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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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