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STEEPLEJACK AT WORK A church in
Jacksonville is catching the eye of tourists
these days. High up on the First Presby
terian church's steeple, approximately 80 to
85 feet high, works a steeplejack. The con
tractor. Milton Wallace, is replacing the
original wood shingles that were put in
Council Accepts
Report Favoring
Terminal Lounge
, The chairman of the air
port committee of the Med
ford city council reported last
night that his group favored
the establishment of a cock
tail lounge in the terminal
building at the municipal air
port. The council, following sub
mission of the report, voted
unanimously to accept the
recommendation.
The lounge had been' re
quested by Vern Langford,
proprietor of the Sky Room
restaurant in the terminal
building.
Committee Chairman Rob
ert Cunningham said installa
tion of the lounge "would be
desirable as an additional
service to the public."
He said he felt the opera
tion would be economically
feasible on a modest scale.
The committee report rec
ommended the lounge be con
structed in the area between
the restaurant and main load
ing ramp at a cosi nui j
exceed $7,000.
The lounge would be leased
to Langford with a minimum
monthly rental to the city
of $125. Langford would have
to post an advance rental of
$2,000 to assist in construc
tion of the lounge.
No funds would be expend
ed, however, the report stat
ed, until an operating license
had been obtained from the
Oregon Liquor Control com
mission. Ferry Replaces
Trans-Columbia Boats
Astoria -IUP&- The ferry Kit
sap, brought from the state
of Washington last year, re
placed two smaller boats on
the trans-Columbia from As
toria to Megler, Wash., Thursday.
UEWS(
IT IMS FRM Ifc if
GUNFIRE REPORTED IN KOREA TRUCE ZONE
Alon the Truc Lin. Korea-'IPI'-Scattered gunfire aain
brake out i the Demilitariied Zone between North and
fiuth Korea early today, but a U.S. let Cavalry Division
officer indicated the .hooting was insignificant.
HADIO JAMMING SAID DECREASED
London-lPP-Radio monitors
create of jamming of Western broadcast, to Communist Ro
mania. This follow, the end of Soviet jamming of Ruoian
language broadca.t. of the British Broadca.ting Corporation
(BBC). Jamming ended June 8.
PULITZER PRIZE POET DIES
Seattle. Wash.-'VPI -Prof . Theodore Roethke, SS. a Pulitier
Prise winning poet, died of a heart attack Thursday night
after collep.ing in a neighbor's private swimming pool en
Bainbridge Island.
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place in 1881 when the church was com
pleted. The original builders of the church
used rough hewn shingles and nailed them
in place with square nails. Roofing of the
steeple should be completed sometime next
week.
Council Delays for
Four Months Action
On Request for Zone
The Medford. city council,
obviously persuaded by the
arguments of Attorney Rob
ert Boyer, reversed an earlier
decision last night and voted
to postpone action for about
four months on a request to
rezone a half-mile strip of
property lying between Bid
die rd. and Interstate 5.
The applicants, owners of
property located at 801, 851,
895 and 955 Biddle rd., sought
to have the parcels rezoned
from single family to limited
commercial.
The planning commission
at its June meeting had voted
to deny the request. The city
planning staff had recom
mended that the 80-foot wide
strip be acquired for park
purposes.
Appeal on Recommendation
The request last night was
an appeal from the planning
commission's negative recom
mendation. Boyer represented
the applicants.
Boyer told the council ne
understood the city adminis
tration was going to attempt
to acquire the strip of prop
erty with "national financ-
Fire Damages Home
On Lake Highway
Fire yesterday damaged an
unoccupied house owned by
RalDh Glass on Crater Lake
highway one-half mile south
of Desert Service station.
Central Point rural firemen
said the cause is being in
vestigated. They reported that
the blaze started in the bath
room which was heavliy dam
aged. There was smoke and
heat damage throughout the
house.
Rural firemen were sum
oned at 2:55 p.m. yesterday.
today reported an end or de-
I
ing. ' He said the property
owners were in sympathy
with the idea and asked a
Lour month's delay on. their
zone change request in order
to give the city time to seek
federal aid.
City Attorney William
Mansfield agreed that "four
months would be sufficient to
explore the federal possibili
ties." He said the city had
exhausted all possibilities of
state assistance.
