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Newspaper Page TextChrysler Puts Auto Industry Into' Jet Age Jersey City, N J. -HTO-Chryaler Corp. ushered the jet age into the auto motive industry today, with the introduction of its long-awaited turbine powered car at Roose velt Raceway. The car, which will be tested by some 20 motor ists during the next year, is a sleek four-seater styled by Ghia of Italy. Chrysler thinks it might hold the key to one of the richest caches of the automotive future. The turbine is the re sult of years of planning and research by Chrys ler engineers. Both Ford and General Motors have been working on turbine-engined vehicles for some time and Ford plans to introduce a turbine-powered truck this month. However, Ford admits the truck is at least eight years away from mass production. Beginning this fall, Chrysler will turn out a car a week for the mar ket. Ultimately, 50 tur bine - powered cars will be built and distributed. Chrysler said 200 mo torists would be selected to drive the turbine cars. The method of selection ban not been determined, a Chrysler spokes man said, but each motorist will drive one of the cars on a no-charge basis for about three months. Chrysler said 4,000 or ders from would-be pur chasers have been re ceived but none will be honored. Minimum Wage Measure Referred Salem-iUPD-The Senate to day may have killed chances for passage of a new mini mum wage law by voting 18-12 to send the measure to the Ways and Means commit tee for review. Sen. Harry Boivin (D-Kla-math Falls) led the success ful battle. He said he wanted agriculture deleted from the minimum wage provisions, and added "this is not the time to start adding .restric tions to farmers." ' Boivin said fiscal Implica tions of the bill should be studied. Sen. L. W. Newbry (R-Ash-land) said there were fiscal implications because of the record keeping required. He said more state employees would be needed to review re ports. . Sen. Don Willner,. (D-Port-land), who urged passage, termed the measure "a mini mum wage bill." He said the proposal was drafted to ex empt persons under 18, small farmers and students, and would have set the minimum wage at $1 per hour. Sen. Alfred Corbett (D Portland) warned that refer ral to Ways and Means "at this time would be an attempt to kill this bill." . Rogue River School Budget Approved ' Rogue River - The patrons of Rogue River school district approved their budget and the amount out side the 6 per cent limitation with a 114 to 41 vote yesterday, according to District Superintendent John Harr. Harr said the 155 votes was the usual budget vote and the ratio of yes to no votes was approximately the same as in past years. The total vote was about half that for school district board members a week ago, he noted. TIMBER SOLD Portland -flJPD- The U. S. Forest" Service said today it has sold about $10.6 million worth of timber blown down by the Columbus Day storm in Oregon and Washington na tional forests. NEWSBRIEFS rriMi ntoM xjX RED CHINA, RUSSIA TO MEET JULY 5 Tokyo tPli-Communitt China and the Soviet Union will open talks in Moscow July 5 ideological differences, tha News Agency reported today. CZECHS PURGE FORMER Vitnna-THi-Communiit Chechoslovakia today disclosed the pnrga of its former secret and another old-line Communist, Bruno Koehler, from their leading party posts. U.S. RELATIONS WITH HAITI MAY BE CUT Weshington-tMi-The Slat Department said today It discussing with Latin American governments the possibility of withdrawing diplomatic AS Semi-Finalists for Miss Rogue Valley .A - . r- : ' , , Miss Beyer Miss Ruth Beyer, 18, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Beyer, 1530 Grand ave., Med ford. She stands 5 feet 6V4 inches tall and weighs 112 pounds. Miss Beyer is em ployed at Lerner Shops, and plans to play the accordion in her talent competition. Her hobbies are listed as painting, designing, sculpturing, read ing, and sports. She plans to study fashion and fabric de sign at the California College of Arts and Crafts. Macomber Same One Local Law Oregon state police in the Medford headquarters said to day they have no proof that the Gerald Theodore Macom ber, 40, wounded in a gun fight at Rainier, Ore., in which Rainier Police Chief Don Allen was injured, is the same man who shot State Police Officer Dick Korner here in the early 1950s. Indications are strong, how ever, that he is the same man who has engaged in numerous gunfights and moved in and out of the penitentiary over a period of years, Lieut. Floyd E. Crafts said. If he is Gerald Theodore Macomber, Lieutenant Crafts added, he is the man who evaded officers for weeks while breaking into numer ous cabins in the Applegate area and exchanging gunfire Former Sheriff in Portland Hospital On operation may be per formed on ex-Sheriff Joe Walsh of Jackson county to morrow afternoon in Provi dence hospital, the