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MEDFORD
Five Sections
Full Impact of
Construction
Curb Unknown
Editor's nolc: The full Impact of the scrapping of con
struction projects as a result ol the Oct. 15 lax referendum
will not be known until voters next May decide the future of
the $30 million higher education bond issue. This is the
second of five articles.
By ZAN STARK
SALEM (UPI) Students at state colleges and universities
may have to Jog through the mud, fight for space in overcrowded
classrooms or attend classes in summer.
Needed repairs at state institutions have been postponed, and
the new Agriculture Department building remains but a dream.
But the junking of $15.4 million in capital construction projects
in the wake of the Oct. 15 tax referendum won't deny qualified
students an educational opportunity, and state wards will not be
denied care at least in the immediate future.
Full impact of higher education construction cutbacks won't
be known until next May, when voters decide the fate of a $30
million higher education bond issue.
Approval of the bonds would allow most of the projects ap
proved for this biennium to proceed although the $12 million
in projects the bonds originally were to finance would remain
in limbo.
Proposed Bond Issue Revised
During the special session of the legislature the proposed
bond issue was revised so that if it passes the $1.3 million in
community college construction that was junked after the Oct.
13 vote can proceed.
The scrappin. of building projects created many hardships.
In 1961 the legislature -authorized about $2 million for a science
building at Portland Slate College. This project was a victim
of the 1963 austerity program because construction had not
yet started.
Yet this week the Board of Higher Education was able to
authorize a $1 million multi-level student parking facility
because funds for this project were not affected by the Oct. 15
election.
In 1881, $6 million was approved for construction of a new
Oregon Technical Institute campus at Klamath Falls. The 1963
legislature earmarked more than $300,000 for sidewalks, drive
ways, par ' g areas and landscaping at OTI. This fell victim
. to the economy axe. When the new campus opens late next year
students may be wading through mud to get to new classrooms.
The Agriculture Department, long anxious lo move out of its
present outdated building, .also fell victim to the economy drive.
The department has the $1 million-plus needed for the new
structure but cutbacks froze the few thousand dollars needed
to buy the last parcels of land on which the new building was to
be erected. .
Some $2.4 million In Board of Control projects remodeling
at Columbia Park Hospital, heating plants at Fairview Home
and Eastern Oregon Hospital, and administration building at
Hillcrcst, land acquisition were victims of the cutbacks.
Budgeted Projects May Be Financed
The following higher education projects had been budgeted
from the 1963-65 general fund, but were cancelled. They may be
financed by the bond issue if it passes next May:
Replacement of Campbell Hall, $292,000, and class and lab
oratory building, $820,000, at Oregon College of Education; utility
tunnel, $465,000 and mathematics building, $750,000, at Oregon
Stale University; physical education building at Portland State,
$3.4 million; Southern Oregon College class and laboratory build
ing, $955,000; and science and mathematic building at Eastern
Oregon College $875,000. In addition, the plan is to include the
Portland State science building, and money for sidewalks at
OTI, in the bond-financed projects.
The construction delays compound the difficulties created by
the $12 million in one-shot revenues picked up for this biennium.
The one-shot method, through bookkeeping changes, included
as revenue for 1963-65 money that normally would have been
collected in the 1965-67 biennium.
Delaying construction in 1963-65 simply means that the build
ing bill in 1965-67 will be bigger, and more urgent.
It is relatively easy lo cut spending as the result of the Oct.
15 tax referendum. But the austerity cutbacks did not .slow
the increased demands on state schools and institutions that
result from spiraling populations.
Thursday: The jobs that were Inst.
SHOPPING
DAYS LEFT
CHRISTMAS SEALS fight TB and
other RESPIRATORY DISEASES
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HOI'FA SIGNS LP TEA WAREHOUSES
CHICAGO (UPI) Trainstcrs President James R. Holfa
today had a contract covering 1,700 workers in National Tea Co.
warehouses in 12 U.S. cities, Ihe first nationwide agreemcut
negotiated by the union in the grocery Industry.