The council then voted 4 to
3 not to grant the four month's
postponement.
Re.erve Right To Speak
But Boyer, who had re
served the right to speak "on
the merits" of the matter if
the council denied the post
ponement', then pointed out
that the city had taken no
action on the property since
1961, when it denied a simi
lar request from the property
owners.
Boyer quoted the 1961
chairman of the planning com
mission who said in denying
the request then that "the
city should purchase the prop
erty." "But the city has made no
attempt in the last two years
to buy the property," Boyer
argued, "and the owners still
seek the change."
Councilman Jack Edson
said he would vote for the
postponement, but warned
that "if this becomes a half-
mile long commercial strip
of small businesses, it will be
detrimental to the city."
The council then voted
unanimously to continue the
matter for about four months.
after Boyer assured the group
he did not feel they would
be "committing" themselves
by the delay.
Portland Bureau
To Hire Negroes
Portland-dlPIi-The city car
ried out an agreement Thurs
day by notifying two Negroes
that they may report Monday
morning for jobs as recrea
tion leaders with the Park
Bureau.
Samuel Macon, 25, and Na
than Jones, 24, were sent for
mal notices by certified mail.
They had charged the city
with discrimination in its hir
ing practices.
The Oregon Labor Bureau
and the city agreed Monday
the charges would be dropped
if Macon and Jones were
offered jobs.
Jones currently holds a
high-paying job with the post
office. Macon had previously
been offered a job but he re
fused It because of conditions
he said the city attached.
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MEDFORD
20 Pages
Two Sections
U.S. Halts All
Arms Shipments
To South Africa
Move To Honor
Existing Contracts
United Nations, N. Y. -JP0-The
United States announced
today that it Is halting all
shipments of military equip
ment to South Africa to pre
vent their use to support pol
icies of racial segregation.
U. S. Ambassador Adlai
Stevenson made the announce
ment in the course of a Se
curity Council debate on the
South African government's
racial segregation policies.
"We expect to bring to an
end the sale of all military
equipment to South Africa by
the end of this calendar year,"
he said. Thij, he added, would
allow existing contracts to be
honored.
Obligation. Said Unmet
The United States, Steven
son said, "feels South Africa
is failing to carry out its obli
gations under the UN char
ter" in continuing to deny
Africans any political rights.
"By stopping the sale of
arms to South Africa we will
emphasize our hope that the
republic will now re-assess its
attitude on apartheid in the
light of numerous appeals
from the UN and from mem
ber states such as the United
States."
Stevenson said the United
States is prepared to meet
with other UN members and
with the foreign ministers of
African states to discuss what
can be done about South Af
rica and racial segregation.
To Have Suggestion
"We will have some sug
gestions at that meeting," he
said. He did not say what
these suggestions were.
Stevenson's statement fol
lowed a call from Alex Quai-
son-Sackey of Ghana for a
total embargo on all arms
shipments to South Africa
The Ghanaian said that arms
shipped by the Western pow
ers, such as jet planes and
armored cars, were being used
by South African troops and
police against unarmed Afri
cans. Treasurer's Office
Gets Liquor Check
The Jackson county treas
urer's office has received $1,
610.31 as its quarterly allo
cation from liquor receipts,
County Treasurer Karl Ja
nouch said today.
Medford has received $1,
125.44 from the state liquor
receipts.
Other cities in Jackson
county and the amounts re
ceived based on population
are Ashland $410.94; Butte
Falls, $16.22; Central Point,
$110.27; Eagle Point, $32.61;
Gold Hill, $26.36; Jackson
ville, $50.82; Phoenix, $37.90;
Rogue River, $22.55; and Tal
ent $40.50.
Groener May Seek
Legislative Seat
Milwaukie - IUPD - Former
state legislator Richard Groe
ner said Thursday he may
seek one of Clackamas coun
ty's four scats in the Oregon
House of Representatives.
He denied he would be a
candidate for county commis
sioner.
Groener, a Democrat, said
he was denying any intention
to challenge either Fred Stef-
ani or Stan Ely, incumbent
commissioners, now to "clear
the air.""
Groencr was elected to the
House in 1954, re-elected in
1956 and elected senator in
1958. He lost the Senate scat
last year to Democrat Tom
Monaghan by 24 votes in
recount.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Pair through Sat
urday. A little cooler Satur
day. Low tonight $2. High Sat
urday 87.
