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mm U ILeaner Stat To lea ratira tl Regional Edition Medford 58th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 22 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1963 No. 71 NEWSPAPERS VIA BURRO More than 100 years ago, prospectors searching for gold in southern Oregon had their trusty burros to carry tools and supplies. Now residents of historic Jacksonville worry about the encroachment of 20th Century projects. This week, however, they took a second look when their newspapers arrived via burro. Mail Tribune Newsboy Jerry War ren, faced with delivering more than 100 newspapers after his bicycle broke down, recruited his burro, Magoes, to carry the load. Accompanying the two on their rounds Tuesday afternoon was Jerry's dog, Pocho. The son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Warren, route 2, box 442H, Jerry's newspaper route includes Rich Gulch, site of the Jacksonville gold strike. (Knackstedt photo) Preliminary Plans For Sacred Heart Hospital Prepared Preliminary plans for the $2 million Sacred Heart hos pital have been submitted to the state board of health, hos pital officials reported yes. terday . ' . ' ' Federal Hill-Burton funds of $630,000 are being sought to help finance the hospital plant to be located on 18 acres at McAndrews rd. and Crater Lake ave., it was ex Plained. The " hospital design is a new concept for the west coast and the only completely new structure of its type in the United States, Walter J. Pappas, of Edson and Pappas, Medford architectural firm explained. The reenforced concrete structure will actually be three joined buildings. It will consist of a four-story nurs ing facility with the ground floor to remain unfinished until needed, an administra tion section and a logistics section which includes the dietary facilities, laundry and central supply. The ad ministration part will include facilities for surgery, radi ology laboratory, pathology laboratory . and emergency treatment. Singlt Bed Rooms The nursing facility will consist of single bed rooms for reduction of costs and to economize on nursing care required. The hospital offici als and architects say the structure is designed to re duce operating costs by main' taining an expected 95 per cent bed occupancy. The na- tional average is 70 per cent. Hospital officials have had a difficult time in getting the basic design approved by the state board of health since there is no precedent to fol low. The preliminary plans have been revised slightly to meet the state requirements, it was explained. Each of the single nursing rooms have been widened one foot and this enlargement carried out proportionately in the rest of the design. The Legislature VI Most of Public Feels Effects Of Legislature Editor's Note: Much of the legislation passed, or rejected, by the 1963 legislature touch ed particularly upon , one group or another. This is the last of six articles. By ZAN STARK . And ANN H. PEARSON I Salem-flJPD-Truckers, work ers, consumers, employers, the city dweller, the farmer -all the groups that make up the public - were affected by the 1963 legislature. Much of the legislation dealt particularly with one segment of society. As usual, labor and man- Postmistress Is Recommended Mrs. Alice Thoresen, Tal ent, will be recommended for postmistress at Talent, the Jackson County Democratic Central committee voted last night at its regular meeting. Charles Crary, committee chairman, said the unani mous r e c o m mendation for Mrs. Thorensen, an employee of the Talent post office for more than 17 years,' will be sent to Congressman Robert Duncan. Chairmen of standing and temDorary committees were appointed. K. C. Wernmark, genera! chairman of the pic- nic committee, outlined plans for the 1963 picnic to be held Aug. 25 at TouVelle State Dark. Tickets for the picnic are now on sale. State Representative James A. Redden reported briefly on the recent legis lative session. He pointed out that many good bills were passed during fhe session which had failed repeatedly during previous years and stated that the governor's la belling of the legislature as "do-nothing-' was unjustified. ms om i AROUND 1X1 OlOH ARMY TRUCK CRASH KILLS AMERICAN Darmstadt. Germany-tlt-A U.S. Army truck loaed with GI's crashed into a bridge near here early today and burst into flames, killing one Americen and injuring Iie. West German police reported. HOUSE FIRE LEAVES SEVEN DEAD Vaihon. Wash-rt-Cecil Lenders. 