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OEA Would Back State Sales Tax To Aid Education PORTLAND (UPI)-The Ore. Ron Education Association voted Friday to support a state sales tax with the money to be ear marked for education. The or ganization said it would initiate the measure, if necessary. The action came at a meet' Inc of about 200 delegates to the OEA's Representative Coun-cil. There were estimates it might cost as much as $74,000 to run the initiative campaign. The council also voted to re sist any attempts by school boards to lower teacher salaries as a result of voter defeat of the legislature's tax bill Oct. 15. Some school district budgets are expected to be cut as much as 25 per cent next year be cause of an anticipated $12 mil lion slash In the $141 million state aid to education fund for the next bicnnium. LaGrande Suspends Chief of Police PORTLAND (UPI) -The exe cutive board of the Oregon Wild life Federation Saturday called for the dismissal of LaGrande Police Chief Oliver E. Reeve. Reeve and three other men pleaded guilty to possession of illegal elk in Union County Nov. 4. The LaGrande city council later suspended him for two weeks without pay and ordered him to refrain from hunting. The sportsmen's organization called on the city council to re place Reeve "with a law en forcement officer who at all times conforms to the public responsibility." Another motion to have the OEA take action if teacher in crement raises are withheld next year was defeated. The OEA also reaffirmed its stand OEA also reaffirmed its stand against a merit raise plan for teachers and spoke out for a teacher starting minimum of $6,000 yearly with a $13,000 top after ten years. Pharmacist Calls Latest Welfare Plan 'Impractical' PORTLAND (UPI) -A plan to allow druggists to collect ex tra money for filling welfare pre scriptions has been criticized by a spokesman for the Oregon Pharmaceutical Association. The State Welfare Commission proposal would authorize drug gists and others to collect from needy persons and their rela tives the difference between the highest fees allowed by the com mission and the fees actually paid. Henry Spcckman, executive secretary of the pharmacists' group, called the plan Imprac tical. "Not only are pharmacists reluctant to collect money from persons already in need, but no body can tell ahead of time how the state will pro rate the pay ments," he said. Last month, when druggists' claims outran available funds, the commission cut payments for prescriptions at about 65 cents on the dollar. Page 2-A Medford, Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1(163 WRECKAGE OF PLANE Bob Rykken, left, fireman from Boring, and Al Kempin, execu tive of Skyways, Inc. flying school, examine wreckage of twin-engined plane which car ried three men to their deaths east of Barton Friday night. (UPI) 3 Killed As Plane Crashes Into Field South of Barton ESTACADA, Ore. (UPI) - Three men were killed when their twin-engine plane crashed in an open field about 10 miles north of here Friday night. The aircraft, a four-place Ces sna 310, was on a training flight from the Skyways, Inc., flying school at Troutdale. The victims were William A. Smith, 31, Portland, and instruc tor for Skyways: Harry Sank, 35, Anchorage, Alaska, a private pilot who was being checked out for a commercial license, and Charles N. Gates, 38, Trout dale, manager of Skyways' flight division who was along as a passenger. The craft nosed into tne re cently plowed field in a rural area off State Highway 224 about a mile south of Barton in Clackamas County. There was no fire after the crash, which occurred about 1V4 hours after the plane took off. Witnesses told authorities the ARMSTRONG TIRES... INVENTORY REDUCTION AY m TERMS ON APPROVED CREDIT Don't Delay Hurry Don Today and Takt Advanlage of Thii Fabuloui Offer! WHILE THIV LAST! 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Witnesses said It appeared the plane was attempting an emer gency landing. An investigation into the cause of the crash was under way. Planning Group Chairmen Picked SALEM (UPI) -Public Utility Commissioner Jonel C. Hill, ap pointed in August as the state's new emergency planning direc tor, Friday announced the chair men of eleven citizens planning groups. Hill said the eleven groups will take inventories and draft plans to assist in solving crisis in housing, food, health, man power, gas, power, production, communications, transportation, water and price-wageprcnt con trol that would occur in event of a nuclear disaster. The goal for completing the plans Is one year. Hill said the groups will work on the national level with the office of Emergency Planning, an independent agency operating directly under the president. The