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Newspaper Page TextI M It, mm i ASSEMBLY OPENS This is a general view of the United Nations General Assembly just be fore the 18lh regular session got under way to Planner To Confer; on City's Core Area Simon Eisner, a nationally famous planning consultant and an expert in urban redevelop ment, will be in Mcdford Fri day, Sept. 20, to consult with various groups about a possible redesign of the Medford core area. Eisner is coming to Medford at the invitation of Mayor James Dunlevy s Downtown Develop ment committee and the Med ford Chamber of Commerce. While here. Eisner will con fer with certain interested groups and city officials, and will address a noon luncheon and a dinner meeting, both scheduled for North's Chuck Wagon. Chamber Manager Don Mc Neil said Monday letters of in vitation to the luncheon have been mailed to the county court, Medford councilmcn and city officials, the planning commis sion and staff, the Downtown Development committee and the Capital Improvements com mittee. The groups also will he in vited to the evening dinner meeting, as well as downtown property owners and merchants. and the chamber committee on community development. Eisner is a graduate architect from the University of Cali fornia, is a member of the faculty of the University of Southern California and has been a visiting lecturer at Har vard university. Co-.utlior of Bonk He is co-author of the book. "The Urban Pattern." and has written many articles on plan ning which have been publish ed in planning and architectural magazines. He has drawn master develop ment plans for a number of California cities including Po mona, San Bernadino. Rodlands South Pasadena. Santa Monica and Palm Springs. Eisner also has drawn recre ational planning design plans for Mission Bay park. San Diego, Calif., Casper, Wyo.. and Irvine Bowl park, Laguna Beach, Calif. The consultant also has com piled central business district studies in eight California com munities, and has designed shopping centers in four others. NEWSBRIE ALBANIA DEMANDS SEATING OF RED CHINA UNITED NATION'S, N.Y. (UPI Albania demanded today that the General Assembly at Its current session take up the question of seating Communist China in place of Nationalist China. KEY SOUTHERNER TO SUPPORT TREATY WASHINGTON ( UPI I The nuclear test ban treaty gained Mipport todav from another key Southern Democrat when Sen. Sam .1. Ervin (N.C.) announced thai he would support the pact, though "without great enthusiasm." POPE PAH. RECEIVES ADENAUER VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope Paul VI received West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer in private audience today and paid personal tribute to the ST-year-old leader ho plans to retire next month. HOUSE TO TACKLE TAX REDUCTION WASHINGTON (UPI I Speaker John W. MrCormaik assured President Kennedy today that the House ould try to psi next his proposed 511 billion lax yd. day. The man in Agreement- Drafted To Preserve Purity Of City s Water An agreement designed to pro tect and preserve the purity of the city of Medford's water sup ply has been drafted for the sig- i natures of Mayor James Dun I levy and Edward P. Cliff, chief of the U.S. forest service. ! The agreement, which has been under study for over a j year, was approved by the wa j ter commission at its meeting last week and will appear on I the city council agenda Thurs ' day night. -! Rogue River National forest officials have approved and support the agreement. This in- Sewer Hook Ups To Be Examined The property of Jacksonville people on welfare will be ex amined prior to authorizing funds for the new sewer hook up. Public Welfare Administra tor David Kuhns told his com mission this morning. The hookups will involve six Jacksonville welfare recipients, he noted. Average frontage as- i sessment on the sewage system is $350 with a hookup fee of ap proximately $200. Since each : property owner must hire a plumber to dig the trench and tile it for the hookup this will , mean about $600 expenditure per j recipient, Kuhns said. i "We should examine the prop erty to see if it is worth the sew er assessment," Kuhns said. County Judge Earl M. Miller suggested some means be used to make sure the commission can recover the sewer money expended upon death of the wel fare recipient. The commission should also determine whether it wants to pay the sewage charges on the installment or ; Bancroft plan, he said. This I must be determined by the first of October, he pointed out. j Representatives of t h e state public welfare commission sug- ' gested the county commission check with the district attorney to see if an open mortgage note could be arranged which would be payable on demand or when the recipient should go off the i welfare rolls. AROUND THI OlOM FS . Delays .. IBM the background is unidentified. a'PI) itial pact is general in nature and supplemental agreements are contemplated between the city and the regional forester. Outgrowth of Concern Medford W a t. e r Department j Manager Robert L. Lee said tn- growth of the city's increasing concern for