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SPACE FACILITIES RENAMED President Johnson an-
nounced Thursday that Cape
launching facilities, had been renamed Cape Kennedy in Atlas rocket that lifted Astronaut John Glenn Into earth orbit,
honor of the late President John F. Kennedy, slain last Friday (UP1)
President Johnson's Edict Changes
Name of Canaveral To Cape Kennedy
CAPE KENNEDY (UPI) -About
15,000 missile and space
workers reported fop- work to
day at Cape Kennedy instead
of Cape Canaveral. ' " -
By an edict of President Lyn
don B. Johnson Thursday,
America's No. 1 moonport was
renamed for his martyred pre
decessor. It was a dramatic Thanksgiv
ing Day tribute to John Fitzger
ald Kennedy, who gave the
Cape its mightiest task that of
sending a three-man team of
Americans to the moon this dec
ade and who defended the
dream of space exploration vir
tually unto the day of his death.
It was a surprise to the thou
sands of space program em
ployes whose spectacular ex
ploits on this launching center
made it a "magic dateline," on
a par with Washington, New
York and Moscow, in a dozen
short years.
The change hit the Canaveral
environs with a mixture ot emo
Medford Man Dies
In Bomber Crash
PORT TOWNSEND (UPI) -Two
men were killed and an
other injured Wednesday when
a twin-jet A3D Skywarrior at
tack bomber struck a power
line and crashed about 14 miles
south of here.
Dead are Lt. (jg) W. L. Aid
rich, 25, Oak Harbor, the bom
bardier, and crewman Fritz D.
Meier, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Hanns Meier, 545 Lozier Lane,
Medford, an aviation jet me
chanic. Aldrich, whose widow
resides at Oak Harbor, is the
son of Lester C. Aldrich, Monte
bello, Calif.
Injured was Comdr. John W.
Jahant, the pilot of the plane,
which crashed on a routine
training flight out of Whidbey
isiana Kaval Air Station. Ja
hant was taken to the Naval
Hospital at the Whidbev instal
lation by helicopter following
the crash. He was seriously
hurt mil expected to live.
IIEIVSOBRIEFS
ITEMS FROM JHT AROUND THI OlOU
ANTI-MISSILE MISSILE SCORES SUCCESS
WASHINGTON (UPl)-The Nike Zeus anti-missile missile has
scored another successful intercept of an Intercontinental Ballis
tic Missile, the Defense Department disclosed today. It was the
10th successful shot to far announced for the missile killer.
ALLIED TROOPS ON COMBAT READINESS
BERLIN (UPI) The United States, Britain and France put
10.000 troops on a combat-readiness test alert today In another
demonstration of their resolve to defend Berlin against any Com
munist action.
MONUMENT FOR KENNEDY GRAVE PLANNED
WASHINGTON UPI) Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy has asked
California architect John Carl Warnecke to help design a monu
ment to mark the grave of the late President.
...
Canaveral, site of U.S. space
tiona heartfelt wish that the
slain President be honored in a
singularly fitting way, mingled
with a reluctance to give up the
cherished name that has come
Kennedy Replaced
On Federal Payroll
By Lyndon Johnson
WASHINGTON (UPD-Effec-
tive 2 p.m. EST, Friday, Nov.
22, the name of John F. Ken
nedy ' was removed from the
government's payroll as Presi
dent and replaced with that of
Lyndon B. Johnson.
Few of the events of the last
week illustrate more effectively
that "continuity without contu
sion in government urged Dy
President Johnson than that
simple bookkeeping notation by
the General Accounting utnce
(GAO).
The actual change on the
GAO's books was not made un
til Tuesday since the office was
closed Monday, the official day
of mourning for the slain Presi
dent. But it was made retroac
tive to that tragic hour when
the President passed away.
At that time, Johnson's sal
ary went from the $35,000 an
nually he received as vice presi
dent to $100,000.
He. also began receiving the
$50,000 annual allowance given
to the President "for defraying
expenses relating to or result
ing from the discharge of his
official duties."
