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Newspaper Page Textpa . v ' v ( ' ,1" 10 A TUESDAY. Defense Industry Warned on SeeEdrcg 'Undue Profits1 WASHINGTON (UPI) - Vice Ailfn. Hyman G. Rickover, in testimony published Monday, varned the defense industry it was endangering free enterprise from government contracts. Rickover called for new ground rules to make sure that taxpayers get all they pay for wlien the military buys weapons syslems and other complex equipment on which real com petitive bidding is not practical. He charged unidentified con tractors with having hidden ex cess profits through such de vices as overhead charges and subcontracts with divisions of their own companies. ' New Procedures Asked Rickover called for new pro cedures under which the gov ernment could study in advance cost estimates and other factors involved in a contractor's sales offer. Asked whether his remarks implied a criticism of the free enterprise system, the published Trigger-Happy Bandit Placed On Wanted List WASHINGTON (UPD-Arthur William Couts, a tattooed and trigger-happy bandit, has been placed on the FBI's list of 10 most wanted criminals. Couts, 32, has been sought by police since July 17 when he and an accomplice held up a grocery store in Philadelphia at gunpoint, threatening to kill a cashier. The FBI describes him as violence prone and extreme ly dangerous. The wanted man is both scarred and tattooed. There is an S-shaped cut scar on the lit tle finger of his right hand and others on his face and both thighs. On his upper right arm is a ton of twin hearts inscribed "mother" and "father." An American flag, an eagle and a scroll with the inscription "USA" are on his upper left aim. Tattooed on his chest urn a rose, an American flag and tho name "Josephine. Couls has been known as a lawbreaker since 1941) when he was arrested in Los Angeles as an AWOL from tho Army. In the same year, he was convict ed in Philadelphia on a cnarge of rape. In subsequent years, t h e wanted man was arrested for aimed robbery, assault and bntlcry for beating a man wllh a low chain in a tavern fight, corrupting the morals of a mi nor, possession of narcotics, at Iwk with Intent to kill, receiving stolen goods, attempt In rnvlsli and rapo and aggravated rob bery. ('nuts is a native of Philadel phia. He stands five feet, ten inches tall, weighs between 109 and 17(1 pounds, has brown hair, hazel eyes, a medium complex ion and build. In (ho past, Gouts has worked as an automobile spray painter, business machine repairman carpenter's helper, television repairman, sheet metal worker and painter. DANC 'maLc2k Utt-Wa NEW YEAR'S EVE Featuring the NIGHTUGHTERS LAKE CREEK GRANGE $1.00 par Person Refreshments BANC . NEW YEAR'S EVE - 9 to 1 V.F.W HALL, ROGUE RIVER HATS HORNS NOISEMAKEBS FOR A1.1 BILL, LIVELY'S WESTERN BAND MWMMMBMM IK:" mm year OASIS BALLROOM Al Beerli & Ray Ashcraft featuring ' DON MADDOX of the famous Madclox Bros, and Rose JAY STOUGH of the Dixie Drifters Dance Fivors DECEMBER 31, 13 transcript showed that Rickover replied: "I think that if the frc1! enter prise system does not start do ing some of these things to cure some of its ills, these ills them selves are going to do away with the free enterprise system. I am all for a free enterprise system, but freedom to set a price is not license to make un due profits from your own gov ernment." The peppery admiral s blast at alleged defense profiteering came in testimony at a closed session of a House defense ap propriations subcommittee on May 2,1. It was made public Monday following President Johnson's efforts to cut costs in the Pentagon. In publishing the testimony subcommittee Chairman George H. Mahon, D-Tex,, said in a statement: Careful attention of bolh government and industry should be given to the accompanying transcript of the remarks of Admiral Rickover on the meth ods used by the government to award contracts. That sugges tion made in Ihis testimony should bo studied carefully by the Department of Defense. It