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SAi 1 mm IMJ u regoo Voter Turnout Regional Edition Loght Cloudy Weather, Rain Discourage Ballot Markers Political Leaders To Analyze Returns PORTLAND (UPI) - Voting was light in overcast weather during the first hours today as Oregonians decided the fate of the legislature's $60 million tax increase measure. A slow pace was reported from Portland, Salem, Bend, Corvallis and Medford. Corval lis and Portland estimated about 10 per cent of the voters had cast ballots in the first two hours with Salem reporting from 10 to 15 per cent. One Corvallis precinct report ed only 4 out of 183 of those registered voted in the tirst hour and a half. Whether late voting would bring the final figure up to the some 400.000 forecast was un known. The weather was cloudy i over most of the state with rain reported in Eugene, Roseburgi 1 l If I J.. ki. mnxn- ing. First in 16 Years Today's was the first special i tax election in Oregon in it years. On Oct. 7, 1947, voters rejected a cigarette tax which had been referred by the people, and a sales tax which the legislature referred. Today's was the fourth single issue statewide election in Ore gon's history. Only once before has a tax bill been salvaged after its re ferral by the people. That was in 1930. The state's political leaders will be carefully analyzing elec tion returns to attempt to deter mine the public's wishes. If the measure is defeated, will it mean voters don't like this tax bill, or will it mean they want to curb expanding state services? At issue today was a measure which would raise an additional $50 million needed to finance the state's two-year $404 mil lion general fund budget. Special Session Eyed The measure would increase the personal income tax take by $48 million, pick up $12 mil lion from a speedup in collec tions of withholding taxes, case capital gains provisions, and in crease the corporate excise tax. A defeat probably would result in a special session of the legislature being called in about three weeks. Immediate cuts would be ordered in some services and education would be the target for major cutbacks. lis w ? II p t ! In mi A SLt4i I I wJ i -i in ii ALBINO PORCUPINE Willis W. Hodge, route 2, box 13B, Sterling creek, Jacksonville, is pictured above with an albino porcupine which he killed Oct. 12 on Poorman's creek near the summit. Hodge said that so far he has found no one who has known of an albino porcupine. He was hunting that day with his son, Robert Hodge, a Medford High school senior, and William Lowell, Central Point. Hodge, employed at Cascade Wood Products company. White City, and his family have lived at their home located near Buncom for 17 years. Often Mrs. Hodge, and their daughter, Beatrice Hodge, a 1962 Medford High school graduate, accompany Hodge and Robert on porcupine hunting trips. Miss Hodge said the albino porcupine probably weighed about 23 to 30 pounds. (Knacksted photo) Pollution of Bear Creek Discussed at Association Meeting Clearing up the pollution of cussion were Bob Coi lhell of Bear Creek, goal of various agencies, claimed the attention of representatives of federal, state, county and city govern ments last night at the meeting of the Rogue Basin Flood Con trol and Water Resources asso ciation at the Rogue Riviera. The need for additional stream flow. The plan is to obtain this through the Rogue Basin Proj ect. The benefits will require the cooperation of all agencies. The program involves the re the stale game commission; Bob Rolufson of the fish commission, and Malcolm Karr, chief engi neer of the State Water Re sources board. Jackson county government representatives presenting opin ions were Commissioners Don Faber and Ed Taylor. Robert Haworth of the parks and rec reation commission of the city of Medford spoke from the local level. Patrons of the various ir rigation districts involved in the streamflow project were pres- 24 Pages Two Sections building of irrigation canals and en( as observers. Interstate Paving Work Half Complete Paving on the north Ashland-south-Ashland interchange sec tion of Interstate 5 is about 50 per cent complete, according to Peter Kiewit Sons' company of ficials. Grading on the contract of Interstate 5 from south Ashland to Wall Creek is progressing, and with weather permitting most of the excavation work is expected to be completed by Dec. 1. Two nine-hour shifts are work ing five days a week on the project. Following