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Newspaper Page Text4. i fay - t'4 Uyi'niJ'iL innitrf- 1 m i mm n I i ii San i i i tr .. WW Terrorists Baid, lira '. AfiisriG'aia Military Mission m mzrnh Regional Edition Medford 58th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 4 rd-yksssM 11 'II' I I II -s si,:', . Hb 4,.- --v rv-v -v.-? PRESIDENT SEES DEMONSTRATION - President John ' J. F. Thorlin, commanding officer of the White Sands F. Kennedy uses field glasses to watch a Sergeant surface- missile range. Leaning forward at lower left is Vice Presi- to-surface missile fired during a demonstration at White dent Lyndon Johnson. (UPI) Sands, N.M. Seated on the President's left is Maj. Gen. Kennedy Urges Educational System Offering Equal Opportunity for All Bids Are Opened For Health Center At Fairgrounds : Acceptance of a" bid on the new Jackson county public health center and awarding the contract was stopped temporarily yesterday due to lack of budgeted funds. The low base bid of $187, 816 by Murphy Construction company, Roseburg, will ex ceed the $190,000 allocated by the county budget commit tee when equipment and oth er items are added to the base bid, it was learned. After considerable figuring by the county court and Jay H. Cole, engineer of hospital planning and construe t i o n, state board of health, it was estimated the public health center cost would be 53,800 over the county allocation. A representative of the construc tion company is expected to confer with the county court this week. County Judge Earl M. Mil ler said he understood from a state health official that more matching money would . be available to help pay any over-age in cost. Cole said that category of funds has been de pleted now. The new building will be constructed on the county fairgrounds south of Medford. It was hoped to start con struction the first of the new fiscal year. Other bidders were Aus 1 a n d Construction company, Grants Pass, base bid of $187, 990; H. Barnhart Construc tion company, Medford, $188, 525: Loren Ritchie, general contractor, Medford, $187,990; and Harold W. Salter, general contractor, Rogue River, $191,536. CHAIRMAN NAMED Salem - fUPB - Tom Lawson McCall, Portland television- radio news analyst, has been named state chairman of the Oregon United Nations Day, the governor's office announced. The Legislature II $300,000 Set Aside as Tax Referral Fund Ediior'i note: Thi 1963 Ore gon Legislature appropriated $404 milion, and had to rant taxes to balance the budget, Will the voteri agree to the increase? This is the -second in a series of six artciles on the recently concluded legislature. By ZAN STARK and ANN H. PEARSON Salem - IUPD - Discovery of an error in the legislature's $60 million tax package as it awaited the governor's sig nature bolstered charges that it was "a paste pot and scis sors job." Lawmakers were so .con vinced that voters would re ject the package that they set Public Hearing on District Scheduled A nnhlir hearing on forma tion of a proposed downtown parking district will be neia at tonight's meeting of the Medford city council. City officials said a map showing the proposed boun daries of the district, together with estimated assessment costs, has been mailed to each property owner. The proposed parking dis trict would assume financial responsibility for acquisition and development of three par cels of property in the down town area for use as off-street parking lots. In other business tonight, the council is expected to take some action on a proposed air pollution control ordinance. Action on the measure was de ferred from two previous council meetings. HEVS2)BRIEFS IUUS FROM AROUND THI 010U AGREEMENT REACHED ON 'HOT LINE Geneva -m- United Stales and Soviet negotiators have reached agreement on establishing "hot Hn." teletype link between the White House and the Kremlin, highly author!- The link would permit President Kennedy and Soviet . . . -i - ..Hirnta witk aarh nt h Premier NiSiJ Knrusncn.v io - instantly to prevent war breaking out by accident. - - , r- r- AC fDieU INVESTIGATORS 5LLR tAu-n. m Anchorage. Alaska-arMnvestigators continued the pains taking task today of trying to find out what caused a North west Orient Airline. DC7 military charter plan, to cash in the Gull oi Alaska killing all 101 persons aboard. ALABAMA GOVERNOR TO DEFY INJUNCTION Mn,om.rv All u-IW-Gov. George Willece indicated Wed"" 'ay nlgrh. i. intend. .0 defy a federal function prohibiting him from blocking the d;,0aVvi7,,k",9rO" la the Univerity of Alabama "regardle.. of the ri.k. J"ThU can b.T our finest hour - he told Alabaman, in a statewide television address. " aside $300,000 and an Octo ber date for a referral election. Senators feared the pack age would not raise enough money to finance the $404 million spending program for the next biennium. House members claimed the bill was so poorly drawn it would raise more than planned. One-Shot Speedup Senators insisted a one-shot speedup of withholding tax