eleven chairmen named by Hill are: Communications, .lack Sugg, vice president of Cole and Weber; economic sta bilization, Vince Egglcston, vice president and general manager of St. Johns Motor Express; health, Dr. Richard H. Wilcox, Stale Health Officer; manpower, W. L. Vinson, business manager of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Petrole um and gas, Newton Lcsh, Ore gon manager of Time Oil Co.; production, James H. Ralhbun, all of Portland. Construction and housing, Stu art Groesbeck of Groesbeck and Durbin; power, Byron Price, Superintendent and secretary of the Eugene Water and Electric Board, both of Eugene. Transportation, James E. Singleton, director of Transpor tation for the PUC; water, Doncl I.. Lane, executive secre tary of the State Water Re sources Board, both of .Salem. Food, Leland Jacobsmuhlen, president of Arrow Meat Co., Cornelius. Chemekefa Hills Name Adopted By Geographic Board PORTLAND (UPI) The name Chemeketa Hills was approved by the Oregon Geographic Names Board Friday night for some 60 s q u a r e miles of ele vated land southwest of Salem. The Marion County Historical Society had voted 9-8 earlier in favor of Chemeketa Hills over other proposals that the land be called Salem Hills, Red Hills or Illahe Hills. Chemeketa is an In dian word thought to mean "place of rest." It was the original name of the city of Sa lem. The names board decided to name the highest point in the Tillamook Burn Nels Rogers P e a K in memory of Oregon s state forester from 1940 to 1949, The board also honored the memory of two brothers in nam ing the first of seven waterfalls in the Salmon River Canyon in Mt. Hood National Forest Stein Falls. Johnny and Bobby Stein of Welches were killed in World War II. In another decision, the board affirmed the name Nigger Rock for a prominent rock formation about 20 miles south of Vale. Members had received some complaints that the name was offensive to Negroes, but they decided the name is deeply es tablished In local usage and that a type of agatized wood found in the area is known nationally to mineralogists as "Nigger Rock wood." Government Rests Case In Lake Valley Fraud Trial; Defense Starts Monday PENDLETON (UPI) The; The corporation has been federal government rested its case Friday in the trial of seven men charged with mail fraud and conspiracy in connection with the Lake Valley land de velopment project. The defense will open its case Monday in federal court here. The federal indictment issued selling sites for $395 dollars an acre $5 down and $5 a month. The land was purchased by the developers for $24 an acre from Robert Monroe of Mendocino, Calif., who testified he paid $8 an acre for 11,000 acres of Lake Valley land. Shortly alter tne prosecution onoinci ih Uarnou rnnnfv i anH rested its case two motions by Development Corp. charges the i the defense, for acquittal and defendants with promoting de sert land with misleading bro chures and newspaper advertising. The 6,919-acre Lake valley tract is 22 miles south of Burns. The defendants are Abraham L. Koolish, 70, and his son, Da vid F., 43, both of Winnetka, 111.; John Milton Phillips Jr., 38, Evanston, 111.; Jack Cecil Cher bo, 37, Chicago; Richard Dale Walker, 40, Los Angeles; George Edward Isaacs, 30, Glendale, Calif., and Maurice Arthur Hall, 39, Beverly Hills, Calif. The prosecution sougnt to dis credit the desirability of the area with a parade of witnesses who testified on the area's agri cultural potential, recreational advantages and on retirement and investment opportunities. Elmer Kolberg, a Portland real estate appraiser, said Fri day fair market value of land in the subdivision is $10 an acre. charging a mistrial, were pre sented. Both were denied by Corvallis Directed To Hall Pollution CORVALLIS (UPI) - The State Sanitary Authority has di rected the city of Corvallis to halt its pollution of the Willam ette River, City Manager John Porter revealed Friday. The city's primary treatment of sewage is no longer adequate, Kenneth Spies, state sanitary engineer, said in a letter to Porter. Porter said the city had an ticipated the directive and is sotting aside funds from its sewer user tax to pay for a bond Issue. A $350,000 bond is sue election probably will be held in 19(15 and application for a $150,000 federal grant will be made, Porter said. Multnomah GOP Target of Suit PORTLAND (UPI) -A suit for declaratory judgment and a restraining order against t h e Multnomah County Republican Central Committee and its chair man, William E. Moomau, was filed in circuit court here Fri day. The action was filed by com- mitteeman Lyle Dean, a school teacher. Dean complained a Nov. 19 committee meeting was not called properly and that persons not eligible to vote did in