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Newspaper Page TextI Weather FORECAST: Fair tndl sa tenithi. Hich tossy tow SJ- UUUJhL Huhest yeiurSsjr . TtBP. Lowest Yesterdsy S4 PreclpttaUoa in i P QL. YesUr Say, none. 58th Year MEB FORD United Pna Interns tlonsl Full Uurl Win ' " "gt NJ ' Price 10 Cents Tribune United press IntertuUoneJ FuU Uwd Wlr Subscribers ? To report tanproper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune la Medford. phone T71-SM1; Ash land call at sis Brldgo it, or Jhone S83-3O03: Vreka. phone 42-2403. belore :4.1 p.m. daily and 1030 a m. Sunday. Ii regular delivery arrives shortly after you call please notilv office, thus eliminating pedal neassnfsr service. 52 Pages Six Sections MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1963 No. 74 V- "1' t (!'.. V - ' t : ' '.-A' UftTIHTllw rnrnvlV Huno oiiie nnH fills that fnrm i raw scars on the side of the Siskiyou mountain range mark the progress of the new Interstate S freeway that will eventually go all the way to the Oregon-California border. The new four lane highway will be a far cry from the original toll road of the 1850's that made its tortuous way over the 4,500 ft. pass. Current work shown above will take the new highway to Wall creek, approximately four miles above the south Ashland interchange. Peter Kiewit and' Sons are contractors for the project. The pic ture above was taken from Emigrant lake. Religious Dispute In Viet Nam Ends Saigon, South Viet Nam -ItPft-President Ngo Dinh Diem and Buddhist leaders early today signed an agreement aimed at settling a five-week religious dispute here. Details were not "imme diately announced but Diem was reported earlier to have agreed to the final three of the five major Buddhist de mands. -. : Agreement was first reach ed Friday on the first' two demands - giving Buddhists the right to fly their flag in New Cotton Subsidy Plan Is Proposed Washington - (UPD - House farm leaders plan to move ear ly next week to ask the "traf fic cop" House Rules commit tee to clear a controversial new cotton subsidy plan for floor debate. There has been no indica tion yet as to when it would be brought up for action if it's cleared by the Rules com mittee. Th hill is designed to al low American textile mills to rnitnn at the same low price paid by foreign mills while continuing farm price supports for cotton at nigner levels. public and changing of a gov ernment ordinance enacted under former Emperor Bao Dai which the Buddhists felt favored Christians. Diem and many top offi cials are Roman Catholics. Most Vietnamese are Bud dhists. The Buddhist dispute was dramatically d e m onstrated last week when a Buddhist priest burned himself to death in public as a protest against the alleged religious discrim ination. - imrioon officials said they iiroro "relieved" at the rapid conclusion of the talks today and Saturday between ua dhist leaders and a special government committee head ed by Vice iresiaeni iigujo. Ngoc Tho. The agreement will become final when it is signed by President Diem and Supreme Buddhist Priest mien iinn Khiet. Todav's talks lasted more than six hours. A Buddhist spokesman said the govern ment areenterl the third Bud dhist demand that they be al lowed to propagate their taun throughout soum viei nm by promising to order offi cials at all levels not to ha rass Buddhist priests ann nuns in the performance of their legitimate duties. avf " f'i L Opera Star To Go Ahead With Tour Moscow -! (UPD - New York Metrooolitain Opera singer Teresa Stratas, who stomped! out of her opera performance Friday, night, said Saturday she reconsidered her threat to cancel all remaining Soviet engagements and probably would go on with her tour. Her Soviet hosts, trying to smooth over her flight from the Bolshoi theater because of an alleged cool reception, declared Saturday she would sing again in Moscow .tune nn umulri kecO re" n rMruon (UW - Two mem bers of a five - man bandit gang staged a daring dayngni robbery of a Brinks armored car messenger inside a crowd ed west suburban supermar ket Saturday and escaped with an estimated $47,000. toenail Wide lashes km Of Continue iw Mil M South Kennedy Plans Major Civil Rights Legislation Congressional Fight Is Seen Burns of gagement In Kiev and Riga.'w.lh 242-10V.. Sports Bulletin , Albuquerque, N. M. -Frank Corslli. Arixona Stata tnior. won the NCAA jave lin throw litis Saturday night with a hta of 257 ftet 8 'i inches. Car; Stan lond of Orsjon Slata was ..ronrl with 253-4. John Ortaon was Iliin m 1 1. Tl Former President Her bert Hoover. 