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turn mm Regional Edition Medford Two Sections 20 Pages Racial Tension Flares Anew in North Carolina By United Preti International Racial tensions eased in Birmingham, Ala., and Nash ville, 'I'enn., Tuesday but flared again in North Caro lina's capital city of Raleigh More than 800 Negroes staged a "freedom march" through downtown Raleigh City Budget Group Approves Request Of Library Board The Medford citizens' budget committee last night tenta tively approved a request from the Public Library of Medford and Jackson County for an increased appropriation of $7,966 over the $44,266 it received from the city last year. Dr. John T. Brandenburg, chairman of the library board, told the committee the library was requesting about 37 per cent of its proposed $20,000 budget increase this year from the city. The Jackson county court, he said, was being asked for the other 63 per cent of the budget increase. The motion to grant, on a tentative basis, the additional $7,966 was made by Council man Robert L. Van Sickle. The motion passed by a 10 to 2 vote. Displays Charts, Graphs Dr. Brandenburg displayed a series of charts and graphs indicating the status of the library in a number of areas as compared with selected other libraries in the state. Councilmen Terry Green and William Singler both in dicated their support of the library but expressed serious concern over where the extra $7,966 was going to come from. City Manager Robert Duff said the only feasible sources of increasing the city's reve nue were "not very popular" ones. He said the business li cense tax could be upped, and parking meter rates and fines increased. But Van Sickle said he'd "happily sacrifice a fireman or a policeman to get a better library." Following passage of the motion, the committee began its second department-by-department review of the bud get. The committee is sched uled to meet again at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Their deliber ations must be finished by the end of this week, according to the schedule for completion and acceptance of the budget. Kayak Travelers Arrive at The Dalles The Dallcs-iUPD-Two young Norwegians have completed the first 80 miles of a trip to New Orleans by kayak. They arrived here Monday night, about a week after leaving Portland. Bjorn Braa ten, 22, and Kare Anderson, 23, both of Oslo, plan to con tinue upstream as far as Pas co or Lewiston, then trans port their craft to Great Falls, Mont., after which they hope to follow the Missouri and Mississippi rivers to their destination. HAITI PRESIDENT IN FIRM Pari in Princa. Haili - itlNI remained firmly in control of fortified palace today dtspita HEVS(BRIEFS ITIMireOM MOUND 1M OlOM deadline tor his assassination. Rumors circulated outside the country, however, that he planned to fly to European exile today via the Dutch Island of Curacao. itu leeruvr v Crrirs Mnwrv RfM.UTION fti..i M.tinna N vjfP!L.Tha Ilnltod Notiana General As. lembly today turned to its budget committee to seek ways to make up a liuo minion bankruptcy. NEUTRAL DELEGATES MAY Ganftva-HrT-Nftulral delegates to the 17-nation disarma ment conference here may walk out If either East or West Resumes testing, informed so ureas said today.' MEDFORD, OREGON, Tuesday night to back up de segregation demands. Police arrested 34 demonstrators. There were no incidents during the march but there were some tense moments when the demonstrators pass ed street corners crowded with white youth. Police charged 15 of the arrested group with assault against Leslie Ferguson, assistant manager of a cafeteria, who was "put in a state of fear" during a sit-in attempt. A bi-racial committee held a two-hour meeting in Raleigh Tuesday and bank official Vic tor Bell Jr. said "I think we made good progress in under standing each other and the problem." Earlier the Raleigh Ministerial Association voted 42-1 in favor of desegregating business facilities. Birmingham was relatively quiet Tuesday and federal ob servers said the city's racial atmosphere was "improving." They added, however, that federal troops would remain at nearby military bases be cause of the chance of- "trou ble developing quickly." Alabama Gov. George Wal lace sent another telegram to President Kennedy demand ing either the removal of the troops or publication of "the true fact of your military op eration . . ." Wallace said the presence of the troops was an 'open invitation to a resump tion of street rioting by law less Negro mobs, on the as sumption they will be protect ed by federal military forces." Violence Threatened Administration sources in Washington said that white Birmingham citizens who took part In working out a desegre gation agreement with Negro leaders have been threatened with violence. These sources said the bombings of a Negro house and motel which touch ed off the rioting were aimed at destroying the agreement. Negro students at Nashville, in the face of opposition from their own leaders, called off a planned demonstration