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Newspaper Page Textin Regional Edition 40 PAGES Four Sections Senate Committee 0!(s Constitution Action Planned On Senate Floor Tuesday Morning Two Significant Changes Recorded Salem-TOPD-A new constitu- tion was approved 7-2 by the Senate committee on Consti tutional Revision Wednesday night, with Senate action planned Tuesday, morning. Sen. Walter Pearson (D Portiand). chairman said he will ask the Senate to make the document a special order of business at 10:15 a.m. The constitution that clear ed the Senate committee con tains two signiiicant changes from the House-passed ver sion: -The Senate committee adopted the legislative appor tionment plan of Sen. An thony Yturri (R-Ontario). -The committee decided to put the death penalty issue on the same May, 1964, bal lot as the proposed constitu tion, but as a separate ques tion. ' The Senate committee also made several other changes. House Plan Differs The House had adopted Oregon's present legislative apportionment plan. And it had left the death penally in the constitution, with the intent of asking voters at the November general election whether it should be removed. The two Senate committee votes against the document came from Sens. Don Willner (D-Portland) and Glen Stad ler (D-Eugcne) because of the Yturri apportionment plan. They said, however, if subse quent study convinces them it is a true population plan, they will support the docu ment on the floor. Houses Mutt Agree It needs a two-thirds vote of the Senate to pass. Then the two Houses must agree before it can reach the voters. The Yturri apportionment plan would make the sizes of the House and Senate flexible, with top limits of 35 and 65 members. Each county would get a legislator for each 1-30 or 1-60 of the population of the state. Counties with more than one half the requirement left over (a major fraction) would get an extra legislator. Counties with less than one-half the re quirement to start with would be combined into districts meeting the major fraction requirement for a legislator. Yturri said it is a true pop ulation plan, although its Immediate effect would be to give a slight advantage to Eastern Oregon. BOMB SAID HARMFUL London - HOT - A group of British scientists charged to day America's 1962 high alti tude H-bomb explosion - ap parently "planned purely for military reason" - changed the earth's environment and interfered with space research. hewsODbriefs ITIMS fltOM ft MOUND THI OlOU KENNEDY SAYS RECESSION PREVENTED Wiihington-ilPli-Preiident Kennedy said today an upturn in the nation's economy had prevented a recurrence of the recessions of 1958 and I960. EVEREST EXPEDITION'S CHANCES GOOD Washington - itPH - The American Ml. Everest expedition has reported favorable weather condition! and "increasingly bright" chances for another successful assault on the 29,028 foot summit, the National Geographic Society reported today. DE GAULLE IN ATHENS FOR STATE VISIT Aihens-iri'-French President Charles de Gaulle arrived for s state visit today and was immediately surrounded by an unprecedented security force to prevent any possible assassination attempt. BOEING LABOR CONTRACT APPROVED Seattle-lPMJninterrupted production of the vital Minute, man intercontinental ballistic missile was assured today fol lowing approval of i three-year labor contract with the Boi'ing Co. 1 ' MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 16, Semi-Finalists for Miss Rogue Valley VI M I i J ' ' It t - ; Miss Gysin Miss Bobbie Gysin, 20. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Gysin, route 3, box 198, Medford, is 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 125 pounds. She attends Southern Oregon college and is employed at Mann's Department store part time. Miss Gysin plans a fashion design routine for her talent division competition. Hobbies of Miss Gysin include sewing, fashion designing, cooking, public speaking and gardening. She hopes to be come a television commenta tor and correspondent. Committee Gives Approval to City's Proposed Budget The Medford citizens' budg et committee, after a 3'j-hour session, gave final approval last night to the city's pro posed preliminary budget for fiscal 1963-64. City officials were busy to day reworking the budget in light of a number of changes and made by the committee last nighr. It is expected to take several days before re vised totals can be announced. The budget will be publish ed June 14 -and 25. A public hearing has been scheduled for the budget at the regular meeting of the city council July 5. Add One Fireman Among major changes made by the committee last night were the addition of one fire man at $5,184, one police woman at $4,189, a planning technician at $6,028, an ap