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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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