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mi .Turncoat Talks To Siotoisinittee ang - - c , '''' a TIN GOOSE VISITS One of the 11 remaining Ford Tri-Motor airplanes flew into Medford municipal airport yesterday and three flights for invited guests were taken. This morning area residents viewed the craft, which was brought here by American and West Coast Airlines. The plane left at noon for Sacramen Sale of U.S. Surplus Wheat To Russia Being Considered Officials Offer Guarded Approval Of Suggestions By United Press International The wheat belt gave guarded approval today to suggestions the United States sell surplus grain to Russia. "It doesn't make a lot of dif ference whom we sell wheat to . . ." summed up one grain ter minal official simply. .' .- "We have plenty and appar ently the Russians are short," rancher J. Tipps Hamilton, Kir ley, S.D., said. "Sometimes we have to put aside our hostilities and help those who are less well off." Actually, those who were op posed to selling wheat to Rus sia or who had doubts did not do so on the basis of the "cold war." Rather, they rais ed economic questions as to what the form of payment would be and whether the sale would really shrink this country's huge pile of grain. Fertilizers, increased acreage and "farm automation" have caused a tremendous boost in agricultural production in the United States since World War II began, and have left this country with one of its biggest headaches. Both Republicans and Demo crats tried but were largely faulted for their farm programs. And yards of huge government graneries continue to dot the countryside throughout the Mid dle West. On the other hand, it h a s been reported the Russians have been having serious agricultur al problems of the opposite kind. Production is low and food prices are sky high. A fortnight ago Soviet nego tiators signed a $500 million Canadian wheat deal. Against this background, it was learned four private gram traders are in Ottawa, Canada, trying to lay the groundwork for a large United States - Rus sia wheat deal. Astoria Prepares for Kennedy's Visit ASTORIA (UPI) - Astoria prepared today for a brief visit Friday afternoon by President Kennedy to the abandoned Tongue Point Naval Station. Democratic members of the state's congressional delegation and Gov. Mark Hatfield are scheduled to greet Kennedy when he arrives by helicopter for a 15-minute, early afternoon visit. tlEWSCBRIEFS PUERTO RICO FEELS HURRICANE EDITH SAN JUAN, P.R. (UPI) Hurricans Edith slammed flood ing seas against the south coast of Puerto Rico today and pointed Its 100 mile n hour winds on a collision course with the Dominican Republic and Haiti. MILITARY PAY BILL APPROVAL SEEN WASHINGTON (UPI) The Sena(e it uperlrd today to approve the compromise $1.2 billion military pay raise bill de signed to encourage careers in the military. POPE CELEBRATES SSTH BIRTHDAY VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope Paul VI rrlrhrated his With birthday today In the fourth month of pontifical reign marked by promises of dramatic change ft the Roman Catholic church. to, Calif. It will have stops in Oakland and San Jose, Calif., before being ferried to Tulsa, Okla., where American Airline will revert it to its or iginal condition before presentation to the Smithsonian Institution for its National Air Mu seum. (Knackstedt photo) Advisory Group Is Asked to Decide on School Plan Soon The Citizens' Advisory Com mittee on Education should come to a conclusion as rapidly as possible concerning the sec ondary school situation in Dis trict 549C, Dr. Keith Goldham mer of the bureau of education al research said last night. . Once a decision is reached, ;he added, plans can be formu lated to proceed with providing facilities to maintain the qual ity school program offered in the district. Dr. Goldhammer was the sixth speaker at a series of gen eral meetings of the Citizens' Advisory Committee on Educa tion. Reviews Possibilities He reviewed various possibili ties for relieving present crowd ed conditions in the secondary schools in the district, while at the same time maintaining the quality program for which the district is recognized. In solving the problem, he said, the decision will not be how much the cost, but rather it will be to determine the best possible plan for developing the proper environment for the ed ucation of the children. His discussion centered around the "house plan" and the 6-2-2-2 organization. Dr. Goldhammer said he has considered the optimum size for a high school one with about 1,800 students, but he has visited schools in the east with as many as 3,000 students. Some of them, he added, have been organized into the "house plan," providing all the benefits of a small school and the advantages of a large schoql plant. Reorganization Necessary Organization of the