propriation of $1,000 for ex penses involved with the Sis ter City program, and a $1,500 raise for the city manager. An increase of $7,966 was also voted for the library fund transfer, though a motion near the end of the meeting almost reduced the amount to $4,211 before it failed by a 6 to 4 vote. The most significant dele tion from the budget was $10,450 from the park and recreation department capital outlay requests. The commit- Hi A TT 58th Year Price iu cents ,;.jMa Miss Cummings Miss Susan Jane Cummings, 19, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jess Cummings, 707 Mid way rd., Central Point. She is 5 feet, 8 inches tall and weighs 130 pounds. She is employed at Lerner's Dress shop, and is interested in dramatics. Her hobbies include painting, walking, sculpturing, bowling, skating, swimming, skindiv ing, and other sports. She plans to attend college and later become an airline host- tee action, which was taken late Tuesday night, recom mended the sum be appro priated from the park and recreation Improvement fund, which are monies derived from the sale of the Inter state 5 right-of-way through Hawthorne park. Deleted From Budget Also deleted from the budg et by committee vole were $6,792 for a building plan checker, $3,600 for two traf fic signals, and $693 from the finance department's re quest for funds to remodel customer service counter. A $25,000 off-set Item for a federal house and home fi nance agency loan to develop a master sewer plan also was deleted by committee action. The sum of $1,700 was vot ed for installation of a traffic signal at Sixth st. and River side avc. after it was deter mined on information sup plied by City Engineer Ver non Thorpe that the traffic accident rate at the intersex tion has been high. Commencement Set At Rogue River High Rogue River - Annual com mencement program will be presented at the Rogue River .High school at 8 p.m. Friday, May 17. The valedictory address will be given by Becky Elizabeth Irwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Irwin, who has at tended Rogue River for her four years of high school, maintaining a grade point ov erage of 3.91. She has been active in school affairs and was a can didate for the Elks' Leader ship award and the Elks' scholarship award given by the Grants Pass Elks club. She has been accepted by Lewis and Clark college. The salutatory address will be given by Beverly Gail Al lison, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Allison. Miss Alli son has maintained a high grade point average of 3.86 during her high school career, and has been active in school affairs. She has been granted a full-fee state scholarship for college and plans to attend Southern Oregon college, ma joring in elementary education. 1963 Atmosphere Re-Entry Tricky For Astronaut Proper Angle of Capsule Important Cape Canaveral, Fla. - (DPD -The great blanket of life-giving air that encircles earth paradoxically presented the major danger to astronaut L. Gordon Cooper on his planned return from space today. The tricky problem of nos ing a space capsule back into the atmosphere at a speed of 17,500 miles an hour is one ot the most difficult an astro naut faces. At that speed tremendous heat is generated from the friction of air around the cap sule. The temperature can build up to as much as 3.000 degrees Fahrenheit, far above the melting point of iron. Exact Maneuver The task facing the astro naut on re-entry is to maneu ver his capsule so it comes in at the proper angle and in the proper position. An error one way or another could spell a flaming death. Cooper was scheduled to begin slowing up Faith 7 by firing three solid fueled "retro" rockets over Shang hai; China, about 34 hours after the start of his spectacu lar flight from Cape Canav eral. . At that point, the capsule had to be faced with its blunt end forward. Protected By Shield The blunt portion of the bell-shaped capule was pro tected by a shield made of special materials to ' carry away the increasing heat, thus protecting the astronaut Inside. ... But, should a space cabin reenter at too steep an angle, even the heat shield might not suffice. Thus it was im portant that Cooper have the capsule slanted in just the right direction before trigger ing the reverse rockets. From start to finish, the re entry takes about 20 minutes. During this time, the astro naut runs into "g forces" that run his apparent weignt to nine times or more above normal. The hottest point is around 37 miles up. Downhill Drag' After that, it is a "down hill drag." When the capsule is sufficiently slowed, a para chute is employed, generally at 40,000 feet. A main chute comes out still later and then it is a matter of waiting for the capsule to hit the water -slowed by now to a fall of a few