maintaining sani tary safeguards in its water shed. "The purity or the Big Butte springs water has been beyond question until recent years," Lee said, "when the water has occasionally fallen below U.S. Public Health standards and has required some chlorination." Lee said some chlorination is now being practiced, although in almost negligible amounts when compared with other cit ies. He said the exact source of the pollution which is affecting the purity of the Big Butte springs water "is not known," but is believed to be an "accu mulative effect of the greater watershed uses." Comprises 22. mm Acres The watershed area comprises about 22,000 acres ranging in a northwesterly direction from Mt. McLouahlin to Bin Butte I springs, and covering predomi- nantly U.S. forest service land. Uses on the watershed land in clude selective timber harvest ing, some camping, public roads, and livestock grazing. Lee said the agreement will continue further studies of the j problem in cooperation with the forest service, and to "promul gate and put into effect sanitary regulations to maintain the qual ity of the Big Butte springs wa ter for future generations." Viet Nam Reds Seek Coalition SAIGON', South Viet Nam I UPI) Vict Nam's Communist guerrillas appealed today for a coalition government on the or der of neighboring Laos as a means of ending the fighting here. The appeal was made by Nguyen Huu Tho. president of the Communist "National Liber ation Front." in a letter to the United Nations broadcast by Communist stations. It called for withdrawal of U.S. troops, the end ol U S par ticipation in Vietnamese affairs, and the establishment of a "na tional, democratic, peaceful, and I neutral coalition government, presumably made up of Commu nists and anti-Communists. i Goldwater Blasts Nation's Leadership LOS ANGELES UP1-Scn. Barry Goldwater Monday night , attacked President Kennedy for what he called "rocking chair i leadership" and then pleaded for unity within his own Repub lican party, free of "purge" tactics. "Rocking chair lcad rshtp I isn't enough. Holding the line, i preserving the status quo. isn't enough. Big talk and little ac tions arent enough. A frontier full of oxcart philosophies isn't i enough." Goldwater said. Regional Edition M edfor: :ate Agencies ghtesi Spending " i i i Board of Control Decision On Several Jobs Thornton To Be Asked for Ruling SALEM (UPI)-The threat of defeat of the $60 million tax in crease measure at the Oct. 15 election dominated activities of the Board of Control here today. The board authorized a $3,oi)0 inspection of the state owned sewer line which serves institu tions east of Salem, but delayed a decision on release of $75,250 to repair the line until after the tax election. Working drawings for two 25 boy cottages at MacLaren school for boys were approved, but further work on the project was postponed until after the tax election. Also delayed until after the election was purchase of prop erty on the Capitol Mall ap praised at $19,250. To Ask for Ruling The board said it would ask the attorney general to deter mine if the state could allow the new Moore Business Forms Building to hook onto a state sewer line. The company asked permis sion for a temporary hookup be cause septic tanks cannot be used in the area. The firm hopes in about two years to hook up to the South Salem sew er district which is being organ ized. Gov. Mark Hatfield, Secre tary of State Howell Appling Jr., and Treasurer Howard Bel ton cautioned that earlier attor ney general rulings held the state could not approve such a lease. They said they would ask another opinion, based on the emergency nature of the re quest, and because it is planned as a temporary hookup. Oregon AFL-CIO Hears Resolutions EUGENE (UPI) -Fifty-five resolutions including five key ones dealing with the workman's compensation law were intro duced as the Oregon AFL-CIO opened its eighth annual conven tion here Monday. The five top-priority resolu tions would revise the law to provide universal coverage with minor exceptions, place a 1 1 workers under workman's com pensation and expand coverage to those not presently protected. They specifically included farm laborers. A resolution also was intro duced opposing the proposed closing of the stale's inland wa ters to commercial fishermen. Rep. Robert Duncan (D-Ore.) spoke on some of the issues fac ing Congress. Gov. Mark Hatfield was to speak today. The convention runs through Friday. Kennedy Urges YrWI Prnmriflftn Promotion r WASHINGTON (UPD-Presi- dent Kennedy today urged American businessmen to pro- mote export markets for their products to neip stem tnc now of dollars abroad and improve domestic economic conditions at the same lime. The Chief Executive spoke at the start of a special confer ence called by the White House and the Commerce Department to explore methods of export expansion. The President in his prepared remarks reminded his audience repeatedly that the competitive advantage held hy the United States m export trade following World War II had disappeared under the growing economic strength ol trading partners and the development ol regional as- sociations such as the Common Market TEltRE HAUTE. Ind (UPI)- An evplosion roared through a JI6 million fertilizer plant in the final s'aees of construction to-i day, killing one man and injur i? at least nine others. MEDFORD, I WEATHER FOKIU AST; Fair tonic hi and ' Wrilnp.ri.iv. I'.mliv .illry f5 Writn!