Tornadoes 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.
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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
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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."
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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)
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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.