BOAROMAN PROJECT DOCUMENTS SIGNED
SALEM (UPI) Documents transferring the proposed Board
man Space Age Industrial Park lo the Slate Veteram Agency,
and ratifying every phase of the projects development were
signed al a seven-minute special meeting of the Stale Land
Board today.
IDI.EWILI) AIRPORT NAME CHANGED
NEW YORK (UPI) Idlewild Airport, often referred to
as the "crossroads of the world," will be renamed the John f.
Kennedy International Airport.
40 PAGES
High Court Denies
Another Trial for
Jeannace Freeman
SALEM (UPD The State Su-
preme Court today denied con
demned child slayer Jeannace
June Freeman's appeal for a
new trial.
The high court, in a unani
mous decision, upheld a Marion
County Circuit Court decision
which denied her plea for a new
trial under the state's post-conviction
relief act.
It is the second time the State
auiflen e wiuii u-ine u
conviction and death penalty for
the 1961 slaying of six-year-old
Larry Jackson, who was thrown
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY,
WEATHER
FORECAST: Conttnurd fair
and tool through Thursday.
Low tonight 23.
Temp.
Highest Yfsttrday
Lowebt This Morninf 16
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today , 4 : 1 fl p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow .... 7:31 a.m.
Moonrlse tomorrow 4:1)9 a.m.
New Moon .... Dec, 15
PROMINENT STAR
Sirlus. rise . S:52 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Jupiter, high In south
east 5:19 p.m.
Venus, sets B:00 p.m.
Saturn, in southwest 7:13 p.m.
Great Plains
Feels Fury of
Winter Storm
By United Press International
A wild, wintry storm dumped
up to four inches of fresh snow
on the great plains today and
pushed eastward, spraying
death-triggering freezing rain
from Texas to Virginia.
Cold wave conditions were ex
pected to hit southern Texas by
nightfall and the Weather Bu
reau said more than four inches
of fresh snow would fall during
the dav from southern Kansas
through central Illinois.
Hazardous driving warnings
were hoisted from Texas into
the central Appalachians.
The small southern Illinois
community of Breese was with
out heat and electrical power
after an early-morning fire
knocked out the town's power
facilities. Schools were closed
and emergency electricity sup
plies were put Into operation.
Deaths Attributed
At least 28 highway deaths
were attributed to the storm
since it rode out of the Rock
ies last' weekend. Six persons
also died in cold weather fires.
Four inches of snow fell in
Nebraska and Kansas prairies
before sunrise and amounts up
to three inches were reported
in a wide band stretching froih
the Texas Panhandle through
northern Kentucky. '
The storm sent heavy rains
across the Southland. Muscle
Shoals, Ala., received nearly
l'i inches early today and
Huntsville, Ala., had 1.18 inch
es. The naval air station at
Memphis, Tenn., reported 2'i
inches of rain during the night.
The lowest temperature in
the nation was at Butte, Mont.,
and Bozeman, Mont., where the
mercury fell lo 21 degrees be
low zero. Havre, Mont., report
ed 19 below.
Bolivian Terrorists
Attack Official's Home
LA PAZ, Bolivia (UPD-Ter-rorists
attacked the home of
Bolivia's labor minister with
dynamite and bullets today
shortly after the government
gave rebellious tin miners a 48
hour ultimatum to release 17
hostages, including four Ameri
cans, or face military action.
into the Crooked River Gorge
in Central Oregon.
The ruling exhausts her state
court appeal possibilities.
She can still appeal to federal j
courts. i
The United Slates Supreme!
Court has twice refused to hear ;
her case.
Miss Freeman, 22. would be!fNCNA) 1uolcd lwo maJor "K,
i the first woman to die In Ore-
. chamber,
8 6 ,
Miss Freeman's attorneys, in
her appearance before Marion
County Circuit Judge George A.
Jones, had asked for a new trial
on the ground that she had been
deprived of her constitutional
rights under both the United ; Communjst camp. I forest products, 91.3; service,
States and Oregon constitutions, j An articie in tne Peking Peo- 84.6; distribution, 77.3: retail,
The Supreme Court said that ; pc s Daily and the magazine 1 73, and commercial, 37.2.
the grounds set forth in the Red Flag said: I The United Crusade has a
post-conviction petition were cs- j "The heart and soul of the , record of 10 consecutive cam
sentially the same as raised in : general line of peaceful co- paigns which have exceeded the
the direct appeal. I existence pursued by the lead-1 goal.
