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Newspaper Page TextPA! fflffll Regional Edition Medford 18 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER Rusk Warns Indonesia On Trouble Over Malaysia Tax Commission Layoffs, Dropped Services Hinted Election Defeat Warning Issued SALEM (UPI) Personnel lav-offs will result in "drastic ally curtailed or abolished serv ices" by the State Tax Com mission it the tax measure is de feated Oct. 15, the commission warned today. A notice in the September is sue of the Oregon State Tax Commission Bulletin warned that a 25 per cent department cutback "would have to be met by eliminating personnel, which would mean resulting cut of services to the counties, tax practitioners, and the public in general." The commission said the state wide property reappraisal pro gram would be among pro grams cut, as would assistance to counties in the maintenance of uniform appraisals, and as sistance in the auditing of mer chandise inventories. Schools Threatened The commission said the mer chandise inventories assistance program in the 1961-62 tax year resulted in discovery of more than $11 million of true cash value which had not been re ported to the county assessors by taxpayers. In service training scnoois conducted by the department also would be threatened, as would the program to improve and modernize tax records sys tems used by assessors and tax collectors. A cut in the commission's timber section personnel would bring about a decrease in tim ber tax receipts to the counties and this would cause a corres ponding increase in local proper ty taxes, the bulletin noted. Dr. Goldhammer To Speak in City Dr. Keith Goldhammer, direc tor of the Bureau of Educational Research of the School of Edu cation at the University of Ore gon, will speak in Medford Wednesday under auspices of the Citizens Advisory Commit tee on Education, H. P. Bos worth Jr., committee chairman, announced today. The meeting of the full com mittee will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the lecture center of the Med ford High school. Bosworth, in announcing the speaker, issued an invitation to all interested persons in the community. Dr. Goldhammer conducted the 19fil survey, made of Med ford's secondary school building needs, which is being studied by the committee, and conducted the follow up analysis of cost factors related to the provision of school facilities for District 549C in 1962. This will be Dr. Goldham mer's first appearance before the Citizens Advisory commit tee, which is studying the needs of the Medford district in school construction as well as many other areas of education. HEIVS(Q)BRIEFS HAITIANS CHASE ATTACKING GUERRILLAS SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (LTD Haitian bor der troops chased attacking exile guerrillas across the border Into the Dominican Republic Monday and brought the Island of Hlspaniola to the brink of war for the second time this year. VIETNAMESE BISHOPS ABSOLVE CHURCH ROME (I PI I Six South Vietnamese bishops, arriving to attend the Ecumenical Council, said today the Roman Catholic church should not be held responsible for the actions of their government. They said South Viet Nam's "coercive measures" gainst Buddhists were taken for "political and not religious motives." HURRICANE EDITH SPRINGS INTO ACTION HAW (LT41 Hurricane Edith quickly sprang up in the tropical Alfantic today and aimed SO-mile-an-hour winds at the chain of Islands bordering the eastern Caribbean Sea. SENATE CONFIRMS POSTMASTER GENERAL WASHINGTON (IPI The Senate todav confirmed John A. Gi-tyiauskL. ecoftnnisl ti tt cxfdkt, A ij noiuiiaster gen frit to the Kmeo cabtart. '' it PARENTS OF DAUGHTER Mrs. Tamara Titov, wife of Soviet Cosmonaut Gherman Titov, has given birth to a daughter, the Soviet news agency Tass reported today. It is believed to be the first birth of a child to any astronaut after a space flight, thus silencing fears that space flight might induce sterility, Tass said. The couple is shown in Moscow after a boat ride. (UPI) Kennedy Launches ll-State Tour of Conservation Areas WASHINGTON (UPI) President Ken nedy will get an aerial view of the Rogue River project in Southern Oregon Friday as well as the proposed Dunes Seashore Park, Rep. Rob ert Duncan (D-Ore.), aid today. Duncan said inclusion of the Rogue River project to the President's flight itinerary was arranged at the congressman's specific request. If the weather is favorable he will view the Lost Creek, Elk Creek and Applegate dam sites. IHl-H-il'.lkfeM'Hj'Jci-:ilalklkiy I Series Reviews Sen. Goldwater's Stand on Issues Where docs Sen. Barry Goldwatcr (R-Ariz.). a leading candidate for his party's presidential nomi nation, stand on major is sues? Congressional Quar terly has prepared a two- part article reviewing nis h issues and on foreign pol icy. The articles will appear in the Mail Tribune on gl n L'mit'Miay ami inuiauaj. lsraiar:tettefiaHKJ!iUIEiatl' Vandals Break Windows at School Vandals last night broke four windows and the plate glass front of a showcase in the Arts and Crafts bldg. at McLoughlin Junior High school, according to Medford city police. Officers said the breakage was caused by vandals who threw rocks at the second story win dows. The building was not en tered, according to reports. 