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Newspaper Page Textn M IKAKIS nss) i LEAVE nn a rrr? UULTUU Another Regional Edition Medford 20 Pages Two Sections JAIL OVERFLOWS The Birmingham, Ala., jail is al- ready overflowing so Negroes more than 800 of them arrested in demonstrations Monday, fill the fenced-in yard Federal Tax Cut Should Up Stale, Local Revenues Washington (UPI1 -Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon ad vised Congress today that a $10 billion federal tax cut should boost state and local tax revenues by $2.9 billion s year by increasing personal income. The Treasury estimate, list ing combined state-local rev enue increases ranging from $4 million in Alaska to $410 million in New York, was made for the Senate-House Economic committee headed bv Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D- u'u. The estimate was based on a committee staff guess that a $10 billion tax cut would hike the gross national prod uct by about $40 billion a year. Stat Rates Unchanged Dillon's projection of in creased revenues - $1.5 bil lion for the 50 slates and $1.4 billion for all local govern ments - would become true in 1965 when the "full im pact" of the federal tax re duction would be felt. It would be accomplished, the Treasury said, without changes or additions in state or local tax rates. Douglas called this "heartening news' for state agd local taxpayers. Washington -0IPD -President Kennedy's tax program would increase state and local tax revenues in Oregon by about $34 million, the Treasury De partment estimated today. Of the total increase, the Treasury said, about $21 mil lion would be in state tax rev. enues - a 10 per cent increase and $13 million in local rev enues - a 7 per cent boost. HEVS(BRIEFS UN SECURITY COUNCIL SUMMONED iTMirf NuiIam. N.YJlPli-Tha Saeurilv Council was turn .-..j a.j.w I mat noAfi complaint charging th Dominican Republic with planning aggraition against u. uinnvrna r.xt.t. STRIKE IN Dinw vuuii"ifvi w. ........... - i ... workers called a general strike today as in immadial thraat of war with Haiti dissipated. The country rtmainad On War tooling DUI appeared uua io ii mm witnui' lion of American States mediate th dispute. BAN ON AID TO INDONESIA URGED Waihinaton-OT-Som mmbrs ot th Houst Foreign Affairs Committ suggested that it might b a good id aid to Indonesia in Pretid.nl aid bill. p. Rural School District Passed; Two Budgets Jackson county residents yesterday passed the rural school district levy by 2,098 to 1,420. Three districts voted against the rural levy; two districts voted down local budgets and one district bare ly passed it. Plans to Improve Willow Creek Lake Made by County A contract will be made with Willow creek lake con cessionaire Lloyd Morris to maintain and improve the rec reation area, the Jackson county court and county parks and recreation commission agreed at a special meeting last night. "And we are going to charge everybody who goes by the gate," County Commis sioner Don Faber insisted. No user's fee was set, however. This may be worked out during a luncheon meeting some time this week with Commission Chairman Lau rance V. Espey, Parks Direc tor Neil Ledward, Morris and Robert Lee, director of the Medford water department. The lake supplements stream flow on Big Butte creek. Improvements Planned Improvements planned are extension of a road into a planned parking area next fiscal year. Restrooms, picnic sites and a road around the lake are planned in the fu ture, Ledward said. A recent inspection trip showed a need for Improve ment at Willow creek lake, PDT) Wdntdav. on Haiti's DOMINICAN REPUBLIC in a closd-door haring today to writ ban against U.S. Ktnntdy's S4.S billion foraign S Telstcar MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, ft 'VV. a. t.i surrounding the jail while police officials deliberate where to put them. (UPI) School administrators were worried today over what they fear is an increasing revolt against school property taxes. They expect it to be much harder to pass their levies next year. Districts voting against the Faber said. Funds should be shifted from other recreation areas, he suggested. According to the record more money has been spent on road improvements at Wil low lake than at Howard Prairie. County Judge Earl M. Miller said. Faber also suggested that a few rest rooms and picnic tables be established in the undeveloped areas around Howard Prairie lake since over half of the people go there." Judge Miller said a user's fee would have to be