Chrysler 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
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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
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Semi-Finalists for
Miss Rogue Valley
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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.
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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
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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.
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MEDFORD,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.