house plan would require some administra- 66 Residents Cast Ballots in Election A total of 66 Jackson county residents have voted so far in the special tax referendum either by absentee ballot or at the county elections department, it was reported today. Persons who expect to be out of town on election day must vote prior to 5 p.m. Oct. 9, ac cording to County Clerk Marvin Madden. Persons voting after that time must sign statements of illness or that their absence from the county on election day results from an emergency. live reorganization, Dr. Gold hammer indicated, but this would not be hard to accom plish. Also discussed was the 6-2-2-2 plant, a plan which Dr. Gold hammer said should be consid ered along with other possibili ties. The district now operates on a 6-3-3 organization. In the 6-2-2-2 plan, the 7th and 8th grades could be housed in the present junior high schools, the 9th and 10th grades could utilize the present high school building, and the 11th and 12th grades would be housed in a new plant providing all the fa cilities now available for jun iors and seniors at the high school. Would Enhance Program Dr. Goldhammer said this plan would enhance the present program, rather than diminish it. He expressed concern about any plan which would have a tendency to reduce the educa tional program offered thus low ering the quality education now provided. The 6-2-2-2 plan, he said, ap pears to be worthy of considera tion. Dr. Goldhammer was of the opinion that the plan would result in maintaining quality while providing maxium use of facilities and keeping costs down. Dr. Goldhammer pointed out, however, that whatever decision is made and recommended by the citizens' committee the key issue should always be the kind of an educational program of fered the children. State May Rest Its Case in GP Trial GRANTS PASS - The state expected to rest its case today in the trial of Norman Stewart Thomas for first degree murder of Lloyd Miles Harper, 48, July 12. Thomas, 22. is expected to testify when the defense opens its case. Wednesday afternoon, D r . Russell Henry, chief state medi cal investigator, testified that the type of injury suffered by Harper could not have been caused by a fall from a car. It would have been virtually im possible, he stated, after de scribing the injury, for it to have occurred in such a man ner. Willis Born of Grants Pass identified a pocket knife and a cigarette lighter as property of Harper in the state's attempt to show that Harper's pockets had been emptied. The items identified were found at the scene of Harper's death, testi mony contended. Kliever Funeral Services friday SALEM (UPI)-Funeral serv ices for Maj. Gen. Paul L. Klie ver, 54, stale adjutant general, who died Wednesday, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the First Presbyterian church in Salem. A short military service will follow at Mount Crest Abbey mausoleum. Entombment will be krivate. o Regional Edition Medford 44 PAGES Five Senate Receives Tax Reduction Bill From House Lower Chamber Votes 271 To 155 WASHINGTON (UPI) - Pro pelled by a 271-155 House vote, the biggest tax cut in history reached the Senate today with President Kennedy pressing for final enactment before Christ mas. The Senators may balk at Kennedy's time-table. But most lawmakers figured it was a safe bet that some version of the $11 billion tax-cutting bill would be come law by early spring, if not sooner. The bill passed the House Wednesday night over strong Republican opposition. Assert ing that the nation can not have both tax relief and higher fed eral spending, most Republicans voted against final passage after the House defeated a GOP at tempt to attach budge t a r y strings to the tax cut. Major Victory House approval was a major victory for the President and Treasury Secretary Doug 1 a s Dillon. Kennedy said in Billings, Mont., that the action was a step toward saving the nation from limping from recession to re cession. Dillion said in a state ment here that the measure would help encourage the growth of the free enterprise system. The House bill would parcel out tax relief to virtually every taxpayer individual or cor poration. The relief would start in January, with two - thirds ef fective on 1964 income. When fully effective in 1965, the tax cuts would average 18.8 per cent for the nation's 50 million indi vidual taxpayers. Up to Committee The next step in the legislative process is up to the Senate Fi nance committee. Chair man Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) takes a dim view of cutting taxes at a time when the Treasury is run ning a deficit estimated at $9 billion a year. Starting late next week, Byrd's committee will hold closed sessions to get briefed by Treasury and congres s i o n a 1 staff tax experts on the pro visions of the 310-page House bill. Then