A GAO official said the book
keeping change was strictly an
intra-office transaction that in
volved no extensive paperwork.
Handles Payroll
The GAO handles the presi-,
dential payroll. It sends a form
each month to the Treasury
showing how much the Chief
Executive should be paid for
that period. Checks are made
out at the end of eaqh month.
There was no change in the
salary of Speaker John W. Mc-
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER
in Dallas, Tex. Here, in a photo
or ICBM gantries at the Cape
to be synonymous with U.S.
space achievements. .
"I think it is just wonderful,"
said Mrs. H. Jackson Downey,
'Her husband, a Coca Beach,
Cormack, D-Mass., now next in
line of presidential succession.
He continues to receive the
$35,000 salary paid to the pre
siding officer of the House.
However, Senate President
Prn-Tempore Carl Hayden, D
Ariz. who becomes third in line
for the nation's highest office
received a raise from his sen
ator's pay of $22,500 to $35,000.
He now receives the vice
president's salary because he
will be performing the vice
president's Senate duties even
though Hayden does not receive
the title. These include presid
ing over the Senate, processing
communications and legislation,
and handling other responsibili
ties involved in the parliamen
tary ritual.
The law also provides that
the widow of a President is en
titled to a $10,000 life-time pen
sion, but to receive it she must
waive the right to any other
government annuity for which
she may be eligible.
In the case ot Mrs. Jacque
line Kennedy, she also would be
entitled to a pension as the
widow of a man who served in
both the House and the Senate.
Use Formula
A Treasury- official said the
amount is calculated by using
formula based on years of
scrvicc and the salary during
those years.
He was unable to state spe
cifically whether this would be
more than the $10,000 presiden
tial pension. He said this infor
mation was considered connaen
tial and usually was not re
vealed by the government.
There was one interesting
bookkeeping aspect of the tragic
. il i uni Lei
K.,"y.nT U's c e or
would be pro-rated.
r
A GAO official said that for
such bookeeping calculations,
the President's salary and al
lowance is figured on a daily
basis which comes to about $411
per day.
He said this means that the
books vere adjusted to credit
the late President's salary ac
count for about 14-24ths of the
daily salary on Friday or a lit
tle more than half of the $411.
The balance went to the new
president for services per
formed tbe remainder of that
fateful day when the nation's
highest office was auddenly
thrust upon him.
taken Feb. 20, 1062, a string
surround hlast-oli cloud lelt by
Fla., Methodist minister, earlier
this week led a memorial serv
ice of mourning for President
Kennedy.
"It's . all - right,- 4 guess," . i
grocery clerk said hesitantly
Then, after a second of thought,
he added, "No, I think it's just
fine.
A newsman replied with a
question of his own:. "But will
Cape Kennedy catch on, as a
name?" Others asked the same
question.
One point seemed certain
had any other name but that of
Kennedy been attempted, It
would have run into heavy op
position. (The name "Canaver
al" is or was a revered one,
buried as it is in antiquity.)
No one is 100 per cent cer
tain ot the origin of the world
"Canaveral," although it is gen
erally accepted to be Spanish
for "field of high reeds (or
canes)." The Cape, a triangular
spit of land jutting eastward
into the Atlantic Ocean, once
was inhabited by Indians who
grew sugar cane.
Some Credit De Leon
Some historians believe that
no less a personage than Juan
Ponce De Leon, the Spanish ex
plorer who devoted his days to
a fruitless search for the legen
dary "Fountain of Youth," was
the first white man to sec the
Cape and, in fact, may have
contributed the name of Canav
eral. History does record that De
Leon first sighted what is now
the Florida peninsula on April
2, 1513, and that on the same
voyage he sailed south
southeastward to make a sec
ond landing at, or near, Cape
Canaveral.
