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Newspaper Page TextLumber Strike Against Georgia-Pacific Mills Extended Story Column if -mm 11 FKu 1 'ill j leii 4 pits Jrd , WIN JAILER AWARDS Peeking through bars of conven tion exhibit are winners of Jailer and Matron of Year awards, named in Portland Tuesday by the National Jail association meeting jointly with the National Sheriffs association. Chosen were Warden Gene Daly, chief jailer of St. Louis county Jail, Duluth, Minn., and Capt. Ruth Johns, commander of wom en's division of the Los Angeles county jail. (UPI) School Enrollments Projected to 1974 By Citizens' Group A citizens committee on enrollment projection report ed to the board of School District 549C last night that by 1974 the number of st,'i--dents in the district is expect ed to be close to 10,000. The committed, headed by Gerald Latham, reported that in 1974 the district can ex pect at least 5,010 elementary school students, about 2.543 junior high school students, and 2,429 in high school. The total number of stu dents which can be antici pated by 1974 is 9,982, the committee reported. The committee's report was accepted by the board, which indicated to Harlan Bosworth, Citizens' Committee chair man, that he could proceed with organization of subcom mittees to study various i'.ibj ects in connection with the secondary school situation in the district. The Citizens' Commit tee will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tues day, July 23, in the lecture room at Medford High school. Subcommittee a s s i gnments will then be made, and work by the groups is expected to start immediately. The enrollment projection was figured individually by each member of the commit- long Shutdown Seen For Lumber Industry Seattle IUPD Lowry Wyatt, chief negotiator of the Big Six lumber companies, Tuesday forecast a long shutdown as the result of the labor dispute in the Pacific Northwest lum ber industry. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable cloudiness tonlnKht and Thurs day morning. Partly cloudy Thursday afternoon. Chance ol a few sprinkles tonlnlit. Low tonight 53, high Thursday si. Temp. Highest Yesterday J Lowest This Morning I2 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today :4 I""- Sunrise tomorrow ... 5:49 a.m. Moonrtse tomorrow 3:41 a.m. New Moon Saturday and the eclipse of the Sun that day will lie total only over part of one slate. Maine, (in Bar llarhor the Sun will he "Marked out" for 59 seconds at 5:44 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time) MSC?)BRIEFS " ,t"ms from lDy AROUN0 0WM CUBAN EXILES TO SHIFT BASE Miami-'tW-A top Cuban exile organiiaiion. irked by U.S. interference with anti-Castro raid., said Tuesday it will move io Central America to launch a new campaign againit the Communist island. NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS PACE INCREASED Moieow-'lPI'-The United Slates, Britain and Russil stepped tie the pace ol nuclear negolietiont today, with eerly opti mism tempered by fears that Soviet calls for an East-West non-aggression pact might hinder progress toward i nuclear lest ban. trMV,! nkir.HL CONFERENCE RESUMED Moscow-iiri-Communist Chinese and Soviet negotiators today resumed their ideological talks despite i steady worsen ing ol relations between the two Communist powers. tee, which decided that the average projection of the group may be a somewhat more realistic figure on which to base a study of building needs for secondary educa tion. . Bosworth pointed out that there still are three schools of thought concerning the committee's study. i: One is the' optimistic view in which projections are high, another is the middle group with projections about mid way between the optimistic and low projection group. The latter, or third school of thought, Bosworth noted, is a group which believes the large percentage increase is over, and future increases ;n enrollment will not be as great as they have been in the past. Close to High The enrollment projected by the committee is close to the high projection by Dr. Keith Goldhammer in his re port on the secondary school building needs of August, 1961. Bosworth pointed out that the projection was taken through 1974 to provide one complete cycle. Figures are known for the first few years of the projection, he said; the next five or so years is just guesswork, and the last few years on the projection scale is purely gazing into a crystal ball. He suggested the board fol low three courses of action in using the projection of enroll ment. Three Courses They are (1) using the av erage based on an increase determined by a ratio for hir ing teachers, (2) taking the more optimistic view with a highcr-than-average pro jection for the basis of pur chasing property for school needs, and (3) reviewing the enrollment projection about every two years. , The enrollment projection will be used by the Citizen: Committee as the basis for its study in determining second ary school buildings needs Bosworth said some members of the Citizens' Committee have inquired as to when the committee plans to start work. Simpson, Union Officials Plan Another Session Coos Bay, Coquille Plants on List By United Press International Members of two lumber un ions struck Georgia-Pacific Corp. operations at Coos Bay and Coquille, Ore., and Sa moa, Calif., today, raising the number of workers idle in four western states to about 24,700. The only hopeful note in the lumber industry dispute today was the announcement that Simpson Timber Co. of ficials and those of the un ions plan to meet again. Negotiators for the Lum ber and Sawmill Workers and the International Woodwork ers of America talked to rep resentatives of the company Tuesday in Portland. Com pany labor relations admin istrator James W. Farmer said "sufficient progress was made" to merit another meet ing. He did not elaborate. The IWA set up pickets at Georgia-Pacific's plywood and hardboard plants at Coos Bay this morning, idling about 600 men. Another 450 were affected when two plywood plants and a stud mill were struck at Coquille. Chemical Plant Operating A company spokesman said the Coos Bay chemical plant, whose workers are represent ed by another union, was op erating today. The strike at G-P's big Sa moa complex in the Eureka area started at midnight when a redwood lumber mill and a plywood mill were struck. Some woods crews joined the strike this morn ing, but independent logging contractors in the redwood forests kept working. The strike in the northern California operation affected about 1,200 men, a company spokesman said. The two unions closed Georgia-Pacific operations at Springfield and Toledo, Ore., Monday and Tuesday. Still in operations are plants at Olympia, Wash.; Feather Falls and Woodleaf, Calif., Pilot Rock, Ore., and some woods operations at Toledo. The dispute centers over wages and other provisions of a new contract to replace one which expired June 1. Meanwhile, negotiations to ward a new contract in the Pacific Coast pulp and pa per industry continued today in Portland. They were re sumed July 9 after the Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill Workers and the United Pa permakers and Paperworkers rejected an offer by 48 West Coast plants. Medford Attorney Pleads With Panel Reno, Nev.-IUPIt-Defense at torney Stanley Brown today tried to convince a panel of three district judges that Les ter E. Morford III. had not planned the slaying of Jack Foster, 23, of Medford, Ore., here last Aug. 22. The 19-year-old itinerant ranchhand has confessed kid naping Foster and his bride of three days from a Reno mold room. He also admitted shoot ing Foster in the head with a .22-caliber pistol on a remote mountain road west of here. The job of three jurists is to hear the evidence, decide whether first or second-degree murder was committed and then mete out the appropriate penalty. Brown said it would take him a day and a half to con clude his presentation. He plans to call for testimony from a Reno psychiatrist who examined the youth and from Morford's father, of Santa Rosa, Calif. Brown also was expected to exploit evidence that Mor ford had been sniffing intoxi cating glue fumes before he kidnaped the couple. California Man Injured in Mishap Jerry Williams, Porterville, Calif., was reported in critical condition this morning at Rogue Valley hospital suffer ing from injuries received early Tuesday in an accident about 30 miles west of Grants Pass. He is reported to be suf fering from severe lacerations and abdominal injuries receiv ed when the vehicle in which he was riding went off the road and down a cliff In an area where he had been min ing. He was brought out by helicopter, piloted by Bob Os- burn. Medtord. and taken to Josephine general hospital in Grants Pass before being transferred to Medford. 7 I! J FOUND BLUDGEONED-Mrs. Marjory Newton, 43, a red haired Beverly Hills business woman, was found bludgeon ed to death in a motel room in Buena Park, Calif., early today. Mrs. Newton was a field director for an independ ent research and survey or ganization. She checked into the motel Monday. Officers said she apparently had been struck three or four times with a heavy object on the right side of her head, frac turing her skull. (UPI) Senate Committee Extends Bracero Law for One Year Washington - IUPII - The Sen ate Agriculture committee to day approved a one-year ex tension of a law under which Mexicans can be brought into the United States for seasonal farm work. The action set the' stage for a second congressional scrap this year over continuation of