Temp.
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Lowest Thti Morning 40
Our Skies Tonight
Svnsrt todav 1:31 p.m.
Sunrlte tomorrow ..I S:04 i..m.
The Moon rises . tiM p.m.
todav ind ride !ot.
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Splca, sets 1142 p.m
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Saturn. In aontheau il:n3 p.m.
Jupiter, low in ait 11:03 a .m
Former Soldier Says Experience
In Red China Disillusioned Him
Hong Kong-IUPV-A former
American Army corporal who
chose communism and lived
for nine years in Red China
said today the experience dis-
illusioned him.
Lowell D. Skinner of Ak-
ron, Ohio, who was captured
during the Korean War and
refused repatriation after the
armistice 10 years ago, left
Red China Thursday on his
wav back home at last.
The 32-vear-old Skinner.
one of 21 American soldiers
captured by the Reds and who
elected to stay behind, de-
scribed conditions in China
now as improved over the
chatotic stituation that pre-
vailed during the "great leap
forward" that failed in 1959
and the withdrawal of Soviet
help to Peking in 1960. But
the life there is still far from
good, he said.
If you want to change
your work, you can t, he
New Move Made !
To Take Ineligible
Off Welfare Rolls
Salem-IUPII-New efforts to
eliminate ineligible persons
from Oregon's welfare rolls
were announced Thursday by
State Welfare Administrator
Andrew F. Juras.
Earlier it was announced
in Washington, D.C., that 5.4
per cent of the persons on
Oregon Aid to Dependent
Children rolls had been found
to be ineligible.
The Oregon figure was Iden
tical to that of the national
average found in a survey
made last winter by federal
officials. The survey was
made public Thursday.
Juraa declared the Oregon
Welfare Department would
go beyond minimum federal
requirements, in his efforts
to cut ineligible . recipients
from the rolls.
Federal requirements now
specify a continuous review
of eligibility; redetermination
of eligibility for all ADC
families every six months and
stale-by-state reviews of pro
gram administration. ,
Inve.tigator. Hired
State investigators are be
ing hired to probe suspected
frauds and complicated prop
erty cases where eligibility is
questioned by either the regu
lar caseworker or the special
reviewers.
Welfare workers will check
industrial accident and un
employment compen s a 1 1 o n
lists to be sure welfare recipi
ents aren't getting money
from those sources.
New efforts are belna made
In the state to simplify wel
fare standards and policies in
order to cut the chance of
error, Juras said.
The federal survey found
that some families, even
though eligible, received in
correct amounts of ADC as
sistance. It indicated that 61
persons received overpay
ments while 38 families were
entitled to more money.
Deliberate fraud was indi
cated in less than half of the
Oregon families where ineli
gibility was found.
380-Acre Fire Near
Bandon Controlled
By United Pre.. International
A 330-acre fire in grass and
small pine near Bandon was
brought under control today,
the State Forestery depart
ment said.
The blaze, which started
late Thursday afternoon, was
one of four reported in the
Coos District.
The other three were
brought under control quick
ly.
State forestry officials said
no other fires were reported
on state-patrolled lands.
The U.S. Forest Service re
ported three small fires, the
largest of which burned three
acres in the Wallowa-Whitman
National forest.
TO REBUILD CITY
Skopje, Yugoslavia - il'PD -The
mayor of Skopje said to
day the city will be rebuilt
on the same site where an
earthquake destroyed most of
its buildings and killed more
tmm 2,000 persons.
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY,
said
you
"If you want to study,
can't. If you want to
travel, you can't."
"In 1958 when the 'great
leap' program started the peo
pie thought they were going
t gam something. But then
they got tireder and tireder."
whcn the "sreal leap for-
ward" of Communist Chinese
leader Mao Tzc-tung started
in 1958. "things got all mixed
"P." Skinner said, especially
ln the field ot agricultural
production.
He said the Chinese at that
time "didn't produce too
much."
Skinner said that at the
height of the "great leap"
program he actually had a
home steel furnace set up in
his backyard in Tsinan.
"It didn't work," he said,
reflecting the general opinion
about the backyard steel pro-
duction experiment, which
dated from the Peking uom-
Timber Operators
Moves To
By United Press International .
