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22 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1963 No. 203
LANDMARK BURNS Firemen are shown waging a hopeless
battle as a portion of the Cliff House, famous San Francisco
landmark, is completely destroyed by fire. The lack of ade
Tax Committee
Votes 'One-Shot'
Revenue Measure
SALEM (UPI) -The gover
nor's "one-shot" bill to raise $12
million this biennium by speed
ing up the turnover of withhold
ing taxes to the state won the
approval of the House Tax
Committee today.
The committee sent the mea
sure to the House floor for ac
tion on a 10-1 vote. Rep. Joe
Rogers, R-Independence, a sales
tax sponsor, cast the only dis
senting vote.
The bill is one-half of Gov.
Mark Hatfield's program to deal
with Oregon's $60 million fiscal
crisis, caused by voter defeat of
a tax program passed last
spring.
More Budget Cutting
The other half of Hatfield's
program calls for more budget
cutting. He has asked the legis
lature to give him authority to
trim basic school support and
other budgets which he cannot
now touch. He already has
, done considerable cutting in
; areas where he has allotment
control.
The one-shot tax bill would re
quire employers to remit with
holding taxes to the state on a
monthly basis instead of the
present quarterly basis. The ef
fect would be to give the state
two extra months of payments
in the 1963-65 biennium.
The House Tax Committee
. continued to consider sales and
cigarette tax proposals.
Phoenix Rejects
Bids for Building
PHOENIX The board of
Phoenix School District No. 4
last night voted to reject all bids
on construction of a gymnasium,
cafeteria and music room at
the Talent Junior High School.
New bids will be called for in
the near future, district officials
said.
Ausland Construction Co. of
Grants .Pass had been the ap
parent low bidder on the proj
ect. Its bid was $190,950 for the
basic contract with three alter
nates. Seven other firms also
submitted bids.
The new facilities would be
housed in a 16,800 square foot
adi-"tion to the school.
NEWS(Q)BRIEF$
GUANTANAMO MARINES SAID AGGRESSIVE
HAVANA (UPI) Cuban Armed Forces Minister Raul Castro
charged Tuesday night that U.S. Marines at Guantanamo Naval
Base have been waging "constant aggression" against Cuba and
"opening fire" on Cuban troops.
ARREST OF PROFESSOR
MOSCOW (UPI) U.S. Ambassador Foy D. Kohlcr today
strongly protested to the Soviet Union against the arrest on spy
charges of Vale University Professor Frederick C. Barghoorn and
"requested his rclcnse rortnwim.
MME. NHU SCHEDULES FLIGHT TO ROME
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (UPI) Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu and her
daughter, Le Thuy, were again scheduled to fly to Rome today for
i long-postponed reunion with the three younger children of the
former first lady of South Viet Nam.
KLAMATH FALLS
KLAMATH FALLS (UPI)
plane caught fire while preparing
the blaze was quickly put out ana
Cliff House Area
At San Francisco
Destroyed by Fire
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) A
five-alarm fire roared through
San Francisco's Cliff House
area Tuesday night, but the
world famous restaurant was
spared.
The wind-whipped blaze, which
sent flames shooting 100 feet
into the air, gutted a series; of
shops which were bordered by
the restaurant to the south and
the historic Sutro Baths to the
north: ".i'.-r-yi'.'i r '.:
Pavilion Destroyed
Among the buildings destroyed
were the gift shop and antique
pavilion where thousands of his
toric relics were kept on display
for sightseers.
About 270 firemen with 69
Medford Man
Declared Guilty
DENVER (UPI) -A U.S. Dis
trict Court jury Tuesday con
victed two building supply com
pany employes of fraud in con
nection with federal home im
provement loans.
Defendants were Theodore J.
Venable, 44, of Medford, Ore.,
and Thomas M. Roth, 32, of
Rockford, - 111. Both are former
employes of Statewide Builders
Supply Co. of Denver.
They were accused of illegally
enticing prospective customers
for aluminum siding to apply for
Federal Housing Administration
loans. Presecutors said the men
told homeowners their houses
were selected as show places by
Reynolds Aluminum Co., and
promised bonuses which were
never received.
Oregon Employment
Declines by 23,600
SA',EM (UPI) -Employment
in Orecon fell 23,600 from Sep
tember to October to a total of
716,000, Employment Commis
sioner David H. Cameron said
today.
But employment was up 17,300
over a year ago, and is the
highest for any October on re
cord, Cameron said.
STRONGLY PROTESTED
JET CATCHES FIRE
An Air Force F-101 Voodoo jet
to take off here early today but
me two crewmen were not nun.