sheriff's office reported today. The attending physician said the operation would be performed providing the blood pressure could be re duced. If the operation is suc cessful, the former sheriff would have an 80 per cent chance for full recovery, It was reported. Walsh was taken seriously ill Friday and taken to the hospital. He now lives in Port land where he is a salesman. Medford Budget Group Will Meet Tonight The Medford citizens' budg et committee will hold its fourth meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight in city hall to con tinue its review of the 1963-64 proposed preliminary fiscal huriffpt for the citv. Slated for review tonight are budgets for the Public Li brary of Medford and Jackson county and the Medtora wa ter department. CIVIC LEADER DIES Salem - IUPH - Adolph C Haag, 77, local business and civic leader, died Sunday night. He was Salem's first citizen in 1954. MOUND TMI MOM in an effort to thrash out their official Communist Ntw China POLICE CHIEF polic chief, Karol Bacilek, recognition from Haiti. fo)(n)M A 1 Miss DeHaven Miss Judy DeHaven, 18, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Donald O. DeHaven, post of fice box 367, White City. She stands 5 feet 6 inches, and weighs 129 pounds. Miss De Haven is a student at South ern Oregon college, and plans serious reading as her talent portion of the pageant. Her hobbies include swimming, water skiing, tennis, bowling, reading, traveling, skin div ing, and cooking. Upon gradu ation from college, she plans to teach ' physical education and speech on the secondary level. May Be Who Shot Officer upon several occasions when the pursuit was hot. Macomber was wanted for car theft when he was located at 19 Elm St., Medford, and shot Officer Korner, then escaped to the Applegate. He took a shot at a service station operator at Ruch and with another prison escapee stole a pickup. The two men were flushed by state police in the Upper Applegate hills and another exchange of sun' fire occurred. Macomber's comrade-was- captured -near Ruch, but Macomber was not brought in by officers until after he had broken into a number of cabins, and stolen vehicles in Happy Camp, Calif. A 'road block was set up after he was tracked into the Cave Junction area and there officers from Medford and Grants Pass closed in on him. He was shot in the chest and sentenced to the state peni tentiary from which he was paroled in 1961. Macomber, who listed his present address as Portland, was reported in fair condition at Columbia District hospital today after being shot twice by Allen. Macomber under went surgery Monday night for removal of a bullet from his arm. In Good Condition Allen, 41, was reported in good condition at St. John's hospital at Longview, Wash. He was shot in the neck when ne surprised a man and a woman in a Rainier tavern. Macomber and Donna Hedges, 27, Portland, were ar rested by St. Helens police at a roadblock a few minutes after the gunfire erupted. Columbia County Sher ff Roy Wilburn said Macomber will be transferred to Mult nomah county's Rocky Butte jail as soon as his condition permits. The sheriff said Co lumbia county has no facilities for treating wounded prison ers. Mrs. Hedges also was ached- uled to be transferred to wom en's quarters at Rocky Butte. Streets Patrolled In Birminaham ' nirminoham Ala -JUPfl Ti. white youths were cut with knives and a Negro was uuuuku uj a MVIII.t KUll mull' day night on the streets of this racially torn city. State troopers patrolled the streets while a small detach ment of federal troops main tained an observation post in the federal building here, The incidents Monday night were scattered and there was no recurrence of the week end rioting that caused President Kennedy to order 3,000 troops sent to military bases in Ala bama on standby alert, Negro leader Martin Luther King Jr. appealed to members of his race at a mass meeting Monday night "to be calm and retain our commitment to nonviolence " Wecan't win meeting vio lence with violence, he said "If there Is any blood spilled In th treti. let II he nitr I bljd." Regional Edition Medford 22 Pages Senate's Income Tax Plan OK on' Substitute lor House Measure Drawn in Secret Joint Conference May Be Necessary Salem (UPI) An income tax program drafted in secret to raise an additional $52 mil lion was approved 4-3 by the Senate Tax committee Mon day. The measure, a substitute for the House-approved bill which would have raised an additional $35 million, was approved in a 30-minute ex ecutive session capped by the distribution of a prepared pub licity release. The bill appeared destined to be rejected by the House, thus necessitating a" confer ence committee to draft an income tax program. The Senate committee also passed out a $12 million "one shot" revenue bill to speed collection of withholding tax es, but amended it to go into effect in April, 