The Timber Operators i
Council, in a stunning step
to end the Northwest lumber
dispute, today recommended
putting its latest wage offer
to two lumber unions into ef
fect without their approval.
The council, which repre
sents 196 firms in the Doug
las Fir belt from Northern
California to Alaska, recom
mended to its members that
its offer of a 26-cent an hour
pay increase over three years
go into eifccl immediately
. An . estimated., 30,000 , em
plbyees' would gel a 12-cent
pay increase retroactive to
June 1 . when the last con
tracts with the International
Woodworkers of America and
Jacksonville Sewer
Construction Starts
Jacksonville - Construc
tion of Jacksonville's sewer
system is under way.
Officials of the construc
tion company, R. A. Hciutz of
Portland, and Jacksonville
Mayor E. O. Graham issued a
warning advising parents to
keep children away from sew
er piping, and especially away
from open trenches.
Graham announced that
forms will be mailed to home
owners shortly by the sew
er contractor asking where
in his property the owner
wishes to have his hookup
placed.
"Filling out of these forms
can save time and trouble
both for the homeowners and
the contracto r,'' Graham
noted.
Residents will be notified
when the resident engineer
will visit their property to
make arrangements for con
nections. Persons not able to
be home al thai time may
designate the spot desired for
the hookup by putting up a
stake with a flag on it.
STRATEGY CONFERENCE President Kennedy held a
final strategy conference today with Secretary of State Dean
P.usk on the East-West security talks set wilh Russian lead
ers in Moscow next week. From left are Rusk, President
Tribune
AUGUST 2, 1963
munis, party's directives
about organizing people's
communes in ivoo.
He said that at the height
of the "leap forward" pro-
cram in Seotember 1958 it
was common for people in
Red China to work 21 hours a nese repay old debts - "main
day. But now the work day ly Korean War debts, but also
is back to eight hours, he those for the large industri
said. al enterprises."
Skinner said life inside Red He said the Russian with-
Chlna grew very difficult in drawal principally had affoct-
idsu-uu, with itn tne worst
vear of hardshin for the Chi-
nese population.
That was the year the Rus-
sians withdrew, and a period
which was further compli-
cated by "droughts and
floods, bad management, and
lack of experience."
"If we had to live like or-
dinary people, no one would
have survived," he said. For-
eigners were given better ra-
tions than Chinese, he said.
He said that office workers
with legs ana arms swollen
End Lumber Strike
the Lumber and Sawmill
Workers Union expired.
The plan was attacked im
mediately by Harvey Nelson,
President of the IWA s Region
Nelson called it "another
example of bad faith bargain
ing by the Timber Operators
Request lo Move
Business Denied
. An application by the pro
prietors of the. Frontier Club,
43 South Front st., to trans
fer their operation to a new
location at 226 North Front
st. was unanimously voted
down by the Medford city
council last night.
The applicants, Robert L
and Edna J. Knox, were rep
resented by Attorney A. E.
Piazza, who said he was "puz
zled" by opposition to the pro
posal. Piazza argued lhal the pres
ent operation of the appli
cants was "orderly" and that
the proposed new operation
would be just as orderly.
He said that the proximity
of the proposed location to
the city police department
one-half block away would
further Insure the orderly
conduct of the tavern's pa
trons. Attorney Frank Farrcll,
representing several proper
ty owners in the vicinity of
the proposed site of the tav
ern, said that Colony restau
rant lounge in that block was
sufficient "lo take -ire of the
public need."
He said property values
would be "seriously down
graded" if the tavern were
allowed to locate in the build
ing presently occupied by the
Whisllcstop Cafe.
A petition signed by seven
adjacent property owners op
posing the request was pre
sented lo the council.
58th Year Price 10 Cents
No. 115
from malnutrition were a
common sight in those days.
Skinner, who married a
Chinese girl who remained
behind when he left, said that
in lOKn n, Rnoiint ot nm
point demanded that the Chi-
cd the construction of tex-
tile anH fertilizer nlants.
"Some of these big enter-
prises had to stop after the
Russians left," he said.
Noting the cooling-off of
Soviet-Red Chinese relations,
Skinner said that in 1957-58
there was no talk about Mos
cow-Peking troubles.