the completion of the grading, the surfacing con tract is expected to be open for bid during the construction sea son next year. an exchange of water between existing water users. The big problem, it was emphasized, is justifying water usage without adding costs to tne present us ers. As one observer commented "Bear Creek is a very important stream. It grows more import ant as a solution of its problems is sought." Presides at Meeting Henry Stewart of the Corps of Engineers presided at the meet ing. John Mangrum of the bureau of reclamation presented the problems of diverting water from the proposed Rogue Basin Project into the flow of Bear creek and its tributaries. Jim Britton of the public health service discussed some of the problems the people of Jack son county would encounter in cleaning up Bear creek, stress ing sewage control, i Others participating in the dis- Blockade Seen More Serious Than Admitted Officials See 'Salami Tactics' WASHINGTON (UPl) - A considerable number of U. S. officials believe the recent Ber lin flareup has much nore seri us meaning than the Kennedy administration has publicly ad mitted. They do not accept the ad ministration's theory that the theory that the two-day block ade of a U.S. Army convoy on the Berlin highway last week was an innocent "misunder standing." They believe it was another attempt at so -called Russian "Salami taetics" the gradual slicing away of t h e Western position in Berlin. For years, these officials ar gue, the U.S. Army rolled con voys through Russian check points on the highway, and the United states itsen aeciaea which convoys would unload passengers to be counted by the Russian guards as a cour tesy" and which would not. Never Told Russians The United States arbitrarily decided that convoys carrying more than 30 troop-passengers, not counting the two-main crew of each vehicle, would dismount while smaller convoys would not. But it never told the Rus sians the critical number 30 on grounds that the Russians had "no right to demand that any convoy dismount. Some officials believe the most probable reason the Rus sians halted last week a con voy 14 hours at one end of the highway and nearly 33 hours at the other end was that hey were dissatisfied with this stale of affairs. The upshot of the incident was that the State Department, for the first time, outlined to Soviet officials the U.S, operat ing procedure, including the critical number, 30. In doing so, it specifically declared that the U.S. would change its pro cedure whenever it pleased and conceded no rights. Change of Procedure Some officials think the Rus sians may as the diplomats claim have thought the United States was suddenly changing its procedure. The convoy ihat was halted had 18 vehicles and 61 men. But 36 of these men were crew members, who nave never dismounted for muster. There were only 25 passengers, less than two per vehicle, some of which were large trucks. This was an unusually low number of passengers per vehi cle, and it is possible the Rus sians thought the convoy con tained more men than it did. In either case some officials feel the United States now faces the problem of how to keep the 30-man rule from be ing permanent. Some have urged that the U.S. Army now deliberately change its proce dure with a test convoy, possi-1 they would not disturb or molest bly announcing it publicly in an animal in Crater Lake Na advance. tional park again nor carry fire Whether this would result in i arms without a permit a new confrontation, no one could predict. Diplomats of United Mates "4LAJLT 58th Year Price 10 Cents Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1963 No. 178 Pathet Lao Said Holding American Air Crew Captive Ambassador Gets Confirming Letter VIENTIANE, Laos (UPD Laos's "Red" Prince Souphan ouvong said today that the Communist Paihet Lao have taken prisoner the crew of an Air America transport plane shot down in the Tchcpone area last month. Souphanouvong's statement was made in a letter addres sed to U.S. Ambassador Leon ard Unger. The letter confirmed for the first time that Soup hanouvong had received a let ter from Ungcr dated Sept. 9 and inquiring after the fate of the crew and officers of the plane, which was shot down while on a contract supply mis sion for the royal Lao govern ment. Violation Charged The letter charged that the plane was violating the Geneva agreement on the "liberated zone," and added that Soup- hanouvong had personally seen documents indicating the plane was on a military mission at the time it was shot down. Earlier reports said t h e plane, a Dakota belonging to Air America, a charter com pany, was supplying rice to the population in a remote area loyal to the central government when it strayed too near a well known Pathet Lao antiaircraft battery and was brought down. There was still no infor mation on the identity of the prisoners, however. Both Air America and the embassy have maintained a tight Hp on the names of the three men who went down with the craft. linn mmmmmmmmmmmmmA.mMm3mimtmmmmma ft. raiiia-ii'ii'v.ii.'