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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.
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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
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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."
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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.
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