the committee will start public hearings which are certain to extend well into November. Teen-Agers Admit Taking Vehicle Four tcen-aRe boys, students at McLoughlin Junior High school, were taken into custody by Medford police early this morning on a charge of auto theft. Under questioning, the youths, aged 12, 13, 13 and 14, admit ted they took an auto in Cen tral Point Tuesday night and went for a joy-ride around the area. The youngsters said at one point they siphoned about 10 gal lons of gasoline from a rental truck in a lot across from the Medford YMCA. They aban doned the auto near Jackson school when it developed a flat tire. They also admitted attempt ing to steal another car in Med ford last night, but gave up when they were unable to get the vehicle started. On the advice of juvenile au thorities, the boys were releas ed to the custody of their par ents pending court appearances. Dominican Republic Civilians Chosen SANTO DOMINGO, Domini- can Republic (UPI) The mill- tary men who deposed and ar- rested resident Juan uoscn were reported today to have nameo tnree civilians to ncaa a provisional government. Unofficial sources said Emilio de los Santos, who presided over the electoral board when Bosch was elected, had been named president and Ramon ffi'fS'Sl' a"d RcnS Puig' De Los Santos was well- known figure in the opposition the rule of the late dictator to Gen. Rafael L. Trujillo. Tapia, n otinmov mi wroiarv in ;the presidency in the provisional government which ran the Do- i minican Republic after the fall ! fl the Trujillos. Sections a fag t mi V - S C , t - -' - -i"ir3-nm REFINERY DAMAGED Four people were reported kilted when the U and I Sugar refinery at Moses Lake, Wash., was severly damaged by an explosion and fire Wednesday. Four Explosion at Sugar Beet Factory Kills Four; Three Others Missing Crews Digging Through Rubble For Survivors MOSES LAKE, Wash. (UPD Rescue workers probed through pulverized concrete and twisted steel today, trying to locate vic tims of an explosion which tore apart a seven-story sugar fac tory Wednesday and left at least four dead. Three bodies had been recov ered this morning and a fourth had been located. At least three men were miss ing and crews, using giant cranes, were digging through the rubble. "I don't see how anyone could be alive in there," a fireman said. Survival Hoped However, the Washington state patrol said there remained a faint hope that some of the missing had somehow survived the tremendous blast that rip ped the metal walls from the building. The bodies of two men, Albert Lapp and John Henry, both of Moses Lake, were recovered Wednesday evening. Workers, who labored by floodlight through the night, brought out the body of Leonard Darrell Abel, Moses Lake, this morning. The body of Jack Cain remained in the wreckage. The blast ripped through the $15 million facility, located three miles cast of here and owned by the Utah and Idaho Sugar Co., about 5 p.m. Wednesday. The plant was scheduled to be gin processing this year's multi million dollar sugar beet crop today. Four Silos Wrecked The blast left four of eight 150-foot high sugar beet storage silos nothing but jagged stumps of from 20 to 30 feet high. Sur rounding fields were littered with chunks of glass brick, twist ed steel and concrete from the silos. The main building of the plant located onlv a few yards from the silos, had all the concrete blown away from it and was nothing but a skeleton of twist- cd structural steel. Two cars : parked nearby were flattened. Regular Workers Gone , xtt casualties might have (, nigner narl l( not ,,,, (or , tne (act tnat &e reguar work force of m mcn a work haU nour More the explosion d-.,,-.! I Cause of the blast still was not 'u"y exP,aincd hours aflcr it occurred, but firemen said it I h.?,l)Tned.'n 8 sil? I""1'"" filled with sugar beets near where the sheet metal firm "ew was working. There were reports, unconfirmed, that the , workmen had been using torches i of Jnme sort. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, Plaques Awarded For No Lost-Time Accidents at PP&L A total of 138 employees and guests of Pacific Power and Light company, Copco division, witnessed the presentation of two plaques for no loss time ac cidents for a year last night at the Rogue Valley Country club. Claud Haggard, safety direc tor for the Copco division, capped the ceremonies with an account of a life-saving opera tion during the Oct. 12 storm damage repair period. Frank Bencsh, Medford dis trict manager, received the State Industrial Accident com mission's safety plaque from William Callahan, SIAC com missioner. William Tucker, dis trict line superintendent and L. D. Glass, district safety com mittee chairman, received the Basic School Fund Reductions Outlined SALEM (UPI) - Impact of a $15 to $.10 million cut in basic