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IHligherEducation BHdiRgProgram6etsSubcommitteeVote Regional Edition Medford Page 2A Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1963 Astronaut's Family Silent On Postponement of Flight Taylor Lake Village, Tex -(WD- Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper's wife, Trudy, and their two daughters took the news that his 22-orbit flight had been scrubbed today in silence. Then Mrs. Cooper came out of their home with the daugh ters, Camala, 14 and Janlta, 13, and a National Aeronau tics and Space Administra tion security man took them to Webster Junior High School, which the girls attend Would Have Stayed Horn The girls will spend the rest of the day In school, Camala In the ninth grade and Janita in the seventh. If their lath. er's space flight hai gone off on schedule, they would have remained at home. Mrs. Cooper and the girls were smiling aa they left for school, but they said nothing Dave Schwartz, a NASA public affairs officer, said Cooper telephoned 30 minutes before the 6 a.m. (pdt) original launch time. Mrs. Cooper and the girls took the call in a bedroom. Cooper's mother, Mrs. Hat tie Cooper, sighed in Tecum seh, Okla., when she heard the flight had been scrubbed. Crusade Directors Named by Horfon United Crusade President Lawrence S. Horton, has an nounced his appointment of seven new members to the United Crusade board of di rectors. . They are Frank M. Booth by, of Prospect, James L. Craig ot Rogue River, Edwin J. Christie of Central Point, R. J. Igo of Jacksonville, L. Gird Levering of Shady Cove, Charles Martin ot Eagle Point and Emmett Witham. of Phoo . nix. , Appointments of directors representing' Butte Falls and Gold Hill are expected to be made in the near future. , At the United Crusade an nual meeting In March, mem bers voted an amendment to the by-laws allowing the pres ident to make nine additional appointments to the board, one from each ot the commu nities in the Jackson county campaign territory outside of Medford. The board of directors Is now made up of IS elected members, 12 serving by presi dential appointment, and 12 agency representatives, a total ot 39 active directors. There are In addition 11 honorary board members. "I'm disappointed because it Is going to be hard on Gor don," she said. "1 can lake it better than he can." Cooper's two grandmothers also followed developments in Tecumseh and nearby Shaw nee, Okla. Cooper was brought up in Shawnee. Schwartz said he does not expect Mrs. Cooper to have anything, to say until her hus band completes the flight and is safely down. Market's Erratic Trend Continues; Chrysler Firms New York-dlt-Stocks con tlnued mixed today. Steels, motors and cheml cats reflected the market's erratic trend. Chrysler man- aged to firm in its group after unveiling a new turbine-pow ered passenger car. Barber Oil picked up around a point in Its group but Marathon Oil weakened, Electronics were irregular with IBM off roughly a point and Denco up nearly 1. Drugs were also mixed fea turing Sterling up around 1 and R chardson-Merrell off a large fraction. Ferro Corp., Johnson & Johnson and Magma Copper rose a point or more, but Gil lette, Rohm & Haas and St. Joseph Lead softened, - DOW JONE8 AVERAGES New York - IUPD - Dow Jones final stock averagesi 30 Industrials 723.01, oif 0.2B 20 railroads 184.6S, up 0.05) 15 utilities 140.4S, up 0.65, and OS stocks 255.82, up 0.20,, Bales Monday wen about 4.82 million share comparad with 5.28 million shares Friday. Monday's prices on selected hocks: . Allied Chemical St l Alum Co Am . B:iU American Air Llnee 224 American Can . 44 1. American Motori 194; AT&T 124. American Tobacco 31 1. Anaconda Couoer HO Armco .. 38 ii American Standard 16V$ Bendlx Corp 54 U Bethlehem Steel 314; Boclns Air ...... 37 k Brumwlck IftU Caterpillar Corp 41 Chryaler Corp 571. Coca Cola OMi C.B.S . SS'.i Gulf Oil Idaho Power Kennecott Copper Lockheed Aircraft Martin Merck Montana Power Montgomery Ward National Blicult New York Central Northern Pacific Pac Gai Elec Penney J. 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Curtlia Wrliht 22 Dow Chemical 63 Du Pont 225 Kaatman Dodak 114 Fireitone .. 36 rord 40 General Electric 61 General Fooda 60 General Motora (xd) 71 Greyhound 41 11 Welfare Fraud Cases Discovered Salem -1 (HPO - "Clearcut fraud" was discovered In 11 of 304 aid to dependent chil dren cases in a recent survey, Welfare Administrator An drew Jurat said Monday, He told a Ways and Means subcommittee that a total of 14 ineligible cases, Including the ones Involving fraud, were discovered. The survey was part of a national study of ADC. - Juras said the fraud cases had been referred to district attorneys for prosecution. He said the Welfare Department plans to set up special review teams to go over welfare cases on a regular basis. Juras said the number of ineligible cases found was greater than he had expected. Imported Mexican Pillows m hot spcy colors 3.95 You'll shout, "Ole", when you soe our brilliant array of