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Newspaper Page Textft.,-- ijC'.iv. Rogue Valley Edition ' 58th Year ' Price 10 Cents Medford Tribune 36 Pages Four Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1963 No. 209 pecial Session lUUfl-SiVlrJ 15) Wearing End; Legislature i"'': V' '''' :., j ; ':- NATURALIZATION TEA Mrs.. Margaret McGinty, Med ford, of the American Legion AuxiliarV, extreme left, served tea and cookies to the newly naturalized citizens in the . courthouse auditorium yesterday. Fourteen people, 11 adults Morgan Charges About Boardman Get Firm Denials SALEM (UPI) -The state of Oregon and the Boeing Com pany denied today that Oregon will be "flat on its back for 77 years" If Boeing's lease for the Boardman project goes through. In testimony before the Joint Ways and Means Committee, witnesses for Boeing said the company already has spent "hundreds of thousands" of dol lars on the site. Boeing is waiting at the door, ready to move in as soon as the state gets clear title to the vast tract of land on the Co lumbia River in northeastern Oregon, said Bruce' Johnson, di rector of public relations for Boeing, and Nathan Krisberg, chief of the technical' .staff of the Aerospace Division,1 which has grown from 16,000 to 48,000 employes in four years. ;.. . .. ! Testing Site . , Boeing contemplates using the site for research and develop ment testing, they said. The charge that Oregon would be left flat on its back was made before the committee Tuesday night by Howard Mor gan, former federal power com missioner and former Oregon Democratic chairman. In fact, he said, the lease is so Door Oregon may lose money. His remarks were promptly greeted by a charge from Warne Nunn, Administrative aide to GOP Gov. Mark Hat field, that Morgan was "a man who aspires to be governor." Nunn said Morgan was using Boardman as a "publicity launching pad." Coast Guard Charges Basebaff Executive SEATTLE (UPI) -The Coast Guard today preferred charges of negligence against Dewey Soriano in connection with the grounding of the motor vessel Island Mail on May 29, 1961. Sorian, president of the Pa cific Coast League, also holds a marine pilot's license and a marine master's license. The charge specifies that Sori ano, while piloting the Island Mail between here and Belling- ham, negligently failed to direct the movements of the ship so it would pass the rocky shoal west of Smith Island at a safe distance. SEEK DIVORCE INDIO, Calif. (UPI) Singer Ginny Simms and her husband, attorney Don Eastvold, are scheduled to appear in court Nov. 29 for a hearing on an in terlocutory decree sought by Eastvold. ilEWSfVBftlEFS iruu noM k s y MMND im RED GENERAL WARNS AGAINST THREATS MOSCOW (UPI) A top Russian missile general has urged Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and other U.S. officials "to give up their atomic blackmail and threats against the Socialist world" or face the consequences, Moscow Radio said today. ' . . COMMUNISTS CALL STRIKE " ' " ROME (UPI) Italy's powerful Communist pi-'v called i 24-hour transportation strike today in an attempt to l.:.,ice the outcome of crucial negotiations to form a new government. CONGO POLICE ARREST SOVIET DEPLOMATS LEOPOLDVILLE, The Congo (UPI) Congo security po lice beat up and arrested two Soviet diplomats on the Congo Riv er ferry from Brazzaville Tuesday, It was disclosed today. NEW STRATEGY BEING MAPPED 5 HONOLULU (UPI) America's top policy makers met' to day In a lop-secret conference room overlooking Pearl Harbor to chart a new and unified diplomatic and military course In Southeast Asia. Plans Are Made to Expand Board of School District Plans for expanding the board of education .of School District 549C to seven members next year were made by the board last night. The board will be expanded at the May, 1964, election, with one new position being filled for three years, and one new one for five years. The three year term will become a regu lar five-year term in 1967. A third position, now held by Board Chairman Frank Bash, also will be filled next year. Under the plan outlined last Local Pharmacists Verify Anger Over Welfare Cutback Two Medford pharmacists contacted today verified reports from Portland that Oregon drug gists are angered over the re duction in payments for pre scriptions filled for welfare re cipients and may refuse to fill prescriptions. No organizational action had been taken today and Jerome Smith, president of the Jackson, County Pharmaceutical Asso ciation, a representative of the Lily company, was not avail able for comment. ' Gordon Hudson, fong time Medford pharmacist, said he would continue to care for his old customers as he has in the past but that druggists were losing money now on the wel fare oatienl prescriptions ana that he would not fill them for new customers. Criticizes Action He criticized the action of a state aeency. which he main- tained, is discriminating against druggists