40. and his six chil dren died early today when a flash fire leveled a two-tory dwelling in this Island community near Seattle. Landers' wife. Eleanor, 31. was hospitalised with burns ever 90 per cent of bar body. Her condition was described by attendants as "extremely grave." POWER PREFERENCES BILL APPROVED Weshinaton-TrT-The House Reclamation subcommittee today aproved i Senate-passed bill to gie the Pacific North west first call on federal powej produced in the area. agemcnt had many legislative interests. And one of these pieces of legislation, as in 1961, was tne suoject of tne Hardest and heaviest pressures the legis lature has seen in some years. That was the "three-way" workmen's compensation bill. It involved millions of dollars in insurance business for pri vate firms, and similar sums in benefits for injured work ers. In the end, nobody could agree and the House killed it, but not until after it had affected much other legisla tion. Labor won improvements in benefits for Die jobless. Railroad brakemcn kept Ore gon's full crew law. a defeat for railroad management that' wanted to be able to reduce crews. But labor proposals for a minimum wage, an anti-strike breaker law, a shorter work week for firemen, and repeal of the 1961 labor elections law got nowhere. Consumers got some pro tections. They included a bill intended to clarify statement of interest rates, a require ment that "balloon bread" be so labeled, a clampdown on sale of subdivisions, and li censing of psychologists. Liquor Permits Stay The legislature failed to abolish the liquor purchase permit. To make the highways safer, the legislature voted to require seal belts In new cars, permit an officer to cite a driver without seeing an accident, and set stiff penal ties for a driver who flees an officer. It killed the other two of Gov. Mark Hatfield's traffic safety measures, speed limits, and "implied consent" to chemical tests for alcohol. Heavy trucks got lighter highway use taxes. Kor lighter trucks and log trucks, the fees were slightly increased. Farmers got protection for their own bargaining groups, and protection against picketing by harvest work ers. Dairymen got renewed state support in holding up the prices they get for milk Commercial fishermen got an overhaul of their licensing laws, plus new fees that they agreed to. (Conlinued on Page Bl) Kennedy Seeks Racial Golden Rule Support Chief Executive Addresses Nation Washington - flirt - Presi dent Kennedy sought nation al support today for a. racial Golden Rule to put out "fires of frustration and discord" among Negroes by guarantee ing them full equality from lunch counter to polling place. warning that there is "a rising tide of discontent that threatens the public safety." Kennedy declared in a radio- television address Tuesday night that "we face ... a moral crisis as a country and as a people." It cannot be met by re pressive police action," he said. "It cannot be left to increased demonstrations In the streets. It cannot be quit- ed by token moves or talk. It is a time to act in the Con gress, in your state anl local legislative body and, above all, in all of our daily lives." Readies New Legislation To carry out his aims. Ken nedy said he will send to Congress next week legisla tion which for the first time in this century would com mit this country to the idea that "race has no place in American life or American law." In a near paraphrase of the Biblical Golden Rule, the Chief Executive said: "Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated." Kennedy spoke from his White House office shortly after he had federalized the Alabama National Guard to enforce integration of the state university. Challenge Accepted Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield and other ad ministration backers accept ed Kennedy's legislative chal lenges. Southerners in Con gress rejected it. Negro leader Martin Lu ther King Jr. called Kenne dy's address "a hallmark in the annals of American his tory . . . one of the most eloquent, profound and un equivocal pleas for justice and the freedom of all men ever made by a president." boutnern senators are ex pected to filibuster against Kennedy s civil rights legis lation. Whether the legis lation can overcome such an attack depends on how much support it gets from Republi cans, most- of whom were re luctant to commit themselves until they see the bills. Talent Districts Compile Budgets Talent Proposed 1963-64 budgets have been drawn up for the new Talent Rural Fire Protection and South Talent Sanitary districts here. A public hearing has been scheduled for Tuesday, June 25, on the fire district