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'Fi mm m la 5P-it-i... - Tax Referral Speed Cause Of Amazement Editor's note: State officials warn referral of the legislature's SfiO million tax bill will lead to fiscal disaster. Many voters feel the state should live within its present income. This is the first of a five-part series on the is sues involved. By ZAN STARK SALEM (UPI)-The taxpay ers are in revolt. They've re ferred the 1963 legislature's $60 million revenue increase meas ure to a special election. The man on the street seems to feel it's time the state gov ernment lived within its in come. The average taxpayer has Young Husbands Exempted From Military Service WASHINGTON (UPI) -President Kennedy today, in effect, exempted married men from the draft in a move that will relieve an estimated 340,000 young hus bands from military service. His executive order provided that husbands of draft age (from 19 through 25) will be called only if the pool of eligible single men is exhausted. Since there is an ample pool of single men, the White House said, the order actually means married men will be draft proof except in case of a national emergency. Baby Boom Reflected Kennedy's decision also re flected the coming of age of tiiose born during the World War II and postwar baby boom. For instance, in 19-10, there were 1.211,634 male children born. By 1945, this had increased to 1,404, S87. The White House said the ac tion will tend to lower the aver age age of a draft inductee, which is now about 23, and let single young men "know sooner whether they will be called to serve." Fathers already had been de ferred since last March. Barring an emergency which would expand draft calls now running at an average of 6,000 to 7,000 men per month all draft-age married men will now be allowed to remain civilians. Judges, Justices Meet With Officials Area judges and justices of the peace were to meet this aft ernoon with two officials of the state department of motor ve hicles to discuss new changes in Oregon traffic laws. Coming from Salem for the meeting are Ed Warmoth, ad ministrative assistant to the di rector of motor vehicles, and Ed M. Syring, manager of the driver's license division of the department. The meeting, which was scheduled at 1:30 o'clock this afternoon in the council cham bers in city hall, will be attend ed by Municipal Court Judge Donald Dcnman, Judges Pro Tern Justin Smith Jr. and Rus sell DeForest, District Court Judge Loren L. Sawyer, and Justices of the Peace Mrs. Frances Gallatin, Ashland, and Norman Matheson, Gold Hill. nS(BRIEFS TELLER SAYS TREATY UNFAIR TO U.S. DALLAS (UPI) Dr. Edward Teller, a nuclear scientist often called the "father of the H-bomb," said Monday that the nuclear test ban treaty Is unfair to the U.S. Teller said he opposes the treaty because It prevents our testing missile defense, prevents testing our strike-back capability, and weakens the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. TAX REDUCTION APPROVED BY COMMITTEE WASHINGTON (UPI) Overriding solid Republican oppol linn, the House Ways and Means Committee today approved an ll billion tax cut, the biggest in the nation's history. VIET CONG GUERRILLAS BLASTED CO CONG. South Viet Nam (UPI) Government forces blast rd their nay out of Communist ambush to wore their biggest single victory over Viet Cong guerrillas since South Met Nam's Buddhist dispute flared into the open last May, military sources said today. RUSSIAN-CHINESE RELATIONS DECLINE FURTHER Moscow (UPI) Si no-Soviet relations, already strained to the breaking point, took a new torn downward today with Russia's expulsion of more Chinese for trying to smuggle inli-SovlM litera ture Into the country. BITTER FIGHTING REPORTED IN CUBA MIAMI (UPI) Cuban exile sources here today reported bitter fighting between guerrillas and Castro troops in Central Cuba wHh heavy casualties on both sidjjj. been plucked by federal taxes, rubbed raw by property, taxes, and now he's annoyed at state taxes. State officials were astounded at the speed with which signa tures were obtained on petitions to refer the tax bill to a special election Oct. 15. Signatures Come Rapidly More than 55.000 valid signa tures were obtained in a couple of weeks twice as many as were needed to call the special election. The spectacular suc cess of the referral drive is all the more astounding because there was no real organized ef fort to get the signatures. J. Francyl Howard, the week ly newspaper editor who spear headed the effort, candidly ad mitted we had the most un organized organization you ever heard of. State officials were stunned at Howard's success. They knew a tax increase measure would not be popular, but they were not prepared for such an emphatic public reac tion. Sen. Ward Cook (D-Portland), co-chairman of the Ways and Means committee, termed it a "tax revolt." Teachers Signed When one official checked some of the petitions and found they had been signed by school teachers and school district of ficials, he commented "I had no idea how serious the situation had become. I think a lot of state officials have to take a hard look at this whole issue." The