feet per second. Cooper's capsule is de signed to float, and is equip ped with radios and beacons to aid recovery forces in lo cating and getting to him as quickly as possible. Medford Trucker Fined by PUC Portland fUPIi A Medford trucker, who complained of competition from "gyppo op erators," was fined $100 in Federal Court Wednesday aft er pleading guilty to seven counts of hauling lumber without an Interstate Com merce Commission certificate in some Oregon and Califor nia counties. Federal Judge Gus J. Solo mon also placed Elmer Floyd Magcl on probation for three years. Magcl told the court he had complained several times to the ICC that many "gyppo operators" were not certified. Judge Solomon said if the names were given to the U.S. attorney's office "they'll be brought before me." Magcl replied, "they know who they arc, and I don't like to be a stoolic." The judge told Magcl to go back to the ICC If more trouble developed with uncertified haulers. Castro To Meet Khrusriehey Again Moscow-UPli-Cuban Premier Fidel Castro was due for fur ther meetings with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow today after wind ing up a tour of the Soviet provices. Castro was scheduled to spend several days in the Moscow area after visit to Volgograd, Soviet Central Asia and Siberia. I no. 48 - - -rj -L r iz&r . - --aTOr - - - j P . rR M iwn i a mm. -v. aaaV ASTRONAUT'S TARGET - The USS Kearsarge is shown poised in the Pacific Ocean near Midway Island where Astronaut Gordon Cooper is expected to splash down after 22 orbit of the earth in his space capsule, Faith 7, this USS Kearsarge For Critical Space Recovery Role Cooper To Aim Capsule at Small Bullseye at Sea Aboard the Kearsarge -(UPD The aircraft carr' Kearsarge cruised slowly in mid-Pacific today, awaitin ; with mount ing tension its critical role in the greatest sharp shooting act since William Tell, Its fleet ot helicopters was ready, crewmen repeating the drills they. 1-ive gone through more times than they can c o u n t, mechanics checking md recheckfng the equip ment. Sm I Target - ' Man will attempt to hit a small target of blue Pacific water with a 17,5'0''-mile an no projectile fired from twice the distance to the moon. The buitseye is the Pacific within helicopter range of the carrier Kearsarge, now about 100 miles southeast ot Mid way Island. The projectile is the Faith 7 capsule carrying astronaut L. G 'on Coop--. If the show goes well, and the capsule lands on target, the K-'arsarge's helicopters will go after it. They will pick up Cooper and hill cap sule and bring them both back to " carrier's five-acre flight deck. Selected Audience An all-male selected audi ence of 2,156 - the crew of the Kearsarge - will attend the premier. Should astronaut Cooper score a near miss, his audience will be even more select, total ling less than 250 - V e com plements of th" destroyers Fletcher and Bole, which ran - 80 miles on cither side of target Kearsarge. And there arc gate crashers on hand for the performance, too. A score of Japanese fish ermen from the trawler She Sho Maru No. 3 were found fishing in the middle of the stage. Other Crashers Expected Cher gate crashers who speak Russian have been ex pected, but so far none has ap peared on the scene. If they take in today's performance, it probably will be by peri scope. If the performance Is suc i jssful. it will be one of the greatest accomplishments ever atU' -ed and guarantee em ployment and prosperity for the principals involved. Failure 'ould produce a worldwide tragedy, with the bitler-st deepest disappoint ment to all the cast and death to the leading man - MaJ. Lerny Gordon Cooper. WEATHER VOnr.CAHT. fair ind Wirm Inn i (lit and Frtrtiv. l.ow lo niKiit 40. Illih rndiy ss. Temp. HlRhrat VMlerdiy in I.owfit Thii Morning 4fl Kurtitt today S:?T p.m. lunrlie tomorrow .... i:4l a.m. Our Skies Tonight Moonrlt tomorrow.. J:ftQ a.m. Nw Moon .. ... May 22 PROMINENT UTAH ftprra, due tniith .iS p.m. MhlHI K Pl-ANKTS Mart. In ihe well .11:5 p.m. flaturn. rles 2:19 a m. Jupiter, low In fait.. .2S a.m. Venui, rlsei . I AS a.m. Boosters Club for Jacksonville Plans Meeting to Organize Jacksonville - Formation of a Jacksonville Boosters club an outgrowth of the dis agreements and misunder standings prevalent during the recent consideration of a high way realignment in the his toric town was announced to day, The organization . meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Fri day at the Community hall The organization Is not de signed to perpetuate any opin ions, attitudes or plans that were presented, however, dur ing the recent, controversy, spokesmen said. The immediate 60-day goal of the Boosters club will be preparation of a thorough and long range study of Jackson ville. It will include