spicy colon and each wilh giant hond tied wool corner tassels. Only hand weaving can produce these brlllianily hoi accent colors - Ihey click like coslanets wilh your fqvo'ile color schemes. You mull see to ODprocioie I Toss on chair or sofa 1 1 " 1 1 ", l only 3.V5i lo loss on Hoot tor exlro sealing 18" x 18 , 5.95 . ' PRMIII II him. iron i in mmm V Jk'' COLONIAL HOUSE Wast Main & Fir, at Trowbridge Electric 773-6241 Portion of Plans Contingent Upon Voter Approval Salem - HOT - A $44 million higher education building pro gram for 1963-05 was ap proved Monday by the Ways and Means Education subcom mittee - part of it contingent on voter approval of a bond Issue. The subcommittee decided to ask voters next May to authorize $30 million in gen era obligation bonds for col lege instructional buildings, Only $12.5 million, however, would be authorized for 1963-68. The subcommittee also de cided to go along with the building priority list of the Board of Higher Education. The decisions must be ap proved by the full Ways and Means committee, the House, Senate and governor. Program Outlined Here is how the building program approved by the sub committee looks: -$11.5 million in general fund money to pay for proj ects 1-9 on the board s in structional building list. S12.5 million in bonds, con tingent on voter approval, to pay for projects 10-17. -110.3 million in aireaoy authorized bonds . for . self liquidating buildings such as dormitories. -9.S million additional for self-liquidating buildings. The Instructional projects, In order, are: Land purchases, replacement of Campbell Hall at Oregon College of Educa tion, completion of education al and general plant at Ore gon Technical Institute, Medi cal School heating plant, Ore gon State University utility tunnel extensions. Library on List OSU library altera 1 1 o n s, Portland State physical educa tion building, Southern Ore gon College classroom-laboratory office building, Oregon College of Education classroom-laboratory - office build ing, Eastern Oregon College science-mathematics building. university of Oregon li brary addition, OSU pharm acy building addition, UO science building addition, OSU Cordley Hall addition, SOC physical education build ing addition, OCE library addition, medical school li brary addition, PSC library unit and alterations to exist ing library. , The self-liquidating list in cludes projects at OSU, UO, OTI, OCE, PSC, SOC, and EOC. . Several subcommittee mem bers said they would prefer to use general fund money in stead of bonds, but noted the general fund is severely pinched. . Brown's Pledge Of No New Taxes Faces Major Test Sacramento UPD Gov. Ed mund G. Brown's pledge ot no new or increased taxes faced a severe test today. In an attempt to get assem bly approval of his bill to in crease the state's gasoline tax by 1-cent a gallon. Sen. Ran dolph Collier (D-Yreka) an nounced a compromise with assembly speaker Jesse M. Unruh (D-Inglewood). The compromise reached In a private session between the two lawmakers Monday after noon, would allow the bill to be amended to furnish money tor rapid transit, one of the major headaches of metropol itan areas of the state. As the bill now stands It would: -Increase the gasoline tax from 6 to 7 cents a gallon ef fective Oct. 1. Increase truck weight fees by about 13 per cent across the board. These two Increases would raise $70 million a year for use on county roads and city streets. The bill was solidly backed by representatives ot county supervisors and city commissioners. But Unruh and Collier agreed Monday to amend the measure further to provide that counties could increase the present 1 per cent In lieu tax to 2Vi per cent. The extra money could be used for rapid transit. In Los Angeles county, for example. this would amount to an esti mated $12 to $13 million a year. Procedures for Settling Railroad Featherbedding Dispute Submitted by Kennedy's Emergency Board Use Our Customer Parking Area Open Friday Nile till 9 Every Saturday 1111 5 (Fumltura Oat. Only! - See Four Fine Playsl Get Your Season Ticket Now or Broadway Theatre league's 1963-64 Rogue Art Gallery-220 Wast Main, er Call 772-8118 Subscribers To reMje i Improper e je oahvarr oi the Mail Tribvate m Medforri, pnon 771-H1; Aah land ealt at 4IS Brian el. r piwma 43-3002; Yreka, phone, Victory S-3S9S before S:S PA. tally and 10 JO a.m. SaoMUr. If regular delivery arrivaa eHnrtlv erter you rail pleaaa notify efrica. thua eliminating epactal meaeengaf eerrlea. Washington IUPD A prest dential emergency board to day proposed procedures, in cluding final and binding ar bitration, for settlement of the featherbedding dispute to avert a nationwide railroad strike in 30 days. The board, which submitted a report to President Kennedy late Monday night and met with him today, centered most of its proposals on terms for coping with management de mands for elimination of the Jobs of diesel firemen, which rail unions have been fighting. The board said a rail strike would be "crippling" to the nation. The board made