and asked if a one third cut in rates had been asked of "Pacific Power and Light or any other agencies or businesses serving people on welfare?" He said many of the drugs for which the state is paying with the one third cut were prescriD ed some time ago with expecta tions of the usual pay. But, when the check came a letter said "we are paying you so much and that was it." Dick Glass, another Medford Dharmacist. said he was follow- ina a similar policy and that he was issuing the welfare re- cipients just one month's sup ply at a time as he docs not feel that the percentage of cut will remain the same. and 3 children, took the oath of Edward C. Kelly's court. Some in the picture. night, board positions will be designated by numbers one through seven, and elections will be held for the numbered position. . . . . Expansion Approved Expansion of the board was approved by district voters in the school election last May after the board and administra tion, indicated the board would be expanded after consolidation of Medford and surrounding dis tricts. ... In other action last night, the board concurred with a de cision that noise parades by stu dents ot Medford High' School be discontinued.. The parade was discontinued this year. School administrators said in surance is difficult to obtain to cover accidents in such a pa rade, and noted that a Corvallis girl was killed in an accident in a noise parade there this year. Superintendent Dr. Leonard B. Mayfield and Bash reported on tne joint meeting of school boards ana? administrators m Portland last week end, noting tnac participants expressed en thusiasm about the meeting. Reports on Additions Assistant Superintendent Russ Acheson reported that a one room addition to Lone Pine School is now being used, and an addition to Wilson School will.be ready for use after the Christmas holidays. Dr. Mayfield pointed out that the Lone Pine addition is a large room, but noted that it is the first unit of a team teach ing center. The rest of the unit will be added with student in crease demands additional space at Lone Pine. Ned Langford, planning di- rector for . Medford, displayed maps of the Medford urban area indicating anticipated doom tion growth during the next 10 years. He said he could see no major changes in the popula tion development pattern dur ing that time, and a school site selected in a service are now would be serviceable in 1974. No' Change Seen Langford said his studies have found that 85 per cent of the population of School Dis trict 549C is within the urban area of Medford, and no change in the distribution pattern is seen in the next 10 years. The Doard also discussed processing as quickly as pos sible a bond issue which will be needed to finance construc tion of additional secondary school facilities in the district. A report from the Citizens' Ad visory Committee on Secondary bchools ot the district is ex pected in a few weeks, and le gal machinery for a bond issue should start as soon after the report is received as possible. Walters Scholarship Planned by Theater PORTLAND (UPI) - A mem orial scholarship in the name of Bob Walters, entertainment edi tor and drama critic of the Ore gonian, will be set up by the Actors' Ring Theater, Mark Al len, producer, said Tuesday: Walters, 29, died in a car crash in Portland Nov. 16. The "Bob Walters Memorial Scholarship" will be - awarded annually to the outstanding high school journalism graduate in the metropolitan area, . Allen said. . . v . . Funds are to be created and maintained by a scries of bene fit performances beginning Dec. , allegiance in Circuit Judge of the children are shown ; ' Ceremony Slated To Note Arrival Of Natural Gas A celebration to observe the arrival of natural gas in South ern Oregon will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 21 at the plant of the California - Pacific Utilities Company, 519 N. Front St. Participating will be officials' of Oregon, Josephine and Jack son Counties, and the cities of Grants Pass, Medford, Phoenix, Talent and Ashland. Other busi ness leaders will represent the neighboring communities along the new transmission line re cently completed in the area. While natural gas has been flowing in the distribution sys tems of the area since last Fri day, this will be the official ceremony marking its arrival Luncheon Planned Following an explanation of the workings of the regular sta tion and the distribution sys tem by J. S. Richards, gas en gineer for the company who de signed the entire project from Grants Pass to Ashland, luncheon will take place at the Rogue Valley Country Club. Among those who will speak will be Public Utilities Commis sioner Jonel Hill; David Con, PUC chief engineer; J. F.. Ei chelmann, vice president and executive engineer; R. W. Har ris, Salt Lake City, Utah, El Paso Natural Gas Company, vice president of Rocky Moun tain division; and E. K. Albert, San Francisco, president, Cali