, Calif. - HOT - A attractive, 101-pound brunette housewife set out today to do what no other woman has alone from cast to west. 0Us postponements because of Mrs. Betty Miller, 36. Santa j slight tailwind reported by Monica. Calif., ignored over-; the Weather Bureau, cast skies and look off at :35 Mrs. Miller did not want to a.m. In a twin-engined aircraft buck any headwind since she on the first leg of a lonely has about 21 hours fuel aboard 7.100-mib flight to Brisbane, I for the 17-hour trip to Hono Australia. She planned to land lulu. tonight in Honolulu. Amelia Earhart, the famed Her husband and about 25 laviatrljr who disappeared over otheri were on hand when she took off in her purple and white aircraft. A friend. Miss Marti Cole said, "she seems s Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Castro In Russia Cubans Port Everglades, Fla. - gees arriving here Monday said most Cubans are "elat ed" over Premier Fidel Castro's trip to Russia "they hope he will stay there forever." But Mrs. Eduardo Castillo, an attorney, added that although perhaps 90 per cent of the people in Cuba are against the Castro regime, "our only hope is the United States. There is no chance for a successful uprising." Another of the refugees said the tales of horror trickling from the Communist island are "pallid com pared to the truth." The new refugees, who arrived after a wave-tossed crossing aboard the U.S. ransom ship American Surveyor, reported that Castro is waging a campaign of "extermin ation" against rebel bands, and that Russians are "satur ating" some parts of the island. Musa Hints at Longest Session In State History Salem-IIOT - A strong hint that this could become the longest legislative session in Oregon history was voiced to day by Senate President Ben Musa. He pointed to consideration of the revenue program, and constitutional revision as pos sible stumbling blocks to early adjournment. Oregon's longest session, 128 days, occurred in 1957. The 1961 session lasted 122 days. Today is the 107th day of the current assembly. Mutt Make Up Minds Musa said the Senate Tax committee may not pass out the major revenue bill the Income tax measure for another week or 10 days. "They have a bill that no body wants," he commented, "they have to make up their minds and do something." Assuming the Senate takes action in 10 days - the 117th day of the session - this would mean that the House would have -to agree -with Sfftatereurrent year. The county will changes in the tax plan, and both chambers would have to finish up their other business within another 11 days to keep from going over the 128 day mark. Seen Stumbling Block And constitutional revision could be the stumbling block. "It looks like the choice may be either to delay the session, or do nothing about constitutional revision," Musa said. Musa predicted, earlier this year, a 150 day session. No body, Including Musa, believ ed the prediction at that time, but many legislators are voic ing concern that early ad journment seems unlikely. House Speaker Clar e n c e Barton, who has avoided pre dicting an adjournment date for the past few weeks, ear lier had set May 10 at a goal. Law Day Observance Planned Tomorrow National Law Day will be observed locally in Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly's court at 9:30 a.m. tomorrow, according to Paul Haviland, general chairman. An award will be presented by the Jackson County Bar association to the student writing the best editorial in a local high school paper un : a phase of law. Memorial services will be 1 held for the late Joseph Flic i gel and Kenneth Denman. Circuit Judges Kelly and I James M. Main will preside with District Court Judge L, L. Sawyer. Carl Brophy, pres ident of the Jackson County Bar association, will speak ; briefly. just as calm as though it were a routine flight." Miss Cole said that Mrs. Miller decided to make her the South Pacific in 1937, made the Honolulu-Oakland flight alone from west to east in 1933. eTRIBUNE MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1963 Wish He'd Stay fllrt - On of 67S Cuban refu OAS Truce Team Seeks To Stave Off War in Caribbean $9,000 More for Welfare to From Relief Fund County Judge Earl M. Mil ler said this morning the coun ty budget will be published with the $200,000 figure as the county's welfare alloca tion for the new fiscal year. Jackson county s required welfare allocation as certified by the Oregon State Public Welfare commission is $21)9, 000, James Pullman, state di rector of the division of pub lic assistance, confirmed yes terday. 'The $200,000 plus figure given the county budget com mittee was merely an estimate and apparently was a little low," Pullman explained. "The county allocation la $309 more than certified tor the get back about $15,000 In un expended funds. It may not be nearly as much next year," he added. Will Check With Kuans The county judge said the budget committee probably would take the $9,000 needed for welfare from the county's miscellaneous relief fund to talling $80,000. Before this allocation is made, Miller said he is going to check with lo cal welfare administrator Da vid Kuhns and the state wel fare commission. Miller pointed out that state law requires the state wel fare commission give county budget committees a tentative budget by March 1. The coun ty reports back to the state commission by March 15 and the certified budget Is to be received by the county by May 1. The county did not re ceive the tentative budget In time to report, Miller said. The county Judge noted that the new budget Is slightly