in the Tennessee capital Tuesday night. Arrest Clears Five Police Cases Here Mae Crystal Schroeder, 29, whose last address was Issa quah, Wash., was arrested by Medford police this morning for disorderly conduct. The arrest, police added, cleared five other cases. According to police, Mae Schroeder has a record of nine arrests locally between October, 1958, and February, 1959. Police were called short ly after 5 o'clock this morn ing where someone was re ported firing a pistol in front of the Whistle Stop Cafe, 226 North Front st. Police arrested the woman, who pleaded guilty to the charge in municipal court and was sentenced to five days in the city jail, and her com panion, Lawrence Marian Mitchell of a local hotel, on a charged of drunk in public. He pleaded guilty to the charge this morning and was sentenced to three days in the city Jail. Officers took a starting pis tol from her. Later she told officers of several burglaries in the area and took police to the places where the items had been hidden. CONTROL - Praiidtni Francois Duvalier Haiti from within his heavily the arrival of in announced aencii ana btoio inr.onn.u QUIT CONFERENCE Tribune WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, Semi-Finalists for Miss Rogue Valley ( "t4 igu jar . , j psCi (w- J U A f . J Miss Darneille Miss Lindsay Darneille, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Darneille, 315 Monroe St., Medford, is 5 feet, 3 inches tall and weighs 108 pounds. A senior at Medford High school, she plans to compete in the talent portion of the pageant with "Flag Day," a reading from the New York Times. Her hobbies include swimming, bowling, horse back riding, public speaking, drama and designing. She plans to teach in the primary grades, drama and speech in high school, and become an actress. Citizens1 Advisory Committee Plans Discussed Initial steps in formation of citizens' advisory commit tee to study and submit re ports to the school board' of District 549C were taken at a special meeting of the board last night. The board discussed organ- izaion of such a committee, and what the committee's pur pose should be, Although many details of an advisory committee's or ganization remain to be work ed out, the board indicated agreement that such a com mittee should be organized in the near future to study the secondary school problem in the district, and relate the educational program offered to building needs. Appoint Chairman - The board also agreed that it should appoint the chair man and vice chairman of the advisory committee. The chairman, board members pointed out, is not a voting member, and a person well versed in parliamentary pro cedure to organize and keep the committee active should head such a group. ' Educational specifications for the secondary program should be presented to the advisory committee, the board noted, and the comprehensive program explained to the group, listing both pros and cons and reasons why the dis trict offers the program it does. From the citizens' advisory committee could be organized smaller groups or sub-committees, each electing its own chairman, to study specific fields, such as building sites, present buildings, enrollment trends, and type of construc tion most suitable for this area. Board Member Frank Bash argued in favor of an individ ual who would serve in a liai son, or executive secretary, capacity. Such a person, he said, would be available to provide information for the advisory committee or refer the com mittee to the source of infor mation. The individual also would keep the administra tion and school board inform ed of progress of the commit' tee. The board pointed out that WEATHER FORECAST? ParUy eloudr to. nigh and Thursday. Srattcr-d afternoon showers over the mountain sections. Low tonight 43. High Thursday W. Temp. Highest Yesterday . 74 Lowest This Morning 4S Tree, to is a.m. Today, Trace. Our Skiei Tonight Sunset today 1:3ft p.m. Sunrise tomorrow S:3ft a.m. Moonrlse tomorrow 2:24 a.m. Last Quarter to morrow ft:Sl a m. Saturn, the planet seen near the Moon tonight. Itself has t Moons. Titan, the largest of them, it 7SI,ftftfi miles from Saturn. 58th Year Price 10 Cents 1963 No. 47 Miss Dean Miss Deanna Florence Dean, 21, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Dean, and lives in Cascade hall "C", Ashland. Standing 5 feet, BVi inches and weighing 135 pounds, Miss Dean, a South ern Oregon college student, lists pantomime and dance for her talent part of the pageant. Included among her hobbies, she lists swimming, dancing, horseback riding, sewing, and being of service to other people. by Board an advisory committee's func tion is advisory only, although it will report, probably in the form of recommendations, to tne scnool board. The school board can not abrogate its le gal responsibility. Formation of a citizens' ad visory committee has been considered for some time by Medford school administra tors, and discussed informal ly by board members. Admin istrators and board members discussed with educators