collections be held in reserve for emergencies. House members added a provision that if there was more than a $10 million sur plus, the excess would be used to offset property taxes. The package included a 28 per cent hike in the state per sonal income tax to raise an additional $48 million, a lib eralized capital gains law, and increased corporate ex cise taxes. The new law was not what the governor, house or sen ate wanted. Gov. Mark Hatfield recom mended a net receipts "tax reform" program, and called for a 4-cent a pack cigarette tax. The House Tax committee, after 250 hours of hearings, recommended nearly the gov ernor's plan, and the one-shot feature. ' Things Changed The Senate Tax commit tee threw out the net re ceipts and cigarette tax, re vised the present law and raised the rates. The House wouldn't buy it. A 14-day deadlock on the revenue program was the re sult. The third conference com mittee came up with a 'com promise" - pretty much the Senate plan. The House grudgingly ac cepted but retaliated by kill ing a Senate measure to sub mit a sales tax to the voters in November of 1964. The battle finally ended minutes before the legislature adjourned when the House was forced to bow to a Sen ate coup which trimmed funds from the interim tax committee, and made appoint ment of a senator as com mittee chairman mandatory. (Continued on Page B6) Extension of Ban On Billboards Sooglif Washington - CTI - Sen, Maurine B. Ncuberger (D Ore.) called Wednesday for extension of legislation to keep billboards off the Inter state highway system. Mrs, Neuberger Joined Sen John Sherman Cooper (R-Ky.) in sponsoring a bill to extend billtfOard control two yean beyMd June 30. 40 PAGES Five Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1963 No. 66 San Diego State College Grads Hear President Chief Executive1 On Western Tour San. Diego, . Calif . - (UPD President Kennedy today called or an educational sys tem which would guarantee equal opportunity for a Long Island banker's son and the offspring of an Alabama Ne gro sharecropper. "Our goal mast be an edu cational system in the spirit of independence, a system in which all are created equal," the Chief Executive said in an address lor commence ment exercises at San Diego State College where he also received an honorary degree. Kennedy flew here this morning from El Paso, Tex. After the college ceremony he planned to embark on the air craft carrier Kitty Hawk for an overnight cruise off the coast of Southern California. Mindful of a new civil rights crisis building at the University of Alabama where Gov. George Wallace has vowed to block the court ordered entrance of Negro students next Monday, the President said it was time the nation "faced up more frank ly" to such questions as "whether every American child has an equal chance for a good education." Lack Eq; ll Opportunity He said the truth was that American children do not yet enjoy equal educational op portunities for two primary reasons: "One is economic and the other is racial." "If our nation is to meet the goal of giving every American a fair educational break," the President said, "we must move swiftly ahead in both areas. We must put more resources into the under nourished sectors of our edu cational system. "And we must recognize that segregation in education -and I mean the dc facto seg regation of the North as well as the proclaimed segregation of the South-brings with it serious handicaps to a large percentage of our nation's population." Plugs for Program The President renewed his call for action on his educa tional legislative recommen dations pending in Congress. . The program includes fed eral aid for college construc tion, expanded student loans. higher- teacher salaries and federal assistance in construc tion of additional public secondary and elementary school classrooms. "I am well aware of all the objections which have been raised for more than 50 years to any kind of federal effort in education," he said, adding that he was referring to ob jections involving states rights, civil rights, race and rengion." Double-Shift Schools To Lose Full Recognition Klamath Principal Loses Certificate Salem - IUPD - The State Board of Education decided Wednesday to withhold its "fully standard" recognition from schools which hold double-shift classes. Double-shifting is the prac tice of sending half the stu dents to class in the morning and the other half in the afternoon. Dr. Leon P. Minear, super intendent of public instruc tion, said double-shifting be cause of overcrowded class rooms has been more of a problem in elementary schools than it has in high schools. "But there are indications from several communities that they are planning such a per manent plan, Dr. Minear said. "It will cheat unneces sarily the youngsters in these districts." The board also ordered schools to provide a program of daily physical education for students in all 12 years of public school education. High school students now are re quired to