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' - . - . - THREE-ALARM FIRE San Francisco Fire men battle a three-alarm fire in a downtown office building. No estimate of damage has been made, but the fire did considerable damage to the three-story building. There were no reported injuries during the .10 minute battle to control the blaze. (UPI) State Highway Contracts Let In 1963 Totaled $107.6 Million SALEM (UPI) The State Hand cement pavement, and 89 Highway Department awarded bridges and structures. $107.6 million In contracts dur- About 50 miles of interstate ing 1963 $31 million more than highway was completed or open were awarded in 1062, Highway e(j t0 traffic during the year. At Engineer Forrest Cooper said yoarend, 116 miles were under Saturday. j construction to freeway stan- In all, 166 contracts were ; dards. This leaves 260 miles to awarded, compared with 195! be put under construction to the year before, Cooper said. complete the interstate highway He estimated the department SyStcm jn Oregon before the tar would let $iil million in con-gct date of 1972. tracts during 1964 . The highway department and Of the $107.6 million contrac - u s 0fEn(,jncers are re ed during the year, $16 7 mil- ,ocating (he Columbia Rjver lion was for bond projects, $3.2 ighway bclween Rufus and million for construction on the Boardman t skjrt wa(crs to be county road system, $260,000 for work on city streets off the state highway system, $3.4 mil lion was in cooperation with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in connection with the relocation of U.S. 30 near the John Day Dam, $80.1 million was in con nection with federal aid partici pating projects, and $3.9 million was for state-financed construc tion. Contracts awarded in 1963 in cluded 158 miles of grading, 184 miles of rock base construction, 86 miles of oiled wearing sur face, 130 miles of asphaltic con crete pavement, 4 miles of Port- COMPULSORY INOCULATION PRETORIA, South Africa (DPI) Immunization against polio became compulsory Satur day for every South African rhild over the age of 3 months. The official Gazette said parents who fail to have their children inoculated may be fined $140. Afro-American Group Head Critical of NAACP, Others You Specify. . . ...We'll Satisfy LASI.1E Oakland, Sin Franciaco, Lot Angclat and Olhar California Polntl. Call Jack Fitigerald, 773-7761 Loi Angslet-Seattle Motor Exprest, Inc. PORTLAND (UPI) -The na tional chairman of the Afro American Association said Fri day his organization believes the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and other civil rights groups are concerned only with the middle class Negro. Oakland attorney Donald War den said that the present pos ture of the civil rights groups "is not only misleading, but do ing more harm than good." Warden, here to speak on his organization and its aims, ac cused the NAACP of taking a ARMSTRONG TIRES... INVENTORY CLEARANCE Don't DUy Hurry Down Today and Tjkt Advantage 1 H Mi TERMS ON APPROVED CREDIT of Thit Fabuloul Ofler! W TIKES WHILE THEY LAST lack . 6:40-6:50-13 6:40-6:50-13 Pram. While 5:60-15 Pram. Black 5:60-15 6:00-16 , Pram. White . $13.88 . 15.88 15.88 17.88 10.88 CARRY OUT PRICES! 6:70-15 B,..k 9.88 7:50-14 9.88 7:50-14 Premium Black 16.88 8:00-14 Bik 15.88 8:50-14 While 19.88 7:60-15 Prem. While N,lon Tubeleii . 24.86 8:00-8:20-15 While Nylon Tube Type 22.37 DROP IN & CHECK! MANY MORE VALUES Add $1.00 And Old Tire For Installation ft mnnmzuiii isiixnvsni vno tot u iea k tow own rxi Ml Wf ItiUTtOtM tutna CO MM NT OS 'J Armstrong Tirt art fuar antecd at long a you own them! (Adjustment biicd on original treat depth and Armilrong'i printed jdjml mcnt pncci in effect at time ot replacement) THRIFT AUTO SUPPLY r il l gating schools and ignoring the real criterion. "The real purpose of educa tion is to learn," Warden said. "They are measuring education al progress in terms of how many schools are desegregated. If desegregation were all there is to it, that would be fine." He continued, "schools are largely desegregated in the North, and the dropout rate among Negroes is higher in the North than it is in the South. Of Negroes in graduate schools in the North, more are from the South than from the North." Warden said his organization, which has 5,(XH) members, is conducting a program in the Son Francisco Bay area aimed at educating the masses of Ne groes and instilling in them a pride of race that will move them to help themselves. He said they are taught such things ns how to register tor night classes or how to buy a used car, in addition to reading and writing in "street schools." "We reach some people 'in meetings, some on the radio, and the only way to get many of the prospects is to go into the street," Warden said. impounded behind John Day Dam. the 28-mile stretch be tween Rufus and Arlington is all on new location high on a