the Mexican program past its scheduled Dec. 31 termination date. The House earlier de feated a bill to extend the pro gram for two years without change. The committee approved the bill by Sens. Gordon Al- lott and Peter H. Dominick, Colorado Republicans, on an. 11-5 roll call vote. Under the Allott-Domintck bill, authorization for import ing braceros - Mexican farm hands would continue through Dec. 31, 1964 with no change in other terms of the basic bracero law. The Ken nedy administration recom mended a one-year extension coupled with new restrictions designed to reduce the impact of the program of domestic workers. Farm spokesmen urging ex tension of the program have maintained that many farmers in parts of California and some other states, mainly in the Southwest, would be hit hard by a cutoff of Mexican labor because they contend they could not got enough do mestic labor at critical har vest and cultivating periods. Church and labor groups have been fighting extension of the program, asserting that the use of Mexican labor de presses wages and working standards for American migra tory farm workers. Growers Plan To Process Fruit Crop Rogue Valley orchardisls this week are formulating plans as to the most economi cal way in which to process the area's below average pear crop this fall. Plans have already been announced in Ashland by Earl Newbry, owner of New bry Orchards, that its packing plant there will not open this fall, but pears from their or chards will be processed by the Rcter Fruit company In Medford. The Ashland plant, which employes about 50 persons, usually processes 70,000 pack ed boxes of pears each season. This is the first time since the plant started in 1944 that it has not been in operation, Newbry explained. Shelby Tuttle, official of the Fruit Growers league, re ported that local orchardists are attempting to consolidate packing operations and defi nite plans should be available next week. Medford Boy Found Guilty in City Court A 16-year-old Medtord boy was found guilty of curfew violation in municipal court Tuesday and was sentenced to 4 hours of work in city parks by Judge Donald Dcnman. The youth's companion when they were arrested on June 1, another 18-year-old Medford boy. was earlier sen tenced to 60 days' probation. Salem-'UPIi-The State Board of Education today approved award of a contract to con struct Central Oregon College buildings at Bend. Regional Edition Medford 24 Pages Two Sections Pilot's License of Canadian Crash Survivor Revoked At Least 10 Air Violations Charged Washington -IUPII- The Fed eral Aviation Agency revok ed the pilot's license of Ralph V. Florcs, the California me chanic who, with a Brooklyn girl, survived 48 days in the Canadian wilderness after their plane crashed. Flores and Miss Helen Kla- ben disappeared Feb. 4 on a Yukon Territory flight from Whttehorse to Fort St. John aboard Florcs' single engine plane. They were rescued when a bush pilot spotted their "SOS" scrawled in the snow. The FAA revoked Flores' license for one year effective July 8. The agency said he violated at least 10 civil air regulations on the flighl which ended when the engine failed. Selector on Empty Tank That failure, the FAA not ed, would not have occurred if Flores had not left the gas selector on an empty tank. It said the 42-year-old me chanic from San Bruno, Calif., did not know how to compute gas consumption. The agency also charged him with: -Leaving on a cross-coun try flight with a radio he knew was faulty. -Ignoring warnings of de teriorating weather along his intended flight path. -Leaving Whitehorse with less than the required emer gency rations and equipment in weather 35 degrees below zero. Tower Clearance Lacked -Taxing to the Whitehorse runway without tower clear ance. -Falling to communicate with the tower properly be cause he could not speak Eng lish well enough to under stand instructions. -Making a flight on which he knew he would need navi gation aids which he did not know how to use. -Filing a flight plan for an altitude he know he could not maintain without the use of instruments, even though he was unqualifed to make an instrument flight. -Twice climbing into in strument weather conditions without any instrument train ing. -Twice descending Into un known mountainous terrain without knowing his location. Flores, father of six chil dren, and Miss Klabon spent the 48 days on a frozen Yu kon mountainside with only a Bible for inspiration and metlcd snow for subsistence. The pilot, a Spanish-American, was working as a me chanic at an air defense radar warning station in northern Canada; Miss Klaben was re turning to the United States from a job with the U.S. Bu reau of Land Development at Fairbanks, Alaska. The couple was bound for Seattle and had agreed to share the expenses of