.v.ivi.titt RKIGN ENDS Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, left, who led West Germany from ruin and retreat to prosperity and Western partner ship, today ended his 14 years and one month in office. Ludwig Erhard, right, now vice- chancetlur and economics minister, is the agreed choice of the Christian Democratic Free Democratic coalition and will become chancellor Oct. 16. (UPI) Adenauer Officially uits Government Post ounn lurw-ine mienauer i ne saia me greatest develop-, He warned his successors era came to an end at higts ment of his administration was i aeainst trvine to make a sens. rale deal with Russia in hopes world. of reuniting West Gernanv with When he came to power, he said, the Germans names was a curse. Today, the German name again rings true, he said. Algerian Troops Clear Disputed Sahara Outposts Talks Scheduled On Border Claims ALGIERS (UPI) The Alger ian government said today Al gerian forces have driven Mo roccan troops from two dispute ed Sahara outposts in a two-day battle. A bulletin, broad cast at 1 p.m. (9 a.m. EDT) by the gov eminent controlled Algiers Ra dio. said: "Troops of the Algerian Na tional and Popular Army (ANP have cleared out fhi Hasst Beida and Tmjotib sec tors." The announcement fottowed official reports in both Algiers and the Moroccan capital oi Robat that fighting had re sumed today. The posts are in a bordef area claimed by both nations. Radio Algiers said that "thou sands of Algerians" are besieg ing barracks to ask for arm "to defend the threatened west ern frontier." There was no immediate in dication of the numbers of men involved in today's fighting nor the extent to which the combat zone had spread. But reports of Sfonday's re capture of the two posts by tha Moroccans said l,sm men wera engaged on each side. Today King Hassan awaited; the arrival in Marrakesh of two Algerian emissaries to discus the border dispute. King Hassan said in a tele vision speech Monday night he was willing to settle the dispata through talks. noon today as the West German the recovery of friends in the chancellor officially retired from the government and re- Ranger Interrupts Men Urging Bear From Park for Kill Most hunters know that Ihey can't hunt within the bound aries of Crater Lake National park. But two had to learn that you can't "nudge a bear outside the boundaries either, U. S. Com missioner Frank VanDyke re ported today. Commissioner VanDyke fined Wallace L. Gideon, 2, and Ro bert E. Monasco, 24, both of Medford, $50 each for such an attempt, then suspended $35 of each fine on the condition that turned to his parliamentary seat as a deputy. "Der Alte", just three months short of his 88th birthday, thanked the German people for their help, then returned to the seat he left 14 years and one month ago today to become the first West German chancellor. "But 1 won't just listen," he promised the parliament, "I'll talk, .too.". . .... ...... Can Hold Ha!s Up Reviewing his years in office, beginning in the days when this country was a rubble heap and; ending when it is the world's second greatest trading nation, Adenauer told parliament proudly : "We Germans can agam waiK with our heads up." Communist East Germany. "The solution of the German problem, he said, "is not pos- Voters Turning Out In Good Kumbers Voters were turning out in good numbers today at the court- tlEWS(V)BRIEFS RIMS hom m 1 M0UN0 THI 0l0U Test Some Theories The fish commission would like to participate in the Bear Creek project to test some of the theories involved in the re- Acf ahlichtnoni nf Damp fich in a stream that has been polluted i Britain, France and West Ger- through the years, it w a s """'J vlau lu '"-" stressed week for a "post mortem "We firmly believe that a good I analysis of the entire incident. run of Silver salmon could Be brought back into Bear