fornia - Pacific Utilities Com pany. ; Among other gas company of ficials present will be L. E. Cooper, vice president and chief engineer; D. J. Ley, vice presi dent and treasurer; W. E. Ham mer, secretary, all San Fran cisco; M. E. Sands, vice presi dent; V. V. Lyman, division manager; M. S. Gardiner, Med ford district manager; E. R. Hoppe, merchandise sales man ager; A. C. Kobold, industrial sales engineer, all Medford, and managers of the various dis tricts in Grants Pass, Ashland, Myrtle Creek, Roseburg, and Klamath Falls in Oregon, and Dunsmuir and Yreka, Calif. Report on Activity Center Is Planned Floyd Courtright will give a report on the progress made by his corporation to establish a teen-age activity center on East Main Street in Medford, when the Park and Recreation Com mission holds its regular meet ing tonight. Also on the agenda is a re port to be given by Terry Bowles, spokesman for the Med ford High School Teen-Age Com mittee, on progress of his com mittee. Russ Jamison, president of the Rogue Valley Council on Aging, will appear before the Commission to speak on new housing for the Senior Activity Center. Robert Haworth, director of the park and recreation pro gram, will review the activities for the month of October and reDort on progress of two ma jor projects, the Jackson Park development and Hawthorne Pool renovation. SUPERVISOR NAMED " OLYMPIA, Wash. (UPI)-Eu gene M. Kirkness, 56, Longview, today was appointed supervisor ot safety to the Mate uepart ment of Labor and Industries. PLEADS INNOCENT OREGON CITY (UPI)-Don aid Douglas, 20, Eagle Creek has pleaded innocent in Circuit Court here to a charge of first degree murder. Governor Lauds Cooperation from Both Party Heads Not 'Surprised' at . Thornton Rulings SALEM (UPI) -High praise for the legislature and its desire "to wind up the session as soon as possible" was voiced today by Gov. Mark Hatfield. And in an interview with Unit ed Press International, Hatfield revealed the Boardman crisis came to light as plans were be ing made for groundbreaking ceremonies on the site. Hatfield said, "I appreciate the desire on the Dart of legis lative leaders to do a good job," and added "I have had extra ordinarily fine cooperation from the leaders of both houses." Hatfield said demands by Re publican lawmakers that budget cutting bills contain rigid guide lines resulted because Republi cans "want the legislature to participate in the responsibility" for the cuts. He said legislators nad "single purpose," and that was to una answers m me state's fiscal crisis. Thornton Ruling Mentioned Asked to comment on Atty. fipn. Robert Y. Thornton's opin ion that he did not have consti tutional authority to mane selec tive hiiriset cuts. Hatfield said I am never surprised at any oi his decisions." . . Other than to say tne opinion held ud the session," and was "subject to debate," Hat field refused lurtner commem. He said he did not consmer the legislature's overriding of two of his vetoes to be a "set- iMiflr ' "I Hisasree with them, but I'd remind you the legislature has upheld more oi my vetoes than It nas tne vetoes ui nj other governor in Oregon His- tnrv 1 don't think they were right, but that's part of the check and balance system. Neither of the bills was earth shaking." . , On the Boardman crisis, Hat field said "it's not a matter of asking for more money, we want to meet legal technicali ties." He said "I have no reserva tions whatever" on Boeing Com pany's lease for the 100,000-acre industrial site in northeastern Oregon. Asked to comment on appar ent reservation voiced by Trea surer Howard Belton and Secre tary of State Howell Appling Jr., Hatfield noted "they both have voted for it in board meetings, and both have signed the lease." Freeman Supports Medicare Plan WASHINGTON (UPI) - Ag riculture Secretary Orville L. Freeman today joined the pa rade of Cabinet members tes tifying on behalf of President Kennedy's medicare program for the aged. The bill, now in tne House Ways & Means Committee, would provide hospital and nursing-home care for Ameri cans 65 and over. The program would be financed by higher So cial Security taxes. Freeman is the third member ot the Kennedy Cabinet to .'o to bat this week lor medicare before the House group. Anthony J. Celebrozze, secre tary of Health, Education and Welfare, was the opening wit ness Monday. Labor secretary W. Willard Wirtz lollowed him to the witness chair Tuesday. SALEM (UPD-The Oregon Water Corp. of Roseburg was authorized by he state public utility commissioner today to in crease water rates at Oakland, 17 miles north of Roseburg. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable cloudi ness through Thursday. Home valley fof Thursday mornlnt A few tnow ihowen likely In mountains. Low tnnlfht 25-30. High Thuraday ii-io. Temp. Hliheit Yesterday SI Lowest This Morning 32 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 18 Our Skies Tonight Sunset tnday ' 4:4 p.m. ftunrlse tomorrow .... :0ft a.m. Moonset tontaht :M pm. Plrat Ouirler . .. Nov. 23 Venus, the brlfhtfit planet, Is almost airertiy in iront ni Mirt tonlf-ht, Venus Is now 14.1 million mllrs away; Mars, now too dim in he seen, la more, than 70 million miles he- yon a venus. I .'V- - IP V- STORM EMRASSY Pro-Baathist Iraqi stu dents storm Iraqi Embassy in London, Eng land, today to protest regime of new Pres. Abdul Salam Aref. The students have the embassy under their control and intend to Venezuela Rebels Fail in Attempt To Force Strike CARACAS. Venezuela (UPI) Army patrols and police ap peared today to have broken the back of terrorist attempts to strong-arm the country into a general strike. Reliable sources said at least 16 Dersons were killed and 100 wounded Tuesday in the worst outbreak of violence in the two- year Castro - Communist cam paign against resident nomu lo Betancourt's government. 7he official casualty list, how ever, reported 14 dead and 72 wounded. Bctancourt personally ordered tough measures to end riotous outbreaks in Caracas. There was heavy tratnc on city streets today and business houses forced Tuesday to close under terrorist threats reopened their doors today in the San Agustin and Catia slum areas. Press dlsoatcnes trom tne in terior said the only violence there was at Maracaibo where terrorist fire-bombs destroyed the Du Pont Paint warehouse Damages were estimated at $30,000. Army units practically occu Died the slum Guarataro, El Si- lencio, La Charneca, Lomas de Urdaneta and 23 De Enero areas where most of Tuesday s violence occurred. Troops cleaned out nests of snipers and riflemen were posted at strate itic corners. Authorities said tney naa foiled terrorist plans to teize the International Grano Je Oro Airport in Maracaibo as well as projected attacks on big Ve nezuelan business houses. Damage Suit Trial Gets Under Way A $161,000 damage suit against two Medford Osteopath ic physicians in Jackson Coun ty Circuit Court is expected to continue tnrougn f riaay, Don W. Sprinkle. Biddle Road brought the suit in behalf of his daughter, Cheryl Lou, now six years old, and charges that her leg was permanently Injured and disfigured while In traction. She broke her leg and also suf fered a concussion when struck by a logging truck near her home in June, 1960. The suit is against Dr. Cleatis Lemlcy and Dr. Paul T. Rut- tcr, Medford Osteopathic Clinic and Crater Osteopathic hospital. Bernard Kelly and Robert Grant are representing the Sprinkles, and Hugh Collins, Medford lawyer, is representing the .physicians. students spell usual manner. Deposed Premier May (Set B New Iraq BEIRUT. Lebanon (UPI) Iraq's new military regime may ask deposed Premier Ma, uen. Ahmed Hassan Bakr to join It, Baathist leader who was in Baghdad during Monday's coup said Tuesday night. . Gibran Majdilanl, Lebanese member of the Baath Interna tional Command, returned to Damasus, Syria, with other foreign Baathists. They had gone to Baghdad to take over Bakr's Baath party government Kennedy Slates Visit to Texas DALLAS (UPI) - President and Mrs. Kennedy fly into Tex as Thursday in the Democrats' prologue to the 1964 presidential campaign. The While House insisted tne visit was largely "non political" but at least ono political speech was planned. Five other talks and a Texas deer mint were scheduled. Vice President and Mrs. Lyn don B. Johnson were to join the Chief Executive and be his host at the 300-acre LBJ rancn, 65 miles west of Austin. The two men were scheduled to hunt deer at the Johnson spread. Kennedy obviously will be pressing for support in Texas, where voters two weeks ago re jected repeal of the state's poll tax. Johnson, a lormer Texas senator, actively stumped for repeal of the poll tax, nut op ponents hit repeal as a play into hands of liberals. Ashland City Of Bellview ASHLAND What to do about the Bellview area, southeast of the city of Ashland, was again a topic of discussion as the Ash land City Council met Tuesday night. ' No conclusions were reached, but councilmen hope to come up with a decision at their next meeting. At the Nov. 6 Ashland Council meeting, City Superintendent El mer Blcgel gave a report in which he said annexation of the Bellview area "appears to be the only solution" to the area's prob lems. The principal Bellview prob lem involves water. Some homes in the area have city water. Others do not. The council has turned down most recent re keep it until the Iraqi government sets aside the Aref regime. Placards carried by the Arcf's name differently from (U I'D id From Regime during an internal party crisis. They were detained but freed Tuesday. UPI correspondent Ray Mo loney, in a delayed dispatch from Baghdad, the first since communications were reopened. reported the capital outwardly calm Tuesday but there was firing Monday night. He said authorities obviously were prepared to act firmly in restoring complete