The high court said her at-jcrs of the CPSU (Soviet com
torneys confused new or addi-j munist party) is Soviet-U S. col
tional evidence with new or ad- j laboration for the domination of
ditional grounds. the world."
Miss Freeman, who three
times has won stays on sched-
uled executions, is at the stale
Penitentiary here.
It is expected Ihe Jefferson ',
County Circuit Court in Madras,
where she was tried on the,
murder charge, will re-set an
execution date unless a federal
I court appeal is filed almost im
I mediately.
Tribune
DECEMBER 11, 1963
Howell Appling
May Step Down
At End of Term
SALEM (UPI) -Secretary of
Stale Howell Appling Jr. may
retire from politics and is not
expected to seek re-election next
year, United Press International
learned today.
Informed sources said Ap
pling apparently had decided
early this year to slep down
from public office at the end of
his present term which expires
at the end of 1964.
Appling would not comment
on the report.
He told UPI he would make
an announcement about the first
of the year.
An announcement that Ap
pling is quitting politics could
be a political bombshell in Ore
gon. Appling, 44, had been expected
by many to seek re-election as
secretary of state, and to run
for governor when Gov. Mark
Hatfield s second term expired.
Highly regarded by members
of both political parties, Appling
had been considered a certainty
for re-election as secretary of
state, and the Republicans' best
chance lo retain the governor
ship. A Navy veteran of World War
II, Appling founded the Inde
pendent Distributors, a Portland
wholesale logging and farm
equipment business, in 1046. The
business has been spectacularly
successful.
His business partner is retir
ing from the firm, Appling said.
In 19S9 Appling was appointed
secretary of state by Hatfield.
In 1960 he was elected to his
present four-year term.
Appling, a Catholic, Is mar
ried and the -father of four chil
dren. ' " ''
Virtually unknown when first
appointed to ottice, Appling be
came one of the best known
state officials in Oregon.
As secretary of state Appling
is auditor of the public ac
counts, chief fiscal officer, the
chief election officer, and cus
todian of the state's buildings
and grounds.
He established extremely good
relations with the Democratic
controlled legislature, which has
supported most of the legislation
he has asked, and has often
killed measures he opposed.
Many seasoned observers be
lieve his retirement from office
could leave a void that could
prove disastrous to Republicans.
Many have asusmed for some
lime Appling would be the can
didate to succeed Hatfield and
even many Democrats concede
he probably could defeat any
Democrats now considered like
ly opponcnls.
Informed sources said Appling
felt it necessary to devote more
time to his private business in
terests and family responsibili
ties. The death earlier this year
of his father is said to have
contributed to these responsibil
ities. Khrushchev Warned
Of Courting Disaster
TOKYO turn - i-ommunis
ier'ta TusS
o bctraying communism and of
seeking Soviet-American domi-
nation of the world.
In a slashing indictment of
the Kremlin, the official Red
New China News Agency
ing newspapers as warning
Khrushchev of courting disaster
by seeking cooperation wild
"U.S. imperialism."
The attack was Peking's ap
parent reply to an appeal from
Khrushchev for an end to po
lemics in Ihe bitter ideological
Hisn,. wj,jch has split the
President Johnson
Airs UN Problems
WASHINGTON (UPD Presi
dent Johnson discussed United
Nations problems with Adlai
Stevenson and other advisers
today, then turned his attention
again to the nation's military
posture.
58th Year Price 10 Cents
No. 227
HOWELL APPLING JR.
Plans To Step Down
Independence for
Kenya Official
At Midnight
NAIROBI, Kenya (UPD
Tribesmen and city dwellers to
day staged premature celebra
tions of Kenya's independence,
which becomes official at mid
night tonight in a ceremony I
ending Britain's fid years of
rule over this rich East Afri
can nation. -
Heavy rainfall hampered the!
festivities, but Africans in the
capital and countryside already
were eclohraung uhurii or. free
dom as the last day of British
dependence dawned.4. v .1..