the flight. Jacksonville Asks For County Funds Jacksonville -The Jackson ville city council last night voted to request from the Jackson county court $3,000 which the court has budgeted for a preliminary urban re newal and restoration study in Jacksonville. The survey has actually been under way since spring, since $1,000 for the project was advanced by Mark Goldy and Glenn Jackson of Med ford. When the city council re ceives the 53,000 sum, it will use $1,000 to repay Goldy and Jackson, councilmen deter mined The survey is a preliminary step toward application for federal funds under the urban renewal program Jack Sutton, president of the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation, is conducting the survey, appraising and in specting the old buildings to determine how much it would cost to put them back in their original condition. HOTEL GUESTS ROUTED Chicago -IUPII- Simultaneous fires routed more than 1,000 guests from the neighboring Drake and Knickerbocker ho tels today and authorities said at least one of the blazes was the work of an arsonist. ClwOesM Racial NEW SAFEWAY SUPERMARKET The new $216,000 Snfeway supermarket at West Main and 'Hamilton sts, is nearlng comple tion. The market will have an interior floor space of 22,440 square feet. A parking lot designed to accommodate 160 vehicles will cover 75,298 square feet. Contractors for the Investigation To Identify Body of Boy Continues Less than half a dozen tele phone calls regarding the un identified hodv of a bov found la.d wpplt in the Keene Creek reservoir have been received by local police agencies. Rnth nrrtfnn slate Dolice and Jackson county sheriff's deputies are investigating the case. The body was found in the reservoir July 11 about 12 miles east of Ashland on Highway 66. District Attorncv Alan B. Holmes said today that the Oregon stale crime laboratory in Portland Is still attempting to establish the cause of death. The body was badly decom posed, he explained, but of firnrs helieve it had been in the water not more than ten months. The chlld s body was fminH wranned in a blanket which was bound by electric cord. Holmes said the age of the the child had been established as between two and two and a half by a dentist. The child appeared to have been normal In weight, was 3 2 Mi Inches tall and had light hair. Impossible To Determine Due to the condition of the body, it was impossible to de termine if the child had any abnormal characteristics, he added. The feet of the boy have been sent to the FBI laboratory in Wash I n g t o n, D. C, where attempt arc being made to obtain foot prints, Holmes explained that there is a slim possibility that such prints would identify the child since many hospitals when they make footprint of babies give their only copy to the child's mother, or if kept on file, are not accurate enough for use In establishing Identity. The district attorney said that officers believe that who ever threw the child's body into the reservoir, was fa miliar with the area since the reservoir, relatively new, is extremely deep and is marked with "dangerous water" signs. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, i iwYi H ; PP&L Makes Formal Offer to Purchase Ashland's Ashland - Pacific Power and Light company last night made a formal offer to buy the city of Ashland's electrical system for $1.9 million. The offer was made in a letter to the Ashland city council, received by the coun cil last night. Councilmen took no immediate action oth er than to accept the letter and place it on file, but an in formal session has been sched uled for July 30 to determine what action should be taken. "We will give the matter every consideration," Mayor Richard Ncill said. The pos sibility of selling the city owned system to PP&L has Fire Damages Sawyer's Bar Yreka - The historic com munity of Sawyer's Bar, lo cated in the Salmon river county, was crippled by a fire yesterday which destroyed the town general store, cafe, bar, electrical generating plant and three homes, according to the Klamath National Forest headquarters here. Fourteen persons were homeless as a result of the fire, and the community was without electrical power. All food supplies In the general store bIso burned. Damage was estimated at $85,000. Several of the buildings lost were of historical interest and cannot be replaced. The com munity was an early mining town dating back to the 1850s. The fire was reported to the Klamath National forest head quarters at 4:43 p.m. Tuesday. The blaze originated in the cafe but the cause was not de termined. The Medford park and rec reation commission will hold its regular meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight In the council chambers In city hall. Tribune JULY 17, 1963 development are Graff and James, Medford. Architect