set for Howard Prairie, but it would not be an entrance fee. Mrs. Hanley Heffernan, parks com mission member, , said this county is the only one which does not charge for use of fire wood. Invested In Area Both Miller and Faber said the county has spent all the money and time it should spend on development of Howard Prairie. The county has $101,000 invested in the developed area and consider able money on road develop ment there. This year it has spent over the $4,000 the county made from the conces sion last year. A sewage treatment plant costing an estimated $14,000 to $15,000 is needed at How ard Prairie because of a. bad drainage field problem, Led ward added, although he hopes to design a drainage field with county health de partment help which may do the Job. Parks commission and coun ty court members agreed that a letter should be sent the bureau of reclamation asking that the present location of boat docks be changed. Ledward suggested excava tion of a boat harbor with breakwater and riprapping the parking lot bank plus a boat ramp with a better pitch. The bureau should finance these improvements, since it selected the windiest spot on '.he lake for ramp and docks 58th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune MAY 7, 1963 Levy Rejected rural school levy-wore Phoe nix 259 to 224, Evans Valley 84 to 51 and Butte Falls 108 to 68. , Districts voting down school district budgets were Evans Valley, 80 to 52, and Butte Falls, 97 to 69. Phoenix barely passed its amount over the 6 per cent limitation by 251 votes to 229 no votes, However, its bond levy pass ed by the comfortable margin of 304 to 184. Don W. Bohnert, route 1, box 224, Central Point, was elected without opposition to the Jackson county rural school board with 762 total votes. He replaces William A. Starzinger, Rogue River, who declined to run. School districts and their vote are: Ashland: C. D. Forlmillcr (unopposed), 276; amount over 6 per cent limitation, yes 244; no 47; rural district levy. yes, 241; no, 49. District 6C: J. W. Fitz gerald, 442, five years; Frank Armstrong, 128, C. L. Ghe- lardi, 362, for three years; district levy, yes, 408, no, 110; rural levy, yes, 409, no, 118. Eagl Point: Ed Armitage, 104, Frank Hopewell, 80, Duane Burton, 52, and Morton Bradshaw, 288, all for five- year term; rural levy, yes, 248, no, 248; increase to nine directors, yes, 128, no, 348. Pinehurst: Andrew B o s l- wick, 17, five years; Carroll Converse, 17, one year; Alfred Lorenzen, 17, three years; dis- trict levy, yes, 14; No, 3; rural levy, yes, 14. no, 3. Butt Fallsi Francis E. Poole, 75, and' Duane Smeit zer, 96; district levy, yes, 69; no, 97; recall petition on di rectors Duane Barton and An drew Hamstra, yes 88 to 83 and 90-81; rural levy, yes, 68, no, 108. Evans Vallay: Ralph Pit- tarn, 40, and Mrs. F. M. Carl son, 87, five years; Harold Austin, 50, and Charles Jack son, 69 (wrilein), two years; district levy, yes, 52, no, 80; rural levy, yes, 51, no, 84 Rogu Rivers Edward Mar tin 169, five years, unopposed; rural levy, yes, 151, no, 129. Applegal: William Pittock, 17, Thornton Capcn, 47, Mar vin Brewster, 13, all for five year term; district levy, yes, 63, no. 17; rural levy, yes, 5o no, 25. Phoanixi Mrs. Joe Zundcl 281, and J. Allen Harris, 187, Phoenix area; Ed Hcim, 353, Talent area; district levy, yes, 251; no, 229; bond issue, yes, 304, no, 184; rural levy, yes, 224. no, 259. Protptcti Bud Maxwell, 31 and Jack Rienks, 47, one-year term; rural levy, yes, 45, no, 27. in No. 40 Kennedy Jolts Pentagon With Military Change Navy, Air Force Chiefs Appointed Washington -flJPD- President Kennedy has jarred the Pen tagon by ordering the third shakeup in the military high command in three years. A surprise White House an nouncement Monday also jolt ed some congressional sources, who privately claimed the ad ministration sought to assure conformity with its own de fense views. Mystery Denied White House and Defense department sources denied there was any mystery in the new move, regarding it as a normal development. Kennedy disclosed that he will -not reappoint Adm. Ceorge B. Anderson as chief of naval operations, but in stead will-jump Adm. David McDonald, 56, over five senior officers into the top Navy post. Anderson, top mili tary man in the Cuba crisis last fall, ends his two - year term Aug. 1. Gen. Curtis E. LeMay, Air Force chief of staff whose fu ture has been a subject of speculation, will be re appointed. But his second term will be for just one year rather than two. He ends his first term