(1av morning. Ittllt warmer Wertneclav. I nw tit- niRlit 43. llisn weciili'siiiv near i SO. Temp. 1 . ' ! IliChPst Yrslerri.iv l.ouest Thlt Morninc . .. so Our Skies Tonight Siinct today .. .. 7 : f m Sunrise tomorrow ... fi:.M a.m. New Moon lortay . . I:M p in. Moonset tomi;hl 1:1! p.'n IMIOMINFST STAKS Square ol I'egaMis, in thi mm . 8 1:1 p.m. VISUM. F. PLANETS Mats, sets . K - P m. lupilrr, low in east X:.VI p m. Saturn, due south l):ifi p.m. Oregon Political Leaders Support Income lax Boos! PORTLAND (UPI) - The citizen's committee backing the $60 million income tax increase to be voted on Oct. 15 said today state chairmen of both major political parties have accepted membership. i Mrs. Grace Turel. Portland, chair man. said Democratic State Chairman E. D. Spender and Republican Chairman Phil Roth, Portland, had agreed to join. In addition, she said, two ex-Republican governors. Elmo Smith of Albany and Charles A. Sprague of Salem, and Frank Roberts of Portland, former Multnomah County Democratic chairman, had joined the group. Gov. Mark Hatfield has ac cepted honorary chairmanship of the committee which con tends defeat of the tax package would bring about chaos in Ore gon's fiscal affairs. Other .Members Other new committee mem bers listed by Mrs. Turd in clude: Eric W. Allen Jr., managing editor of the Medford Mail Tribune: Robert W. Chandler editor of the Bend Rullcton Robert C. Ingalls. editor and publisher of the Cnrvallis Gazette-Times; State Sen. Al Flo- gel ( D-Roseburg): Robert S. Lovell, Astoria: Derrnl Penning ton, Bcaverton; Karl Gehlert, Coos Bay: Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam Maddron, Eugene; Mrs. Paul L. Patterson, Ilillsboro; Robert E. Vcatch, Klamath Falls; Dunbar Carpenter. Med ford; Fred Haas. North Bend; James Hill Jr., Pendleton, and E. Dean Anderson, James Good sell, Chalmers Jones, James T. Marr, John C. Merrifield and Clay Myers Jr., all of Portland. Indonesian Office Stormed by Mob KUALA LUMPUR. Malaysia (UPI)-A howling mob of 1.1)00 persons today smashed winows nt the Indonesian Embassy here, burned an Indonesian con sular office and wrecked three other offices in retaliation for attacks on the Malayan and British embassies in Indonesia. The rioters hurled rocks and firecrackers. They burned and trampled a giant portrait of Indonesian President Sukarno as the new Federation of Ma- lo'matic relations with Us tun i large neiehnrs, Indonesia and the Philippines, : The diplomatic break followed refusal of the Indonesian and ; Philippines governments to rec-i ognize Malaysia, which came nt0 being Mondav as a forlera- tion composed of M.ilava. Singa pore, Srawak and North Borneo 'Sabah). Rockefeller Attacks JFK Administration ACCORD. N Y (UPI)-Gnv. Nelson A Itorkoleller. sound ing more and more like a pres idential campaigner. Mon day launched his strongest at- i taek against the Kennedy : ministration. ad- Speaking at a Republican meeting in this tiny Hudson Vallev community. Rockefeller eharffed that the administration had - suhmerced nnncinles to nr.liiiel extmlienrv and minor- tuni.sm " The result, he said, was that our NATO alliance is weak - I end." OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1963 Library Services Cut as Defeat of Tax Bill Feared Appling Orders Additional Savings SALEM (UPI) - A $122,000 cutback in state library serv ices was ordered Monday be cause of the threat of defeat of the legislature's $600 million tax increase measure. Howell Appling Jr., said he has ordered sivings and cutbacks to taling $:ioo.ooo. The library cutback was the first major agency paring an nounced in the face of the spe cial tax election Oct. 15. Voters then will decide the fate of Ore gon's $60 million income tax package. Librarian Eloise Ebcrt said up to a $200,000 cutback may be ordered after the election but that if the tax measure is not ; defealed lhe cuts woll)d be stored. Regardless of Outcome Appling said $140,600 in econo mics had been ordered in his department and that this would be saved regardless of the out come of the tax election. He also said he has ordered post ponement of about $160,000 worth of budgeted repairs, im provements, maintenance and additions to state buildings. The future of these projects depends on the outcome of the tax elec tion, he said. Among postponed projects are extension of the library building elevator from the third to the fourth floor, repainting of inter ior woodwork in the library and new lighting and ceilings in the stale office building here. Calls News Conference Miss Ebcrt, who called a news conference, said effective next Monday, the library would "dis- ! continue services to schools, colleges, universities and to stu dents taking general extension courses. In addition, the library will discontinue the purchase of all juvenile and fiction books. Mail reference