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.
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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
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gines which sounded defective
The engines either died or were
cut, the plane dived earthward,
and then the engines roard as
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Witnesses said It appeared the
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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.
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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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