Prince Philip, the husband of
Queen Elizabeth, and many
other foreign dignitaries includ
ing Assistant secretary of
Stale G. Mcnncn Williams, Unit-
ed Auto Workers' President
Walter Reuther, and Negro au
thor James Baldwin were here
lo witness the lowering of the
Union Jack in the stadium cer
emony.
Center nr Atlriictliin
But the center of attraction
was the tall, bearded premier
of the new nation, Jomo Kcn
yatla, who spent much of the
past 10 years in British jails
convicted of leading the Mau
Mau terrorist organization.
Kenyatta, now 73, won Irce-
dom for his country through
elections and negotiations after
British security forces defeated
the Mau Mau.
Crusade Reaches
84 Per Cent Goal
The United Crusade drive has
reached 84.1 per cent of the
$180,040 goal, according to Jer
ald McGrew, campaign chair
man. The total was reported at
the week's report meeting.
Total contributed so far is
$151,473. The public employes
division, with Russ Achcson as
chairman, is the only division
over its goal, it was reported.
McGrew stressed that the need
is critical, since the campaign
contributions are running behind
last year at this time. He nolcd
that throughout the state the
local drive is fifth from the lop
in percentage achieved.
Another meeting of division
chairmen will be held Monday,
Dec. 16. Contributions reported
(or the week totaled $4,156.
Percentages by division re
ported this week showed public
employes, 100.5 per cent; special
I gifts, 94.6; professional, 93.1
LOAN OFFICE ROBBED
PORTLAND (UPI) -A gun
man held up the Oregon Pioneer
Saving and Loan Association of
fice in northeast Portland today
and escaped with an undeter
mined amount of money.
PAGEANT URGED
j ASTORIA. (UPI) - A state
j senator suggested Tuesday night
, thai Astoria hold a well-pro
moled annual historical pageant
I to attract visitors.
Youth Exhausted
But Unharmed
Following Ordeal
Ransom Money left
At VA Hospital
WEST LOS ANGELES (UPI)
Young Frank Sinatra Jr.'s
kidnapers turned him loose un
harmed today after the youth
talked them into letting him
go before they knew $240,000
ransom had been paid by his
famous father.
"He talked that guy into turn
ing him loose, that's what he
told me." said the security
guard who picked up Frank Jr.
19, shortly after he was released
near Jiis mother's home.
Sinatra was kidnaped at a
Lake Tahoe resort Sunday
night. His father had talked
with young Frank twice during
eight telephone conversations
with the abductors in two days.
"Tomorrow is my birthday
and its the best present I could
get," Sinatra told newsmen
gathered outside his first wife s
palatial hilltop home in Bel-Air
in the pre-dawn hours minutes
after his son's return.
Frank Jr.'s first words lo his
father were "I'm sorry." Si
natra said his son "hadn't eat
en much," but was unharmed.
The family physician said young
Frank was "exhausted and rest
ing" after his ordeal.
Hid In Trunk
The only eyewitness to the
kidnaping was John Foss, 26,
Frank Jr.'s roommate, who
was in the motel room with
him when the youth was kid
naped from Ihe lake resort on
the California-Nevada border
high in the snow-clad Sierra
Nevada about 450 miles north
of here, was being held in pro
tective custody at Lake Tahoe.
Frank Jr. was released at the
Mulholland Drive off-ramp of
the San Diccn Freewnv where
it crosses the ridge of Santa
Monica Mountains, not far from
his mother's home. He walked
toward the home until he was
picked up by private Bcl-A i r
Patrolman George C. Jones, 50.
Jonos hid young Sinatra in
the trunk of his car and took
him to his mother's house. He
rang the bell of the Sinatra
home and told Mrs. Sinatra,
The patrolman said Frank Jr.
had told him he was fearful
that the kidnapers would come
back for him after they re
leased him.
Every time I saw a car
come I hid," Jones quoted the
youth as saying.