fact is, a lot of the state's responsible leaders are scared. They predict privately that the lax measure will go down to overwhelming defeat at the Oct. 15 election. In fact, some leaders are now running so "scared," they are inadvertently adding fuel to the fires of opposition. Next: The Public Reaction. Ashland Police Check Incident ASHLAND Police here were looking for a truck and an in jured boy today following a bi zarre incident last night on Sis kiyou blvd. A call was received at the sta tion about 8:45 p.m. reporting that a boy had been hit near Mary Jane ave. But when police arrived at the scene, no one was around. Officers then contacted a wit ness, who explained that he had seen a boy lying in a ditch be side the boulevard, a truck near by and a man and woman argu ing. The man approached the boy, picked him up and put him in the truck, the witness said, after which the truck drove off. Officers attempted to locate the truck and enlisted the aid of state police, but no vehicle could be found fitting the de scription supplied by the wit ness. The search was hampered by the fact that the witness had been unable to note the truck's license number. A check with hospitals and doctors in the valley to see if an injured boy had been brought in for treatment also produced no leads. Ashland police theorized that possibly the boy merely rolled out of the back of the truck and that the man and woman may have been his parents. V Yt S-fV :VV.'W, hjf APPOINTED John Gronouski, Wisconsin's tax commissioner, has been appointed by President Kennedy to be Postmaster Gen eral. He succeeds J. Edward Day, who recently resigned. The 43-year-old war veteran is of Polish ancestry and has two daugh ters, Stacey, 10, and Julie, 7. (UPI) High Winds Leave Trail of Damage In Northern Oregon By United Press International Thunderstorms preceded by high winds moved up the Wil lamette Valley and through the Portland area Monday night and early today, leaving a trail of fires, scattered power outages and some other minor damage. The storm hit at Eugene about 6 p.m. and reached Portland an hour later. Heavy showers continued through the night. Wind gusts reached 51 miles an hour at the Portland airport and unofficially registered as high as 62 in downtown areas. Power outages were reported around Eugene, Albany and Portland. Lightning knocked out several Pacific Power and Light Co. lines in the Albany area and Pacific Northwest Telephone Co. reported about 1,000 customers Educator To Talk At Tax Meeting Jackson County School Super- intendent Alt Mekvold, or a rep-1 resentative of that department, will speak at a meeting Tues day, Sept. 17, at which the state tax program will be discussed. The meeting, at which Repre sentative Richard Eymann, chairman of the House Commit tee on Taxation, will speak, will be held at 8 p.m. in the Labor Temple, 24'i South Grape St., Medford. The meeting has been arranged by Represent a t i v e James Redden, Medford. Eymann will explain the new tax measure, Redden said,' and Mekvold, or his representative, will discuss basic school sup port, its sources and disposition. The effect of a defeat of the tax measure also will be dis cussed by the county school of fice representative. The tax measure will be voted on at a i special election Oct. 15. Redden pointed out that the meeting is non-partisan, and is not being sponsored by any par ticular organization. The meet ing was arranged by Redden in response to the widespread pub lic interest in the measure. 12-Inch Main Being Installed on Bridge Medford water department crews Monday began installa tion of a new 12-inch water main across Bear creek under the Main st. bridge, according to Robert L. Lee, department manager. Thp nrniert will rnst flhnul S3 000. Lee said, and will be com- j nletod in about two weeks. Tern-! porary service is being provided to users along the north side of Main St., and between Riv-ithe ersidc ave. and the creek, by means of hoses and pipe laid along the sidewalk. The main, which is being re placed was installed in 1908, Lee said, well below the creek bed. But gradual deepening of the creek channel has made the main increasingly difficult to maintain. The Dec. 2, l2, flood washed out the pipe. The new pipe will be suitable for above the ground installa tion. Lee said there will be no problem with freezing be cause of the size of the pipe and the continuous flow of wa ter .in It. 7 in that area were without tele phone service Monday night. Service was expected to be re stored today. Portland Lines Down Portland General Electric Co. called out all its emergency crews in Portland and numer ous small outages were called in. About 3,500 customers were without power but most lines were repaired by midnight. The 7,238-ton freighter Lisa B. broke loose from her moorings at Swan Island in Portland and ran aground on a mud flat. She was pulled free by tugs and held offshore through the night, before being returned to her moorings this morniing. State forestry officials report ed 88 fires burning on state protected lands by 7 p.m. Mon day. They estimated ."m any mote" would be discovered to day. Most of the lightning-caused