in other districts in the country their experiences with advi sory committees on recent Oregon Program in - service observation trips. The experience tn most cases has been rewarding, and in many districts the use of citizens' advisory groups has increased after the initial experience. Agate Repayment Contract Approved Portland -(IJPD- Approval of a proposed repayment con tract between the Rogue Riv er Valley Irrigation District and the Bureau of Reclama tion covering the Agate dam project announced by the In ternior Department today. The contract is being sent to the Bureau of Reclamation regional director in Boise for execution with the district. It covers reimbursable costs of constructing the dam, res ervoir and associated works on the Talent division of the Rogue River Basin Project. Agate dam, on Dry creek. will develop irrigation water supply for about 1,810 acres of new land and about t.ozu acres of presently irrigated land in the Talent division. Agate Reservoir Will have a storage capacity of 4,600-acre feet and will provide an an nual supply of about 4,450 acre feet of irrigation water. Cost of the project is esti mated at $1,874,000, of which $1,826,900 is allocated to irri gation, $27,100, for fishing fa cilities and $20,000 for recrea tion. Money for Migrant Children Restored Salcm-OIPIl-The Ways and Means Education subcommit tee backtracked on an earlier action Tuesday and decided to provide some money for migrant children. The comimttee earlier had decided to discontinue state aid for the program, pegged at $142,000 for the next bicn nlum. A total of $50,000 was restored. Salem - Wl - The House Tuesday afternoon killed a measure calling for I bridge across the Wilamette river somewhere between Salem and Newberg. 4 EXPERIMENTS TAKING ON SCHEDULE Cape Canaveral, FU.-WIUL. into space on America's longest later was reported In good spirit and health "and very much on iop ot nis mission. The Air Force major rose into the sky atop an Atlas rocket at 6:04 a.m. (pdt) under orders, if all goes right, to soar around the earth 22 times in about 34 hour. As he went into his fourth orbit at 10:35 a.m. (pdt) Walter C. Williams, operations chief of tne Mercury flight program, issued this word: "He is very much on top of his mission. He is in good spirits ana in gooa neaitn Cooper completed his first orbit at 7:38 a.m., his second at 9:08 a.m., and the third at 10:35 a.m. He had reported at the end of his second flash around the world that he was "very comfortable." Williams said after the third round trip that Cooper was performing all of his space experiments - designed to aid the longer Gemini and Apollo moon flights of the future - on schedule. Releases Flashing Lights . One of his experiments, however, did not work out well. In this third orbit he released a 10-pound sphere, about the size of a duck pin bowling ball, carrying two flashing lights. The idea was to see wheth er astronauts could easily spot beacons in the sky. Such bea cons might be used to guide astronauts of the Gemini and Apollo programs to other spacecraft in orbit. But Cooper, according to the Mercury control center here, reported he was not im mediately able to see the lights from the little ball traveling near him in space. in an effort to get a Klimrjse of them, he took over personal control of his Faith 7 cabin, swinging the craft around in space. Williams said it was possible the sphere was drift ing too close to the cabin to be easily seen. Earlier, after reporting he was very comfortable. Coooer had added, "In fact, I had little nap." He is scheduled to grab a full eight hours of sleep, if he wants it, 'starting alter his ninth orbit tonight. At the start of his fourth orbit Cooper passed the marks set by America's first four as tronauts - Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom, who made suborbital flights, and John Glenn and Scott Carpenter who each made three orbits. Spaceman Walter M. Schirra Jr. did six orbits last October. Length of Orbit Asked how long Cooper could stay in orbit, Williams said only that the capsule's or bit was such that it could stay aloft for "the expected life time of the mission." On previous manned flights, however, officials had said capsules in similar orbits prob ably could have stayed up for a week or perhaps longer. This would be far too long for Cooper, who carried only a three-day supply of oxygen. One of the astronaut's first remarks after his roaring climb into orbit was, "It felt real pretty." Completion of the planned 22 orbits would bring him down in the Pacific Ocean about 100 miles southeast of Midway at around 4:20 p.m. (pdt) Thursday. If Cooper goes the full 22 orbits, he will pass over more than 100 countries and pos sessions. For the first time tin American astronaut will fly over Communist territory. The planned track crosses Red China six times. Eagle Point School Budget Approved Eagle Point - The revised Eagle Point School district budget gained approval of the voters by almost a 3 to 2 margin here yesterday. The vote was 348 to 241. Only In Shady Cove did the budget lose, 71 to 68. Eagle Point voters approved by a 229 to 131 margin and Elk Trail by 57 to 39. The revised budget calls for $508,028.37 to be raised out aide the 6 per cent limitation The first budget presented to the voters called for $542,- 799.37 to be raised outside the 8 per cent limitation. It was defeated April 17 by a vole of 305 to 240. Oregon Allocated 18 GOP Delegates Portland - rt!PI - Oregon ten- tatively has been allocated 18 delegates to the 1964 Repub lican national convention, was announced Tuesday. PLAGE Gordon Coooer. 