Sinatra, recalling his convcr-
sations with his son's abdnc
tors, said he believed possibly
nine persons were involved in
the kidnaping. He said he usual
ly talked to Ihe same person
each time, a man whose voice
led him to believe he was in
his early 20s.
The abductors apparently letl
immediately for the Los An
geles area afler the kidnaping,
before road blocks were set up
and despite heavy snow.
Sinatra first spoke to his son
from his motel in Reno, Nov.,
where he kept a tense vigil
alter flying north from his
Palm Springs, Calif., home.
They said they had the Boy,
and, bang, that was the end of
the conversation," he said.
The elder Sinatra, carrying
out the kidnapers' instructions,
flew to Los Angeles late Tues
day in a chartered airliner
while friends collected the ran
som money from several banks
in $100, $50, $20 and $10 denom
inations.
The money was left in a
niece of luggage al the U.S.
Veterans Hospital on Wilshirc
Boulevard not lar from Ihe isi
natra home.
Patrolman Jones described
how he happened lo pick up
Frank Jr. shortly before 3 a.m.
and return him lo his mother's
home.
Jones said he talked lo Sina
tra Jr. about the kidnaping and
quoted the youth as saying he
thought they were amateurs.
He said young Sinatra told him
he was blindfolded most of the
time and was forced to lake
sleeping pills lo keep
groggy.
him
Security Council
Calls More Talks
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
(UPD The African powers'
campaign lo force independence
for Portuguese Africa simmered
down today tn a Security Coun
cil call for a fresh round of
talks.
Unanimous council approval
was cxpccled for a resolution
sponsored by Ghana, Morocco
and the Philippines.
The measure reallirms a pre
vious embargo on shipment of
jarms which Portugal could use
against the African population
: in Angola, Mozambique and
PortuBucse Guinea. The Afrl
cans charge that Portugal usea
NATO arms to hold the nation
allsls in check in Its overseas
territories.
9
TKLLS OK Itl'XKAKK Frank Sinatra tells
newsmen in Los Angeles that his kidnaped
son, Frank Jr., has been returned safely to
his family,. Sinatra said he paid a $240,000
Connally Has
Complications
From Wounds
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPD Texas
Gov. John Connally, shot down
with President Kennedy Nov. 22
and thought well enough to be
released six days ago, was back
in the hospital today with com-
plications from his wounds.
me new ailment was imlnm-
mation of a blood vessel in his
right leg, the indirect result of
the sniper s bullet that passed
first through his chest, then hit
his wrist and went into his leg.
His doctor called it a "super
ficial inflammation" and said
Ihe governor would be in St.
David's Hospital for five or six
days. The doclor said Connally's
condition was not serious and
no surgery would be required.
wile Mays Home
Connally will carry on routine
business while he is in the hos
pital, a spokesman said. Mrs.
Connally, who stayed at the
governor s side tor the 13 days
he was in Parkland Hospital in
Dallas after the shooting,
stayed home with the couple's
three children this time.
During treatment at Parkland
Hospital, Connally had lo be
fed intravenously through a
tube in his right calf. Doctors
said a coagulation of blood
clots, called a "superficial
thrombophlebitis" occurred at
the point where the lube was
inserted.
The governor's arm was still
in a cast because of his shat
tered wrist.
Soviet Army Plans
To Leave Hungary
MOSCOW (UPD - The So
viet army, which crushed the
Hungarian revolution seven
years ago, plans to leave Hung
ary in the next few months,
diplomatic sources said today.
Only a few token units will
be left behind under the War
saw pact agreement, the sources
said.
Lodge Says He's Not
WASHINGTON (UPD -
Henry Cabot Lodge flatly refuses to be
drawn into a Republican presidential pref
erence primary in the District of Colum
bia because he has "no intention of run
ning." Lodge, Ihe 1060 Republican vice presi
dential candidate who now serves as U.S.
envoy to South Vict Nam, made Ihe slate
mcnl in a Dec. 4 letter to D. C. Republi
can Chairman Carl L. Shipley.
The former Massachusetts senator's name
was mentioned as a GOP presidential pos
sibility last week when it was reported that
former President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
an old friend, had written him, urging him
to rclurn to this country and vie (or the
nomination.