88. has been ill for the past week. (UPI) Herbert Hoover Seriously III b vnrlc (UPD Former President Herbert Hoover re mained in serious condition from anemia and intestinal bleeding Saturday but nis rir.tr,ro said "there has been imDrovement in his conai- tion. The 88-year-old former chief executive became ill in his Waldorf Hotel Towers suite a week ago. This was revealed Friday in a bulletin issued by three doctors who, with teams of nurses, have been treating Hoover on a around-the-clocK basis. The Hortors said yesterday that Hoover was suffering frem "anemia, secondary 10 bleeding from the gastro-intes- tinnl Irort " Saturday the doctors saia there was "no evidence of (t h e) continued bleeding" which had marked his Illness. Although his conruuon re- mDin. eerimiit' tnev saia. u was improved "compared with vesterdav." A spokesman lor noover added: "Like every man of arivanr-prl ace. he has his good days and days that are not so good. He has been meniaiiy alert, and until about last week, he has continued daily work at his desK. Agate Dam Project Favored By 96-0 Vote renlral Point - Water users and potential water users of the Rogue River Val ley Irrigation district Friday voted 96-0 in favor of the district's signing a federal contract for construction of the Agate dam and reservoir on Dry creek. rJevt linn will he the. for mal stcnlnff of the contract nnaalhlv aar u in .llllv hv ran. resentatlves of the irrigation district ana xne leaerai gov ernment, RRVID Secretary Manager Harold Sexton said Saturday. rVmRtrnrtfnn will start aft er Congress appropriates the necessary funds, he said, ine tentative construction sched ule would start the summer or 1964 when major construc tion contracts will be award ed. Pleased With Outcome Sexton said he was well pleased with the outcome of the election with roughly 50 per cent of the water users vntincr Thev included both small and large watef users, he added. Estimated project cost Is $1,802,000. The district's ob ligation will be $933,000, or slightly more than one-hall the estimated cost. No inter est must be paid. Of the remaining cost, an esiimntprf S27.100 is for in stallation of facilities for ben efit nnrl nroieetion of fish. An estimated szu.uuu is tor basic recreation facilities at the reservoir. The balance, about $762,000. will be re turned from power revenues of the Green Springs power plant. Mt. Ashland Road Bid Submitted at $652,763 Portland -UPI)- A. L. Hard- ln Inc.. of Stavton. Friday submitted the apparent low bid to build 7V4 miles of new road from U. S. Highway 99 to the proposed Mt. Ashland ski area. The bid was sDi, 763.82. Three other construction companies submitted bids to the U. S. Forest Service. Washineton - (l!Pl - Presi dent Kennedy will bring the boiling civil rights issue to a head next week by sending Congress legislation aimed at easing racial troubles that have become the dominant is sue of the day. His message spelling out his demands will be delivered probably in midweek. It is certain to trigger a no-quarter north-south legislative fight that could become the top issue of the 1964 Presl dential election. The President's decision to act was taken with full know- ledee that it could doom other major New Frontier bills which he has been urg ing since he entered the White House two and halt years ago. Filibuster Sean The racial rights message uUl eiffnnl an all-out anulh. em filihimler in the Senate when the legislation reaches the floor. 11 already has cost the administration some southern support In the House. Kennedy scheduled two fl nal mectins next week to muster support before, going inm rmtiie On Monday, he will confer 1 once more with legislative! leaders nf hoth rjarties in ufhnt ahnnerl nn BR a final and detailed review of his legis lative naekai!e: Also, on Monday, he has In vited 250 religious represent atives, including Negro inte- ffration leaner Martin Luther King, for another leadership conference on civil rignis. Tn repent weeks, the Presi dent has met with a cross-section of business and labor leaders, governors and may ors, urging them to take vol untary steps to end segrega tion. The White House announ ced that Kennedy will meet Tuesday with a group of gov ernors but they have not yet been identified. The Chief Executive is ex pected to make these three basic proposals: Ban Segregation A law which would bar segregation in ' private busi nesses engaged in interstate commerce such as restaurants, hotels, amusement parks, theaters