38. rockotod orbital flight today and hours Charles Crary Is Elected Chairman Of Central Group Charles Crary, 4074 South Pacific highway, Medford was elected unanimously a: chairman of the Jackson County Democratic Central committee last night at the Labor Temple in Medford. Seventy-two precinct com- mittee men and women pres ent heard that, the central committee's executive com mittees had submitted resig nations. Meeting earlier, the executive committee also had recommneded that a new ex ecutive committee be elected. Bill Deatherage. Medford lawyer; acting as temporary chairman last night, said no formal charges would be made against ex-Central Committee Chairman Jean Mills. "We no longer want to air our dirty linen in public," Deatherage explained. Pledges True Committee 'I pledge to you I will make this a trulv central committee and not two squab bling factions," Crary declar ed last night. "Decisions of the majority will rule. I am no group's man and owe no allegiance to anyone except to me Democratic Central committee. I will use mv best judgment in making rules by parliamentary procedure and will expect you to abide by them. If in error I will let the majority vote determine what is' right." Other officers elected unani mously are Louise Norton, vice chairman; County Clerk Marvin Madden, secretary; C. H. (Pat) Redmond. Griffin Creek, reelected treasurer; M. (Red) Norton, Phoenix, first alternate to the chairman; Mrs. E. C. (Kay) Phillips, 1549 South Ivy st., Medford, first alternate to vice chairman; Ralph Poslon and Mrs. Ralph (Elizabeth) Poslon, 2060 An dovcr rd., Medford, as con gressional committeeman and committcewoman. District nominating com mittee elected are Deatherage, E. C. (lex) fhlllips, Ray Lam berg, 3619 Ross lane; Berle Stephens, 307 Hamilton st.; and Bill Morrison, Central Point. Crary was business man ager of the electrical workers union for 19 years, lived in Medford 20 years, city plan ning commission member for five years, state apprentice ship committee member un der three governors, and ac tive in several civic organiza tions. He was a candidate for the legislature last year. Duncan Introduces Merlin Project Bill Washington (UPIi Rep. Rob ert Duncan (D-Ore.) Tuesday introduced a bill to authorize tne interior Department to construct and operate the Mcr lin division of the Rogue River Basin project. The bill was Introduced simultaneously In' the Senate by Sens. Wayne Morse and Maurine Ncubcrger (D-Ore.). Duncan said the principal works of the Merlin division would consist of Sexton dam and reservoir, diversion and distribution f a c i 1 1 ti e and drainage facilities. The completed project would provide irrigation wa ter for about 9,300 acres. It also would provide flood con trol, conservation and devel opmcnt of fish and wildlife and recreation benefits. The measure calls for an au thorization of $14,750,000. DOUGLAS PLAN PASSE8 Salcm-lUPIi-The House vot ed Tuesday afternoon to al low Douglas county to re place its present county court with a board of county com mlMloners. e.sw,.'sf.W r , ' ' .Y r i I 5-' - , - C ill i, ' , i , " - I t ,AJ I (Will.. COOPER BLASTS OFF The Atlas 130-D today lifts majestically off launch pad 14 booster which blasted Astronaut Gordon (UPI) Cooper into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Fla., Addition Two Grade Schools roved Classroom additions to Wil son and Lone Pine schools which incorporate some of the ideas' ' obtained . on , Oregon Program visitation trips to other parts of the country were approved by the Med ford school board last night. The plans will be returned to architects for final draw ing, and bids will be called as soon as possible to have the additions ready for school next fall. The one-wing addition to Wilson school involves two teaching centers with move able walls to make four class rooms 30 by 40 feet. A teach er planning area, small class rooms for small group instruc tion, seminar-type teaching and Individual attention arc included. The one classroom addition to Lone Pine school will be so constructed to Include the room In a team teaching cen ter when additional construc tion is needed there. Designed for Team Teaching Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield, superintendent, said the de sign of the Wilson addition Is specifically for team teach ing, but because there are no bearing inner walls it can be converted to a conventional type classroom