an assess ment of the past, an inventory of the present and projections for the future of the town. As Community Forum The organization is expect ed to serve as a community forum for the expression of all views; the presentation and study of all facts. It will meet each week. The study will be citizen- sponsored and citizen-directed. The organizers have voic ed a desire to pinpoint the problems and explore the po tential of Jacksonville in or der to make the decisions to day which will promote the kind of town desired 10 to 20 years from now. General areas reported for study are commercial develop ment of the business commu nity, economic development with financial problems; resi- Russia Executes Convicted Spy Moscow -IUPII- Oleg Penkov- sky, the Russian scientific of ficial convicted as a spy lor selling secrets to the West, was executed today. T!ie official Soviet Tass news agency said Pcnkovsky was shot by a firing squad. Pcnkovsky was convicted last week along with British businessman Grcville Wynne. Penkovsky was sentenced to death and Wynne to eight years loss of liberty. Tass said Pcnkovsky lost an appeal to the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and the execution then was carried out. Wynne and Pcnkovsky were tried on charges they belonged to an Anglo-American spy ring th stole Rus sian economic and military i :rcls. Haiti President Holds Post Unconstitutionally Port au Prince, Haitl-tnu-Prcsident Francois Duvallcr began a period of unconstitu tional control of Haiti today, scoffing at "wishful" reports he would flee the country. afternoon. If Cooper should score a near-miss in his descent, other ships are waiting near the Kearsarge to pluck the spaceman from the water. (UPI) Poised in dential development, parks. landscaping and lighting, roads, traffic, parking, the preservation, and display of historical and - architectural development, Also listed are city services, water, sewer, cemetery, fire and police departments; gov' ernment structure, schools, tourist development, commU' nity organizations, including religious, fraternal and serv' ice clubs; cultural activities, county, state and federal re lations. There will be no dues charg ed for membership In the or ganization and no assessments collected Control Ordinance On Council Slate An air pollution control or dinance and details of a pro posed off-street parking dis trict for downtown Medford head agenda items for to night's meeting of the Med ford city council. Fate of the air pollution or dinance appeared uncertain today after the citizen's budg et committee last night failed to appropriate funds in next years budget for hiring an air pollution control officer. When the health depart ment's budget came up for consideration at last night's meeting of the committee, Councilman R. L. Van Sickle asked why no funds has been budgeted for the control offi cer. He was answered by Coun cilman William Singlcr, chair man of the council committee which drafted the ordinance, that "the ordinance had not yet been passed by the coun cil," and that the committee was "not In accord" on some details of the measure. The parking district resolu tions to be considered tonight would "signify the intention of the council to create a park ing district, "designate the boundaries of the district," establish methods of assess ment" and call for a public hearing on,thc matter June 6. Highway Open House in Medford Salcm-OJPK-The Slate High way Department will nnin open houses in 13 clues on May 28 t explain the depart ment's operations In obscrv- ncc of National Highway Week. Forrest Cooper, state high way engineer, said the open houses will be held in Salem, Portland, Milwauklc, ose burg. Bend, La Grande, Bak- Klamath Falls. Medford, Eugene, The Dalles, Ontario, and Coquillc. Two open houses will be held in Salem, one on May 28 at the main highway building, and anoth- on May 20 at the shops area east of the city. Joint Planning Committee Set By Area Officials A joint planning committee of six members, three from the county and three from the city of Medtoro, will Be ap nointcd soon, it was decided during a joint city county meeting In the county court office yesterday afternoon, Mayor, James Dunlevy and County Judge Earl M. Miller will appoint one representa tive each from city council or county court, planning and parks and recreation. commis sions.' The group will elect Its own chairman and set its first meeting date. The six-member group will be asked to develop plans for n civil center for city, county and state offices, and for the fairgrounds property. Recre- tion plans would include the fairgrounds and possible a multi-purpose stadium if a sta dium is deemed advisable. No Buildings Planned No further buildings other than the public health build