. 4?'' ill.
nlif yj
quate water pressure hampered firemen as the one on a hook
and ladder, left, shows water barely coming from the hose.
(UPI)
pieces of rolling equipment were
hampered . in their three-hour
battle by an estimated crowd of
1,500 spectators attracted by the
blaze which broke out at 5:30
p.m.
The fire fighters could ap
proach the complex of buildings
only from the east side, because
the other side faces the ocean
over a sheer cliff from which
the popular tourist spot get its
name.
,j, Sixteen firemen were injured.
but none of their injuries was
considered serious. Most were
hospitalized for treatment of
smoke inhalation.
Two policemen also suffered
minor injuries when a group of
teen-agers pelted firemen and
police officers with rocks from
a high hill over the fire scene.
Two of the youths were ar
rested. Fire Chief William Murray
said he could not estimate the
damage.
The first Cliff House was built
in the 1850s, following the Cali
fornia gold rush. It was nearly
destroyed in a violent explosion
when the schooner Parallel,
loaded with explosives, crashed
into the rocks below. Then it
burned down in 1894.
Two subsequent Cliff Houses
were destroyed by fire and a
fourth, built in 1909, was closed
because of prohibition in 1925
and did not open again until
1937. The present structure was
built in 1950.
Sewer Project Said
85 Per Cent Done
JACKSONVILLE The sew
er construction project in Jack
sonville is between 85 and 90
Der cent complete, the Jack'
sonville City Council learned
last nieht.
Douglas Johnson, assistant
sanitarv engineer with the pub
lie health service of the federal
Department of Health, Educa
tion and Welfare, came to Jack
sonville to make an inspection
of the system and determined
how near completion it is.
A $30,000 federal grant was
authorized some time ago to
helD finance the project. John
son's visit was made to deter
mine what percentage of the
grant should now be allocated,
in ratio to the completeness of
the sewer system.
Johnson concluded from nis
inspection that $26,000 of the
$30,000 could now be allocated.
Target date for final comple
tion of the system is Dec. 15.
Jacksonville councilmen re
minded residents that Dec. 15
is also the deadline for pay
ment of $150 hookup fees. No
tices will be sent out this week
to those residents who have
not yet paid their fees.
PP&L Stockholders
Offered Purchase-
PORTLAND (UPI) - Direc
tors of Pacific Power 4 Light
Co. today announced a price of
$23.75 per share on common
stock to be offered its present
common stockholders on an un
derwritt n subscription rights
basis.
A total of 718,354 shares will
be offered.
Barton Predicts
House Approval
Of Cigarette Tax
SALEM (UPI) A cigarette
tax measure will be approved
by the House, Speaker Clarence
Barton predicted today.
"I have talked to many of the
members, and ' find there is a
sentiment for a cigarette tax,"
he said.
"I believe a cigarette tax will
pass the House if one is sent
down by the Tax Committee,"
Barton added.
He said he did not believe a
sales tax would win House ap
proval at this special session,
and he added he could not Dre-
dict what kind of reception the
senate would give to a cigarette
tax.
The Coquille Democrat said
he favored a 4-cent cigarette
tax with receipts to go into the
general fund.
Two smoke tax bills already
have been submitted.
A measure by Rep. Morris
Crothers, R-Salem, would lew a
5-cent a pack tax, and earmark
the funds this biennium for
basic school aid. House tax
Committee Chairman Richard
Eymann, D-Marcola, submitted
a 4-cent a pack tax, with reve
nues to go into the general fund.
Both measures would raise
from $10 to $13 million a bien
nium, according to Eymann.
Street Closings
Announced in City
Two Medford street closines
have been ordered to start
sometime Thursday to insure
the safety of the public, Vern
on Thorpe, city engineer, an
nounced today.
Fred Robinson, contractor for
the demolition of the Hansen
building at the corner of Bart
lett and Sixth Streets, where
a parking area is to be estab
lished, has asked that the clo
sure be made during working
1iours, Thorpe said.
Bartlett Street, between Sixth
and Seventh (Main), will be
closed under the order, and
Sixth Street, between Central
and Bartlett, Thorpe explained.
The action is being taken be
cause it is almost impossible
10 Determine, wnne Uie demoli
tion is going on, how and where
portions of the concrete may
fall. To prevent possible injury
oi persons ana damage to ve
hicles, the city engineer con
sidered it necessary to close the
streets.