58th MILFORD, Pa. (UPI)-Pres- ident Kennedy keynoted an 11 state tour of conservation areas today with a call for space-age Americans to discover "whole new universes" of opportunity in their own land, water and idle youth. The Chief Executive's avow edly "non-political" five - day journey across the continent started with a salute in Penn sylvania to the Republican fa ther of the conservation move ment, Gifford Pinchot. Kennedy's tour also will lake him to nine north - central and western states where Democrat ic senators running for reelec tion in 1964 have invited him to share in the reflected glories of local natural wonders. In his initial speech the Presi dent gave his administration credit for increasing 'the pace of resource development and conservation in a variety of ways" since taking office in 1961. I begin today a journey to cava Amnrinq'. nqliir.l Wit.m. a journey to preserve the past and protect the future," Ken nedy said at the outset of re marks prepared . for delivery here at his first speechmaking way-station. Institute Dedicated The President scheduled the stop to dedicate the 83-year-old "Grey Towers," the ancestral Pinchot home, as the Pinchot Institute for Conservation Stu dies. Pinchot, twice governor of Pennsylvania, served under President Theodore Roosevelt as the first chief of the U.S. Forest Service and was one of Amer ica's most renowned conserva tionists. Saboteurs Sef Off ! Bombs in Saigon ! SAIGON. South Viet Nam s (UPI) Communist saboteurs Monday set off bombs in two ' Vietnamese transport planes at I an airfield used by U.S. trops j training Vietnamese soldiers, a ' U.S. military spokesman said ; today. i P0RTUND7uFf)" Sen j Daniel K. Inouye (D-HawaiiH will be the major speaker at a ! statewide Democratic fund-rais- ing dinner to be held Nov. C. I Year Price 10 Cents Tribune 24, 1963 No. 160 Peaceful End Of Difficulties Said Necessary Economic Aid Halt Implied NEW YORK (UPI) - Secre tary of State Dean Rusk today warned Indonesia that con tinued trouble in that area over creation of the new nation of Malaysia would be against the interests of the Jakarta govern ment. This was understood to have been the principal point made by the secretary during a 30 minute conference with Indone sian Foreign Minister Suban drio. The implication was that In donesia could expect no more U. S. economic aid until it peacefully settles its difficulties with the new country. Rusk was said to have ex pressed the strong interest of the United States in the prompt normalization of the situation in the Southwest Pacific, where Indonesian resentment against creation of the new member of the Commonwealth has sparked anti - British rioting, burning and looting. Official sources said Suband rio was unable to give Rusk the assurances the United States was seeking concerning Indone sia's future course in the Malay sian dispute. Subandrio pleaded ignorance, saying he had been out of touch with affairs at home. He told the secretary he planned to leave this afternoon for Jakarta and would keep in touch with the U. S. government after he reached his capital. Clear Warning Rusk s reference to Indone sia's self-interest in stabilizing the situation was described as a very clear warning, by implica tion, that the U. S. Congress would force the administration to cut off aid to Indonesia if it persisted in threatening Malay sia. The Philippines, like Indone sia, is unhappy about formation of the new nation as a Common wealth member by the uniting of Malaya, Singapore, Sarawak, and North Borneo. However, Philippine resentment, stemm ing from an old and disputed claim to North Borneo, has not taken the violent form followed by Indonesians. Grants Pass Trial Resumes Today GRANTS PASS - The first degree murder trial of Norman Stewart Thomas resumed this morning in Josephine county circuit court after having been recessed since Friday. Thomas, 22, of Grants Pas.