take only two years. Principal Loses Case Willard C. McKinny, Klam ath Falls High school princi pal, lost his battle to have his teaching certificate restor ed. The board unanimously supported Minear in his ear lier revocation of the certifi cate and refused McKinny's application for a certificate for next year. The decision has the effect of removing McKinny from his job. Minear revoked the certifl cate several weeks ago on the basis that the principal know ingly made a- false statement in his original application, Specifically, he was accused of failing to show that he pleaded guilty to a morals charge while a Minnesota school' principal in 1959. About 20 witnesses appear ed on his behalf Wednesday, but a spokesman for the board id another 40 or 50 tele grams were received, "mostly negative." In other action, the board granted $25,000 for summer education programs for mi grants. The classes will be conducted by the Ontario, Hood River, Woodburn, St. Paul and Monmouth-Indepen dence school districts. Reed Program Approved A secondary teacher educa tion program was approved at Reed College In Portland. The approval was for five years beginning Sept. 1. Eugene Fisher, Elkton, was elected chairman of the board, succeeding Ronald Jones. Brooks. Vice chairman S. E. Brogoitti, Helix, was reelected. Formal approval was given to the appointment of four new incumbers to the Slate Board of Textbook Commis sioners and the reappoint ment of Dr. Leonard May field, Medford. The new mem bers are Elton Fisback, Dal las; Dr. Jack Hall, Corvallis; R. E. Jewell, Bend, and Dr. Harold B. McAbee, La Grande. Education Board Approves Course About Communism Salem - (UPD - An alternate course about communism, to be taught in the 12th grade, received the official stamp of approval from the State Board of Education Wednesday. The action joins Oregon with a handful of other states which recommend a course about communism be taught in the public schools. The board formally approved publica tion of a teaching guide "Understanding the Nature of Communism," and adopted a resolution concerning the course. The resolution urges teachers "to In struct their students in the facts about the nature of communism and its practices at all appropriate places In the curriculum." Public school teachers, "particularly those engaged in teaching or planning to teach the social studies, are urged to study and Inform themselves thoroughly about communism, and to take special courses wherever possible relating to understanding us nisiory ana nature," It said. The resolution calls upon school boards and administrators to make provisions for: The in-service education of their teachers to insure that the students receive the most reliable information available on communism. A continuing study of communism at feasible levels of the curriculum, and A mature study of communism in the high school before senior students are grad uated Into the full responsibilities of citi zenship. The resolution also calls for "factual presentation of the origins, historical devel opment, and current practices of commu nism in the world today." The board also called upon citizens to support instruction about communism and uphold the school personnel In the perform ance of this duty. Approval of the course, which was al most two years in preparation, came before the board earlier this year.. Action was de layed for several months to allow time for a final review. Smeltzer Sworn n as Member of Butte Falls Board Butte Falls - An antici. pated showdown in the school controversy that has split this community for some time fail ed to materialize la.st nicht. as the district school board conducted its final regular meeting of the school year. Routine business was con ducted - in a tense atmos phere. A number of observers had I l i , i i . - il a!!L.? e!u"T..11 those two unions again. U. S. statement of cradn irhnol Plywood Corp. and St. Regis DrlnciDal C. L. Stratlon. who "Per o. Plants Closing In Retaliation Against Strike Portland - (UPD Four big Harvey Nelson, regional Northwest wood products pro- president of the IWA, dis- ducers today began shutting claim any official knowledge down their plants and woods of the employer action and operations which employ said the union - "will take members of the Lumber and I whatever steps are approprl- Sawmill Workers Union and ate" If the shutdown comes. the International Woodwork-1 There were Indications . union era of America. -. 1 leaders would call the action The action was ordered In I a lockout. . 