structure with little trouble. Fifth and sixth graders will occupy the new wing at Wilson since team teaching through partial departmental ization Is conducted in all fifth and sixth grades now. With this type of an addi tion, Dr. Mayfield said, the district will actually receive Public Hearing Held on Location of New Interstate 5 A public hearing in the Jackson county court room on the proposed Wall Creek California line section ot In terstate 5 Freeway lasted 29 minutes yesterday afternoon with only a few people pro testing the proposed highway route. Victor Wolfe, administra tive assistant, state highway commission, explained this Is only a proposed route. If the highway commission approves the route, highway depart ment engineers will investi gate possible location of front age roads to serve abutting property owners. Testimony was tape-recorded and will be presented to the highway commission. The proposed route extends from Wall creek, south of Ash land, over the summit. through Bear canyon to the t . Plans at by Board more for its money, since the addition will be able to nan. die more pupils than the con ventional type classroom with out additional cost, and per haps less cost. - , The addition will be able to handle up to 140 students, compared to between 100 and 120 in the conventional type classroom, without increasing the per pupil cost, and at the same time increasing the value of instruction of the curriculum. , The Wilson addition will be constructed' to work into the present building with the exception there will be no windows in the new addi tion. The reason for this, Dr. Mayfield noted, is two-fold: 1. With moveable walls on the interior, other walls, where windows ordinarily would be, become more valu able for blackboard space. 2. In many of the schools visited in other parts of the country under the Oregon Program in-scrvlec observa tion project, classrooms with out windows were well liked by teachers and pupils, al though during the first teach ing year some teachers had indicated doubt about win- dowlcss rooms. Pupils never seemed to mind the rooms, according to conversations with teachers and administra tors of those districts. Salem - lUPli - The Senate Tuesday approved a measure which gives the State Land Board authority to sell or lease submerged or submers ible lands. Route Over the Siskiyous state line. The section through Bear canyon Is a split level road and rejoins the old high way route at the California line. Cnnnlv .lurlui' Earl M. Mill- sir NHiri Dir. nhnndancd section ot the old highway near the entrance to tne sisKiyou nign- way might be ot use to JacK- son county. He objected to the plan to cut the proposed freeway tnrougn tne i.oicsune rH nf the inmmit. This would require the county to main tain two separate segments of the same road, he pointed nul Should Maintain Roads Claude J. Miller, a resident near the summit, said the highway department should maintain frontage roads since the county doesn't have iuf firirnl maw removal eauio- mcnt. The old highway should C 8 ,j 0 1 (Butte Falls School Budget Croup To Meet Thursday Butte Falls - The budget committee, of Butte Falls' school district, has scheduled a -.meeting for Thursday to discuss what, if anything, should be changed in tha 1963-64 budget before It is presented to the voters a sec ond time. . The budget was voted down at the May 6 election. At a public meeting last night, the school board ant! budget committee spent two hours listening to specific complaints about the budget and answering questions. About 25 persons wero pres ent. Most of the complaints were registered by one man, Ted Fredenburg long-timo resident of the district. He objected to the board's granting of an across the board $200 a year raise to teachers, stating he did not approve of the concept of try ing to keep pace with salaries in other districts. School board members an swercd that teachers' salaries, even with the increase, are among the lowest in the area, average of some $400 a year lower than the scale paid In the Prospect school district. Fredenburg also objected to the board's plan to hire a full time secretary for the super intendent instead of a part time one, and to the hiring of one additional teacher. He went on to cite instances where he felt the budget com mittee had set aside morn money for specific items than it would actually need. be realigned since the pro posed highway would maka snow removal more dificull, he said. Wolfe said he originally harl favored a tunnel through the Siskiyous, but this would cost an extra several million dol lars. He did not know what the estimated cost of the pro posed highway section would be. He estimated complctltlon date as 1965 or 1967. Wolfe also explained the state highway department offers two forms of assistance to relocated property owners. Help is given in finding a new piece of property, mov ing expenses are authorized up to $200 for residential property owners and up to $3,000 reimbursement for moving costs for farmers and businessmen. V,