But just before all the Rus-
sian technical experts left
Tsinan in 1960, he said he no-
ticed a remarkable increase
in violence - of anti-Kussian
statements Dy me cninese.
Council
Council." He said the union
will meet it "with any action
that is deemed appropriate,
but would not elaborate.
The unions rejected the 26-
cent package offer at a meet
ing in Portland July 26 and
Nelson said the TOC prom
ised then to put its proposals
in written form- and submit
them to the unions and to
federal mediators. He said he
is still waiting for his copy.
Earl Hartley, executive sec-
retary ot tne Yvesiern council,
LSW, was not available for
comment today.
Registered letters notifying
the unions of the TOC plan
were sent to Hartley and Nel
son Thursday night, the as
sociation said.
In making this offer, we
are fully cognizant of our
legal responsibility ot contin
uing to bargain collectively.
emphasized Karl F. Glos, ex
ecutive vice president of the
TOC in Portland.
'We feel strongly that the
offer is fair and proper under
the circumstances. We are de
termined lo attcmpl to bring
the negotiations to a conclu
sion as quickly as possible."
The TOC said July 25 that
the 26-cent offer was the max-
mum under present lumber
ndustry conditions and a
tcady increase in Canadian
lumber sales in the United
States.
It called the unions' de
mands for 33 'S cents "unre
alistic and uneconomical."
The unions got 33 V cents
from Simpson Timber Co. in
a settlement announced July
19.
About 29,000 workers are
idle in Oregon, Washington,
northern California and Mon
tana in a strike against some
TOC members, independent
firms, and two members of
the Big Six. The other four
Big Six members closed down
in sympathy.
No additional strikes were
reported Thursday or today.
Kennedy, Llewellyn Thompson, East-West affairs adviser,
and William C. Foster, disarmament chief. The story is on
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Army Hospital;
Driver Arrested
Men, Helmets
Strewn Over Road ,
Ft. Dix, N. J. -(UPIU An
automobile plowed into a col
umn of 150 marching soldiers
on a wet dimly lighted road
here late Thursday night, in- 1
juring 21 of the troops, nona ,
seriously.
"There were men, rifles
and helmets strewn all over
the road," said Nick Grand,
one of the first to reach tha
scene, near the post's south
ern boundary.
Fifteen casualties were ad
mitted to Walson Army hos
pital on the post with in
juries that included broken
legs, fractured ribs, lacera
tions and fractured arms. Tha
others were treated for minor
injuries and released.
No Serious Injuries
An Army spokesman said
none of the hospitalized was
in serious condition.
The motorist, Pfc. Robert
C. Keyers, 23, of Toms River,
N. J., apparently failed to
yield the right of way and
bowled over the troops as
they crossed Texas ave. onto
Range rd., the spokesman
said.
The soldiers, all basic train
jees, were returning to their
barracks from a night training,
mission. The stretch of road
was dark and the pavement
still wet from an earlier rain.
The soldiers, members of
Co. "D" of the 3rd Training
ing Regiment, were marching
north when the car bore down
on them from the south. Tha
impact hurled men and equip
ment of the third and fourth,
platoons over several hundred
feet of the roadway.
Carrying Flashlights
An Army spokesman said
officers in the column were
carrying flashlights with red
ireflectors and should have
been visible from a distance.
More im 20 ambulances
from the nost anH noarhv rnm.
munities converged on the
scene to carry the injured to
the hospital.. The Army also
searched Engineers lake, ad
jacent to the roadway, on tha
theory that some of the sol
diers may have been hurled
Into tbe shallow water, but
none was found.
Keyser, who escaped ' in
jury, was taken into custody
by military authorities for
questioning.
onstruction Man
Dies on Project
Newport (UPU Construction
worker Lee Paulson, 22, On
tario, died Thursday of as
phyxiation at a construction
project Vt miles east of
Newport.
Paulson, an employee of
Arenz Construction Co., Port-
and, was lowered into a man
hole about 2:30 p.m. to search
for a severed pipeline. When
fellow workers were unable
to arouse him an ambulance
from Newport was called.
Ambulance driver Bob
Boyd was lowered into the
hole and immediately lost
consciousness.
A Newport Fire Depart
ment member with a gas
mask then retrieved Paulson,
who was pronounced dead on
arrival al the Pacific Com
munity hospital here. Boyd
was reported in satisfactory
condition.
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