blazes were small and were put out quickly. There was no immediate esti mate from U. S. Forest Service officials, but they had warned earlier in the day that soaring peraiuros, me tnreat ol light- nmg ana tne presence of hunters in the forests posed an extreme danger. Portland firemen battled a sawdust fire at the Portland Lumber Co. and several smaller blazes touched off by falling power lines and blowing sparks. Airline Flights Disrupted Several airline flights to Port land International Airport were rerouted to Seattle or delayed. One Portland to San Francisco flight was delayed 45 minutes. Temperatures Mondav ranged from Portland's 89 to Mcdford's 102 in interior western Oregon. The weather bureau said t h e heat, combined with moist upper level air brought in a low pres sure area off the California coast, caused the storm. M Per Cent Rise Noted in Enrollment PHOENIX-A 4", per cent in crease in Phoenix and Talent schools has been noted, accord ing to E. R. James, District 4 superintendent. On the first day of school yesterday, 1.429 students had enrolled, compared to 1,373 for opening day last year. This year's enrollment in the Phoenix High school totaled 4O0 students, a 9 per cent increase over last year; 243 enrolled in the junior high school, also a 9 per cent increase; Phoenix Grade school had 457 students. for the first day and Talent Grade school had 329 students, both 3 per cent increases ; An increase in enrollment is expected in the high school when fruit harvest is completed, James said. WEATHER rORFCANT: MtHlv Hourly and rnolrr tonight anrl Udnrrtv. Low tonight SO. 55, high W'dnrtday IJ-M. Tfmp Hifhru V'tttriltr ni Lowctl Thli Morning SI Our Skies Tonight 7 11 pm. a 4 a.m. fttinrltt tomorrow MoonrUf tomorrow Sw Moon PROMISE VT T R Drneh. high ovr hrail vmm.E pi.AsrT If U a.m. . S'Pt. 11 10. 3 p.m. Saturn. In inuthtiit. ill pm Mum. Hi I'V jvm JnnlMr. rn . . s .M nm Kennedy Trips Governor With Pair of Orders Schools Integrated In Three Cities BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (UPI) -President Kennedy out-maneuvered a defiant Gov. George C. Wallace for the second time in three months today and racial integration came for the first time to schools in the Alabama cities of Birmingham, Mobile and Tuskegee. A stormy demonstration by flag-waving white students erupt ed at one Birmingham school, but police kept the screaming stu dents under control and forced back a crowd of angry adults a block from the scene. Adults, Youths Arrested There were at least 15 arrests of adults and youths at the cam pus and within a two-block ra dius of the school before the demonstration was finally put down shortly after 10 a.m., near ly two hours after it started. Angry white parents began re moving their children from sev eral other schools in Birming ham and Tuskegee. When some of the uproar and early morning confusion sub sided, 20 Negroes were inside five white schools in the three cities. Wallace on Scene Wallace, looking refreshed aft er a few hours sleep, arrived at tne state Capitol shortly after 9 a.m. to survey the situation. His first reaction: "No com ment." President Kennedy jerked the rug from under Wallace by sign ing two orders. One directed the governor to "cease and desist" from inter fering with the court-ordered integration. The second order federalized 225 battle-garbed National Guardsmen Wallace had sent into all three cities to turn away 20 Negroes from five schools. Seated Separately At Ramsay High in Birming ham, one white student who identified himself as Horace Blackstock, 18, left indignantly after one Negro entered the school. - Blackstock said boys and girls inside were being seated on opposite sides of the room. Normally the students are seat ed alphabetically, he said. When two Negro girls ar rived at West End a few white students shouted "Two, four. six, eight. We don't want to integrate." The angry demon stration broke out after the two girls were inside. Return To Armories Wallace was awakened at his executive mansion in Montgom ery and told that the President had federalized the National Guardsmen in the three cities. They returned to their armo ries to await instructions after the President's order became known. None of the Guardsmen who were to have replaced Wal lace's highway patrolmen ap peared at the three Birmingham schools. Three Die in State Vehicle Accidents By United Press International A collision between a dairy truck and a car pulling a boat took the life of Clarence Lee Grantccr of Portland early to day. Grantcor was pronou need dead on arrival at Portland Sanitarium after his car collid ed with a Medo Land Dairy truck driven by Vcrn Eugene Nelson, also of Portland. Sepaiate accidents in Eastern Oregon killed a 3 - year - old daughter of a state policeman and a Nyssa youth. MAry Katherine Tone of ller miston was injured fatally when she ran inUront of a car driven by Mrs. Anna Jane McKitrick, 36, Hermiston, city police .'aid. Gary Wicncke, 18, of Nyssa died after his sports car collid ed with another car five miles west of Nyssa. Eagle Point Man Drowns in Lake Clinton A. Kissinger, B2, Eagle Point, drowned yester day