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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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."
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