1965, only if needed to keep the general fund from dipping Into the red. ' Cigarette Tax Ignored Senators indicated they would let the proposed 4-cent a pack cigarette tax die in committee, and -hinted they would substitute a sales tax plan for a House-approved business inventory tax relief measure. Voting for the income tax plan were Sens. Robert Elf strom (R-Salem), Glen Stadler (D-Eugene), Boyd Overhulse (D-Madras), and Walter Pear son (D-Portland. Voting no were Sens. Vernon Cook (D Gresham), Donald Husband (R-Eugene) and Anthony Ytur- (K-Ontario), The Senate plan drew im mediate protests from the House side. Speaker Clarence Barton termed the bill "very severe in the low and middle income range." House Tax Committee Chairman Richard Eymann said the plan "lacks progres- sivity and violates the prin ciple of ability to pay." The Senate committee went through the motions of dis cussing the proposal for about 15 minutes before voting for It. Eymann Gets Draft Newsmen learned that a draft of the press release had been given to Eymann about p.m. The committee took its vote about 3:15 p.m. The Senate version has not yet had discussion in open public meeting. The measure would do away with the net receipts feature of the House-approved plan, and makes major rate increases to raise nearly $20 million more than the House proposal. The Senate committee made these changes in the present law: Eliminated the federal In come tax deduction. Increased personal exemp tions from $600 to $650 for a single person, and from $1,200 to $1,300 for a married cou pie, while at the same time reducing the dependency credit from $600 to $400. -Decreases the top publish ed rate from 9V4 per cent to 7 per cent. Minimum Tax -Imposes a minimum $10 tax on single persons, and $20 on lolnt returns. ' -Grants lull deduction on all medical expenses in excess of 5 per cent of income. Under the more children you-have, the more-you-pay feature of the Senate bill, this would be the impact on $5,000 Income: Single person $41 increase couple $24 increase, family of four $26 increase. An $8,000 total income: Single person $52 increase, couple $50 Increase, and family of tour $66 Increase. F MEDFORD, J To 3 SrV -; V''KJ NEW FEDERAL BUILDING The General Services Ad ministration expects to let the contract on Medford's pro posed four-story Federal Office Building and attached one story Post Office, shown in the drawing above, in October, according to word from Washington, D.C. The $1.7 million structure will face the Medford Library park across Eighth st. The post office entrance, according to the present plans. 1,200 Man Hours Of Labor Done by Men on Welfare Unemployed area men re ceiving state welfare subsist- ance have contributed about 1,200 man hours of labor in Medford city parks since Jan. 1, according to Robert L,. Haworth, parks and recrea tion director. Legislation passed by the 1961 state legislature gave cities permission to use wel fare labor in cooperation with the state office of the welfare commission. Under the department schedule, Haworth said his park maintenance, foreman picks up available workers at the Jackson county public welfare commission office, 132 West Fourth St., at 8 a.m. and returns them to the office at 4 p.m. The men are compensated on the basis of $1 per hour credit by the welfare office for the work. The city pays the worker's state' industrial accident fee on a man-hour basis, Haworth said. The welfare workers have performed a variety of tasks in the city s parks, including weeding; hoeing, planting, painting and some minor me chanical labor. They do not use any power equipment, the park director said. Haworth said . he was sat isfied and pleased with the program. "These men have proven to be a good help," he said, "and the quality of their work is equal to that perform ed by the seasonal labor the department has employed in the past. Legislature Urged To Face Problem Salcm-OIPIl-Gov. Mark Hat field told the legislature to day to "take off the blinders" and face the problem of over crowding at Oregon Correc tional Institution. He made the remarks at a meeting of the Board of Control, which oversees state institutions. The correctional facility Is overcrowded to the point where 60 prisoners are sleep ing in bunks in the cellblock hallways. The fire marshal has or dered a wider passageway be tween the cells and the bunks, but this would mean fewer bunks. The board was told that Ways and Means subcommit tee told Board Secretary J. N Peet to ignore the fire mar shal's order. The board has asked tor money to enlarge the institu tion, but the legislature has t yet granted it. 1 IUI OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY Vote by eommittee Equalization Board Asks Appraisal of Three Land Parcels The Jackson county board of equalization this morning directed County Assessor Thad Hatten to have an out side appraiser set