of two years on July 1. Differ With Civilians Both Anderson and LeMay have differed fron. their civi lian superiors in -the' White House and Defense Depart ment on several major de fense issues the TFX war- plane contract, the Skybolt missile and the RS70 war- plane, for examples. But they n have done so through official channels, in their own services, in the Joint Chiefs of Staff and be fore congressional , commit tees. Both are 56 and thus sev eral years from retirement age. Grants Pass Board Gets New Members Grants Pass-Robert Busch, Dr. R. Ray Johnson and Ed Malonc were elected to the Grants Pass city school board here yesterday, while Larry Cushing and Douglas Nord strom were elected to the Jo sephine county school board. In the county district, vot ers approved a budget to ex ceed the 6 per cent limitation by $1,243,188. The vote was 583 to 547. Busch and Johnson, with 451 and 561 votes respective ly, were elected to five-year icrms on the city board. Gor don Burns came in third. Ma- lone defeated H. L. Rollins for a three-year term by a vote of 426 to 343. Cushing defeated Robert C. Robins 463 to 378 to win the county board post represent ing the Illinois Valley. Nord strom was unopposed for the representative from the Mer lin-Hugo-Sunny Valley Wolf Creek area. Coos Bay College Tax Levy Approved Coos Bay - WPIi - Unofficial returns from all but one small precinct today gave a pro posed $455,433 tax levy for South Western Oregon college approval by a vote of 1,843 to 1,148. The levy was part of a 1963-64 total budget for the college of $1,489,770. WEATHER rORKCAHT: fthowera tontrM. Partly cloudy Wednesday, with afternoon ahowera. Low tonight 42. Illfh Wedneaday 10. Temp. Hlfheat Yeilerday 3$ l.oweat Tliis Morntre 44 Prtc. io 10 a.m. Today S2 Our Skies Tonight Hunt rt today ...... 1T p.m. Kunrlie tomorrow .... :5i a.m. Mnonrlte today .., J:2S p.m. mil Moon ... May I PROM INK N'T STARK Reeulus, nifti In louth- weai ;! p.m. Capdla low In north wi It):it p.m. Halfway between them are trie Twin and between the Twins and Reft-ulaa ! the planet, Mara. irbii4 Signals Being Received From Latest Moonlet Cooper Launch May Be Televised Cape Canaveral, Fla. -HIPIU America today successfully or bited a new Telstar commu nications satellite that may beam the first live intercon tinental television pictures of manned flight into space next week. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration an nounced at 9:21 a.m. (PDT) that the 175-pound Telstar-2 'is in orbit" and that "signals are being received fine. Scientists planned to trans mit the first television signals to the new moonlet at 5:30 p.m. (PDT) today. The trans mission was expected io con sist of a video test pattern to determine how well the com plex satellite could do its job. The near-perfect shot also raised hopes that Telstr-2 may transmit to Europe live television pictures of the space flight of U. S. Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper Jr., now set for next Tuesday. These television signals would be sent by land line from Cape Canaveral to An dover, Maine, and flashed from there to the satellite speeding across the Atlantic between North America and Europe. If all goes well, Telstar-2 will amplify the pictures and beam them back to ground stations in England and France where they will be transmitted into the homes of millions of viewers on the European continent. Agate Project Contract Signed Congressman Robert B Duncan announced today via telephone to Attorney Frank Van Dyke-that Kenneth Ho lum, assistant secretary for water and power, U, S. De partment of the Interior, has signed the Agate dam project contract on behalf of the gov ernment. ' It will now be necessary for the water users to approve the contract at the election to be held in June, Van Dyke, counsel for the Rogue River Valley Irrigation district, said. The contract outlines the terms under which the dam will be constructed and the repayments arranged when the funds (approximately $1, 820,000) are authorized by the congress. Congressman Duncan has appeared before the appropri ate committees of the House, and Sens. Wayne L. Morse and Maurine Neubergcr before the appropriate committees in the Senate, in an effort to expe dite the appropriation of funds for the construction, Van Dyke said. Currently the irrigation dis trict is preparing applications for land to be included in the district to be served by water from the dam when it is con structed. Citizens Budget Group To Meet Here Tonight The Medford citizens' budg