-i, is charged in connection with the death of Lloyd Miles Har per, 48, of Grants Pass on July 12. A second man, Gerald Rich ard Oden, 25, of Wolf Creek, was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter Sept. 14 in con nection with the same incident. Judge Orval J. Millard is presiding in the courtroom. Larry Aschenbrenner, county district attorney, is prosecut ing the case. Defending Thomas is Charles Telfcr, a Grants Pass attorney. Aschenbrenner is contending that Harper died after he v as pulled from an auto by Thomas I and also that Thomas w.is in I the act of committing a rohocry during the incident. The defense's case is built around the contention that Har per fell from the car accident-, ally. True Cash Value Of Property Higher SALEM (UPI) - The true cash value of property in Ore gon again attained a new all time high this year, the Stale Tax commission reported today, summary of assessment rolls shows a total true cash value of $11.5 billion, an increase of more than MM million over last year's value. Total assessed value is also up, with the 196.1 total at $3.1 billion about s'fi million more th;a the 1962 Iiaure, the com mission noted. ' - ikm AjfxV iAash irAH. XX - N MONORAIL DERAILED An elderly vie- out of the door. Thirteen riders, mostly senior tim of a monorail crash at the Los Angeles citizens, were in the car when the back end county fair in Pomona, Calif., is helped onto crashed off a railing and onto the ground. All a stretcher while firemen help other riders were taken to a hospital for observation. (UPI) Airliner Struck By Gunfire at Saigon Airport SAIGON, South Viet Nam (UPI) Pan American Airways Boeing 707 jetliner with 78 per sons aboard was hit by ground fire on its final approach to Saigon Airport today. One engine was pierced by a single bullet, but the plane landed safely on three engines. No one was injured. The huge airliner was on a regular run from Jakarta anJ Singapore with 68 passengers and 10 crew members when it was hit by the ground fire. It was the first time a com mercial airliner using Saigon Airport has been hit by Com munist fire, although military aircraft using the airfield huve been hit occasionally. The incident was first report ed by military sources and later confirmed by Pan American of ficials. The incident occurred as Sec retary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and Gen. Maxwcil Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, were en route to Saigon on a fact-finding mis sion for President Kennedy. 16 Per Cent of UC Goal Is Reached A total of $28,263.04 has been collected so far in the United Crusade of Jackson County, ac cording to reports at the second report meeting yesterday. The total ot 16 per cent oi tne $180,040 campaign goal. Since : the first meeting, $12,317.90 was ; collected. I poncTtotal of" $18,774'tM. 'or 22 per cent of the goal of $85,- 052 for the various divisions. The plant chapter reported that $9,- 489 had been collected in that j unit: it is 9 per cent of a $102,- 034 goal. The public emplovees section j reported $11,255.54 collected, 64 over 17 month sand it was hint per cent of a $17,500 goal. j cd another one may be on the WEATHER FOHM.AST: fa If tnnlRhl nd Wrdn?riav, hut variable high rloitfH Wdnedv. I'atrhM of mmnmt tn. I.nw tonight 4. High Hrrinrtdav A3. 1 m P HUhr.t Y'Mrrdav Kit l.nntM Thin Mornlni 4fi Prpc. lo l t.m. Today, Trace. Our Skies Tonight Suniet today , 7:07 p.m. HunrUr Kitnnrrnw . 7 ft? a.m. Mnnnirt tonight II US pm Mrs! Uuxrirr , ffrpt. 21 PRflMINKVT STA KS Frnnalhaut, fte . II J p.m. j Arriiirui. , a:3. p.m VISUM. K i'I.AS'KT -liipllrr, nw tn rail I'M p m Snurn, du lotiih 10 17 p.m 1ST Street Program Is Reviewed for City's Citizens Group A report on Medford's pro - jected arterial street program was presented to the Capilal Improvements committee at its meeting this morning. Public Works Direclor Vernon Thorpe outlined his department's plans for immediate work, as well as developments which will take place at intervals over a 25-year period. The only item Thorpe listed as needing immediate attention was property acquisition (or widening Biddle rd. from the Crater Lake interchange to Jackson st. Thorpe told the group that negotiations have been under way for some time to obtain the strip of property trapped be tween Hie freeway right of way and Biddle rd. The strip varies in width from 100 to 80 feel. Would Allow Construction He said acquisition of the strip would permit construction of southbound lanes of traffic on Biddle rd. along the freeway. Northbound lanes of traffic on Biddle rd would remain within the present right of way. He estimated the costs of acquisi tion for the right of way about $150,000, the entire amount of which would have to be paid by tne city. The public works director said that projected improvements for the six-vear period from 1(16.1 to 1069 will cost about $1,585,000. He estimated costs at $5117,0000 for I960 to 1975. and at $1,- bm.uw lor tne uscai mra-i period. POff IdHCl ZOO G6tS AlL R-jUw F Anhant Hill DQUy LlCfJIIdlll PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI)-The Portland zoo today produced its fourth baby elephant in a little ThC,m,Ty, ?irlThrn 81 i M