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1 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1963 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Need for Housing For Elderly Said Critical in Area The need for housing for the elderly is critical because they are living longer ana uiose wim limited incomes from smaller security and pension payments cannot lino rentals wunin wen income. Gary Kahn, economist for the Public Housing Adminis tration, to d his Medtora auai' ence when he spoke at the Rogue Valley Country Club to members of Altrusa club and members of the Rogue Valley Council on Aeine. Even with retirement homes with church and other organiz ational sDonsorship. the cost cannot be brought down within the reach of people with incomes often less than Jiou a monui Kahn stated. Kahn showed colored slides of the several different types of public housing which have been constructed in the western area for the elderly only. Attractive Dwellings The pictures showed well built, attractive dwellings not at all like the public housing con structed in Medford during the war years, Club members re ported. , Kahn's appearance in Med' ford was arranged by William Hoxie, housing chairman for the Rogue valley council on Aging, for the purpose of training Altru sa Club members for the statis tical survey they have under taken. Hoxie staled that this training Is necessary to make sure that the results will be accepted by the PHA which usually makes its own surveys at the request of local housing authorities. Hoxie said this was impossible here because city and county ad ministrations refused to appoint the commissions requested by the Rogue Valley Council on aeine. Hoxie emphasized the need for a factual and unbiased survey and commended the Altrusans for launching the survey. He said that his committee and other members of the Council on Aging had been working since 1958 to secure better and lower rental housing for the el' derly persons in this area with Inadequate incomes. Survey Is Plotted Mrs. Owen Kunkel, chairman ot the Altrusa Club committee, preparing the survey, showed a large city map on which the committee had plotted the sla- tistical survey made by the Census Bureau on Medford housing in 1960. She said copies of the housing breakdown are available to the public in the public library reference room. One thousand of the 3,000 rentals listed in the census sur vey are designated as below standard. Kahn stated that .676 people over 65 years of age are rent ing in Medford and 323 of them are paying 32.5 per cent of their Income for housing. He said whether or not they live in be low standard houses is not known at this time. Russ Jamison, president of the RVCA, offered questions to the group which he said might be asked of them during the sur vey. The lead question was "Will building public housing in Medford raise our taxes; Would Not Raise Taxes Kahn answered "No." He ex plained that it would not raise taxes if public housing was adopted and that they would not be lowered by refusing public housine. The federal program wmcn was started in 1927 to assist communities in housing has funds allocated to it by Congress annually. Kahn said. These funds are spent in any part of the nation where they are need' ed. An infinitesimal part ot Mea ford's taxes ko into this fund which is not being used here for the local benefit, it was con tended. "Does this housing pay taxes to the city in which it is built was the second question offered bv Jamison. "Yes It does, 10 per cent oi the rentals paid by those oceu pying it will be paid the city," was the answer. Determined By People Will the kind of housing and the operation of it be determined by local people?, ' was asked. "Yes. the local nousing com mission decides the type, the size, the location, and chooses the occupants. All building is done through local bids by local employment," t h e Altrusans were told. No funds for any purpose will be used from the city treasury. The standards of upkeep and ad ministration will be checked reg ularly by the Public Housing Administration," was the con cluding statement. Accused Slayer to Take Truth Serum PORTLAND (UPD- Accused slayer Robert Evans of Honolu lu will be examined while under the influence of "truth serum," Circuit Judge Charles Redding ruled Tuesday, Attorneys for Evans, 27, asked for sodium penathol questioning and a psychiatric examination for their client before he entered a plea to a charge of first de gree murder o . Evans is charged in the strangulation death of Mrs Irene Davis, a 41-year-old Pay ette, Idaho, cattle heiress whose body was found in a room at the Portland Hilton Hotel Aug. His trial is scheduled to begin Dec. 2. t IV - - n- jrs iMvVT1 sat gm m" if Swift as a Stitch BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION Piers of the new Chain of Rocks bridge being built north of the present span cross the Mississippi River from the Missouri shore looking east at St. Louis. The new bridge will carry Interstate Highway 270 across the river. The bridge, being built at an estimated cost of $6.3 million, will be an open type span stretching 5,411 feet across the river (UPD Oregon Bank Plans Third Branch at Medford Location Permission has been granted by banking authorities for The Oregon Bank to open its third branch in Medford. The location will be at the corner of West Main and Grape DOG-GONE LONDON (UPI) - A udge Tuesday refused to grant Rob ert Scott a divorce from his wife despite his plea that she let her dog sleep on their bed. "This Is a very common fea ture in many matrimonial homes," the judge said. KYJC NEWS Presents ... SPECIAL SESSION REPORTS BOB BRUCE With Direct Reports From the State House in Salem PAT McCOY Reporting Direct Wire Dispatchos News Times Are: 7:30 A.M.