et committee will hold Its third meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight in city hall to review the city's proposed prelimi nary fiscal budget for 1963 64. . Slated for review tonight are budgets for the police and fire departments, as well as the building department and the city's civil defense unit. Faulkner Prize; Two Resign Over Drama New York -fllPIl- Two post humous prizes, a furor over an unbestowed drama prize, and a public service award to the Chicago Daily News highlighted the announce ment Monday of the 1963 Pu litzer prizes in journalism and the arts. The Daily News received a gold medal and a citation for a scries "calling attention to the issue of providing birth control services In the public health programs of Its area." William Faulkner, chroni cler of the imaginary Yoknap atawpha cc'-'nly In Mississip pi, who died July 6. 1962, was city In fiction for his humor f---. Vtv 'J - ' - ' ' i f rv ; : 1 BlaaaaaaWjasiwB : --- ajBllllllMHillllHillllHiBHiMaBHiBBnaBaBliHBHaal TWO PLEAD GUILTY British top, stands before a Soviet military court in Moscow and pleads guilty to espionage against the Soviet Union. His al leged Russian accomplice, Oleg Penkovsky, bottom photo, had also pleaded guilty to all charges against him in a lengthy indictment which accused the two men of tunneling Soviet secrets to an Ar.glo-American espionage ring during 1961 and 1962. The Briton pleaded guilty with some excep tions. (UPI) ' Two Plead Guilty To Spy Charges In Soviet Moscow WPn - A British businessman and a Soviet scientist , pleaded guilty today to charges of spying for the United States and Britain. Seven American and six British diplomats were named in the indictment read at the opening session of the trial of Britain Greville Wynne and Russian Oleg Penkovsky, whom the Soviets denounced as a traitor who loved to dance the twist. Conviction could result in the death pen alty. Television cameras record ed the tense scene as the de fendants admitted spying against the Soviet Union be fore a packed courtroom in the U.S.S.R. Supreme Court building. Given To Children Under questioning, Penkov sky testified that he passed secrets to the wife of one British diplomat and also to the lattcr's children. He told the court he gave the children fake yellow candy containing four films of stolen secrets. Wynne, 42, a duppcr ar ranger of trade exhibitions, was seized in Budapest six months ago and held incom municado in a Moscow prison. He was accused of being the chief contact man for an Anglo-American spy ring. Voters in La Grande Pass School Budget La Grand? (UPI Voters in the La Grande school district approved a $1,249,057 budget Monday by a vote of 831 to 251. The budget, for 1963-64, was $364,352 in excess of the six per cent limitation. 'TRAGIC HISTORY' Salem -lUPII-Gov. Mark Hat field told a television audience Monday night that "tragic his tory" was made Monday by the Senate Highway Commit tee when it voted 4-3 to kill a maximum speed law proposal. Given Posthumous Pulitzer ous, earthy rcmiscencc, "The Reivers." He had received an award in 1953 for his novel, "A Fable -Also honored posthumously was Dr. William Carlos Wil Hams, the poct-physlclan who died in Rutherford. N. J., last March 4 at the age of 79. He was cited for his book of poems, "Pictures from Breu ghel." John Mason Brown and John Gassncr, the two mem bers of the drama jury, re signed Monday with state ments that the members of the Pulitzer Advisory board had rejected their choice for the award: Edward Albce'l I I -"'' businessman Greville Wynne, Union Penkovsky, 43, a tall, gi ay- haired lonuer bcUutific co ordinator, was accused of sell ing the Kremlin's scientific and defense secrets to Wynne for use by British intelligence and the U.S. Central Intelli gence Agency. The Soviet press called him a "money hungry traitor who loved to dance the Charleston and twist." Planners Send Wire To State Commission Jacksonville- The Jackson- v 1 1 1 e planning commission, which has voted unanimously in opposition to the proposed Medford-Provolt highway re location route along the south side of Jackson creek, has sent a telegram to Gov. Mark Hatfield concerning the mat ter, it was announced today. John Kcavcny, planning commission chairman, said the telegram urged the gover nor to ask the state highway commission to authorize sur vey of an alternate route for the highway and grant more time for study. ' . The action of the planning commission was taken, Kcai veny said, "because a unani mous vote against the high way route by the city plan ning commission has been consistently ignored in subse quent meetings of the city council. ' . -.. The planners voted to send the telegram at a special meeting last Thursday. Independent Scaling ' Of Timber Approved Portland - (UPI) - An amend ment permitting third party scaling of salvage timber when conventional methods are inadequate was endorsed Monday by the Bureau of Land Management's Advisory Board for Oregon and Cali fornia (O & C) Grant Lands. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf A spokesman for Columbia university said only that the trustees had "approved all the recommendations of the ad visory board." It was noted that the award is designed for a play representing "in mark ed fashion the educational value . of the power of t h e stage." It was thought tho advisory board might have considered Alaec's caihartlc and vehem ent drama outside these quali fications. It was the sixth time since the prizes were estab lished in 1917 that no drama award was given, , Chartered Planes Slate Airlift For Wednesday Private Citizens Urged To leave Washington - UI'D - Tha United Stales today ordered all dependents of U. S. gov. ernment personnel to leave Haiti. It also urged evacuation of private American citizens there. An airlift of chartered com mercial air liners w'!l start the evacuation Wednesday morning from Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, to Miami, the State Department said. Led to Decision The State Deportment said, "The continued deterioration of the situation in Haiti and the difficulty of insuring tha lives and safety of U. S. citi. zens led to the department's decision to order the with drawal of U. S. citizens." Officials said approximate, ly 220 dependents of U. S. military and diplomatic offi cials are in Haiti. There are about 160 U.S. government employees there, attached to the U.S. Embassy, to an Air Force mission, a military advisory mission and a naval mission. The State Department estimated about 1,300 other private American citizens also are In the strife, torn island nation. State Department press of ficer Joseph W. Reap said the number of private citizens who may want to leave "can not be determined at this time." In another development, the State Department said it ' was not opposed to a meeting Wednesday of the United Na tions Security Council, re quested by Haiti on tha Haitian-Dominican Republic, situation. But the U.S. posi. tion is that the Organization of American States, rather than the United Nations, should continue to handle the matter, Reap said. - The White House was said to be keeping close watch on me iariDDean crisis wnicrt has threatened to explode In to open conflict between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. ReidhEkcied; Larger Board Voted Patrons of School District 549C yesterday elected John R. Reid, 1845 Old Stage rd.. to the board and voted to increase the board from fiva to seven members. Unofficial returns showed that Reid received 633 votes. nd William (Bill) Brawn, 507 Kenwood ave., Medford, received 266 votes. Among the write-ins, Richard Watson unofficially polled about 23 votes. Henry Padgham's namo was written in once on tha unofficial returns. The vote in favor of a sev en-member board was 523 yes, 408 no. The board will be Increased to seven mem bers next year. Votes will be canvassed by the board at its regular meet ing May 21. Medford district patrons also approved the Jackson county- rural school budget by a 556 to 370 vote. The voto was on the amount of tha budget exceeding the 6 per cent limitation. Eugene Budget Loses; Springfield Approves Eugene -UPI- Residents in the Eugene school district Monday turned down a $10.5 million budget in a special election. The vote was 3,847 to 3,138. Tho budget was $6 2 mil lion In excess of tho constitu tional six per cent limitation. At Springfield, voters ap proved a $4 6 million school district budget by 1.423 to 1,030. The budget was $2.7 million above the limitation. Dispute I Three newsmen from t h a New York World Telegram St Sun - Sylvan Fox, Anthony Shannon and William Long- good - got prizes for report ing under deadline pressura for their coverage on March 1, 1982, of an American Air lines plane crush at New York's International airport. In editorial writing, Ira II. Harkcy, editor of the Pcsca goula, Miss., Chronicle, was honored for his work during the Integration crisis- created when James Meredith becamn the first Negro admitted as a student to the University of Mississippi.