may be that additional legisla tion is needed ..." Rickover, father of Ihc nuclear submarine, has tangled variously with Navy brass, ed ucators and more recenlly industry, for (ho alleged "poor job" it was doing in manufac turing equipment for the nu clear Navy. Construction Key to State Wood Products Outlook CORVALLIS - As 14 con struction goes, so goes (he mar ket for Oregon s lumber and plywood, points out Charles Sutherland, Oregon Slate Uni versity extension forest econo mist. Sutherland mnkea his obser vations on I'M prospects in the new Oregon Farm and Market Outlook circular lust published by OSU and now available from county extension oinees. National construction tore casts for tho coming year are generally favorable. Resident. al construction is expect-"! to at east equal last yet' i rale while commercial .uliisli ial and institutional h' ..ling are all expected to exceed last year s mark, he said. The lumber outlook is good, but the trend toward using less lumber per unit will probably continue, lie noted, with more multi-family units, more units with concrete floors and more prefabricated houses all contri buting to the decline. Competition iNoli'il British Columbia competition slill plagues Oregon lumber in dustry. Canadian lumber ex ports to the united Males in HUM are estimated at 4.0 milium board feet or M per cent of all U.S. imports, Sutherland said. Oregon s former water cargo markets on tho East Coast are dominated by B. C. lumber and there is no prospect for a change in the next year, he added. Plywood consumption will probably reach a new high in Ml till I 1 'S EVE . It i I I Duncan Reviews Fourth District APW Programs The Fourth District received almost $7 million this year un dci the Accelerated Public Works program, Robert B. Dun can, D-Ore. has announced. Duncan, in a year-end report on Federal grants to Southwest ern Oregon, noted the quality of the projects approved is "as gratifying as the quantity we've received." He pointed out that a fire station in North Bend, recrea tion facilities in Coos County, improved roads in Josephine County, and numerous sewer projects in Linn and Douglas Counties have been included in (he appropriations voted by Congress during 1063. An esti mated 3,600 man-months ot work was provided under this program. The Fourth Distrct has also benefitted extensively from oilier Federal projects such as reforestation, he said. Duncan cited as example a recent con tract awarded in the Medford area to reforest some 5,000 acres at a cost of $118,884, and an other in Myrtle Creek to re forest 1,5:15 acres costing $41, 575. The House Appropriations Committee approved a $100,000 request during November to be gin pro-construction planning on Lost Creek Dam and Reservoir on the Rogue River. Duncan said another dam project, the Merlin Division of the Rogue River Basin, should be considered by the House In terior Committee early next session. This project will author ize construction of the Sexton Dam and Reservoir at a cost of $14,750,000. 1963, Sutherland reports, with installation economics helping make prospects bright in 1964. For instance, sidewall plywood sheathing can be installed at half the labor cost required for lumber, tho economist said. However, there will be in creased competition from two new plywood mills in the South. Oregon s pulp and paper capa city is expected to expand in Sutherland noted, which will increase the demand for chips and pulpwond and add sta bility to the forest products in dustry. Two Openings Are Listed in Medford The City of Medford has two employment openings, one in the police department and one in the public works department, according lo Personnel Officer D. L. Ferguson. An engineering aide is needed by the public works department. The job enlails duty us a rear cliainiiKin on a survey crew. The pay starts at $:i(i7 per nionlh, depending upon the qual ifications of the individual, Fer guson said. The police department has an opening lor a patrolman. Quail- ficntiuns are for