while swimming in Hoover lakes near White City, Public Health Officer Dr. A. Erin Mcr kcl and the sheriffs office re ported. Dr. Merkcl said this morning an autopsy would be conducted to determine the exact cause of death, but feels certain it was due to accidental drowning. Kissinger was reported swim ming with companions at the time. The body has been taken to the Siskiyou Funeral Service Chapel in the Trees mortuary, Medford. Rogue Valley Edition Medford 16 Pages i " ; a HOMES GUTTED A fire destroyed one home and severely damaged another in a blaze which also burned 12 acres of grass yesterday. The homes, belonging to Elbert Garrison, 1487V4 Ridgeway St., and the other, belonging to LeRoy Fellows, Raising Level of Water in Creek Is Aired at Meeting Two possible methods of rais ing the summer water level in Bear creek to prevent near stagnant water conditions at that period of the year were considered at last night's meet ing of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources association board of directors. Henry Stewart, project cngi ncer from the Army Corps of Engineers, who has made a study of the problem, suggested the two possible methods, Ben Hilton, board chairman, said. Favored as the least costly of the two would be the use of water from Emigrant lake. Sur plus water from the Rogue Basin project could be used to offset water losses to attectea irrigation districts, board mem bers noted. More Costly Proposal The other proposal, consider ed more costly, would be to pump water from the Rogue Basin facility from a point in Medford to Phoenix, where the additional water supply would be placed in the creek. The present low water level in Bear creek shows an urgent need for increased water flow, Bill Jess, a board member, pointed out. A feasibility report on the projects is expected to be com pleted soon, board members stated. John Mangan, Salem, who re cently replaced Lee McAllister as area engineer for the bureau of reclamation, is expected to arrive Sept. 18 in Sams Valley to meet with members of the newly organized Sams Valley Irrigation district, Ralph James announced. New canal maps recently completed will be presented by Mangan. The new Sams Valley district includes 13.000 acres of land to be irrigated by the pro posed Rogue Basin project. Vietnamese Troops Close Five Schools SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) Heavily armed troops and police today shut down five Saigon high schools and sent thousands of students home in an all-out effort to block fur ther anti-government student demonstrations. About 100 boy and girl stu dents suspected of being agita tors were arrested and hauled off to the main police station f o r questioning, government sources said. The round up brought the total of high school students ar rested since the wave of stu dent demonstrations began Sat urday to approximately 1,300, nearly half of them girls. About 1,200 youths were ar rested previously in two riots triggered by protests against the government's suppression of Buddhists and other political opponents. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1963 Bibeau Sentenced To 12 Years; 17 Witnesses Appear Harold James Bibeau. 21, II. S. Army, yesterday afternoon was sentenced to 12 years in the Oregon State penitentiary on a charge of manslaughter. He had pleaded guilty to the charge which had been reduced earlier from first degree mur der. He was specifically charg ed with strangling Russell Wal- i don Osborn, 49, Ashland the ater manager. Bibeau stood without any ap parent show of emotion as Cir cuit Judge Edward C. Kelly summed up the evidence pre sented, and his reasons for pass ing the senlence. Bibeau will be eligible for pa role after six months, although his attorneys, Stanley C. Jones Search Continues For Man's Body ASHLAND - A search still is being made for the body of Kenneth Calon, 38, former Ash land resident, who apparently was drowned Sept. 5 in the Co lumbia river between Biggs Junction and Maryhill, Wash. Caton and his family, from Goldcndale, Wash., went to the river for a picnic. He was oper ating his motor boat when it overturned, apparently from a mechanical failure. Caton, reported to have been an excellent swimmer, is be lieved to have been injured in the accident. He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Caton, 753 Park St., Ash land, and was born Dec. 7, 1924, in Klamath Falls. He attended Ashland schools and was grad uated in 1943, later serving for two years with the Navy in the South Pacific. He is survived by his wife, Mari Caton, two daughters, Jul ia and Linda, and a son, Craig, at home, and another son, Dan ny (Caton) Hochner, Ashland. 