ing are planned for the fair grounds, Miller told the group. The county Juvenile detention home officials were told their area would not be extonoed until the joint planning study can be completed. Medford City Manager Rob ert Duff pointed out that the county could buy the compar atively cheap surrounding property for parking area. County court members said they understood the city would buy the present Safe way store location, but were told no. What we need la for the people to tell the planner what they want rather than for the planner to stuff the plan down their throats," County Commissioner Don Fa bcr said. City Councilman William A. Singlcr said the people have elected the city and county officials to do the job. School Safety Patrol Banquet Slated Tonight The annual School Patrol banquet, sponsored by the Medford Safety Council, will be held starting at 6:30 o'clock tonight at Hedrick Junior High school. Honored will be the ap proximately 325 elementary school students who have con tributed to the safety pro gram at intersections In the vicinity of Medford schools. Included in the program arc 14 public elementary school In Medford and St Mary's school. Students will be presented pen and pencil sets with ap propriate safely emblems and national pins designating their patrol ranks. The pins have been contributed by the American Automobile associa tion. Civic groups.' service clubs, fraternal organizations, Recovery Area Weather Good, Reports Show America's Greatest Flight Nearing End Cape Canaveral, Fla. -(UPD-. L. Gordon Cooper, 36, whirled through the final orbits of America's greatest spaca flight today toward splash down In the Pacific this after, noon, , The Air Force major long since has logged more hours and miles in space than all ot his American predecessors combined. i - ' . Shortly after the 147-pound astronaut started his 19th or bit at 8:43 a.m. (pdt) - less than five laps from his goal - The recovery of Astro ' naut Gordon Cooper's space capsule from the Pa cific Ocean near Midway Island will be shown by KMED-TV ch. 10) and KBES-TV (ch. 5) starting at 4 p.m. today. - flight controllers reported that weather conditions in his Pa. cific recovery area wera "pretty good." Cooper ended his 20th orbit and started on the 21st at 11:42 a.m. (pdt). . Radioed 'Good Luck' As he flashed over Florida on his 20th orbit. Cooper re ceived a radioed "good luck and Gopspeed" from Air Force Secretary Eugene M. Zuckert and Gen. Curtis E. Lemay, Air. Force chief of staff. They, called his flight "a dramatic advancement to aerospace exploration." Shortly ; after that Cooper 1 sam- 1 an? ,gomg tver Miaml Miami nri " I Everything Set ' - 1 The space agency said, ev- erytmng was set for a tri. umphant conclusion ot the 22.9-orblt flight which Cooper began with B flawless liftoff at 6:04 a.m. Wednesday. Said an agency spokesman: "Recovery forces, weather, and all our people in those areas are good." Waiting to pluck Cooper and his Faith 7 spacecraft: from the sea about 100 miles southeast of Midway Island were the aircraft carrier Kear sarge, with 2,196 men aboard. and two destroyers. "We are sure he will get warm welcome,'1 said Lt. Col. John A. (Shorty) Powers, spokesman for the Mercury man-in-space program. Cooper in Good Shape Cooper, refreshed after the first long sleep ever taken by an American in space, had been described as in "very good shape" as he soared at more than 17,300 miles an hour toward the climax of trail-blazing flight for U.S. moon Journeys of the future. NASA officials estimated that braking rockets on Cooper's 000-pound spacecraft would fire at 4:02 p.m. (pdt) about 170 miles southeast of Kyu shu, Japan, toward the end of his Journey to' pull him down from orbit. Return Complicated That would put his splash down in the Pacific recovery area at about 4:20 p.m. after sharp plunge during which Cooper's weight would Jump about 7Vi times under the forces of deceleration. Powers warned that tha braking maneuver, called ret rofire, is a complicated and difficult timing operation. Ships and planes were ready to get quickly into action if Cooper should miss the land lng bullseye. and Parent Teacher associa. tions have provided the pen and pencil sets and are ti nancing the dinner. Russ Jamison will act as master of ceremonies follow ing the Initial presentation by Capt. Clyde Fichtner, prcsi dent ot the Medford Safety Council. The principal address will be given by Sgt. Bill Colbert Of the Oregon state police. Medford Police Chief Charles Champlin will present tha awards to the patrol captains of the respective schools. An Invitation has been ex tended all Interested persons and plans are being made tor a crowd of 300, according to Elliott Becken, assistant su perintendent of Medford schools.