-8:30 A.M.-5:30 P.M. While the Special Session of the Legis lature Is assembled, KYJC News will report all the action to you. "KYJC News Tells You More... Says It Better" CALVIN L. JONES Manager of, New Branch Streets and to be called the "Downtown Branch." The new quarters will be at tractively designed and styled in accordance with modern banking practices. It is expect ed it will open for business ear ly in February, 1964. The con tractor for the remodelling is Bessonette Construction Co, of Medford. Branch Is Moving The new Downtown Branch Is in addition to the East Medford and Rogue Valley Branches. The latter branch is moving from Its present Court Street location to a new and consider ably larger building located near the intersection of Cen tral and Court Streets. The opening for this new building is set for Monday, Dec. 9. Named manager of the bank's Downtown Branch is Calvin L. Jones who brings to his new po sition 17 years of banking ex perience with The Oregon Bank. He is being transferred from the bank's Main Office after having considerable prior ex perience as manager . of the bank's Midland Branch in Portland. Jones is a graduate of the Pacific Coast School of Bank ing at the University of Wash ington in Seattle where he wrole his thesis on Mobile Home Fi nancing. Jones is married and has a son and daughter. He will move to Medford in the near future. He is no stran ger to the Medford area having seen military service with the 91st Division when it was sta tioned at Camp White. 9411 SIZES ' 9-17 V Plans Under Way for College's Skiesta ASHLAND Plans are now under way for Southern Oregon College's 1964 Skiesta, a winter sports carnival, according to Jim Breedlove, Ashland, chair man of this year s event. Tentative dates for the Skiesta have been set as Feb. 28 and 29, and it will be held at cither Mt. Ashland or Mt. Shasta. The decision is now pending upon further information as to wheth er the lodge will be completed at Mt. Ashland by these dates. Franciscan Monks Now Use Loom for Cinctures CHICAGO (Uri) - Francis can monks used to spend long hours weaving their white cord cinctures by hand. Now, auto mation is creeping in. After six years of work Brother Ignatius of St. Jo seph's seminary in Teutopolis, 111., invented an Intricate round loom to do the job. The cinctures sell for 38 cents a yard just enough to buy more yarn. witty J Is Ja I i . i il mm ii rWjftft - Among fashion's delights, count this lean, easy-waisted sheath. TWO main pattern parts just straight up and down sewing. Choose jersey, crepe. cotton or linen. Printed Pattern 9411: Jr. Miss Sizes 9, 11, 13, 15, 17. Size 13 takes 27s yards 39-inch. 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DRESS, PATTERN NUMBER. 20fi HANU1CHAFT HITS in our big, big, new 1964 Needle- craft Catalog, out now! See toys, fashions, crewelwork, heir looms, gifts, bazaar h i t s everything to crochet, knit, sew weave, embroider, quilt, smock Send 25c right now. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (UPI) The last agonized hours of life of the horribly wounded CaroJ Thompson were to be spread in detail today before the jury trying her husband Gene a man who has cried once in court at mention of her tragic end and could reasona bly be expected to reprise his grief. Among the 10 or so persons ready in the witness room to take the stand for the prosecu tion was Mrs. Harry C. Nelson, whose ringing doorbell just aft er 9 o'clock on the snow-quilted morning of last March 6 "was the last bell that Carol neard.'' Carol herself rang the bill of the house three doors from her own. Her head was bludgeoned, her face unrecognizable with thick blood and disfigurement. Also waiting to testify was the doctor from across tne street who also could not recognize her and had to be told "it's Mrs. Thompson. . .there's a knife (broken) in my throat." Signed Statement Carol Thompson. 34, respect ed housewife and church work er and devoted mother of four, died in a hospital four hours later. The confessed killer he is reported to have signed a long statement also was wait ing in the wings to expioae nis testimony as a state witness. Dick W. C. Anderson, a Min neapolis siding salesman, was known for his fondness for the bottle. He also got to gulping pills of unknown potency and efficacy two witnesses hive called them "junk" and it has been testified he swigged and gulped in double-time, if that was possible for him, aft er the killing. The state contends Anderson was the ultimate payee in a "hire-a-murder" crime planned by T. Eugene Thompson, 35, a St. Paul criminal attorney who had more than a million dollars of insurance riding on Carol's life and more than a merely mooning relationship with a brunette mistress, Jackie Ole sen, his former secretary. Store Burglar The alleged middleman In killer procurement and payoff was Norman J. Mastrian, 39, a former sectional Golden Gloves champion who got a bachelor of journalism degree in 1952 and almost immediately the same year gained attention as a food store burglar. Thompson and Mastrian who were college mates, are ac cused of first-degree murder, as is Anderson. Thompson's trial is first. Sheldon S. Morris, a local ex-convict and burglary "set-up man," has admitted in testimony he delivered $2,300 in two separate trips from Mastri an to Anderson after the murder. -jfotCivuiaL 3i5 wing for Thundjy, Nov. 28 SWEM'S 217 f. MAIN . 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