the applicant to be 21 to :) years of age, be tween live feel, nine inches and six feel, four inches (all. to have a high school diploma or its equivalent, lo be in good physi cal condition, to have a good driving record, and to have no record of criminal arrests. Starting pay (or patrolman is fun per month, Ferguson said. Kitchen Hons The thud meeting of the Kitchen Bugs .I II Club was held M lilll Miracle Lane. Jill Pe tersen called the meeting (o nierv. me secrelnrv and treas urer h-purta were read and approved. We then win naroling and latiT Had relresliments and e changed gilts. The aext moot ing will bo held Jail. 16. Ciirolo Ciiitii, Kqwler NKW LONDON. CmiH, HT1) -CwnebHH P Lencv Sr., falh i l uilcd Vvm Intix-HHlionnl Maiiauum Editor Fraucm T. IjMirr. died Minidav night al l.nvrreme Vlomono.1 Hospital here after king iilnet. Ha tvii M. , :4-H news nORENTINE LOUNGE THE FUN! Dinner Served 2 p.m. -10 p.m. Foalumd; Complain Turkey Dinner $2.95 (Alio Regular Menu) For Reservations or Information Call 779-1616 2SL W SV TUCK WG5T Christmas Blanket Dreadful Mistake WASHINGTON (UPD-When you give your wife an electric blanket tor Christmas, you are making a dreadful mistake. But you do not realize this until it is too late. For one thing, electric blan kets are inclined to cause your friends and neighbors, and even your wife, to think of them selves as comedians. 'Does this mean the honey moon is over?" my wife asked when she opened her present on Christmas morning. That was only the beginning. Later 'on, when callers began dropping in, there were a lot of so-called jokes about "instant husbands" and that sort of thing. Problem In Adjusting The main difficulty comes, however, when you start trying to adiust to the blanket. And you have to adjust to the blan ket because the blanket will not adjust to you. We have been using the blan ket for almost a week now and we still are not completely ad justed. This blanket has dual con trols," the purpose of which is to permit one side of the bed to be warmer than the other. Or, as is frequently the case, one side to be cooler than the other. If you are sleeping alone, it is an ideal setup. When one side of the bed becomes too warm, or loo cool, you can reg ulate the temperature merely by rolling over to the other side. But if you are married, the other side of the bed already is occupied. Presumably by your wife. That complicates matters immensely. Switch Sometimes Difficult It then becomes necessary for you and your wife to trade places. Under the parliamenta ry situation that governs the use of an electric blanket, this requires a unanimous consent agreement, which is sometimes difficult to obtain. Should your wife deny your Soviets Face Loss Of Voting Rights WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Soviet Union and some of its satellites will be so far behind in their United Nations' dues hy Wednesday thpt they will face loss of lht" jting rights. But Ihe issue will not come lo an actual test until the UN begins its next meeting, U.S. of ficials said. This session Is scheduled for next fall, but it could come any time earlier if an emergency meeting is called because of some international crisis. By then possibly at the lost minute a U.S. spokesman pro dieted, the Soviets will prob ably find a way to straighten out their financial arrears. The UN charter stipulates that when a country falls more than two years behind in as sessed payments, it loses its voting rights. STAR - CLAY K. Vur Daily According To develop meswiTB tor Wednesday, e(5 words ceKopnding to number 1.8-10K 4 Jn 55-87-8U ot yur Aojdiac birth 1 T.w SI Or TAURUS Jf APR 31 MAY 21 2 Yfiir 4 Oar 7 Timt 9 (,Weti"9 1 ) Out LVIo UTQk ISli lCi 1 T lYM m N ur MYm M In. 29 C 3? Or .1.1 A'lH .14 Contacts .15 A 1ft A ' w n t OIMINI AM MAY 32 In A mi jSj JUNE 2: 41 Mi 44 Mrt W27374 anch JUNCMI iV,ULV,,j 4S WMmhj v.-iV A1Y M Atf M 1 VWWJ! ?' T u V, -iff. 