and similar facilities. Southern congressional lead ers have denounced such a move as unconstitutional and as a "socialistic" violation of nrivate oroncrtv rights. Authority for the Attor ney General to initiate school integration suits rather than require individuals to do so. In the past, Congress nas urn tie, the onvernroent to initi ating only voting rights suits. Tt hue refused to allow the Attorney General to bring ac tion in broader areas. New federal machinery mhirh would standardize lit eracy tests used by slates as voter requirements ana spcea up court decisions on voung rights cases. Hi tUg til i i " r RUSSIANS CELEBRATE - Muscovites, some of them carrying banners and a por trait of cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky, cele- Russian Cosmonaut Medford Receives Eats Sausage Pie, Safety Award Caviar In Craft MnvlMI 11PU Soviet COS-. monaut Valery T. Bykovsky ate sausage pie ana caviar during his second day in space Sainrrlav and then dozed off while live television fed his sleeping image onto screens in Russian homes. , . ... The 2R-venr-old space pilot appeared to be getting along fine as he whirled on 10 wni mo.. um. man's lonscst space Journey and first cosmic ren dezvous with a woman. Mnnur raHin reDortcd he even freed himself from his chair during the lath orbit and floated about in nis cau-In. At one point there seemea Valley Girl May Go To Girls' Nation Ralem -WPB- Sandra Irving, Medford, Is one of the 12 can didates for Girls' JNauon in Washington, D. C She was among canaiaiucs lo..ir.rl Saltirdav by delegates w m I. to Oregon Girls' faiaie. i two girls to go to Girls' Na tion were to be named today. The selection of the two girls for delegates to Wash ii.gton, D. C, climaxed the week-long Oregon Girls' State ....nktu Ssliirrlav nlUlll. aNLIIIUtJ -J . Saturday afternoon acie- ir.. heard a SDeech by a rep resentatve Ol me bviuiui 1'. nffine S u J J v ' " B w . . . . while in Washington, the two selected delegates from July 28 to Aug. 3 will see Congress in action, visit the White House and many n -Krin.. lour the Pcntn l iti i a i dii. . . . . gon and meet government of ficial to be some difficulty In com mttnieatlnns hltwtlll tbl space shipi Vostok 5, and the sround because of intcrler enee from other transmitters but there was no indication of any trouble with the space snip itseu. At in n m f.1 n.m edtl Mos cow television announced that Rvkovskv had completed more than 20 orbits and naa rone to aleen in space for the second tlrne It showed a live picture of him sleeping in tne cabin. It said that during the day the cosmonaut had observed the earth's surface and per formed a number of tasks that made for "a taxing day." He reported himself "In high spir its." , . Tass medical commentator Dr. Georgl Arulynov said By kovsky did not have to rely on "mashed foods from tubes" as did the first space man, Yuri Gagarin, but ate foods made as "natural" as possible and packed In plastic bags In small Dieces. Arutvnov said It has been determined that cosmonauts can chew and swallow food without difficulty, ' vie said Rvkovskv a rations included cutlets, fried chick en. caviar sandwiches, can die. fruit. Dies, fresh fruit and fruit juices plus vitamins Demonstrations Range From Ohio To Mississippi Services Conducted For Medgar Ever Uniisd Press International More than 100 Negroes challenged segregation cus toms under the watchful eyej ' of a heavy police guard in Fayetteville, N. C, Saturday and a new wave of anti-see- regation demonstrations eruDt- ed in Danville, Va. At least 18 Negroes wera arrested at Fayetteville bv th helmeted, : gas mask totlna state troopers who were call. ed in following clashes be tween Negroes and whites Frl- day night. Funeral March In Jackson, Miss., an unruly crowd Of Nearoes siimed tn. ward the downtown area shak ing clenched fists and scream Ing "shoot, shoot, shoot." Th demonstration occurred just minutes after an emotional funeral service and 20-block long "mourning . march" for I slain civil, rights leader Med . i gar avers., it was quickly bro. : 1 ken up by police with the as. 1 1 slstance of Deputy U. S, Dlst. The. dtv of Medford hit Men. .lonr. uoar. been awarded another ialety In the Chesapeake bay town citation by the American a w "V,UJB . - . 1 SS S X STW am SHl shaft sat esk C3 7 . B for pedestrian saieiy. n is ini - VT "T r - ' tuvr- rccognltlon ot tmi city a reo--"- . I li Asm fmliM nlsshsvssisah ssximI ss4ss ettkss ord for going through tne yer i ; . " brate in Moscow's Bed Square after hear ing announcement ot the space shot. (UPI) nrw THUMB BACK i-dinhiiroh. Scot and - WW tome, fnujin 7. nursed his ik,,r.