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36 Pages Four Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1963
No. 209
pecial Session
lUUfl-SiVlrJ 15)
Wearing End;
Legislature
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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.
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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
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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.