But De Leon was notorious
for his rather sketchy accounts
of his 16th century meander
ings in the New World. Thus,
the full truth seems lost forever
in the 4 'A centuries that have
gone by,
Califomian Arrested
For Larceny of Auto
TALENT Tips from Ash
land Police Chief Herb Hayes,
: i J
service mhuuii uuuidiui inu
n on a charge of larceny of
auto Thursday.
ArrnutnH Ua Alvitl KamPV
RoEers, 20, of Yuba City, Calif,
State police said he admitted
having stolen the car he was
driving in Marysvillc, Calif.,
Wednesday. He also admitted
having written about $5,000 in
worth ess checks.
State police first received a
call Thursday morning from a
service station operator near
Ashland. The operator said a
hitch-hiking sailor who had got
ten out of the car at the station
had told him the auto was a
stolen vehicle.
Ashland police were nolitied
of the call.
29, 1963
Military
Johnson
Economy
WASHINGTOiI (UPI)-Presi-
dent Johnson told the nation's
military leaders today that he
expects them to abide by his
economy pledge to Congress
that the government will get "a
dollar's value for a dollar
spent" under his regime.
The White House said John
son emphasized this point to the
Joint Chiefs of Staff at his first
forma! meeting with them as
President.
Acting Press Secretary An
drew T. Hatcher said the lead
ers outlined their operating pro
cedures to Johnson and that
the new President did not con
template calling for any change
in this arrangement.
Johnson's meeting with Gen.
Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman,
Outline of Urban
Renewal Program
Given to Court
An outline of the Jackson
ville community development
program under the federal urban
renewal program nas been suo
mitted to the Jackson County
Court by Jack Sutton, Grants
Pass, president of the Siskiyou
Pioneer Sites Foundation.
This is the report upon which
Washington, D.C., gave its ap
Droval and a no ahead recently
for seeking Urban Renewal as
sistance. The Jackson County
Budget Committee authorized
$3,000 under the current fiscal
year hudel for two preliminary
'repbrisvThis fns the (first1 such
report. '.
The second report covers this
summer's work and includes all
27 buildings in the Jacksonville
project setup, and gives an in
dication of what needs to be
done for restoration work.
In three weeks, the Urban
Renewal area engineers are ex
pected to come to some decision
as to wnelner tne tunds request
ed will be granted for the study.
Estimated cost of the study is
approximately $42,000 which
would - include a demonstration
structure using one of Jackson
ville's historic buildings,
lt also would include a model
of the ultimate unit. This would
show what could be done in
building restoration, Sutton ex
plained. The funds would fi
nance a study to show what
tourist orientated businesses
could be operated in Jackson
ville. The preliminary report show
ed by the County Court today
contains various documents to
show what local agencies would
;sist in the study, what is
being done by local people to
rehabilitate the historic gold
mining town and the interest of
local people in its renovation.
Eagle Point Home
Destroyed by Firs
EAGLE POINT The resi
dence of Mr. and Mrs. J. A.
Watkins on Stevens Road burned
to the ground last night.
The fire was ' first noticed
about 9 p.m. The family was
not home at the time. The Eagle
Point and Central Point Rural
Fire Departments sent trucks
to the scene, but by the time
they arrived the house was en
eulfed in smoke and flames
were shooting through the roof,
witnesses said.
Cause of the fire was not de
termined. It apparently started
in the kitchen.
The family lost all its posses
sions except a washer and dry
er. The Eagle Point Jaycecs
have scheduled a community
shower for the family at p.m.
Saturday at the local Grange
Hall.
The couple have a 3-year-old
son. Mrs. Walkins Is the former
Nclda Webb.
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No. 217
Told
Expects
Effort
and the other joint chiefs who
are the military heads of each
armed service, began a busy
round of conferences today by
the President on international
and domestic matters.
He began his day with an in
telligence briefing from Mc-
Ueorge Bundy, special assistant
for national security affairs.
The Rundy briefing will be
come a daily event. Under the
late President John F. Kennedy,
the intelligence briefings had
been conducted by military
aides.