77.41.1 INSCIIOOI.S PORTLAND (UPI) -An en rollment record of 77,413 was set on the first day of school in Portland schools Monday. Father, 3 Children Survive Five Niqhts in Mountains After Air Crash FORT BRIDGER, Wyo. (UPI) A young man and his three small children told Monday of surviving five nights without food in Northern Utah's rugged Uinta Mountains after their plane crash-landed. None of the four was injured in the landing. But all they had was some candy, apples and cookies which the children's grandmother had given them in Hastings, Neb., before they left. Note Found A fisherman found a note which the man, David Brophy, 28, of Silvcrdale, Wash., had placed on a barricade across a mountain mad, and brought the family to Fort Brldgcr, about 27 mes to the northeast, Sunday. Tribune 745 Childcrs ave., were already in flames when firemen arrived on the scene about 3:20 p.m. yesterday. Occupants of both build ings were away at the time of the fire. Four of the fire depart ment's pump units were called to the blaze. p Jr. and Joel Rceder had hoped to obtain a much lighter sen tence by presenting 17 witnes ses, most of whom testified as to Osborn's known homosexual tendencies and Bibeau's charac ter. In A Qunndry Judge Kellv said he was in a quandary to determine a just sentence since the act of kill ing the theater manager on April 27 was actually unexplain ed by the evidence presented After studying Bibeau's Army personnel record and the writ ten confession, the judge noted the soldier had been treated for a mental disturbance in 19K2. Bibeau had stated in his con fession at that time he had had "suicidal and destructive tend encies." Judge Kelly concurred with District Attorney Alan Holmes that he could not recommend leniency and noted it is rare to receive a sentence recom mendation from Holmes. Good Military Record Kelly also noted that Bibeau had a good Army record. The good military record ap peared to be the chief reason the judge gave Bibeau 12 years in the state penitentiary instead of the maximum of 15 as rec ommended by the district at torney. In summing up his argu- mcnts, Bibeau's attorney, Jones, said Bibeau is "essentially a good boy" and indicated ho had ; found his place in the army l whore he has "an excellent rec ord." Army officials told Jones earlier over the telephone tney might accept Bibeau back into the army if he received no more than five years probation which included no more than one year's jail or prison sentence. This was the reason, Jones said, he had sought a lighter sentence for Bibeau. Charge of forgery and using a motor ve hicle without authorization of the owner are no longer pend ing. The district attorney, in sum ming up, said he had some com passion for Bibeau, but "even more for Osborne, both living and dead." Brophy's children are Donald, 7, Donna, 5, and Michael, 4. "We were starved," Donald said. "We were cold, loo." His father made a shelter of pine boughs and aerial charts from the piano and the family slept- under it. The crash-landing occurred last Tuesday af ternoon. Downdraft Blamed Brophy, an unemployed air craft mechanic, was flying a pre-war single-engine Taylor craft from Hastings, where his parents live, to Silvcrdale. "I hit a downdraft at 11,000 feet and was unable to come out of it," he said. He was bruised on the leg In V 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 148 Pear Crop Suffers Blow Down Along Easl Side i The already light pear crop in Jackson county suffered a se vere "blow down" in the east side of the valley yesterday aft ernoon, pear growers reported. Growers estimated the dry . wind scattered the equivalent of a box to 1 boxes per tree on the ground. Most of the wind damage centered in the "Big Sticky" area northeast of Med ford, a grower reported. Tho wind blew hard enough to knock; some green walnuts down. "Although not as many pears were blown down as about two years ago, the percentage of Ihn crop damage is as high," a grower said this morning. Peaches are dropping on tha ground as they mature sinco they seem unusually short-stemmed this year due to the cool growing weathci earlier, a grower noted. Into D'Anjou Harvest Meanwhile, growers are well into the D'Anjou pear harvest after the Bartlctt pear harvest earlier this season. Comics pears are almost ready for pick ing. Harvest of J. H. Hale peaches is about 75 per cent complete, one grower said. Growers aro also moving into the Alimars and Rio-Oso Gems, two late var ieties of peaches here. Thn peach harvest should be com pleted generally by the end of next week, an observer report ed. Peach sizes arc large and thn overall shipping quality good, it was reported. Although the total peach crop is much smaller than usual there will be plenty for local consumption and soma to ship out. SOC Dormitory Planning Approved SALEM (UPI) -The Slatfl Board of Higher Education Mon day approved the start of plan ning for two dormitories at Southern Oregon College but de layed purchase of land for SOC campus expansion until the Oc tober meeting. the crash and stayed in tha plane until the week end. Sunday morning, he struck out from tha plane and reached a logging road three-quarters of a mile away, he said. Ho followed tho road to the top of the mountain where he left a sign, telling of his plight. Children Brave Don Simms of Provo, Utah, on a week end outing, spotted the sign and found Brophy. Brophy said the children were brave through most of the or deal, "but they cried about tha airplane being 'all wrecked'." He added, "All they could fig ured out was what they wanted to cat when they got out." ! srn-i.r.- i mm fi B'?..r ' ' i. i- V, is