school funds for the 1964-65 school year was outlined at Wednesday's meeting of the Governor's Advisory Commit tee on Education. House Tax Committee Chair man Richard Eymann (D-Mar- rnlnl anrl Ktnto Hon RirhnrH Kennedy ( D - Eugene) advised the legislature might be forced to make such a cut if the tax measure is defeated at the Oct. 15 special election. Eymann asked Public In struction Supt. Minear to deter mine what cuts would be made in case of both a $15 million and a $30 million reduction. Minear listed these examples: Baker $79,047 to $158,125, Cor vallis $294,709 to $490,901; As toria $51,092 to $102,2(15; Coos Bay $269,975 to $520,033; Bend $162,342 to $288,053; Medford $386,561 to $699,979; Klamath County unit $168,147 to $336,- 358; Eugene $750,028 to S1.4l. 676; Ontario $110,702 to $246,. 309; Salem $7:i6,9;il to $1,255,. 018: Portland $1,990,691 to $3 982.146; Hcrmiston $54,946 to $122,112; La Grande $129,971 to j $228,357; and The Dalles $117, 012 to $200,253. WEATHER PORKCAST: Filr, hot tnd dry thrmith Friday, t.tiw tonight AS and hllli Friday 91. Temp. lllihMl Vtrrty . 3 Lowcil Thli Mnrnlni 4S Our Skies Tonight Siimrt today l:ft P-m. Miinrhr tomorrow 7:04 a.m. Thf Moon, rldlni low tonight, hpU tomorrow at 12:41 a.m. lull Moon (HarvMt Moon) on. j Jitpllrr takM nrarlv 12 yrari to go around the sun. In Oe tohrr. rt.W It was at 114 great ett dlilanre from the sun on lu orbit: today Jupiter ti In peri helion, that nnlnt nn Ita orbit nra)rrH to the Attn. Tribune r" M rs. of the eight silos at the plant of unkown origin. (UPI) PP&L gold plaque from Don Frisbce, vice president and treasurer of the company. Telegrams Are Read C o n g r a tulatory telegrams were read from Paul B. McKee, chairman of the PP&L board of directors, and from General Manager Albert Bauer, both of Portland. Harold (Hal) Gard ner, formerly of the Medford of fice and now in Portland as ad ministrative assistant, repre sented Bauer at the dinner. The SIAC commissioner prais ed the 1(15 men and seven wom en employees of the Medford district for their safety record. fie also paid "special tribute to Bill Callendar, a local PP&L office employee, for his spirit in continuing to work although confined to a wheelchair. Ten years ago he was thrown off a 30-foot pole when a tree fell against the line on which he was working. Frisbce told the men that as of 1:30 p:m. Jan. 27, 1967, the Medford district should have a million man hours worked with out a lost-time accident. Kenneth Phillip, business agent for the local of the Elec trical Workers union, suggested crews work for no accidents a day at a time to achieve the million man hours of no lost- time accidents. Relates Incident Haggard related a life-saving incident which occurred Oct. 22 while crews were repairing storm damage. A convoy of five trucks was headed north, and one of them had a damaged tail pipe which was leaking carbon dioxide fumes. Without realizing the cause, one man became drowsy and went to sleep. When the driver became sleepy, he pulled off to the side of the road and asked a fellow worker to drive. Then he realized what had happened and pushed his part ner out of the truck into the fresh air. They dragged the un conscious man out. Lloyd Brown, Copco division, received a Medford Safety Council plaque for his resuscita tion of fellow worker M. D. Shaw. He applied both closed chest compression and moulh to nose resuscitation, Haggard noted. Moe Collins was praised for his part in the life-saving operation. FIRE DANGER HIGH PORTLAND (UPI) - Forest fire danger rose sharply in Ore Ron today just two days before the start of the deer hunting season. Unseasonably warm, dry weather brought the danger in Southern Oregon to "high to extreme," the Weather Bureau sfld. 58th Year Price 10 Cents 1963 No. 162 - r " 'Wgi, .Tt TV were destroyed by the blast, Tax Referendum Will Be Subject Of Area Meetings The Oregon tax referendum election set Oct. 15 will be sub ject of a group of meetings at which members of the Oregon legislature,, which passed the tax program, will be speakers in the near future. State Sen. Lyndel Ncwbry and State Rep. John Dcllenback will speak on the measure at the September meeting of the Jack son County Young Republicans ai b p.m. f riday, Sept. 27, at Ping's restaurant on North Pa cific highway. Lloyd Bishop, president of the Young Republi cans, announced the meeting, urging all Republicans, ages 18 through 40, to attend. The same evening, Dcllen back will give an explanation of the tax program over tele vision. He is scheduled to speak at 6:30 p.m. over KMED-TV, Channel 10. Will Explain Voles The Jackson county represen tative will emphasize what both "yes" and "no" votes will mean when the voters go to the polls Oct. 15, and will explain the principal provisions of the tax bill. An open meeting will be held in the