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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Witnesses To Tell
Details of Death
Struggle at Trial
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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.
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Harvey to Build
Near Port Angeles
THE DALLES (UPI) - Har
vey Aluminum Co. has an
nounced plans to build a. pri
mary magnesium plant near
Port Angeles, Wash.
Company officials here said
the site was selected because
of its accessibility to sea water,
a source of magnesium supply.
The plant would have an annual
capacity of 20,000 tons.
Harvey has facilities here, at
Torrance, Calif., and Adrian,
Mich. It is building a mill at
Lewisport, Ky and an alumina
plant at St, Croix in the Virgin
islands.
KING GETS AWARD
OSLO, Norway (UPI)-King
Olav V Tuesday won the Nor
wegian Press Photographers As
sociation's highest award a
small bronze statue named
"Nice Boy" which is given an
nually to the celebrity who is
most cooperative with photographers.
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