services on gcneology pertaining to non-Oregon anecs tory also will be discontinued, she said. Miss Ebcrt said the library would not fill three existing cler ical vacancies, and that three student workers usually hired to handle the increased fall work load would not be employed. She said the action was or- dered by the State Library I board, which met Friday at La Grande. In Line Willi Cut j The action "was taken by the hn.'irrl fiillnwini' n liwt ivn lv. SI10tf by tc governor's office to hring expenditures in line with an anticipated general fund cut of II per cent." she said. The library's 1963-65 general fund appropriation was about $877,000. She said the directive was dat ed Sept. 9, and that Monday she received a directive dated Sept. i:i ordering plans for a possible 25 per cent cutback. She said the 25 per cent fig ure would necessitate an addi tional $76,000 cutback, and indi cated if such a cut were made it would be achieved through layoffs of personnel. Jacqueline Kennedy To Visit in Greece WASHINGTON (UPI) - Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy will ro to Greece Oct. 2 for a two-week visit with her brother-in-law and isiler. Prince and Princess Stan islaus Hadziwill, the White House announced today. The First Lady's press secre tary. Pamela Turnure, describ ed the trip as "wholly private." She said the President's 34-year-old wife will join her sis- ter at a home the Radziwills have rented near Athens. Mrs. Kennedy nas been rccu- pending at Newport, R. I., fol- lowing the birth of a son. Pat- rick Bouvier Kennedy, who lived for onlv two days. The premature child was born on ; Aug 7 and died on Aug. 9 at Children's hospital in Boston. , It was Mrs. Kennedy s fourth Caesarean section. Tribune UMliKICl.L.A RIPPED Two young Galveston, Texas, residents fight their wrong-side-out umbrella in winds preceding Hurricane Cindy, which had just about blown itself out before it reached the Texas-Louisiana coast. (UPI) Alternatives Noted If Tax Program Is Defeated Oct. 15 This is the first meeting at which there has been sentiment expiesscu uiui ucicai oi i n e Oregon tax referendum could be anything other than a man date to cut, Tom Rigby, execu tive secretary of the Oregon School Boards association, told the audience gathered at the Jackson county courthouse Mon day night at the regional meet ing of the Oregon School Boards association. Rigby said the association has been conducting meetings all over the state, and there have been legislators in attendance at the others. But the interpre tation has always been that expressed by the governor defeat of the rclerral will be a mandate to cut the budget." His statement followed ap praisal of the situation given by Slate Sen. Lyndel Ncwbry and Rep. James Redden of Jackson county and Rep. Sidney Bazett of Josephine county. Each stated that there arc al ternatives. Could Go Back to Work "I think the legislature should go back to work if the referen dum fails," Senator Ncwbry stated. "Don't push the panic button. If we do take $60 mil lion out of the basic school sup port we are going (o hurt a lot of people badly. Welfare recip ients are already living on stan dards 10 years old. This budget doesn't have any fnt in it." Ncwbry concluded. "I think the legislature could pass an in come tax law which would raise S:i0 n'Hion " Ncwbry l 'id this would meet with more favor if a sales tax law could be referred at the May Primary. Representative Bazett came nut for a sales tax as the solu tion without hesitation. "I think we could use a sales tax." he declared. In support of his contention, he reviewed Thomas Trial Opens In Josephine County GRANTS PASS-The trial of Norman Stewart Thomas, 22, of Grants Pass, second of two men charged in connection with the death of Lloyd Miles Harper, 48, of Grants Pass, on July 12, got under way this morning. The other man, Gerald Rich ard Oden, 25. of Wolf Creek, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter by a Josephine county circuit court jury Satur day night. Judge Orval J. Mil lard reported that the verdict was voluntary manslau g h t e r rather than involuntary man slaughter as previously announc- fd. (Xlen's sentencing was set iui oipi. Both Oden and Thomas were originally indicted on first dc-j gree murder 'charges. Thomas! is to ne men in tne same court, ' bm by a aiiicteni jury. 58th Year Price 10 Cents No. 154 i the hislory of Arizona where a sales tax was passed eight years ago. Representative Redden recall ed that considerable thought was given by the legislature to anicrent tax programs and voiced assurance that what ever the outcome of the referral eiecuon a cimerem lax pro gram will be considered by the legislature al a special session or at the next regular session. "If we cut $60 million out of this budget we'll cripple the stale in many ways," Redden declared. "There are many bad things and many good things about this legislation. I think the first lax plan of the House was belter than this one. If you come out with a sales tax that will be referred, too." Redden invited the audience to attend the meeting tonight at which further explanation of