a number of recommendations for set tlement of the work rules is sues. It said that during its 3V4 werks of deliberations and mediation efforts "Con siderable progress has been made towards the creation o( a climate which could support genuine negotiation." Asking each side to "re. examine 1 1 a responsibilities not only to itself,' but to the nation, the board said: "If the parties approach the bargaining table in tnis spirit and will immediately under take serious negotiations, we believe that the difficulties raised by the number and complexity of the Issues and by the number and diversity of the parties can be over come." Kennedy created the board April 3 to forestall a strike over charges by railroads of featherbedding by unions and Foreign Briefs RUSSIAN SAYS NEEDLES HAMPER STUDY Moscow-IDPS-A Soviet astronomer has charged the United States project which put a layer of thin needles 2,000 miles in spaca has seriously hampered in study of outer space. EXTRADITION OF VENEZUELAN PREDICTED - Caracas, Veneiuela-dfC-Aity. Gen. Rolando Salcedo de Lima predicted Monday night that ousted ex-Pmident Marcos Peres Jlmlnes will be extradited from the the United States "in a matter of days." AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER TO VISIT U.S. Canberra, Australia - (DPI) - Prime Minister Sir Robert Menises will visit the United States in late June or early July and hopes to confer with President Kennedy, he an. nounced Monday. PROGRESS REPORTED ON HOT LINE LINK Geneva-(0PD-U.8. and Soviet technicians were reported today to be making quiet but steady progress on the pro posed hot-line communications link between Washington and Moscow. VENEZUELA RECALLS ENVOY TO HAITI Port au Prince, HaitMiPII - Venesuela has recalled its envoy here as a probable prelude lo breaking diplomatic relations with the regime of Haitian President Francois Duvalier, informed sources said today. RUSSIA REJECTS OFFER OF TV HOOKUP . London-dJPII-The Soviet Union today declined an offer to join a European television hookup which oificials hope will allow 40 million viewers to watch astronaut L. Gordon Cooper's flight. Plans called for the launching to be beamed to Europe irom the Teleitar satellite and then relayed by land lines. Up and down the coast... there's a convenient United flight for you Morning or evening, you can fly United to San Francisco and connect with a United jet for Los Angeles. When you're heading north, United offers three flights daily to Portland and two to Seattle -Tacoma. Call us at 773-6233, or your Travel Agent. And ask about United's Family Plan saves 50 on First Class travel for your wife and children. UNITED rut fr4 Cli.t AIKLIMI the position of labor organiza tions that their criteria for work rules and pay structure of some 20.000 operating em ployees should be honored. The dispute, which has been pending since November, 1959, ccime to a head after a Supreme Court decision March 4 upholding the right railroad work stoppage of management to change "would stop all movement on work rules. 02 Der cent of the total rail. The unions, under terms of Poad mileage in the United Pre-Regislration Date Is Announced Ashland Pre-registration for the Southern Oregon col lege kindergarten for the aca demic year 1963-64 will take place at 9 a.m., May 16, in the business office, Churchill hall. Miss Karen O'Conner, SOC kindergarten instructor, said pre-registration will be on a first-come, ' first-served ' basis with a waiting list established after the desired enrollment is reached. . Tuition for the kindergar ten, which is conducted as a part of the SOC teacher edu cation program, will be $51 a year, $17 a quarter, payable at the beginning of each quar ter, and that a $5 registration fee will be assessed, deducted from the first quarter tuition. Kennedy s order setting up the board, are barred from striking for an additional 30 days from the time the report was filed Monday with the White House. Members of the emergency board are Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, New York, chair man; Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, and Prof. Nathan Feinsinger of the University of Wisconsin Law School. The board said a general Ashland Student Is Editor of Paper Tempe - Betty Duffy, Ash land, Ore., has been named news editor of the Siate Press, student publication of Arizona State university, Tempe. A junior at the university, Miss Duffy will serve in this position for the first semeste of the 1963-64 school year. She is enrolled in the college of liberal arts. Miss Duffy has worked for the past year on the staff of newspaper which is published twice a week. States, and render Idle 94 per cent of the industry's em ployees." If this happened, It said, "the damage to the nation would be inestimable." n the easy way I SYSTEMATIC in MEDFODO-Sl) Mietare Stepelat Cm. Tilmeiea: 771-1221 u. r'- . ..-i.i "14, W DON'T BE A LITTERBUG! Boating, swimming, fishing lure millions of us to the water every year. 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