I Jennings, chairman of the Jack a.m. (PUT) to Tuy Hoa Tee-l cnun.v nm,hlirfln Central Vtah also was only the fourth elephant born in this country in more than 44 years. It was the second elephant birth here in just nine days. A still-unnamed boy elephant was born tn Pet Sept. 15. The noo now has produced two bflby ky mid two koby girl ele phants. Today's arrival was up and about three hours after she was born, having breakfast. She was described as a little larger than her half brother born last week who weighed 153 pounds. i Thorpe referred to a Central Business District study pre- pared by the Bureau of Munici pal Research in 1961 which in dicated that in the future Cen tral avc.. traffic should be re routed to the west of the core area along Holly st. Such a plan, however, would require two grade separations in con nection with the Southern Pa cific railroad tracks. Other Proposals Other alternative proposals are being studied, Thorpe said. Final decision on possible re routing of north-south artcrials through Medford depends to a I large extent on final plans for I rcvitaliziation of the central business district, which may in clude a shoppers moll and vari ous off-street parking facilities. Committee Chairman Richard Travis said that next Tuesday the groupu will hear capital im provements reports from the police and fire departments. That mcetiing will complete the hearings on .department re quests, and the committee will embark on a series of study sessions prior to making its recommendations to the mayor and city council. 6,300 Enrollees at Portland State Seen PORTLAND (UPI) - Regis trar B. C. Baumgartncr said to day about 6,300 students are ex pected to be registered at Port land Stale college for fall term by Sept. 27. Opening registra tion Inst year was 5,788. Western Conference Draws Interest From Republicans in Jackson County Considerable interest has been expressed by Jackson county Republicans in the Western Re publican conference scheduled nvl m.ntk in fTunnns. II. ink mm,n ,.,i. committee, said this week The number who will attend from Medford and the county cannot be determined, Jennings explained, since the schedule of activities was received late last week. The conference is scheduled Oct. 10 through in. New York Gov. Nelson Rocke feller will speak at the Satur day, Oct. 12 luncheon at Mc Arthur court, and Sen. Barry Goldwatcr will speak at Mc Arthur court at 7 p. m. Oct. 12, with a dinner and reception to ROLL CALL VOTE LISTS 80 TO 1 9 FAVORING PACT WASHINGTON (UPI) In a historic action, the Senate today ratified the treaty with Russia banning nuclear tests in tha atmosphere, outer space and under water. President Kennedy called It a single but "substantial" step toward peace. All but one of the 100 senators the ailing Sen. Clair Engla (D-Calif.) were on hand for the 80-19 roll call vote. The margin was 14 votes more than the required two-thirds majority. The pact docs permit underground testing and the adminis tration has pledged to push ahead In this area to maintain what experts consider the present V. S. atomic lead over the Soviet Union. Senate galleries were jammed as the Senate started its roll call at 10:30 a.m. (edt) to climax weeks of debate featuring untold thousands of words on the agreement reached between, the United States, Britain and Russia after prolonged negotiation. On the showdown, 55 Democrats joined 25 Republicans in voting for the treaty. Opposed were U Democrats and 8 Repub-licans. Ratification of the pact was expected and it was a diplo matic if not a direct political victory for Kennedy who had argued that rejection of the pact, despite its limited nature, would be a step backward in the quest for peace. The only surprise on the roll call was provided by Sen. Mar garet Chase Smith who kept her Senators voting for and against ratification of the nu clear test ban treaty are list ed on page 8B. stand in doubt throughout the long debate and wound up vot ing against the treaty. Mrs. Smith said in a state ment that her "troubled vote" was one of the most difficult she has faced in 23 years in Con gress. "The jeopardy the treaty Im poses on our national security is a more compelling argu m e n t against the treaty than the po litical and psychological disad vantages that would stem from rejection of the treaty," she said. Sen. Barry Goldwater (Ariz.). the front - runner for the Repub lican presidential nomination in public opinion polls, carried through his vow to vote against the treaty even if in his words it meant "political suicide. Just before final action, Dem ocratic congressional 1 e a ders conferred with the President at the White House. Senate Dem ocratic Leader Mike Mansfield (Mont.) told reporters "the President expressed his delight with this single but substantial step toward