budget, and an election is planned July 2 on the sanitary district budget. An election will not be necessary on the fire dis trict budget, because the pro posed tax levy, $14,486, docs not exceed the six-mill limit. Voters in the sanitary dis trict will be asked to consider a budget of S2.5I0. The June 25 fire budget hearing will start at 8 p.m. at the rural fire station, on Old Pacific Highway at Main st. Both districts were formed by the voters last January. TO DISCUSS CONTRACT Seattle - OIPI) - Negotiators for two Pacific Coast pulp and paper workers unions and management will meet July 9 to discuss a labor contract. Sniper's Bullet Fells Strategist In Yard of Home Mayor Interrupts Florida Vacation Jackson, Miss. - (I'PD - Civil rights strategist Mcdgar Ev ers, who once vowed to re main in Mississippi "even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice," was shot to death by a sniper early today. Evers, 37, fell In the drive way of his modest home with a bullet in his back and died about 15 minutes later at the University of Mississippi Med ical Center. En route to the hospital, he yelled several times: "Turn me loose," then lapsed into unconsciousness. Mayor Returns Jackson Mayor Allen Thompson interrupted a Flor ida vacation to return to the Mississippi 'capital, plagued in recent weeks by civil rights protests, and ordered local po lice to put all their resources into an investigation of Evers' death. 1 In Washington, the FBI of fered its full laboratory and identification facilities to the local investigators. It was the third death In the South in the past two months involving participants in racial activities. Baltimore postman William L. Moore was shot from am bush April 23 while on a pro test march near Gadsden, Ala. and mechanic Fred Link was slain during a clash between whites and Negroes Thurs day night at Lexington, N.C. uotn were white. Found by Police I Evers, dying from a rifle slug In the back, was found by police investigating a re port of a shooting in the neat. middle class Negro neighbor hood where he lived in the Mississippi capital rocked for the past month by racial dem onstrations, i . --The NAACP in New York immediately offered a $10. 000 reward "for information which "results In the arrest of and conviction of any per son or persons guilty of this crime. Evers' wife, Myrlie, and their three children, Darrell, 9. Denlse, 8, and Vandlke, 3, were inside the house wait ing for him to return from a civil rights rally when he was slain. Mrs. Evers said she heard her husband drive up and then heard shots. School to Vote On Transportation Evans Valley - Voters In the Evans Valley School dis trict will definitely vote Thursday, June 27, on the question of whether or not to continue school bus transpor tation to Grants Pass High school. Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent, an nounced this morning that the district school board could legally place the matter on the ballot. The board and budget com mittee last Thursday decided to put the question on the bal lot if they could legally do so, and set a tentative election date of June 27. At the same election, voters will be asked to approve the identical budget they rejected on May 8 by a vous of 80 to 52. If at this eX'ction the voters decide to terminate the Grants Pass bus service, money saved will revert to the general fund, to be used to ward a tax saving the follow ing year. Since the Evans Valley dis trict has no high school, high school age students attend high schools in other districts. primarily Rogue River and Grants Pass, with tuition paid by the Evans Valley district. The voters decided several years ago to provide bus scrv ire to Grants Pass as well as Rogue River. i-r i ; fi Lilies ; r - ) - v , .... ... . . . , - STUDENTS REGISTER Vivian Malonc. left, and Jimmy rollmcnt of the two Npurne ' n Hood pause on the steps of Foster Auditorium on the Uni- George Wallace. A reporter is holding a microphone tor versity of Alabama campus after registering for classes. Miss Malone. (UPI) Federalized National Guardsmen were used to enforce en-, . : ' puis Alabama ta itrict Oontirol of Mitay Soldiers Stand All-Night Guard At Dormitories . Students Register Against Protests Tuscaloosa, Ala. JPR Two Negroes started classes today at the University of Alabama whore federalized National Guard troops forced the ca pitulation of the last segrega tion holdout state: The camDUS was under strict control of military and civilian police forces. Vivian Malone, 21, of Mo bile, Ala., and Jimmy A. Hood, 21, of East