fact cast ballots authorizing a $500 a month salary for Moo; mau. Circuit Judge Charles Redding held a brief hearing shortly aft er the action was filed. He denied Dean an immediate re straining order and set Monday for a hearing on the matter. The complaint filed Friday charged the meeting was called without notifying the entire membership. It also stated that 247 ballots were cast when only 244 members had proper creden tials for voting. The suit asks the court to determine the vali dity of t h e meeting and the vote. Wheat Growers Endorse Voluntary Certificate Plan PORTLAND (UPI) - The Oregon Wheat Growers League committee on federal programs Friday endorsed a voluntary certificate plan for wheat acre age control. The orooosal was to be offer ed to the league membership at a business session Saturday. It was expected to receive full grower backing. The plan is designed to return to farmers a parity of income for wheat marked for use in food. Farmers would be issued certificates covering their histor ical share of the market. The program would be volun tary, and all wheat farmers, whether eligible or not to re ceive marketing certificates, would be free to produce and compete for secondary use mar kets, primarily livestock feed. The National Grange approved a similar program earlier this year. Recommendations adopted by the marketing and transporta tion committee Friday included: Approval of sale of wheat to any foreign country recognized by the United States and able to buy the wheat with dollars under normal credit terms. Elimination of shipping restrictions such as the presi dential order stating that 50 per cent of the wheat should be car ried in U.S. ships, if available. Endorsement of grain freight rates which went into effect Sept. 30, 1960, but were subse quently canceled by the Inter state Commerce Commission. Federal Judge John F. Kilkenny. The motion for acquittal was made on the grounds the gov ernment had failed to present evidence which proved its case. Kilkenny said he would recon sider it after the defense had presented its side. The mistrial motion alleged misconduct in the courtroom by acting U.S. Atty. Sidney I. Le zak. Defense Attorny William H. Morrison objected to the manner in which Lezak read a letter into the record and to the jury. We never gueii We look it up WORLD BOOK ENCYCLOPEDIA In Sales si. In Service for your LOCAL rcpreienrative Wrile Bon Ph. 482-3196 Aihland, Oregon We never guess We look it up 1 WARSAW (UPI) - Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski Saturday re turned from the Vatican where he had criticized Polish state church relations for the first time abroad. 2 Women Die From Traffic Injuries By United Press International Mrs. Margaret Frederick, 43, Bums, died at a Bend hospital Friday from injuries suffered when she was struck by a car near Bend Sunday. She was the victim of a hit-and-run driver. Mrs. Jane Nora Woody, 35, Disston, also succumbed in a hospital at Cottage Grove Thursday from injuries she re ceived in a one-car crash near that city Monday. Eugene D.A. Notes Keys to Homicide PORTLAND (UPI) - L a n e County Dist. Atty. William Frye said here Friday that police co operation, good photographs and a personal visit by the prosecu tor are key elements in the suc cessful completion of negligent homicide cases. Frye spoke at the annual con ference of Oregon District At torneys Association here. Frve has obtained more con- Car-Train Collision Injures Two Women GERVA1S (UPI)-Two women were injured when their car col lided with a Southern Pacific train at a crossing here Satur day. A Salem Memorial Hospit al spokesman identified the vic tims as Mrs. Edna Brown and Mrs. Nora Miller, both of Ger vais. Mrs. Brown was said to be suffering from extensive shock and other injuries. Mrs. Miller was listed in good con dition but the extent of her in juries had not been determined. Mrs. Miller was the driver of viction.i in negligent homicide cases man any otner uisinci at- ,nc cnri which was hil bv lorney in Oregon. : northbound freight train. hlected president of the asso- ciation was Richard Courson, .i j j t Umatilla Countv district attor- ronlana Mayor 10 ney. Courson succeeds Courtney j Attend Funeral R. Johns of Linn Countv. The' two-day meeting ended Friday. PORTLAND (UPI) - Mayor ' Tern Schrunk will represent LIVESTOCK HOARD the U. S. Conference of Mayors SAI.EM (UPI) Members of at the funeral of organization the Stale Board of Livestock president Arthur L. Sellani. Auction Markets and State Bru-, mayor of Fresno, Calif., Mon cellosis Advisory Commitlee will , day. meet here Monday, it was an- Sellani was killed in an auto nounccd Saturday. crash near Fresno Thursday. 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