peace." Significantly, the treaty car ried no U.S. reservations or "un derstandings" which might jeopardize ratification by other countries. All such proposals were rejected. Autopsy Report Is Given on Death The death of Gerald Walter Hobbs, 14, Medford High school sophomore is probably due to "cardiac arrest from an unde termined cause," Dr. A. Arin Mcrkel, Jackson county public health officer and medical ex aminer, said today. Dr. Mcrkel said officials prob ably would never know why the boy died Friday afternoon short ly after a swimming class at Jackson park pool. The autopsy revealed the heart was normal, no obstruc tions in air passages and x-rays of the head and neck showed nothing wrong, the medical in vestigator said. According to Medford police and school officials, the boy was swimming with friends in the shallow end of the pool following a regularly scheduled physical education class. He stood up, appeared dizzy, then started to fall, and two senior leaders helped him to the edge of the pool where attempts were made to revive him. He was dead on arrival at Sacred Heart hos pital. follow at the Lane county fair grounds. Prices for the lunch and din ner are $4.50 and $7.50, res pectively, but the balconies will be open so the public may at tend the talks without charge. Reservations for all events and housing are being handled by the Eugene Chamber of Com merce. Other siieakors scheduled Sat urday following a welcoming ad dress by Gov. Mark U. Hatlield are Sen. Gordon Allolt, Colora do; Sen. Milward L. Simpson, Wyoming; Congressman John P S a y 1 o r, P cnnsylvania; Sen. Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania, who will sneak for the Friday noon luncheon; William E. Miner, chairman ot the Republican Na tional committee, Clare B. Wil Senate Sets Vote On $47.4 Billion Weapons Bill WASHINGTON (UPI) - Tha Senate prepared today to follov up its historic vote for a "peace promoting" treaty with action on a $47.4 billion money bill to pay for the instruments of war The big appropriations bill, amounting to nearly half of tha entire annual federal budget, was scheduled for debate imme diately after ratification of tha nuclear test ban treaty. Sen. William Proxmire (D Wis.) said he planned to offer at least one amendment to cut $60 million added by the Senate to the House bill to speed research on a mobile medium-range mis sle, designed to be fired from trucks or other vehicles. Advance Warning But Sen. Richard B. Russell (D-Gs.), top Senate military ex pert, issued .advance warning last week when the bill cleared the appropriations committee that any effort to cut the outlay would be strenuously opposed Russell, chairman of both tha Senate Armed Services Com mittee and defense appropria tions subcommittee, said that because of the test ban treaty, it was all the more imperative that the United States remain militarily strong. The bill provides funds for the manpower and weapons to maintain the nation's armed might in the fiscal year ending next June 30. In all, it totals $47,371,407,000, which is $i89.4 million more than the House approved last June but $1.6 billion less than President Kennedy requested. Picking, Packing Season Nears End Medford fruit growers and shippers will wind up the pear picking and packing season at the end of this week, generally. The season has had one of the fewest days of picking of any on record, one fruit grower not ed this morning. Most packing houses will complete their oper ations Friday or Saturday. One or two may continue with pears in storage a few days next week, it was reported. Present picking includes some Patrick Barrys, Bosc, Packham Triumphs and a few Winter Nel lis, growers said. Sixty-seven Mexican Nation als will leave the valley Wed nesday. Local growers had re contracted them to California. This means that growers felt they could not kep them picking full scale for the minimum reg ular contract time of four weeks so took them for six weeks, but recontractcd them to California for the remaining three weeks. Few transient pickers are left in the valley. Most of the pick ers yet remaining are Mexicans from Texas or California. liams, assistant chairman, and Gov. Henry Bellmon of Okla homa. Official delegates to the con ference are the state chairman, vice chairman, national com mitteeman and national com- mittccwoman from each of tha 13 western states. The meetings are open to all interested per sons with registration $15. Per sons who wish to attend the luncheons and dinners Friday and Saturday may do so at meal prices, it was stated. Sen. Goldwater's appearance had earlier been scheduled to follow the dinner and reception, but television requirements nec essitated the change, it was stated. Buses will be available for transportation from the cam pus to the fairgrounds. t v , -.