Gadsden, Ala., moved calmly througn historic events that brought federalized National Guards men to the campus before the two Negroes were finally reg istered late Tuesday against the protests of Gov. George C. Wallace. The governor risked jail for contempt of court but ap parently no one was ready to push for his arrest. Soldiers on Guard Rnlritors with fixed bayon ets on their rifles stood all- night guard duty at the en trances to the dormitories where Hood and Miss Malonc were quartered. State troopers working in I concert with the Army man- ned roadblocks and patrolled the campus for stragglers. One frightened student wno naa missed the strict 10 p.m. cur few was marched on the dou ble to his dormitory by a state trooper. Active duty National Guardsmen patrolled the cam pus area in jeeps, but evi dence of military force was lacking as the government at tempted to give local and slate police full sway In main taining law and order. Returns To Capital The governor, who return ed to the capital city of Mont gomery after bowing to what he called "the might of the federal government," Is not expected to protest the admis sion of a third Negro to the university Thursday. Dave McGlathery, 27, is to enroll at the university's ex tension center in Huntsville where he works as a mathe matician at the George C. Marshall Space Flight Center. Group to Confer Resignations on With Insurance Firm Stale Accident About School Claims Commission Seen Several Medford School i plagued the community dur District B49C school officials! Ing the past school year along na insurance' representatives I with 32 other Oregon school left today for Oakland, Calif .J districts. ' to confer with the California I Lack Information Lite Insurance company re- He noted that there are a gardlng settlement of student accident claims.. , The group included Ed ward Branchfield, school dis trict lawyer: Fred Brennan school district insurance agent-of-record: Lee Ragsdale, district physical education di rector, and Elliott Bccken, as sistant superintendent. They will meet with repre sentatives of the California Life Insurance company Thursday morning. The meet ing was arranged through the ssistunce of the Oregon in surance commissioner. According to Keith I locker- smith, school board chairman, settlement of student Insur ance problems and payment of Insurance claims by the company, will be discussed. He said that this problem has large number of unpaid and said "the governor's office will partially paid claims for bos- neither confirm nor deny the puais iina pnysicians. ne ex- rumor that two industrial ao piainca mat ine officials nave I u.ni nininur B in not naa SUrilCieni information IrHmf.vnr " Thr mmmlnlnn kil irom uie uanrornia firm lo ihnM mumhun explain wnjr payments navel - ,.., cu. miuc. noD Iivl.lnUIISI.'-lliim ing with them records repre senting some $6,000 In unpaid might expect something later PERMITS NEEDED Fire permits for the Cen tral Point Rural Fire Protec tion district will be required the week beginning June 17. the fire department announc ed today. Permits may be ob tained by calling 664-2244. FESTIVAL PLANNED Tillamook -tTt- The Tilla mook County June Dairy Month Festival will be held hare June 21-23. WEATHER rORtTCAftT: r$tr tnntrht nd Thuf-diy. Little thing in trmprmtarf . Low M; hlsh Thurday II, Temp. Hlrnrit YMtrrday It I. o ! Thi Morning ftZ fcunfcei today . I It p m. Our Skies Tonight Suarltc tomorrow ... S:H m Moonrlft tomorrow a.m. Ii'l Quirur . Jun 14 HHOMI.MNT STARS Alulr. him In mui 1:) tm. Fomalhaiit. rliet . . 1:1 l.m. IHrtwtvo th two It the ola net. Saturn, whlrli It now aa Mint at Aluir) Tcm White Named Talent Fire Chief Talent - Tom White was ap pointed chief of the Talent city fire department and Harold Kingcry, assistant fire chief, at a meeting of the Talent City Council last night. White, who operates a local cafe, is a recent arrival from the Detroit area, where he served with a fire department for ten years. In other action. Uie council purchased two smoke masks and other miscellaneous fire equipment. Irrigation District Starts Canal Work The Medford Irrigation district is dr-mossing the en tire east side canal which runs from the Lake Creek area to Bear creek, accord ing to Jack Holfbuhr, MID secretary-manager. The operation started this morning and will affect the delivery system on the entire east side tonight and all day tomorrow. Meanwhile a few of the or chards in the irrigation dis trict have started irrigating. t.t year they started after First Game Thursday At New Ballpark 'Through the efforts of