After sitting for his first for
mal portraits at his White
House desk, Johnson met with
the joint chiefs and then con
ferred with Defense Secretary
Robert S. McNamara, Bundy
and Central Intelligence Agen
cy Director John A. McCone.
He next met with Secretary
of State Dean Rusk for a fur
ther discussion of foreign policy
and security matters.
Then, he discussed pending
legislative problems with special
assistant Lawrence O'Brien,
congressional liaison aide, and
deputy special counsel Mycr
Feldman.
Johnson discussed legislative
matters by telephone with House
Speaker John W. McCormack
and Senate Democratic Leader
Mike Mansfield. It was an
nounced that these contacts
would also be part of the Presi
dent's daily routine.
Next on Johnson's schedule
was a meeting with Roy Wil-
kins, executive secretary of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
(NAACP). This centered on the
civil rights program on which
Johnson- called" for actio'ft' when'
he addressed a joint session of
Congress Wednesday.
In that address, Johnson
pledged to administer federal
spending with the upmost thrift
and frugality.
Local Men Assist
Smith River Search
More than a dozen Medford
area men left this morning for
t h e Smith River northeast of
Crescent City to assist in the
search for Donald Rohy, 25, of
1326 Bundy St., who is believed
to have drowned.
According to United Press In
ternational, George Jennings,
Crescent City, told the Del Norte
County Sheriff's office that a
man, who was fishing about
three miles upstream from the
community of Hiouchl, suddenly
disappeared. Searchers found a
fishing rod and a car registered
to Roby.
Roby operated the Rogue
Maintenance Service here.
Immediately afterward a
search of the swift-flowing Smith
River about 11 miles from Cres
cent City was started. More than
seven friends and relatives from
Medford joined the search Wed
nesday night and returned to
the scene yesterday. They hope
to be able to use scuba divers
today. So far the water was too
rough and muddy for them to
enter.
Mrs. Roby told authorities her
husband had left Medford about
5:30 a.m. Wednesday to fish the
river. The couple has three chil
dren. Six Americans Get
Key Council Posts
VATICAN CITY (UPD-Ecu-
mcnical Council fathers today
elected six Americans to key
council commission posts newly
created by Pope Paul VI to
help speed up council action.
The secretary general of the
council, Archbishop Pcriclc Fel
ici, also announced the working
dales of the council's third ses
sion as Sept. 14 to Nov. 20, 1064.
The U.S. prelates elected
wore: Bishop Gerard McDevitt,
auxiliary of Philadelphia, to the
commission for the religious;
Bishop John - Comber, superior
general of the Maryknoll for
cign missionaries, to the mis.
sions commission; Bishop Loras
Lane of Rockford, 111., to the
c o m m I ssion for seminaries
Bishop Allen Babcock of Grand
Rapids, Mich., to the commis
sion un Ihc laity and press:
Bishop Charles Hclmslng of
Kansas Cily, Mo. Rnd Bishop
Ernest Primeau of Manchester,
N.H., both In the secretariat for
promoting Christian unity.
TAKEN INTO CUSTODY Two members of an armed pro-Castro
terrorist band are shown shortly after they were taken into cus
tody at Piarco International airport near Port of Spain, Trinidad,
Thursday. The couple is identified as "Commandante" Pilno and
his wife, Olga. The five-member band hijacked a Venezuelan
domestic airliner bound for Caracas with 17 persons, including
one American, and forced the pilot at gunpoint to fly to Trinidad.
., (UPI)
Khrushchev Said
Anxious To Meet
With New President
MOSCOW (UPI - Deputy
Premier Anastas Mikoyan, who
said Thursday . night he was
"very satisfied" with his talks
with President Johnson, already
has given " Premier N i k 1 1 a
Khrushchev a briefing on them,
informed sources said today.
Soviet sources said Khrush
chev is anxious for a meeting
with Johnson as soon as pos
sible. Stockholm or another neu
tral -f aprtal" was- being men
tioned as a possible site.