higher than the current year. The food surplus distribution program and welfare work program seems to have no ef fect, he remarked. "Only the county's contri bution to medical assistance to the aged remains the same as the tentative budget," Mil ler pointed out. "That Is $12,- 987. The others are either up or down. The largest Item Is general medical assistance showing an increase from $16,134 to $19,447." The increases in the county categories generally follow the state trend, according to Pullman. State-wide, there is some increase in general as sistance and foster child care, aid to dependent children, aid to th- blind, aid to disabled j and the various medical care categories. Mrs. Miller's Itlnereray call ed for stops at Hawaii, Can ton and Fiji on the way to Brisbane. The longest hop is from Oakland to Honolulu. Her route was approximate ly the same - in the opposite direction as that taken by Miss Earhart and her naviga tor, Fred Noonan, on their Ill-fated flight. They were never seen after taking off from Lac, New Guinea, en route to Howland Island in the Central Pacific. Mrs. Miller, who operates a flying school -with her husband In Santa Monica, was piloting a $50,000 I -per Apache aircraft. "The things that have situation in Cuba are pallid when compared to the truth," said a young husband from Artemisa in Pinar del Rio Province. "Only by terror is Castro maintaining control," he said. The young man and his wife said most people do not go out after nine o'clock at night, and stay "glued to their radios" listening to U.S. broadcasts, Including the Voice of America. They, like many of the others, asked that their names not be used for (ear of reprisals against loved ones still in Cuba. "The biggest problem about living in Cuba today is the terror," said a rancher from Oriente, "and the con stant fear that you are going to end up in jail." He said he paid for his freedom by signing his ranch over to the Cuban government. Come Old age medical assistance contrary to this county's allo cation will probably continue to go up since the legislature now has a proposal to allow people receiving old age medi cal assistance to apply It to nursing home care, Pullman explained. Access Road for A 2,000 foot connecting rd. from near Mill Creek falls to the rerouted section of the Crater Lake highway would best serve the town of Pros pect, nine Prospect business men agreed In Jaekson coun - ty court this morning. The county will negotiate with the state highway com mission on construction of the access road. The county prob ably would take ovisr - six miles of the old Crater Lake highway section front Cascade Gorge to Prospect, County Earl Miller said today. The new access road would provide a shorter route for logging trucks, fire protection equipment and school buses, and would tend to draw tour ist traffic to the falls and into Prospect, town represen tatives said today. Marin Legislation Returned To House Salem - lUTO - A measure which would simplify small boat registration, and allow regulation of marine toilets, won unanimous approval to day in the Senate. The bill, which was amend ed by the Senate, now goes back to the House. The measure requires reg istration of any boat with more than 3.8 horsepower, and sailboats which are 12 feet or more In length. A major provision allows the marine board to regulate use of marine toilets "consist ent with the prevention and control of pollution." hataasBBBi ag Bsafl! Lb HH I ---v.. , I tsbV tbbbhT 'BBal CROSSING PACIFIC Mrs Betty Miller, Santa Monica, Calif., housewife and flight Instructor, is shown at the controls of her twin-engine Piper Apache in which she Is en route from Oakland, Calif., to Brisbane, Australia. If she completes her journey she will be the first woman to have flown across the Pacific from east to west. (UPI) J ft 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 34 There been reported about the No Evidence of Troop Movements Seen in Capital Port-au-Prince, Halti-OIPB-A five-man truce team from the Organization of American States arrived today for on-the-spot efforts to stave off threatened war between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The peace-makers, headed by Colombia's Alberto Zuleta Angel, were met on their ar rival by representatives ot's the Haitian Foreign Office. They were scheduled to meet Immediately with Haiti s For eign Minister Rene Chalmers at the palace. No Tipop Movements Truce-tam members saw no evidence of military move ments in Port-au-Prince, at least at the alaport where 1 their commercial transport landed. Two U.S. Marine Corps helicopters were on the field. The helicopters were as sumed to be here to aid la the withdrawal of the 30-man U.S. naval training mission which Haiti called on the United States to pull out last Friday. Only the usual handful of Haitian army transport craft was in evidence at the air field. In downtown Port-au-Prlnce, apparent calm existed. There was no sign of unusual military activity. The OAS group confirmed on its arrival that Haiti, as pledged, had withdrawn po lice forces from the Dominican Embassy, as demanded by the Dominican government. Rusk Claims Major Cuban Threat Removed Karachi, Pakistan - (IOT -Secretary of State Dean Rusk said today the major threat from Cuba has been removed but he warned that "all mem bers of the Free World are still under the gun" of com munism. Rusk said defensive ar rangements such as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Central Treaty Or ganization are the most effec tive way to keep world peace and prevent war by error.