1 Shah of Iran Issues Shoot To Kill Orders Tehran, Iran - (UPD - The shah issued shoot-to-kill or ders today to thousands of troops manning tanks and ma chine guns battling to sup press a planned revolt against his regime. The death toll rose to an officially - admitted 88 per sons killed and 150 injured in three days of riots by Mos lem e x tremists rebelling against the shah's land and female suffrage reforms. has not been reappointed for next year, would attend the session. But hardly anyone showed up. There were but five per sons in the audience Sworn In Office , At the close of last night's meeting, Duane Smeltzer, who was elected to the board on May 6, was sworn in. He takes office July 1, replacing Francis E. Poole, whom he defeated by a vote of 9ti to 75. Smeltzer was elected with the support of the group seek ing to reinstate Stratton as grade school principal. At '.he same election, two other mem bers of the board, which had voted 5 to 0 not to rehire Stratton, were recalled, An drew Hamstra and Duane Burton. Acting In accordance with a recently enacted state law, the remaining three board members appointed succes sors to fill the vacancies cre ated by the recall. Appointed were Mrs. Hanna Dal'on and William L. Harris. Still Be Majority Therefore, it , is believed that when Smeltzer takes his seat on the board, there will still be a 4 to 1 majority in favor of the decision nut to rehire Stratton. The next major event In the situation here will come up Monday when district voters will go to the polls to cast ballots for or ngulnst the proposed 1963-64 school budget. The budget was defeated May 6 by a margin of 97 to 69. It has since been cut by $3,630 and now calls for a total tax levy of $70,197.09. Last year's tax levy was $89, 293.76. Observers acquainted with the Butte Falls situation rate Monday's election as u tossup. The four firms which or dered the shutdown Wednes day on the basis of a "strike against one is a strike against all agreement are Weyer haeuser Co., ' Crown Zeiler- bach, Rayonier and Interna tional Paper Co. All are members of the so- called "Big Six" which band ed together to conduct nego tiations with the two unions. Union leaders announced their strike against U. S. Plywood and St. Regis Tuesday after talks broke off. The decision by the four re maining firms will idle about 13,000 workers at some 30 communities in Oregon, Wash ington and northern Califor nia by Friday. Another 6,000 were affected by the earlier strike. Statement Issued 'It is obvious that the un ions intend to pick off the companies one at a time," the producers said in a statement Wednesday. "In the face of these selective strikes and whipsawlng tactici, the other members of the association have been forced to the deci sion that they must close their operations where members of these unions are employed." Pulp and paper plants where workers are represent- WEATHER roRRCAKT: Partly rloudy to nlfhl r.d parly Friday, rale and lliir warmer In lh aft ernoon Friday. t.nw tonight near 4t. Hlfh Friday about 72. Temp. II iK hen Vrtterday S l.oweit Thli Murnlnr . St Prec. to 10 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Kuntet today Hiinrit tomoriow -Moon rise today ... Full Moon tomorrow PftOMINF.ttT ST Aft An la re, dnr wuin . VIHIIH.K I'l.ANKTI Mar, in tha west ... satiirn, me Jupiter, low in at rues S:4S 111 IIS 1:11 12:1) . 11:41 .. I IJ . 1:11 4:51 p.m. m.m. p.m. a.m. s.m. p.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. West Coast. Pacific Airlines May Merge Portland OJPIi West Coast Airlines announced the first step in a planned merger with Pacific Airlines Wednesday. west Coast has taken an option to purchase 30 per cent of Pacific's stock, assistant WCA Vice President Nick Bcz Jr., said here. He said he expects the purchase to be completed in 30 days. Bcz said Civil Aeronautics board approval will be asked if stockholders of the two airlines approve the merger. Pacific Airlines formerly was known as Southwest Air lines. It serves California points? and Medford. ed by other uniom are not affected. The -firms said "an orderly shutdown" would begin Im mediately. Auditions Planned Here for Festival Auditions for the Peter Brltt Gardens Music and Arts Festival at Jacksonville Aug. 11 through 24 will be held in Medford Friday afternoon, June 7, in Puruckcr's Music House, 11 North Central ave. They will be conducted by John Trudeau. Applicants are asked to make appointments for the auditions by calling 773-7538. The concert scries, which will be conducted and direct ed by Trudeau of the Portland Pops and Symphony orches tras, will be divided Into two areas, one to be known as the Twilight Series, scheduled for 4 p.m.; and the olher the Star light Series at 8:30 p.m. The opening of the series will be Sunday, Aug. 11, at 8:30 p.m. mericans Forced o Give Uniforms o Attackers Ruse Catches Sentries Off Guard Caracas - IUPD - Castroite terrorists raided the U.S. mili tary mission here Wednesday night, forced six unarmed -Americans and four Venezue lan army guards to strip and stole their uniforms and the Venezuelans' guns. The terrorists then set fire the mission building caus ing $20,000 damage, burned U. S. flag and a portrait of corge Washington and fled. "Next time we won't be kidding," one of them snarled he fled. Police picked up three sus pected terrorists near the mis sion shortly after the raid. The army summoned rein forcements to patrol the neigh borhood, but there