California Leads
In Traffic Deaths
By United Press International
The death pace on the na
tion's highways fell below the
normal for a non-holiday week
end on the second day of the
long Thanksgiving holiday to
day. Since the holiday period be
gan al 6 p.m. Wednesday, auto
motive deaths had been occur
ring at the rate of 4.1 an hour.
The National Safety Council
said the average death loll for
a non-holiday pcr.od was ap
proximately 4.6 an hour.
A United Press International
count at 0:30 p. m. PST
showed 173 traffic deaths since
the holiday weekend began.
The breakdown:'
Traffic 173
Fires 10
Planes 10
Miscellaneous 25
Total 218
California led the auto death
count with 12, followed by Illi
nois and Michigan with 11 each,
Texas with 10 and North Caro
line with 9.
Five People Injured
In Traffic Mishap
GRANTS PASS - Five per
sons were injured in a two-car
collision on U. S. 109 south of
here shortly after noon yester
day. Four of them were still at
Josephine General Hospital this
motmng.
The accident occurred when
an auto driven by Florence Eva
Merly, 45, of Pistol River struck
a car operated by Anna Marie
French, 19, of Grants Pass, The
French car qad just pulled out
onto U. S. 199 from Redwood
Avenue and was struck broad
side by the southbound Merly
car, stale police said.
Hospitalized were Miss Merly
with ankle injuries; a passenger
in her car, Elvin Roy Campbell,
44, of Brookings, who had head,
facial and chest injuries; Miss
French, who suffered bruises
and back injuries, and a passen
ger in her auto, Barbara Lou
Cotter of Grants Pass, who sus.
tained severe abrasions and lac.
crations.
Treated al the hospital and
released was Florence Jean
French, 13, another passenger
In the French car.
PORTLAND (UPI) - Fire
which started in a closet at a
men's dormitory at Reed Col
lege Thursday caused an esti
mated 11,000 damage, The fire
occurred in Sisson House.
Mikoyan, who attended Presi
dent Kennedy's funeral as the
ollicial Soviet representative,
met afterwards with Johnson
and Secretary of State Dean
Rusk. !
Before leaving Washington, he
expressed hope "that the new
U. b. administration will con
I tinue the search for mutually
acceptable solutions of disputed
issues ami lor. easing interna
tional tension." ' " ' I,. ' ..
On arrival at Moscow's air
port, Mikoyan gave a thumbs
up signal to indicate that all
was well, and gave U. S. Am
bassador Foy D. Kohler his
"very satisfied" report.
He also expressed pleasure
over tne reaction in the United
Slates to Khrushchev's visiting
the U. S. Embassy to express
his condolences for the Presi
dent's death.
The sources made II clear that
Khrushchev would place no ob
stacles in tha way of a summit
at any time, particularly if a
crisis emerges before a formal
conlerence could he set up,
South Talent Area i
Property Inspected
The Jackson County Court
was expected to Inspect the Roy
Edward James property In the
south Talent area before noon
today in connection with the
James petition seeking with
drawal from the South Talent
Sanitary District.
The James property, between
Old Pacific Highway and the
Southern Pacific Railroad, is in
cluded in Plan 1A submitted by
the consulting engineers for the
district. The 21 properties which
were approved for withdrawal
from the district Wednesday
were not in the initial develop
ment plan.
Mr. and Mrs. James contend
the length of the lateral re
quired to serve their five acres
would make it too expensive.
County Judge Eart Miller said
the County Court would decide
on the petition today.
Large Grading Project
Scheduled in
The largest single grading con
tract in the history of the Ore
gon Highway Department Is
schculed for Jackson County at
the Dec. 17 bid opening.
The grading involves the Sis
kiyou Summit-California state
line section of Interstate 5, a
projuct involving approximately
7,000,000 cubic yards of earth
work. The grading is designed to
provide for 12-foot travel lanes
over a distance of 3.40 miles
between the summit of the Sis
kiyou Mountains and the Cali
fornia state line. The lanes will
be separated by a landscaped
median.