-.h in a hnanltal Saturday after it had been lost and then rerovered. The thumb which was severed from his left hand In a gate last nigni found by a police' mun and grafted on at the hospital. 1962 without a pedestrian fa tality. f . The award Is one of IS re reived hv Oreaon cities for their efforts in behalf of De- destrlan . safety in this state, aa reported to the Z4tn annual Pedestrian Safety contest, sponsored by AAA. i ; Medford had no pedestrian deaths In 1862 ana luoi. There was one in 1960 and In 11)50 there were two. so the record has steadily improved. The award will be present ed to Mayor James J. Dunlevy In the near future. Since 1S37, when the AAA pedestrian contest ; program was launched, pedestrian fa talities have dropped 49 per cent. During the same period, motor vehicle registrations have increased 166 per cent. population grew 45 per cent nd motor travel increased 188 per cent. Rogue River Sets Budget Election Rogue River Monday, June 17, from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m., Rogue River residents will vote on the 1963-64 budg et durins a sDeclal election. Total levy needed this year is $14,514.46. This Is 981.21 higher than last year's levy of $13,533.25. Vientiane. Laos (UPD Neutralists and right - wing troops were reported battling Pathct Lao forces Saturday at two separate towns in Soutn Laos. blocked the entrances to ona of the city s theaters. In Danville Saturday 33 Ne groes and two whites defied court ' ordered around rules prohibiting mass anti-segregation demonstrations and marched on the downtown area. They were promptly ar rested. ' tn nvfnrrf V f anthnrl. ties said 48 hiffhurav natrol. men had been called in Sat urday night to separate a crowd of rock-throwlnff No. tfro and white vontha in thai second night of racial disor ders. Other Developments There were these other de velopments: -President Kennedy asked Gov. George C. Wallace for as surances local authorities can maintain peace at the Univer sity of Alabama before the state's National Guard is tak en off federal status. -Lenoir Rhyne college, a Lu theran supported institution located at Hickory, N. C, an nounced it has accepted fivo Negro students, rne live win be the first ot their race to attend the school for credit work. -About 1,200 of the 2.000 troops moved into Ft. Mc Clellan, Ala., last month at the height ot the Birmingham crisis returned to tneir nomo base at Ft. Benning, Ga. The other 800 were withdrawn previously. -A clash between Negroes and whites occurred Friday night In Cleveland, Ohio -the first such disturbance in the city in 16 years. TiENVER HIT BY CLOUPBURST Dan - W - A cloudburst dump.d 2 inches of rain on ,h. D.nV.; ar". in halt an hour Saturday and touched oil Hooding which tilled a fra.wa, J"' of w.ttr and s.nt a "large mass of water' down a crt.k toward 1 iwo suburb.. No ca.uallia. war. reported. . ... trfCTT tMTM & KENNEDY wii-i- t-w.harlal Nthru taid S." rt.T " "V b- P.a invitation to TiVii IndTi. and probably would make th. trip this wint.r or early next year. TrsnORISTS INVADE EMBASSY OFFICIAL'S HOME TERRORISTS iv aw d Communi,t rorUU S.turd7r invVlea th. hom. of O. S. Embassy oHl Mward TT- Long and tied up hi. wife and maid while .hay s.ch.d for gun. and put .log.n. of th.ir org.ni.a tion on th. wall.. kfw SCANDAL INVOLVEMENTS REPORTED tendon -?Pt- Th. Protumo ..x .c.ndal wid.n.d S.tur d.r wfth an tion th. Sovi.t K.l attach, involv.d had warned during th. Cuban cri.i. of atomic bomb el t.Vk. off N.w York and hint, that a m.mb.t of th. Royal rarntly" aVtavolvl with . .d h.ir.d c.llgirL Eagle Point Girl Crowned Princess White Citv - Georgia Hub bard, Eagle Point, was crown ed dairy princess of Jackson and ir'.enhine counties Satur day night before the softball game bstwecn tne nogue vai leu nairv Maids and the Rose- burg Lumberjills at the Camp White Memorial lieia. Flizaheth Clark. Medford was chosen alternate. Other contestcnts were Kay Steph enson, Eagle Point; Carole Martin. Cave Junction: Mar- Beret Lewman, Williams, and Carol Webb, Rita Lasater, Barbara Burnette and Alice Kuiteet. Judging was on the basis of ability, poise, beauty and dairy farm background. The Jackson Josephine win ner will enter the state dairy nrince&S contest. i The princess was crowned by Pat McCoy, announcer for IKYJC radio station. Hearina Scheduled Monday on 1963-64 Jackson Co. Budget n earing jintuuicu i?wimj ,, , lnibi. a, mm) F , j .... n I Th. narks and recreation I ana nrcpiace '' . j .,.t n. i. .et the ennntv's allocation Mondav at 8 P.m. in the county courthouse auditorium. a niihlic hearing will be held on the new estimated Jackson county budget ot S4,.M2,133 for the fiscal year starting July 1. This budget perhaps more than anything else sharply il lustrates the county's growth. The county budget committee allocated $220,000 for a cap ital Improvements fund com pared to $150,000 for the cur rent year ending June 30. Ap- nrov matelv I1ZU.UUU OI mis f.md will he used for two- thirds of the construction cost fnr the nubile health center Hill-Burton funds will make up the remaining one-third of the cost. Expand Ofiic. The remaining $100,000 of the capital improvements fund will be used to pay for future building Improvements. One of these will be expansion of i the assessor's and tax collec tion offices and relocating of the sheriff's civil department in the courthouse. Prohahlv one of the sharp est indicators of the county', new and rapid growth is the h,,rnernini interest In recrea tion. Total allocation proposed for recreation is $105,000. This is only .lightly over the $104,270 allocation lor me current year, but it doe. rep resent a .harp rise over the $80,568.36 expended in 1BB1 62, the first year of the coun ty', full scale recreation pro gram. The hudset committee and Mimiii rourt. at the urging of County Commissioner Don Fabcr, now realize tnat more recreation sites Will be neCO ed nn n tn meet the rapidly increasing public use which ha. swept up from the heavy population areas of California. commission asked tor $5,000 to pay down on new lana ac quisition. The budget commit tee increased tills to o,uuu. First allocation for land ac quisition was in the 1982-63 budget at $5,000. However, at the same time the buagci cum n.iiie. fni the reauested grounds maintenance alloca tion from $8,000 to sa.utm. Building maintenance was cut i, sunn to iMf) Thursday, the county parks and recreation commission s budget committee met to have some items so the more serious need, would be met within the tentative allocation allowed by the county budget committee. Allocations for the new water line.. Parking Fund. Cut Items for parking ana road, in Howard Prairie and Emigrant lake. area, were cut sharply. tlnueuer recpIltlV IPC county acquired gravel pile near Howard Prairie which made the larger requested al location for roans ana park ing unnecessary. Also much of this work will be done by the county road department and run througn lis Duagei, It w'j. eynlained. The county budget commit tee allowed $6,006 lor mrec tnr'a .aiarv. s.1.818 for sccre tary clerk steno, $4,908 for Held foreman, $4,680 each for three maintenance men, $4,- 452 for a Howard Prairie park ranger, $1,200 for an Emigrant park caretaker and arraa of Savase creek near r. .nd the Annie gate store were Iclv' alone at $900 tor seasonal labor. $2,900 and $1,610 teupcciivc- salens a riooism ly. This allow, for 10 table. I A trouble area showing the Juvenile department, cir cuit court Judges acting as Juvenile court Judges have had to hold court sometimes three times a week to handle the tremendous case-load. To tal requested budgets for de tention home ana department were $53,012 and $26,101. Al lowed were $46,686 ana 637. The county budget com mittee this year allowed a uni .r.oi ona . steD oav Increase, However, salaries are the big problem with the juvenile up r..rment Professional salaries have keen .ft at $6,720 lOT the U- venile officer, $5,388 for acp- r.rr.hBtinn Officer. $5,148 p.rr..... . lor gins counsciui, for boys' counselor end $4,- 908 for boys' counselor. An impartial commlltco 01 Medford businessmen declar ed the professional salaries were too low. tee set the county's allocation to the Public Library of Med ford and Jackson County at $73,943, the same as for tha current year. The library board had requested $87,733 and said services would have to be curtailed if the increase was not allowed due to tha rise in public use of the main and branch libraries. Curtailment would cut tha hours of the branch libraries and use of the main library by students and services pro vided public schools, ine duo- get committee rcpnea it nas a contract with the Medford; public library that these serv ices be rendered. It tney ara curtailed then the county would not renew tne con tract, v Large representations are expected Monday night from the library board and tha Jackson county Juvenile ad visory council.