Lodge said he had received no such let
ter hut that if he did he would consider
"with great respect" any request from El
Jackson County
Trade Commission
Selected by Court
The Jackson. County .CourL 1 shipped, who would finance il,
yesterday afternoon appointed I and who would represent Ore
a five-man County Trade Com-J gon products. Somebody with
mission to work with an Oregon
Trade Commission In placing an
Oregon products display in Ha.
wan. early next year,
Formation of the stale and
county commissions and the
planned display are part of an
over-all effort jointly sponsored
by the Association of Oregon
Counties and the Oregon Depart
ment of Planning and Develop
ment designed to Improve inter
state and export marketing of
Oregon products.
Members of the county com
mission arc Russell Hoguc, Tim
ber Products, Medford; Glenn
Harrison, Bear Creek Orchards,
Medford; Jerald McGrew, Mc
Grew Lumber Company, Med
ford; Martin Grier, Applcgate
cattleman and president of the
Jackson County Farm Bureau;
and Shelby Tutlle, executive
secretary for the Medford Pear
Shippers and Fruit Growers
League.
Steering Committee
A stale-wide steering commit
tee will meet in Portland.
Oregon's trade with Hawaii
has decreased substantially over
the past years, according lo
William Miller, of the planning
and development department.
Pears and lumber will form
the Jackson County part of the
display. Plywood would prob
ably form the main exhibit from
Josephine County, County Com
missioner Louis Ringucltc said
yesterday.
Raymond Retcr, Medford pear
shipper, asked who would ship
the display, how it would be
HEADS FORESTERS
WASHINGTON (UPD Philip
A. Brieglcb of Portland has
been elected president of the
Society of American Foresters
for a Icrm running through 1905.,
Ambassador
ransom for the sale return of his son. Al
right is Sinatra's press agent, Jim Mahoncy.
(UPI)
I sales and promotional expei i-
en.ee should be m Hawaii, ha
said.
Jackson Cbunty Commissioner
Edwin Taylor said he did not
know the answers (0 these ques
tions since he had only general
information from tho AOC at
this lime. More definite informa
tion would be available later, ho
assumed.
Division of C'osl
Stale Sen. Lynn Newbry (R
Talent), an Ashland area fruit
grower and shipper, said ha
would like to know how much
of the costs the Port of Portland
would be willing to pay since it
would receive perhaps the most
direct benefit.
Jackson County Commissioner
Donald Faber said he under
stood only one man would rep
resent the entire Oregon dis
play. If the pear shippers want
to send someone over they
would have to pay his expenses,
he said.
Both lumber and fruit repre
sentatives said shipment of their
products to Hawaii by way of
Portland would be too expensive
to be feasible. Hood River, Ore.,
and Washington fruit areas are
much closer lo ports and can
ship to Hawaii cheaper although
Hawaii docs have a high rate of
pear and apple consumption,
Retcr pointed out: San Francis
co has more frequent sailing
schedules, industry men said.
Grier said the discussion
points up the need for local in
dustry conferences lo learn
more about where Ihe markets
are for local products.
TWO RE-ELECTED
PORTLAND (UPD -Glenn B.
Blake and Edward Whelan. both
running unopposed, have been
re-elected president and secre
tary of the Multnomah County
Labor Council.
Candidate
senhower. Sources close to the former chief
excculive denied he sent such a letter but
the feeling in the capital was lhat It ex
pressed his views nonetheless.
Shipley said today he wrote Lodge Nov.
18, asking him lo consider allowing his
name lo be entered on the May 5 primary
ballot here, or at least to dispatch a letter
saying he had "no objection" to such a
move. Lodge wrote fror" Saigon saying, "I
am not a candidate and, therefore, cannot
give you such a statement. In fact, were
I to writo the type of letter which you re
quest, it would put me In an extremely false
position. Therefore, I must object.
"While I am naturally complimented that
some people think I would make a good
president, I have no Intention of running
and think the most helpful thing that 1 can
do for the country at the present time Is
In my work here in Vict Num," Lodge
added.
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