Creek waters. There is already a siz able run of steelhead in the stream and with water quality control that run could be ma terially increased," the agency representative stated. "It is our creek can be re-established as a clear and healthy stream," Ha worth said. "There are three parks now being planned on its banks and trails for horseback riding and hiking are on the drawing board." Britton noted that Bear creek in its present "state" docs not compliment the city of Medford but is seen by occupants of a million cars traveling its banks on the freeway. He contended that if the people involved will live up to their responsibilities and refrain from indiscriminate New York Air-Taxi Service Grounded NEW YORK (UPi - New York Airways grounded all its "air-taxi" service today as Civil Aeronautics Board inves tigators sought to determine if metal fatigue in a rotor blade caused a fiery helicopter crash that killed six persons Monday. All six persons aboard the 25 s e a t, twin - blade craft died when the helicopter fell from (he sky, crashed and burned en OAK RIDGE EMPLOYES GO ON STRIKE OAK RIDGE. Tenn. (UPI) An estimated I.OM) employes of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Y-12 nuclear plant walked off their jobs and threw up picket lines early today. GEN. PARK LEADS IN SOUTH KOREA VOTING SEOUL, Korea (l'Pl Ex-Gcn. Park Chung lice forRtd into a slight lead on the basis of early returns today from elections to choose I civilian president for South Korea after nearly two and t half vears of military junta rule. Three More Held For Theft Series Medford police yesterday ar rested three more teen-age Med- i c i i : ,;tv, Lnn. ,l,, o-o-.iuiu uuva m cuiiiiemuii.-i mt o hope that Bear, ' . . , , , automatic coin machines. Two of the youths were lodged in juvenile detention home, along with two other boys who were arrested Sunday as they attempted to break into Nye and Naumes Packing company, 61!) South Grape st. ine siory roc.s use ui. . ti,keof al idlewilfi Airport u """(Three of the victims were were working for a contractor Lrewmembers inc!uding a 2l. in the park, started to Medford w stewardesSi M8rja R, They saw a bear about one half Fou t of Northport N.y. mile within the park boundary. A 'prenary investigation They had a 30 caliber Winches- iu ,1a ;r'iin.ue, um. ter with them and they decided ,he crash was C3tised b to nudge he bear out of the a fracture in one of file two pare ana snoot mm. rolor.blades, usually the result Patrolling West Itoad i . . . . .iol Ranger Ray Allen, patrolling! p ' the west road, came along about that time and he was better in formed regarding all ramifica tions of park laws. The two were cited for violations of the sec- tinn rnfnmna in rhami flntt disturbing animals within the ; ' ent Kennedy recently got a nark-to wit a bear; also with ' closer look at the rugged Rogue J.r.rrvino an assembled fire arm Kivcr country of Oregon than rnntaininc live ammunition. I the congressman representing A complaint was tiled and me the area found comfortable, hearing was conducted Oct. 12 j Rep. Robert B. Duncan, D- Crater Lake Natton.il par ; " ui Suggestions Made By Park Commission The Jackson county parks and recreation commission vdted to make two recommendations to the county court after last night's regular meeting. It recommended a five year j contract for the Lily Glen rmmg stables at Howard Prairie as an extension of the present short term lease. It also will recommend to the county court that the Elk Creek hatchery site be developed as a recreation area in cooperation with the Oregon state game commission. The area is heavily used by fishermen, it was point ed out. It covers 33 acres on both sides of the Rogue river and Elk creek. The parks commission plans to install rest rooms and a gar bage service there with approval of the county court. Picnic fa cilities and creation of an area for over-night camping may come later, it was suggested. The commission will discuss a policy statement as a guide for its operations during its Nov. 4 meeting. It may follow the na tional recreation policy suggest ed for counties by the National Association of Counties. sible only between us and the j house potting places and ia tha adversary, we need ear mends. Central Point area bat the vote Thank God we have found I was tight in many Medford and friends in the world. Imagine t outlying areas, according to ob what Germany would be today t servers. If we had not again Sound ( The Jackson county elections friends." t department expects to start re- Adenauer, dressed Is his eus-l cetving the results of the vote oa ternary blaac cutaway and striped trousers, made his last appearance as chancellor be fore the parliament that first ejected mm m iMft Ballot Measure. No. 1 between 8; 30 and 9 o'clock tonight. "The vote counting proeediirtf will be extremely simple," ac cording to Mrs. Clarke Ander- He Witt keep his Bundestag JL" seat, representing his home dis-l rr- I :i i" '" ' trict of Wn surrounding 5nbf'iStflr 'f them'. f piles I area, and will be the oldest member of the house. But the Adenauer era, one of the most remarkable and chal lenging periods in German his tory, was over, and the nation awaited the start of a new era Wednesday when Ludwig Er hard becomes chancellor. Government Report Due on Cancer Drug WASHINGTON UP!) The! government was expected to re port today that a study of med ical records of 504 patients who were given Krebiezen failed to establish the value of the drug as a cancer treatment Officials of tee Department of Health, Education and Welfare scheduled a press briefing for 2 p.m., EDT, today on the Na tional Cancer Institute's often postponed report on its study of the records. then the clerks will count The clerks will switch for a cross check ami com Dare figures." she said. City offices were open today, but county and stale offices were closed. Radio and television stations reported they would break in periodically, starting at 9 o'clock tonight, with the elections re sults. They expected to have a fairly complete tally by It o' clock tonight. fire Department nvesttgaf es Caffs The Medford fire department Is making an investigation ot false alarms in the 300 bloc'4 of Edwards st. following another call to that area Stonday. Firemen went out at iA7 p.nu but could find no fire. False alarms from that block have been a frequent occurrence re cently, a department spekesmaa said. JFK Plane Dropped Too Low for Duncan WASHINGTON (UP!) Pres- Birch Society Feels Administration's Purpose Is to Merge With Socialists tw ,w.a ..;.u ,c Morp IL S. Commissioner van- m tne i-rcstocm s lour-engine to the custody of his parents be- Dyke. ! ""ft cause the detention home is fil- VanDyke said the two men , mettled on the light today m a led to capacity. i were frank about the conditions ; newsletter to his const taenia. PoL said today at least one of the charges. They were deti- "The pilot dropped the huge more youngster is involved in ! nitely disturbing the bear. They plane lower by a couple of the thefts and break and nnlrics. j knew it was against the to , thousand feel . Uu I would have Hp will be arrested shortly. ( hunt within the park boundaries i dared were I at the controls, it., f ih, drum u'iiK ihe ' itj. ,,n Monuu 1 K.,i iWou ihruioht once the bear i Duncan said. help of federal agencies. Bear the youngsters admitted break' j was outside the boundaries : , "I even raised my feet o!f Creek can become a true asset, m int0 automatic coin ma- they were urging him along) it he deck m an e fort to top . r ri,io in ih w. .u.. ii ,n(f,.ni w-iinns u,,,m ho Incut to ki the animal, them out of the trcctops, he a WUac 1 piiuv, ... ... -- i tllll!t-3 ' Utlllltm . nuu.u - ,, , ford community. MULTNOMAH HOTEL TO BE RETIREMENT HOME PORTLAND (CPU The Multnomah Hotel here will be converted Into a 419-unit retirement home next tpring. It wai announced today. foreign Educators To Visit Bonneville ; lAteA riwantlv Thou altn 1 confessed to breaking into four i different businesses. Officers said a total of IB sepa- j rate cases have been cleared j so far as a result of the arrests. PORTLAND (LP!) A group. Aces of the youths range from of 23 foreign educators will visit , 13 t0 is. Bonneville Dam on the Colum-, bia River Thursday. Col. Stert-! UINVKR CHAIRMAN !ing K. Eisiminger. Portland PORTLAND L'PI State j Army District engineer, said to- Sen. Alfred Corbctt. D-Portland, I day. has been named chairman of a ROCKEFELLER SEES MILLIONS JOBLESS The visitors are from Iran. , Democratic fund-raising dinner BUFFALO, N.Y. (UPI) Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller tola an Uruguay. Mexico, Poland. 