Two Persons Killed
In Oregon Accidents
By United Press International
Two persons died in Oregon
Tuesday as a result of traffic
accidents.
Lorenzo Twinam, 86, Hillsbor
was killed when he was struck
by a car at Hillsboro.
William Murray, 26, Stanfield,
died at a Hcrmiston hospital
trom injuries suffered in a col
lision between two Army secur
ity ponce pickup trucks on the
Umatilla Army Depot near
Hermiston Sunday. He was driv
ing one of the trucks.
RANGE GROUP TO MEET
PORTLAND (UPI) - The
American Society of Range
Management, Pacific Northwest
Section, will meet here Nov. 18-
Minority Party
Program Vague;
Not Unanimous
Indecision Evident
Around Legislature
SALEM (UPD-House Repub
licans laid out a six-point stop
gap program late Tuesday in an
effort to crystalize sentiment
and fill a leadership void in the
special session of the legislature.
But perhaps the most signifi
cant thing about the minority
party program was that it was
vague and even then, the 28
House Republicans were not
unanimously behind it.
Their effort reflected a funda
mental question that had deve
loped by the end of the second
day of the special session:
Should the legislature just
take stop-gap measures to close
the $60 million gap in the state
Duoget, caused by the voters'
defeat of a tax increase passed
last spring;
Problems Will Reappear
Or, should the legislature seek
longer range solutions, since
otherwise, the current money
problems will simply reappear
in more pressing fashion in 1965.
The Republican program was
essentially stop-gap. A majority
ot tne uup caucus recommend
ed: No increase In total taxes
at this special session.
A speed-up in turnover of
withholding taxes to the state,
to be used to avoid a $12 mil
lion cut in basic school support
this year. A cut would be made,
however, in the 1964-65 year of
the biennium.
Legislative establishment of
"guidelines and priorities" for
the governor's budget cutting.
A reduction in salaries of
legislators and state officials
A session that is "short
but long enough to fulfill our
responsibilities."
Fundamental tax reform in
1965.
Developed By Committee
Rep. F. F. Montgomery. R-
Eugene, minority leader of the
House, and Rep. John Mosser,
R-Beaverton, announced the pro
gram. They said it had been
developed by a committee of
nine House Republicans, then ap
proved by a majority of the 28
House Republicans in a caucus.
On the key point of taxes,
Mosser and Montgomery said
the caucus was not unanimous.
Two House Republicans were
the first to introduce sales and
cigarette tax bills.
The House GOP program was
similar to Gov. Mark Hatfield's
Monday message in many re
spects. But Mosser and Mont
gomery said Hatfield had not
been advised of the legislators'
stand.
Indecision Evident
Indecision was evident all
around the legislature. The Sen
ate waited idly for some action
from the House.
The three actWiated House
committees worked hard, but
each stressed a different course.
The Rules Committee concen
trated on approving mainly
stop-gap fiscal bills for introduc
tion. The House Tax Committee,
snubbed in an effort to get addi
tional tax bills through Rules,
introduced them on its own.
The Joint Ways and Means
committee broke up into sub
committees to struggle with the
shorter and longer range impli
cations of expense - trimming
bills.
Hueners Re-Elected
To District Board
Albert Hueners, incumbent
and board chairman of the Med
ford Irrigation District, was re
elected to a three-year term on
the board during Tuesday's
election.
Hueners received 113 votes,
and Wilton White, the only other
candidate, received 34 votes.
Approximately 50 per cent of
the eligible voters in the dis
trict voted, it was noted.
The district's board will meet
at 1:15 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18,
at the irrigation district s office
408 Barnett Road, to canvass
the vote.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Generally rloudy
and imoky through Thuriday
night, chance of a few iprln
klei tonight; heavier rain
Thursday. Low tonight 45.
Illlh Thuriday 50.
Temp.
Hlgheftl Yesterday 4(t
l.oweit Thll Morning 43
Prec. to 10 a.m. Today, Trace
Our Skies Tonight
Htiniel today 4:52 p.m.
Kunrlte tomorrow .. 7:00 a.m.
Moonrtie tomorrow.. 5:17 a.m.
New Moon . Nov. 15
PROMINENT HTARS
Aldeharan, rites .... :3S p.m.
The Plrladei, ahove Aldebaran.
VIHIHLE PLANETS
Venui, sett i'H Pn-
Saturn, In j uthweit 11:59 p.m.
Juptler, high In south 9:21 p.m.