the lax program will be made by Stale Rep. Richard Eymann, chairman of the House Tax committee. Oregoncms To Affend Refarciofion Conclave PORTLAND (UPD-Four Orc gonians have been named to at tend the While House Confer ence on Mental Retardation opening Thursday in Warrenton, Va Representing Oregon will be: Dr. Gordon C. Edwards, direc tor ol preventive medical serv ices, State Board of Health, Portland; Dr. Glen Purdom, consultant on mentally retarded children for the Department of Education, Salem; Dr. Richard L. Slcetcr, director of the crip pled children's division of the University of Oregon Medical School, Portland, and Dr. J. H. Trcleaven, administrator, men tal health division, State Board of Control, Salem. MsvJiM'V. ". w Arrival of Natural Gas To Region Is ! flic arrival of natural gas in ; southern Oregon will be delayed about six weeks, according to a progress schedule announced today by the El Paso Natural Gas company. Originally scheduled to tie in with the California-Pacific Utili ties company distribution sys tem at Roseburg this week, the delay in El Paso's completing the main line from Eugene to Roseburg will result in resched uling the arrival of natural gas to Oct. 6 in Roseburg. "Although we had expected to complete the installation of our natural gas pipeline facili- tM ,he mj(, iri, nf Sentember. we must I a w a i t the completion of El Paso's main line to actually begin serving our customers with natural gas," Lloyd E. Cooper, vice president and chief Aged Pensioners Perish as Flames Destroy Building 30 Saved; None Seriously Injured RIGGINS, Idaho (UPD-Seven aged pensioners, one of them 98 years old, died when fira destroyed a rest home at tha tiny community of Pinehurst 14 miles south of here before dawn today. Thirty other elderly patients, about half of them women, were helped to safety. Deputy Sheriff Frank Heath identified the victims as Dan Stowe, Otto Korbin, Joe Bogle, John Passie, John Brodahl, Frank Roland and John Zietlow. The bodies, burned beyond recognition, wero found in or near the men's beds. Two Had Relatives Heath said Brodahl was 98. Ages of the others were not known but all were over 75. Heath said only two of tha seven nad known relatives. Some of the records of tha Paradise Pines nursing homa were destroyed. Heath said the fire was dis covered about 3:15 a.m. by a nurse who went into the furnaca room to investigate a wall felt warm. She found the whole room. even the ceiling, afire, she said. nurses on duty and the mana ger of the home, Cary Salter, who lives nearby, helped as many patients out of the blazing single story frame building as they could before the flames got iuu not ior anyone to enter. "By the time I got there at 3:30 it was going good," Heath sniH 'U7ithi"w in ..iviiui ou iiiuiuiea u was all burned up." No Eire Department There is no fire department within 25 miles of the home. None of those who got out of the building was seriously hurt. Heath said the patients who died apparently were overcome by smoke before they could leave their beds. "It happened so fast (hey didn't have a chance to get out," Heath said. Several of thnso who died, as well as a number who were saved, were bedrid' den. AH but one wing of tho build ing had burned to the ground be- ore aayngtit and it was destroy cd by the unchecked flames a short time later. Jarreft To Speak At School Meeting Chester W. Jarrett, who is in charge of school plant plan ning for the Portland General Electric company, will speak Wednesday at the meeting of. lhe Citizens Advisory Commit tee of Education. H. P. Bosworth, Jr., chair man of the Medford committee, has invited all persons interest ed in the educational program to join committee members at the meeting, which will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the academic lecture center of the Medford High school. Jarrett is being presented by the committee chairman as an authority on heating and light ing. He will discuss the most successful and economic means of utilizing the latest develop ments in heating, lighting and ventilating school buildings. Ho has gathered information on costs and the educational ad vantages of the new installations and will bring these findings to the Medford committee, B o s worth said. Also present at the Wednes day meeting will be Delos Wil liams, assistant state superin tendent of public instruction in charge of schoolhousc planning. Delayed engineer of CPU, noted. "Other communities affected by the delay will be Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland and will necessitate the reschedul ing of the arrival of natural gas in these cities from Oct. 15 to Dec. 4," Cooper added. In commenting on the delay, R. W. Harris, vice president of El Paso, said, "The contractor is doing everything possible to make rapid progress. It just seems to be a rough job as tha contractor has spared no amount of money, men or equip ment on this line." "We have been advised by El Paso Natural Gas company that their construction crews are now working seven days a week in order to assure tha delivery nf gas by El Paso to CPU at earliest date possible," Cooper said.