is Robert J. Keeney and structural engineer Is Walt Marquess. The building will contain offices of the firm's district manager. In addition to the regular com modities, the store will have a non-food sec tion, the first In this area. System been discussed off and on over a period of years, he indicated, but this is the first time the power company has ever made a formal offer. The city of Ashland buys most of its power from PP&L now, although some of it is still generated at the old city plant. Cily Superintendent Elmer Biegel will conduct a survey of the electrical system, the major part of which is sched uled to be completed by the July 30 meeting dtc. In other action, the council accepted the recommendation of its realty committee to sell three lots on First st. to Jim Busch for a price of $4,500. The council also decided to sell nine lots on Highway 66. The lots will be put up for sale following an appraisal. The council decided, pend ing me outcome of a survey, to consider negotiating for the purchase of the existing Ashland airport property, a total of 35 acres now private ly owned, and possibly an ad ditional five acres in the area. A salary ordinance, grant ing small wage increases for city employees, was approved. Eymann Charges Board With Playing Salem -tUPH- Rep. Richard Eymann (D-Marcola) said to day the rent money he owes the state board of control is on Its way and charged the board "Is evidently starting the political campaign early." "Gov. Mark Hatlield, Sec retary of State Howell Ap pling Jr. and State Treasurer Howard Bolton of the all-Republican Oregon Board of Control must relish the oppor tunity of using personal at tack and smear on a political opponent," Eymann declared. The board voted Tuesday 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 101 Negro Fireman Hurl by Bullet; 95 Persons Held Bricks Thrown At Policemen By United Press International Violence flared during an ant i-segregalion demonstra tion at Charleston, S.C., Tues day night and a Negro fire man was wounded in one of a series of shooting incidents in Savannah, Ga. Several hundred Negroes, staging Charleston's fourth racial demonstration of the day, began throwing bricks at policemen and firemen in front of a newspaper office. Six officers and a fireman were injured. Reinforced by stale troopers, police dispers ed the demonstrators and ar- , rested 95 Negroes. Negro fireman Warnell Robinson, 27, was struck in the stomach by a pistol bul let fired from a car contain ing white teen-agers at Sa vannah where shots also were fired into one white and one Negro residence. No one was hurt in the residential shoot ings. Robinson, reported in good condition, was part of a street "stakeout" detail guard ing lire alarm boxes. Talse alarms nave been a feature ot racial vandalism in Savan nah recently. Police later cornered a car at a drive-in restaurant and took two youths and two girls, all whitei into custody. The teenagers said two other youths, carrying .22 caliber pistols, had iled moments be fore officers arrived. At Cambridge, Md., Nation al guardsmen rushed to the home of a guard officer Tues day night to investigate a re port that a white woman was struck in the finger by a bul let. Guard officials sad Mrs. George Horner Jr., wife of a lieutenant colonel, reported "hearing a bullet and some thing struck her finger." Guardsmen have been keep ing peace in the city while Negro and white leaders at tempt to iron our racial prob lems. In Columbus, Ga., city of ficials Tuesday closed the pub lic swimming pools for whites and Negroes following an at tempt by three Negro youths to enter the white pool. A group of about 30 white youths threw rocks at about 20 Negroes as they were leav ing the public library. No one was hurt. Grants Pass Man in Medford Hospital Royal C. Garoutte, Grants Pass, was reported in satisfac t o r y condition at Sacred Heart hospital here this morn ing after he suffered serious injuries in a logging accident near Galice Tuesday after noon. The accident occurred at about 2 p.m. on a logging ac cess road near Big Winduy creek in the Bear Camp area. Garoutte was backing a "crummy wagon" up a slope to get some water from a spring when the vehicle went over a bank. Garoutte was taken to Sa cred Heart hospital by Hull and Hull ambulance. Politics to seek a garnishment of the Lane county lawmaker's leg islative pay to get $79.65 rent he hadn't paid for a state- owned house he occupied dur ing the session. Eymann said today he was "amazed at the board's sneaky personal attack," especially after he had discussed a num ber of state and national is sues with Appling Just before the board's meeting Tuesday, "Appling made no effort to inform me of the final amount due or of any action planned by the board," Eymann rk clared. ' :