1 here ivov. g at wnicn aen. uan- udience of United Sleelworkeri members tnd mnr leaders Nepal. Norway, Norea. nong.iei i. inouje, u-nooii will Monday night frat unlets the present national growth rale In- Kong, Italy, India and Smga- speak. I pore. Tickets are $10 each. WEATHER nitrht. ptth t mrmm i Otrairal nmnv P'rtodt; VVXIupmUv, l.nw tnntfhl 4. : Hisb W fdnf dy R. 1mp MUhrtl trrttav . f nwetr Thrs Mmntng . Our Skies Tonight IKinirt Miv A 3J P m. Mmrt' tnmnrmw .... .m. Mioatlft lomorrow m. Nw Moon . OlI. 17 Orion, (hf romlf Nation that. 1 10 prominent in thr fvfntm kv fvrv WfnOr, now h fnr mttlntchf mrl t tn Ul mfnrt hrforo tmnrtk-. added 1 i Duncan is s former navy pi ! Slot ! i Thn Oregon Democrat said the I President s plane followed the j ; river through the mmmiainyus 1 j country and made a circle over j ! the site of the Apptcgate Dam, 1 ' "tie expressed his support lor : the project," Duncan said. FRANCHISE GRANTED PHILOMATH SLPI Philo math's City Council granted a franchise to Northwest Natural Gas Company to distribute nat ural gas here at its meeting Monday night. 03 G "We think our present admin istration's purpose is to merge with a one world socialist government and we feel this is wrong," John If. Roussclot, western states district governor of the John Birch society, said in a lecture in Medford Monday night. Roussclot. a congress man from southern Califronia during 19fil and 1962, addressed an audience of about 300 at the Hoover school. "We are striving," he -..aid of the Birch society, "by all hon orahte means at our disposal and to the limits of our energies and abilities, to bring about less government, more individual responsibility, and a better world." "Because the commit n I s t s seek, always and everywhere," he said, "to bring about more government, less individual re sponsibility, and a completely amoral world, we feci we should opjfuse them at every turn." Blueprint for Surrender Roussclot went on to charge that the United States program for disarmament is a "blueprint for surrender" and that this contention has not been brought to the attention of the American public because "the news media has buried the story." j lie uiuu iiiuae jjitrai'ut iu is1 quest a tun scaie investiga tion of the State department:" support HR 3613, a House of Representatives bill to abolish the disarmament agency; en courage more organizations to "deal with what the communist conspiracy really isr" and strive to develop a greater sense of spiritual conviction ia public life. Roussclot said he thought the idea of Use United States negoti ating disarmament with the So viet Union was simitar to tne Chicago police department call ing in Al Capone and saying, "There have been a few too many murders around here, so let s draw up a treaty. Answers Questions The former congressman spoke for about an hour-amf-a- half, then answered questions for half an hour. The audience was orderly ami there were no incidents. Two city police otti- ecrs were present. One of those submitting ques tions tried to inject an anti- Semitic note, but Rousstlot said he thought csmraanism was the "sum total of most collectivist ideas" and that "it would be un fair to blame any one race." In oronounding his case against disarmament, Roussclot based major part of his ob jection on the nature of the United Nations. "The UN is in fact a full instrument of the e o m m u n ist conspiracy," he charged. He said he thought too targe a percentage of the UN's per sonnet was composed of commu nists, ine UN under-secrctary general for political and security council affairs, whs is in ebarga of the UN military agency, its atomic energy agency and dis armament agency, has always been a communist," he said. "The UN sent thousands of troops to the Congo, where they slaughtered all kinds of people, but no one to Hungary." Other Major Emphasis The other major emphasis of Rousselot's talk was on the dis armament program of the United States, which he said is designed to place almost all oi the nation's armed forces under the control of the UN. He traced the development rf this program, including the en actment of legislation in I9SI to establish the U.S. Arms Ctwteol and Disarmament agency, Rous selot, then in Congress, voted against its formation. He charged that the U.S. pro gram is quite similar to one pro posed by Nikita Khrushchev be fore the UN in 1S5. He argwsdj that H is tantamount to stirrers der because "the Russians hav never kept a treaty and don't intend to keep one." : At a press conference earlier m the day, ne predicted mat ma Soviets would get around the test ban treaty by "getting the Chinese to do their testing for them." creases, there mil oe nine tv j . iw. i f 0 (2) O