were no further reports of trouble. The raid was staged to com memorate the abortive revolt year ago at Puerto Ccbeilo, where Communists and right ists joined forces in an unsuc cessful attempt to overthrow President Romulo Betancourt. The American in the build ing at the time of the attack ast night were Col. James K. Chcnault, Corpus Christl.Tex., deputy chief of the mission, and his 15-year-old son; Majs. Bernard Gardner and T. C. Blevins and Sgts. Jose Augus tinl, Archivaldo Saenz, Ken neth Smith and Rudolph Fe lix. All of them except Chenault and his son were forced to give up their uniforms. The first attackers on the scene were four men armed with submachine guns. They were uniformed as Venezue lan officers, a ruse that caught the .four Venezuelan- sentries Nelson said earlier the two posted Vt 'the door off guard. aides were: about 13 cents! Atter. the Venezuelan sot- apart on a wage increase !or I dlerg had been disarmed, four the next three years, ; more attackers armed with The employers said their revolvers drove up in two final offer, turned down by I cars. both unions, was an increase f Members of the band herd- of 22 cents an hour. The IWA ed the Americans and th revealed it had scaled its de- f Venezuelans Into a patio ad- mands down from 40 to 33 I joining the mission buildinff. cents. The LSW was demand- Some of them, who sooka ing so cents. 400 Seniors Will Receive Diplomas More than 400 Medford High school seniors will re ceive diplomas in the school's 70th annual commencement exercises at 8 o'clock tonight at the high school stadium. Dr. Roy Lleuallcn, chancel lor of the Oregon state sys tem of higher education, will speak on "Are You Ready to Graduate? Dr. Lieuallen will be Introduced by Dr. Leonard B. Mayficld, super intendent of Medford schools. Also participating in the exercises will be the high school band under the direc tion of I. A. Mirick, senior choir members under the di rection of Lynn Sjulund, and the high school varsity band. Lester D. Harris, principal, will present the graduating class, and Ketth Hockersmlth, chairman of the board of ed ucation, will present diplomas. William E. Ruck, chairman of the scholarship committee of Medford High, will an nounce awards and scholar ships. A total of 69 students will receive 74 scholarships and grants-in-aid. The num ber is 16.8 per cent of the graduating class. The Rev. Frederick Ross Evans, pastor of the First Christian church, will give the invocation and benedic tion. good English, delivered, what Chenault called a "tirade against Yankee imperialism" to the captive audience. Other terrorists ransacked the mission offices and set fire to' its files. They stole a gun found in the mission safe. When the raid was com pleted, they forced their pris oners to march to the rear of the mission grounds and then fled, leaving the mission building in .flames. Hearings Held on Alleged Violations Two administrative hear ings on alleged violations were held this morning by the Oregon Liquor Control com mission in the Jackson county courthouse auditorium The hearings concerned the Wooden Shoe Lounge and The Brave Bull and charges that they had served liquor to minors. y Among those testifying this morning were employees ot the two businesses, sheriff's deputies and the minors who told nfticcrs that they had been served drinks at the two establishments. Testimony will be reviewed by OLCC before any ruling regarding the charges will be made. CHANGE APPROVED Portland - HTD - The City Council Wednesday approved a zoning change for a low cost public housing project in the Albina area of northeast Portland. Meetings To Implement Milk Price Stabilization NO TONGUE POINT USE Salem - IUPD - Secretary of Commerce Luther Hodges to day advised Gov, Mark Hat field that the Tongue Point Naval Installation near Astor ia was not planned for use as a nuclear ship service facility. Salem -(UPD The State De partment of Agriculture took the first steps today to imple ment stabilization of milk prices to the producer under the new milk stabilization act. The measure, adopted by the 1063 legislature, was sign ed this week by Gov. Mark Hatfield. The department scheduled four hearings at which it will take evidence and testimony relating to the establishment of minimum prices for class 1 and class 3 milk, primary markets, and market areas. The first hearing will be held June 24 at 10 a.m. in room 106 of the Capitol build ing ty:re. Other hearings are June 23, 10 a.m. at Harris hall. Lane county courthouse, Eugene; June 26 at 2 p.m. in the Curry county courthouse, Gold Beach, and June 28 at 10 a.m. in the Baker community cen ter. Baker. A hearing also has been sat for June 24 to hear testimony on the department's proposal to increase to l'4 cents per hundredweight the poundage fee necessary to support the milk stabilization act. The fee is deducted and withheld by handlers on all grade A milk purchased from producers. The present Vi-cent fee Is used for enforcement of the audit Oct.