hill. East from Arlington to Board man much of the Columbia Riv er Highway will be salvaged and become a part of the final four-lane divided interstate free way. About 203 miles downstream from the John Day Dam, con struction is underway on the $24 million bridge over the Co lumbia between Astoria Mccler. Wash. South from Ashland to" the California state line, the rugged Siskiyous are bowing to the highway builders. During 1963 three contracts were let involv ing the expenditure of $13.7 mil- continued increase in park use, lion for the construction of R? with an estimated 13 million miles of highway. park visitations during 1963 The department's parks and compared with 11.5 million the recreation division reported a year before. Budget Restoration Requests invited SALEM (UPI) -State depart ments have been advised to sub mit priority restoration requests for presentation t o an Em ergency Board meeting Jan. 24, the Finance and Administration Department revealed Saturday. When the 100,000-acre Board man project was turned over to the Veterans' department by the special session of the legislature, $900,000 that had been spent by the state to develop the project was refunded to the general fund .from surplus veterans' funds. Gov. Mark Hatfield will re- a n d i view agency restoration re quests, and submit recommen dations to the Emergency Board. The Emergency Board, made up of legislators, must give its approval before any of the $900,- 000 can be used to restore au sterity cuts resulting from the Oct. 15 tax referendum. Finance and Administration Director Freeman Holmer ad vised agency heads "special consideration will be given to those items where the smallest allocation will accomplish the greatest gain in the preserva tion of essential public serv ices." Agency heads were ordered to submit their restoration requests by Jan. 8. Holmer said "it is planned to present the entire list of re quests to the Emergency Board for their consideration together with the governor's recommen dations as to which requests should receive allocations at this time." Page 2-A MEDFORDt Tribune MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1963 'I Dlane.a.P'iru . IT77 I igiid o i giti i -m i OFF TO A HAPPY START! Get the new yer off to j hippy start with an easy. to -give party at its festive best. You'll baby yourself and guests when the Hallmark New Year Baby lends a helping hand with napkins, horns, noise makers, serpentines and cen terpieces. ,We resolve to help make your party the best ever Libbey bar glasses, ice buckets, bar accessories, candles. 217 E. MAIN MEDFORD MedfonJ, 101 N. Rlvirtldt-Granti Pan, 529 If. OPEN SUNDAYS Home of 10,000 Items 773 7433 Decision On : Status Of Negro Expected Soon SPOKANE (UN) - The first major decision on whether a Georgia Negro will be returned to be executed or will be al lowed to go free as expected aft er a federal court hearing be ginning here Monday. The case is that of Charlie Will Cauthen, 2B, who was ar rested in Warden, Wash., this summer on a fugitive from jus tice warrant. i Cauthen was convicted Feb. i 2H. 1!I5!I, of the murder of Elijah Melvin Perkins, a white service station operator from Griffin, Ga. llo escaped from the Pike County jail at Zebulon May 25, 1959, and was working on a farm neiir Warden when the Federal Bureau of Investigation i caught him. Cauthen claims he is innocent , of murder, but the question of guilt or innocence is not being i taken up by the court. Five attorneys acting in Cau then's behalf have asked for an i order releasing him from the Spokane County jail. They con tend he was denied due process of law in his Georgia murder trial. In their petitions lor release, the attorneys claim Negroes were systematically excluded from juries in Griffin County, that a confession was taken from Cauthen while under coer cion and without legal aid and that when an attorney was ap pointed for Cauthen, the allor ncy failed In pursue all legal avenues to defend his client. Mt. Index Rescue Efforts Resume KVEKETT (ITI) - A res cue parly resumed efforts Sat urday to bring out the bodies of a Seattle man and his 12-vear-old son who died on the slopes of Mt. Index early Friday morn ing of cold and exhaustion. Dangerous terrain and light conditions forced a halt to the attempt Friday night to recover the bodies of Horace Gates, 41, and his son. Frank. AfClIMAV VICTIM OIKS VANCIH'VEK. Wa.-h ilTP K I e 1 1 Kroule. RO. Orchards. Wash . died at a hospital Fri day from injuries sufleird in a Iwo - car accident near here Tui-mI,( . iro.w w.u iyj-w li CLEARANCE SALE Shop Our 2 SPECIAL PRICE CLEARANCE COUNTERS in the front and back of the store 8SS Old stock, odds and ends, broken and soiled merchandise SLASHED to unheard of GIVE-AWAY PRICES starting at . . . 11 3?c If Furniture, Toys, Appliances, Wearables and Many, Many Other Categories. DOWNTOWN TkuaW 6th and Central m G