the Jackson County Baseball com mission what once was an eye sore, has been converted in four weeks to a first class baseball diamond," County Commissioner Don Fabcr com mented this morning. He praised the efforts of Claude Miles, commission chairman, and donors of various materials for their "interest in bringing a high grade brand of baseball to the valley." "There Is no reason now why a Softball field couldn't be developed between the new diamond and the National Guard Armory at the fair grounds," Faber said. County Judge Earl M. Miller will throw out the first ball as the American Legion baseball season opens locally Thursday night between Med ford and Ashland. Miles will catch Miller's ball. s Salem -4UP0- The resignation of at least one State Industrial Accident. Commission member appeared imminent today, Travis 'Cross, Gov. Mark Hatfield's press, secretary. or partially paid claims. It was pointed out that this is only part of such claims. It was noted that the in- irance agent with whom the district dealt was a certified representative of the Cali fornia Life Insurance com pany. At the meeting Thursday the local officials hope to get the program strightened out. Further action by the Med ford school district will de pend on the outcome of the California meeting, it was noted. A full report will be presented at the school board meeting Tuesday, June 18, at 30 p.m. Bloodmobile to Visit Three Areas Some 239 pints of blood were donated during the two day visit in Medford of the Red Cross Bloodmobile, It was more than 100 pints be low the 330 pint quota. The Bloodmobile will be in Ashland today from 1 to 6 o'clock at the Elks temple and on Thursday will move to Grants Pass at the VFW hall. Hours there will be from 2 to 7 p.m. Friday the Bloodmobile will return to Central Point where it will be at Jewctt school from 3 to 7 p.m. The quota in Ashland is 150 pints and in Central Point, 100. Drop-in donors are welcome st all drawings, Red Cross of ficials noted. today or tomorrow.' Commissioner Emily P. Lo gan said flatly: "I am not re signing. There have been rumors since last November, but J am not resigning." Keep Eyes Open Commissioner William A. Callahan said: "I do not ex pect to resign, nor to be asked to resign. I'd suggest you keep your eyes and ears open, however." Rumors of pending resigna tions swept the Capitol Build ing. There was speculation that the rumors stemmed from the recent legislative hassle over a workmen's compensation bill. During the session a special bill was Introduced which would have terminated tha terms of all three accident commissioners, to allow the governor to reappoint whom ever he chose. Opponents of the measure said if the governor wanted to get rid of the commissioners he could do it himself, and should not pass the buck to the legislature. Second FS Loofcouf Manned in forest The Medford office of the Rogue River National forest announced that they manned the Whiskey Peak lookout in the Applegate district yester day. Harold Shafer has been as signed there. He follows Ba sil Craig on the Squaw Peak lookout. Ashland Woman, Red Cross Class Rescue Two Men From Emigrant Lake Ashland - What might have been a multiple drowning in Emigrant lake Tuesday eve ning was averted due to ac tion by an Ashland woman and members of the Red Cross Aquatic class. Reported In good condition today at Ashland Communi ty hospital is Jerry Chambers, 20, Junction City, who was recovered from the bottom of the lake after a search by the 44 students In the Aquatic class. Incidents which lead up to he final rescue were pieced together today by local Red Cross officials. Mrs. Barbara McNeill, Ash land, and her two children were sitting on the beach watching two men in the wa ter about S p.m. One man, Identified as James Thomas, Junction City, called Cham bers, who apparently could not swim, Into the water. Chambers stepped Into a hole, panicked and ' grabbed his friend. ' As the men struggled In the water Mrs. McNeill jumped in, pulling Thomas to shore. the Aquatic class, which had just completed the day's les son on oinanlzing searches for victims tr large bodies of water. Chambers was found In IS feet of water by John Reld, Ashland. He was revived by Bob Dionne, Portland, Red Cross area representative in water safety, small craft and first aid, and Dan Lewis, an other instructor. ' Reld was also responsible tor saving the life of another person last year at an Ashland swimming pool. Chambers was taken by Unable to locate Chambers. slj started yelling, attracting ! ambulance to the lospital v i