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THE BIG LIFT A 30-ton crane brought in from Eugene was
put to work yesterday morning lifting the first of four 22-ton
towers into place atop the Mt. Ashland Ski Lodge. The crane
may be seen in front of the partially completed ski lodge in
the above photo as it lifted the tower and prep xed to lower
it into place. In order to expedite the construction job, work
men from Batzer Construction Co. of Medford, project con
tractor, assembled the four towers on the ground first so that
they could merely be hoisted into place at this time. The other
Government of Iraq Apparently
Survives
Tax Reduction, Civil
Keeping Congress in
The two important bills that other legislation, Duncan ' Stat-
srp kpnnfnt? Cnnorettn in spssintWed.'
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and the Civil Rights measure,
told 85 Jackson county con-
stituenets gathered at Kim's res
taurant Tuesday night at the
dinner sponsored by three Dem
ocratic party organizations.
Asked earlier 11 the Civil
Rights bill was holding up all
County Planners
To Meet Tonight
Among the committee reports
to be submitted at tonight's
meeting of the Jackson County
Planning Commission will be a
recommendation from the board
of adjustment to deny a condi
tional use permit request in the
Wagner Creek Interim Zoned
area.
The request was made by
Dave Bechtel to allow a cold
storage plant for handling pro
duce , ith a -loading dock fa
cility at the northwest corner
of Foss Road and Walen Lane.
The area is now zoned residen
tial farm.
The board of adjustment held
a public hearing on the request
Thursday afternoon. Principal
objections voiced by more than
12 residents in the vicinity were
noise, lights and possible de
crease in property values.
The planning commission
meeting tonight will begin at
7:30 o'clock, one-half hour ear
lier than usual. An appeal by
Howard Pruitt regarding a vari
ance request in the North Cen
tral Point Zoned area to oper
ate a livestock hauling business
has been postponed at the re
quest of Pruitt.
Damage Suit Trial
Enters Second Day
A Jackson County Circuit
Court trial In which Mary
Barnes, Central Point, Is seek
ing damages from the City Sani
tary Service, and Vernon C.
Pcrmcnter, a driver for the
firm, entered Its second day to
day. the complaint was filed fol
lowing an automobile-truck ac
cident in Medford at Uie inter
section of Eighth and Grape
Streets.
A jury of 11 women and one
man is hearing the c. I. Judge
Jtmes M. Main Is presiding
So far four witnesses have testi
fied for the plaintiff.
PIER WORK HKSL.MKI)
ASTORIA (UPI) - Work on
pier 169 of the new Columbia
River tu-idge here has resumed,
Brief Revolt by Rebel Units
"There is no question about
c(;lorjng cvery piece of legisla-
tion. But, there are other rea
sons for the delay. Senator Byrd
is not enthusiastic about lower
ing taxes until he has seen
the budget. His insistence upon
seeing the budget is responsible
for some of the delay."
Predicts Tight Budget
Congressman Duncan predict
ed that it will be a tight budg
et and that the tax reduction
bill will be passed, maybe not
this year but early in the next
session and that it will be made
retroactive.
"We are going to get more
for our defense dollar this year
than ever before," Duncan de
clared. He then explained that
many Democrats and Kepunn-
cans, altnougn convinced uiai
by reducing the tax rate they
will increase business, are ap-
Ashland Chamber
Elects Directors
ASHLAND Dr. Leo vanDijk,
Howard Pierce, Arthur Ka; .
tyn, Vincent Oredson, Dr. E. C.
McGill and Ed Singmaster have
been elected to the toard of di
rectors of the Ashland Chamber
of Commerce.
Results of the election were
tabulated during the chamber
luncheon Tuesday. A total of 15
candidates had been nominated.
The six persons elected join
seven holdover directors to form
the new board. The holdovers
are Bill Patton, H. S. Ingle, Phil
Selby, Lyle Knower, Duane Bak
er, Cliff Craft and Joe Butler..
Eugene Man Named
Marshal for Oregon
WASHINGTON (UPI) Presi
dent Kennedy today selected Eu
gene G. Hulett of Eugene to be
U.S. marshal for Oregon. The
appointment is subject to Sen
ate confirmation.
Hulett, 41, succeeds the late
Paul Kearney.
Activity Office to
Open for Ticket Sales
The Medford High School
Activity office will open at 7
a.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, to
sell tickets for the Medford
Rosehurg game Friday.
To be sold will he 90 re
serve seats it 12 each and
500 general admission tickets
at SI. 50. There will be a lim
it of two tickets per person,
It was stated.
