Lumber Strike Against Georgia-Pacific Mills Extended
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, 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.
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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,
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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. ' :