the value on three parcels of land own ed by Nye and Naumea and Chrystal Springs packing houses in Medford. Joe Naumes, of Nye and Naumes and Chrystal Springs, said the ' almost four - acre piece south of the old Cali fornia Oregon Power com pany pole yard was adequate ly valued by the assessor's office earlier at 20 cents a square foot. True cash value has been Increased since then to 50 cents a square foot. Naumes also felt that two parcels south of Melrose ave. were over-valued by the as- ser's. office. Objects to Question Former County Commis sioner Chester Wendt object ed strenuously to asking a property owner how much he would sell his land for. This is not fair, Wendt said, as Negroes, Hecklers Clash in Nashville Nashville, Tonn. -'HOT - A group of about 150 Negro stu dents clashed with white hecklers and police Monday during an a n 1 1 segregation march through downtown Nashville. A number of per sons were Injured and at least three men were arrested. More demonstrations were planned for today. The dem onstrations, which broke . a truce, will continue - until some concrete steps are taken to end segregation here, said John Lewis, chair man of the Student Nonvio lent Coordinating committee. The students staged the demonstra tions Monday against the advice of some older Negro leaders who fear ed such activity would inter fere with negotiations to solve the city's racial problems. WEATHER PORBCAftT; Variable rloudl ntt lonliht ind Wednriday with inme wait red ihown over the mnitnUilni. low to night 40-.. tilth tomorrow CS Temp. IflKhrU Yntrrday IX I.o writ Thli Morning , If Sunset today 1:21 p.m. Our Skies Tonight , Bunrlte tomorrow . 4:51 m. Monnrlio tomorrow 1:4S a.m. l -.it Quarts .-. May U PROMINENT STAR Bftflgeuae, low In. . wctt VISIBI.R PLANKTi Mart, Id the writ at midnight Saturn, In aouthcaat 4 I m. Jupiter, MM 4:21 Vrnua. followi Jupiter. Tribune 14, 1963 will be at the corner of South Holly and Eighth sts. in the extreme left of the drawing. The post office working area is the one-story section in the right of the drawing. Designers of the building are architectural firms of Robert J. Kecney, of Medford, and Wllmsen Endicott and Unthank of Eugene. Plans call for landscaping to harmonize with a proposed Civic Center in the area. an equalization board mem ber. It is particularly not fair regarding private homes be cause! many home owners value their homes for sent) mental reasons higher than the market price. County Assessor Thad Hat- ten said property is bearing about all the tax burden it can. Some other tax source must be found in Oregon, he added. Arnold Bohnert, , Central Point . area farmer, said it would be difficult to find an other tax source. People re quire too many government services, he remarked. Man Arrested for Impersonating ; A 28-year-old man, recent ly paroled from San Quentln prison, was arrested by Med ford police Monday night on a charge of impersonating a police officer and being drunk in public. The man, Donald Leroy Ca- sad, a resident of a downlown hotel, accosted a Medford cou ple shortly after 11 p.m. last night on Front St., according to police reports, and attempt ed to pass himself off as a police officer. After he was taken into custody, Cassd told officers he had been paroled from San Quentln on May 7, and had come to Medford ostensibly to, live with relatives and work at a logging operation. Plate Glass Window Broken on Riverside Medford city police report ed that a large plate glass win dow at Dykes Floor Covering, 1228 North Riverside Ave., was broken late Saturday or early Sunday, Officers were unable to find the object which broke the window. They speculate, judg ing from the height of tha break, that a car bumper may have been the cause of the damage. La Grande Man Chosen As Top Tree Farmer Portland - HOT - Ray Mc Farland of La Grande was chosen as the top tree farmer In Oregon by the Portland Chamber of Commerce Mon day. The Union county man was named winner of the "cham ber's second annual "Trust in Trees" program In competi tion with farmers from six other counties. McFarland received $250. 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 46 given JFK 'Optimistic' Troops Won't Be Used in Crisis : Washington-flOT - President Kennedy was reported today to be "cautiously optimistic' that local authorities would be able to resolve Birming ham's racial crisis without federal troops being used. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.) gave the appraisal 'of the Presi dent's weekly meeting with Democratic legislative leaders which was devoted to discus sion of the Birmingham crisis. "The President Is very hopeful, and very desirous, that this matter can be set tled on a local level," Mans field said. He added that Ken nedy hoped the "good sense" of the local leaders would prevail in the crisis. Authority Unquestioned As for Kennedy's authority to dispatch the troops to the tense area, Mansfield said, "I don t think there Is any ques tion" that the President does have such right. Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace claims the president acted illegally. Mansfield said Kennedy doesn't want to use the troops and feels the main re sponsibility is with the local groups and wants them to succeed." Kennedy has stood firm to his insistence that he had the legal power to order troops to the Birmingham area. PLEADS GUILTY Coucr d' Alene, Idaho-IOTD- Charles R. Stockdale, Couer d' Alene, pleaded guilty Mon day to a charge of forging a U.S. government check for $52.80 at Bend, Ore., May 26, 1061. House Defeats Move To Override Hatfield Veto Salem- (UFO -In near party line votes. House Democrats today quashed moves to over ride a governor's veto and to set a cutoff date for action on House bills. On the veto question, 25 Democrats and 8 Republicans voted, In effect, with Repub lican Gov. Mark Hatfield. The veto was handed down Monday on a bill to give coun ties final say on creation of federal migratory bird refu gees. Hatfield said the final say of his own office was suf ficient. Rep. Robert Smith (R Burns), led the fight for 40 votes to override the govern or's veto. But the House voted 33-25 to let the question die by tabling the vetoed bill. V J U Faulty Tracking Radar Results in 2-Hour Delay Shot Scheduled For Wednesday Cape Canaveral, Fla. -IUPIU Gordon Cooper's attempt to fly 22 times around the world was postponed for 24 hours today by a faulty tracking radar on which his safety and success of his mission depend ed. Walter C. Williams, opera tions chief of the Mercury space program, announced that a second attempt would be made at 6 a.m. (pdt) Wednesday. , Today's postponement was announced at 7:57 a.m. (pdt). 12 minutes before the Air Force major was to have vaulted into the sky atop an Atlas rocket for a 34-hour trip through space. Cooper, 36, whose mission to set a new space flight record for Americans, had been in his cramped Faith 7 cabin 4 hours and 10 minutes when the reluctant decision was made to scrub the flight. Radar Essential The radar trouble develop ed at the Bermuda tracking- station on which Mercury con trollers depend to determine whether a spacecraft has gone successfully into orbit. The radar will be given a final check at 4 p.m. today. The trouble with the radar coincided with failure of the diesel engine which moves Reaction of Astronaut Gordon Cooper's family to postponement of his attempt to orbit the earth appear! en Page 2A. - the 150-foot, ' 450-ton service tower away from the Atlas booster before blastoff. The engine failure, first in the memory of Cape veter ans, forced, a delay of more than two; hours in Cooper's planned nuoii. xnen tne ra dar difficulties necessitated a scrub for the day. . Williams said the radar de fect at first appeared to be minor. Then conditions "de teriorated as the count pro gressed." '. . Other than the diesel and radar troubles, the pref light check, known as the count down, had proceeded with un usual smoothness. Cooper and the weather, . the spacecraft and its booster were all right for the shot.!, , , , Rsturns to Hangar After the postpone m e n t. Cooper was eased out of his spacecraft and returned to Hangar S, his prcfllght home on the cape. He had started the day at 12:50 a.m. (pdt). Cooper had been reported in good spirits" as he awaited his fate aboard the Faith 7. Williams remarked at a news conference after the scrub that the astronaut's 4 hours and 19 minutes in his cabin was "a very good simulation" of space flight. Cooper s mission is to spend 34 hours in space to check the effects of weightlessness on human beings and to perform tests vital to the forthcoming two-man Gemini Apollo moon flights. President Kennedy was not ified of the scrub a minute be fore it was announced public ly at the cape, according to Press Secretary Pierre Sal inger, Salinger said the pres ident was notified in a tele phone call from the cape. Klamath Agency Man Killed in Accident Chiloquin -HOT- Leon Craw ford, 27, Klamath Agency, was killed when he was thrown from his motorcycla on the Chiloquin Agency road one mile west of here Mon day afternoon. In a separate action that might have shortened the 121-day-old session. Rep. John Mosscr (R-Beaverton) sought to make Wednesday the cut off date for the House to con sider Its own bills, with a few exceptions. -Monger said this would give the House time to deliberate seriously the bills that have come over from the Senate, along with other important measures such as budget bills. He said It was a mistake for the House to rush action on its own bills In the final weeks. Twenty eight Democrats and five Republicans, how ever, voted to table Mosscr'a motion, killing It for the time being. Rep. Berkeley Lent (D Portland), Indicated he will seek to bring It un again.