calm. There were no official reports on cas ualties, but U.S. Marines at the American Embassy said they were believed light. He . said the military ap peared to be in complete con trol, with the power to "try and execute" mutineers . on the spot. Iraq's figurehead president, Col. Abdul Salam Aref, took ad vantage of the Baathist dissen sion to overthrow the govern ment and set up a junta In its place. Hadio reports from Baghdad since the coup have made no mention of Bakr or Defense Minister Maj. Gen. Saleh Mah dl Ammash. . Firm Reveals Plans For Stock Offering NEW YORK (UPI)-Directors of American Telephone and Tel egraph Corp. today after de claring a quarterly dividend of 90 cents payable January 2, an nounced plans to make a laret new offering of stock to share owners of record on Feb. 18, 1964, increase the quarterly di vidend to $1 next April and split the stock 2 for 1 next June. Council Discusses Problem District, Still Undecided quests for water service, be cause the area is not inside the city limits. In other action Tuesday night, the council accepted on certain conditions the offer of Lloyd Selby to buy the old city ware house building and property at Lithia Way and Second Street for $25,000. The major condition was that the city be allowed six months lo build a new ware house elsewhere. Dr.. John Reynolds, president of the local YMCA, appeared with several board members with a request to buy two acres of the city cemetery tract, in back of Waiker School, for erec tion of a YMCA building. The council look the matter under consideration. Way Found to Give Authority to MOH To Trim Budgets Cutbacks Lumped Into One Bill SALEM (UPI) -The leelsla- ture, apparently satisfied it had found a way to legalize giving Its authority to the governor. rusncd headlong today toward possible adjournment. The House this afternoon wait scheduled to act on a bill to eliminate capital construction projects, cut basic school aid, and trim agency budgets. BULLETIN SALEM (UPI) -The Senate today passed a resolution pall. lng for adjournment sine die of the special session of the Legislature tonight at 6 p.m. - The resolution went to (he House where the time could oe adjusted. The cutbacks were lumtwH In. to one bill, and approved 10-3 Tuesday night by the Ways and means committee atter a full day of searching to find a way iu sun constitutional blocks raised, py Atty. Gen. Robert Y. Thornton. Thornton. In two opinions, said the governor could not make selective agency cuts, ana , mat- a ma to cut basic school aid which had already cleared tne House raised serious constitutional questions. in , meetings with ways and Means members Tuesday. Thornton pointed out the separa tion of powers of the legislature, executive and -judicial was de manded in the state constitution, and could not be broken down, no matter how severe the state's fiscal crisis. The compromise that was fi nally reached calls for the leg islature to adopt budcet cuts as outlined by Gov. Mark Hatfield in his austerity program as "al lotment reductions." If additional funds become available later, the Emergency Board made up of legislators- will have authority to release money for whatever projects it wishes. In effect, the plan wipes out $18 million in capital construc tion and salary hikes, trims $17 million from agency budgets, and cuts basic school aid by $12 million. The only other courses open to lawmakers were to change each, appropriation a time con suming job or to appropriate the entire general fund to Hat field a move which would have made the governor the scape goat for the cutbacks. In another move, Ways and Means voted unanimously to in troduce bills to divert part of the $30 million higher education construction bond issue to com munity college construction. The bonds will be voted upon next May. One bill sets aside $25 million for higher education construction,' and $5 million for community college construction. The other authorizes use of $12.5 million for college construction, and $1.3 for community college construction next year if the bonds are approved. AUCTION SET SALEM (UPI) - Two used snow plows plus various cars, trucks and equipment will be sold by the state at auction Nov. 30 in Portland, the state depart ment of finance and administra tion announced. .A hearing was set for Dec. 3 oh a request by Evangelist Leo Wine for annexation of property in the Beswlck Addition, subject to the opening of Bcswick Way and other streets. The council upheld a planning commission recommend a t i o n and approved the request of the Lithia Church of God to buy city property on Park Street between U.S. 99 and Oregon 66 for $7,200. The church plans to erect a new structure at the site.- The council took under advise ment an offer by Mrs. Ruth Meadows, 440 Granite St., to sell her property along Ashland Creek to the city for $27,000. The property adjoins Lithia Park and could be used to ex tend the park area.