Lincoln Elementary school in Ashland at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, for the same purpose. It will be sponsored by the Ashland Junior Chamber of commerce and the Ashland unit of the League of Women Voters. Speakers will he Rep. James Redden, Rep. Ed Branchfild and Rep. Dcllenback of Medford, and Senator Newbry of Ash land. Phil Selby, representing the Junior Chamber of Commerce, will act as moderator, and Mrs. Irving Lord, president of the League of Women Voters, will introduce the speakers. Truck Driver Demands Talk With President WASHINGTON (UP!) - A small plumbing truck, its driver screaming: "1 want to see the President, the Communists are taking over in North Carolina," crashed through iron gates to the White House today. Driven by a man Identified as Doyle Allen Hicks, 38, of Wayncsville, N.C., the truck finally was brought to a stop almost at the north portico of the executive mansion by a White House guard. Hicks, who was unarmed, was taken into custody by Secret Service agents and later carried to the D.C. General Hospital for observation. The incident occurred about i noon. The two big iron gates at ' thej northwest entrance were Tight Security Guard Surrounds Joseph Valachi Informer Appears Calm, Unafraid WASHINGTON (UPI)-Under- world turncoat Joseph Valachi gave Senate investigators a 2'i hour rundown today on opera tions of the nationwide criminal syndicate "Cosa Nostra." The stocky, crew-cut Valachi, who will tell his story publicly Friday, was under tight security guard against any possible un derworld attempt on his life for violating gangland's code of secrecy. One member of the Senate in vestigations sucommittee said the former mobster - murderer appeared "perfectly coopera tive." Behind Closed Doors His disclosures were made be hind closed doors. The area was heavily guarded by Capitol po lice and federal marshals. The man who provided what the Justice Department called an "intelligence breakthrough" about "Cosa Nostra" seemed calm and unafraid as he walked in and out of the hearing room. When the session ended. Vala chi and chief U.S. Marshal James P. McShane entered the men's room. Valachi emerged a few minutes later, puffing on a cigarette, and was whisked away to the District of Columbia jail where he is being held. Feels Fine A reporter asked Valachi how he felt and how the morning's session went. "Fine, fine," he replied in a low voice. Sen. Edmund ' Muskie CD Maine) ' a subcommittee mem ber, said Valachi was "perfect ly cooperative in describing his former underworld connec tions.' . ." Muskie said Valachi spoke in a kind of. "code" which requir ed frequent interruptions to make sure what he- meant. He said,' foriexample,. that Valac.ii said- "'family'1 when he meant gang .and used other gangland terms which were unfamiliar to the senators. Flanked by Marshals In deference to the gangland offer for his death, Valachi was flanked by U.S. marshals when he arrived at the caucus room. His ruddy face was expres sionless until reporters and pho tographers began swarming around him. Kennedy Attacks Ike's Policies GREAT FALLS, Mont. (UPI) President Kennedy today at tacked the electric power poli cies of the Eisenhower admin istration. The touring Democratic Chief Executive seemed to show new zest in his contacts with west ern voters. Until today, Kennedy s criti cism of the Republicans had been somewhat muted. He de voted himself largely to praise for Democrats and what tlwy had done to preserve and ad vance conservation and recla mation, and protect natural re sources, particularly in the up per Plains States. His speech prepared for de livery here today took a differ ent and stronger tack, however. Kennedy was specific in his criticism of Eisenhower admin istration power policies and practices. At one point he re ferred to "blunders" of the years immediately preceding his election to the White House. And he spoke of exploitation by private interests permitted by another administration. He did not call the former president by name, but he did name one of the Eisenhower Cabinet officers the late In terior Secretary Douglas Mc Kay. He reported proudly how the current interior secretary, Stewart L. Udall, had replaced McKay's policies to the public's benefit. closed when the truck, which belongs to the Hicks Heating & Plumbing Co., of Wayncsville, suddenly crashed through them. The President was touring in the West today. Mrs. Kennedy and her two children are in Washington. An eyewitness said: "He came barrelling right through over the sidewalk and through the gates." He was literally carried into a patrol wagon as he demanded to see the President: "I tell you, hoys, you'd belter get down to North Carolina, t tell you, you'd better get down. You'd better get down there and see what s going on. They re I killing people like f