The project will take the free
way through some of the highest
and most rugged country on the
Interstate 5 route. The comple
tion date is July 31, 1965.
Last Friday the commission
awarded a contract to the Slata
Hall Construction Co., Portland,
-
Multi-Stage Type
For Spacecraft
Launch Scheduled
'Improved Versions'
Slated for Testing
MOSCOW (UPD-The Soviet
Union announced Thursday
night it will resume its space
rocket tests in the Pacific next
Monday to try out "new im
proved versions" of the rockets.
The tests wilt last until Jan.
25, the Tass news agency said
in warning shipping and airr
Craft to sfav nil! nf thn arc.
which includes an area of the
ocean about 800 miles northwest
of U.S.-owned Midway Island.
The aeencv saiH th tocto
would be made "in view of the
enlargement of the program of
scientific research in the fur
ther exploration of outer space."
The rockets will be the multi
stage type used to launch spaca
vehicles. . . .
Tests Successful
Last vear. the Snvinlc an.
nounced they successfully tested
a new tvoe of carrier rnpt( fni
space research in two firings,
aDout buu mues nortneast ot
Midway.
The second Ipst 7nnn Ho.
scribed by Tass was 600 miles
soutn ot anotner American pos
session, Johnston Island.
The launchine sites for Ihn
tests are somewhere in the
Soviet Union, but their exact
location is now known.
The Soviet annniinrampn! riirl
not issue an outright ban to
snips ana pianes out miormed
me governments anout t n a
tests "with the remiest that thn
appropriate authorities instruct
tne captains oi snips ana plane
chief pilots not to enter into tha
areas."
Two Killed in
Oregon Accidents
By United Press International
Oregon's Thanksgiving week
end traffic death count stood at
two today, and a mother of five
children idied when her car
S lunged into the Tualatin River
l another accident.
Mrs. Dorothy May Fster, 42,
Sherwcod,, died 4when. her cr,
plunged off a wooden bridgs
Wednesday into the muddy Tu
alatin River near Tualatin.
The accident happened while
she was en route to her fob as
a nurses' aide at Good Samari
tan Hospital in Portland. It oc
curred before start of the holi
day weekend count at 6 p.m.
Wednesday, but the wreck was
not discovered until Thursday
when skindivers located the car
about 150 yards downstream
from the bridge.
Ms. Greta I. Flint, 65, Port
land, was killed Thursday after
noon in a two-car accident just
east of the Portland city limits.
Calvin William Wakefield, 20,
of Hemlock, died Wednesday
night when the car in which ha
was riding hit a slick spot on
Highway 20 and left the road
Vh miles west of Philomath in
Benton County.
Ferguson Named
Manager of Airport
Dudley L. Ferguson, adminis
trative assistant, has been ap
pointed manager of Medford
municipal airport, effective Dec.
2, City Manager Robert Duff an
nounced today. I
Ferguson will replace Assist
ant City Manager Gilbert J.
Gutjahr in the position. Duff
said the change is being made
to free Gutjahr to work in other
areas of city administration.
The new airport manager
joined Medford city government
on Sept. 3, following graduation
from the University of Oregon.
Ferguson has been working in
the administrative research di
vision, in addition to serving as
personnel manager for the city.
County
for construction of Interstate 5
for an adjacent section 2.29
miles north of the project to
be bid on Dec. 17.
Bid price was $3,512.0.14. The
project includes a 200 foot cut
at the Siskiyou Summit which
will require moving about two
million cubic yards of material.
The summit will be crossed at
4,310 feet, some 157 feet lower
than U. S. 99. Completion dsta
is May 1, 1965.
Once the project to the Call
fornia state line has been
awarded, this will leave only
one section of the freeway in
the Siskiyous not under con
tract. This section, of about two
miles, Is between the Wall
Creek section now under con
struction and the junction with
the Siskiyou Highway between
U. S. 99 and Oregon 66. Includ
ed in this section will be a
structure for the Southern Pa
cific Railroad.