Student tickets at 50 cents
each will go on sale at the
same olflec at 1 p.m. Thurs
three towers were scheduled to be installed today. There was
no fog at the ski area yesterday, and workmen were treated
to spectacular views of Mt. Shasta in one direction and Mt.
McLoughlin in another. A snow pack Is already beginning to
accumulate at the area. Officials of the Mt. Ashland Corpora
tion hope to have the ski tows and lodge in limited operation
by the end of this year. (Additional photos may be found on
Page 4-B.)
Rights
Session
prehenslve about the 'lag; which
usually occurs between the de
crease and the increase result
ing from boosting tax returns
from increased business.
"No one, Democrat or Repub
lican, likes the deficit or the
national debt but few are will
ing to make cuts in the biggest
expenditures for fear of endan
goring the government's posi
tion," the representative of Ore
gon s Fourth district, stated.
"The Defense budget," he add
ed, "it the biggest, $47, billion
this year.
Strongest Weapon
Duncan referred to foreign
aid as the president's strong
est weapon in foreign diploma
cy and insisted that its effect
cannot be disregarded when
people consider that the world
has at least avoided a nuclear
holocaust which could easily be
triggered in these times.
"Civil rights is one of t h e
greatest social problems facing
us today and it has to be solv
ed," Duncan declared. "Many
of my friends are from the
south and they are smart peo
ple," he added In a sympathet
ic defense of the people he op
poses in his thinking in the
civil rights area. "They have
become heads of committees
through seniority and through
ability. But some of them have
a blind snot on civil rights."
Suggesting that it is time to
re-examine the system under
which Congress operates, Dun
can explained that there is a
reluctance in everything today
(not only in Congress) to anal
yze the system under which
"we work."
"When people become a part
of Uie system," he elaborated,
"they start approving of it. As
other Congressmen say 'After
you've been around here a while
you see that the seniority sys
tern is the best system.' "
(Continued on Page 1IA)
10 Inches of
Fall in Parts
By United Press International
Blustery northeast winds
drove up to 10 inches of snow
across parts of Ohio today and
brought a touch of winter to the
Southland. Schools were closed
in some Ohio communities.
Heavy snow warnings were
posted for throughout the day
In Ohio, Pennsylvania and west
ern New York. The Weather
Bureau Issued freeze warnings
for tonight as far south as Mis
sissippi and Alabama.
Hambden, Ohio, reported 10
inches of snow today and Kirt
land, Ohio, reported 5 inches.
Snowfall along the southern
prion nf l.nkn F.rift nvprnffprl
I about .,3j. Inches.
Air Force lets
Attack Palace,
Reports Indicate
BEIRUT. Lebanon (UPI)
The Iraqi government appeared
today to have quelled a brief
revolt after unidentified rebel
unite launched ground and air
attacks in the heart of Bagh
dad. ', ;
Reports reaching here still
were sketchy, but diplomatic
observers said it appeared the
nine-month-old Baath party gov
ernment had routed the rebels.
The fighting, observers said,
was believed to have developed
following a reshuffle in . the
Baath hierarchy in which
strongman Deputy Premier Sa-
len El bnncll was ousted.
The fighting broke out this
morning when Iraqi air force
jets attacked the presidential
palace.
Fighting was reported at the
heavily fortified defense minis
try and in the city streets.
No Information
There was no information
available on casualties.
Diplomatic circles here said
the fact the Baghdad Radio was
still in government hands indi
cated Premier Maj. Gen. Ah
med Hassan Bakr's regime was
in control.
The station was heard here
ordering workers back to their
jobs.
It specifically asked elec
tricity and water department
workers and postal and tele
graph employes to return to
their jobs.
Control of the radio, it was
pointed out, is a prerequisite
for success for an uprising in
the Middle East.
BULLETIN
SALEM (UPI) -A four-cent
a pack cigarette tax was ap
proved by the Hone Tax
Committee on a 6-5 vote today.
Snow
of Ohio
The mercury fell to 30 de
erees at Raleich. N.C.. Rich.
mond, Va., and Asheville, N.C.
temperatures novered just
above freezing at Louisville,
Kv.. Memnhts TAnn Rirtnino.
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ham, Ala., and Shreveport, La.
ine lowest temperature re
ported in the nation today was
8 dcerees above zero nt R I 9.
marck, N.D. Dickinson, N.D.,
and pnilip, S.D., both recorded
9 degrees above zero.
Meanwhile, conservation offi
cials in Oklahoma suspended
the deer hunting season in sev
en southeastern counties be
cause of the danger of forest
fire. Woodlands in the area
wore tinder dry because of the
extended drought.