'ni?lHr-3; 4 ' 40 9 and ytedZait't' w FOURTH and FRONT ST. OPEN NEW YEAR'S DAY 12 to 10 request for a transfer, insisting that she likes the climate where she is, you are forced to try to regulate the temperature with the "dual controls." Which is the last resort. In the few nights that we have used the blanket, we have been unable to figure out which control controls which side of the h.e.1. If I wake up shivering and try to turn up the heat on my side, my wife will soon leap from the bed, glowing incan desecntly, and complain that she is being incinerated. The other night, in des peration, we tried a new ar rangement. Rather than put the blanket on the bed longways, we turned it crosswise. As a re sult, my feet roasted and her shoulders were cold. So now I sleep with my head at the foot of the bed. It's pret ty dasned uncomfortable, but it s cheaper than a divorce. Freshman Class SUidyHeld byOSU CORVALLIS - Nearly 85 pel cent of the 2,620 new freshmen at Oregon Stat-e University are from Oregon and nearly 50 per cent entered with high school grade averages of B or better. The Oregon freshmen gradu ated from 201 different high schools, according to the study made of the new class by Wal lace E. Gibbs, registrar and director of admissions. A total of 1,024 of the new freshmen are women and 1,596 men. Twenty - two of the new fresh men received college credit for courses taken while still in high school. The courses were in English, mathematics, biology and chemistry. A ottal ot 547 high school graduates were denied admis sion to Oregon State in the fall because of low grades and other deficiences, according to the re port. Only 82 were from Ore gon, however; 41fi from other stales; and 40 from foreign countries. Entrance require ments for out-af -state students are higher than for Oregon resi dents. Out-of-state freshmen enrolled at OSU this fall come from 40 stales and 16 foreign countries. One new freshman attended a Russian high school. Portland Plant Damaged by Fire PORTLAND (UPl)-A three alarm fire early today destroyed about half of Blair's Woodwork ing Co. in northeast Portland. Nine fire companies answered the blaze which was controlled at 2:40 a.m. after nearly an hour and a half. The plant builds cabinets window frames, shutters and other products. Only tha walls wore left standing in the frame center section of the building. A fire door was credited with helping confins Ihc blaze to a centor section. No immediate damage esti mate or cause were given. GAZER" POLLAN- Aoh'vily Sui'd t Mis Stars. IIBRA SEPT. 33 r4-( OCT. 23 fit 54-5f 68H sign. 6977-79-B3-. Al Helping 6: Horvl 63 RnqM S4 G't 65 Gov 6, Situation On 1 Children f Education 7 Funds 7t Ror"ntic 7t Rum 73 ArJ 74 Brunei SCORPIO OCT. 24 (A nov. : lH.lO.jcjq ir. 86-905' SAGITTAtlUS NOV. DEC c 22 rv1 35-37-38-70v 7578-85- CAFRfSOIN OK. 2.1 f 7 Or 7 Fr.OrvKHiD J Thottghtfut Si Se fiO You Word It A Nw 1 Indicated Resolutions 0 Year 30-33-50-531 .16 61 62 . AOUAtltS isB it jr 5- 9-27-K4I 31-380.84 mas FE8. 2011. MAR 31 6- 7.11.13" :-57M m 3 mti P.M. ib COLOR TV I Of THE I BOWL B GAMES H ssmsmSi MEDFORD Douglas Fir Mill Production Slightly Higher PORTLAND (UPI) -Douglas fir sawmills in Western Oregon I and Washington produced 8.15 billion board feet of lumber this year, according to the West Coast Lumberman's Association. This was up slightly from the 1962 output and did not include two billion feet of Douglas fir production in Northern Califor nia. G. C. Edgett, executive vice president of the WCLA, said the fir production in Oregon and Washington was worth $603 mil lion to the two states. Edgett said the output should remain fairly constant during 1964, with a moderate improve ment to keep pace with an ex pected increase in new single family dwellings. Orders of 8.2 billion board feet in 1963, Edgett said, were off fractionally from the 8 26 billion board feet for 1962. Edgett cited several accom plishment the industry made in 1963. They included final Inter state Commerce Commission ap proval making permanent the seven cents per 100 pound rate reduction in temporary effect since Dec. 1, 1961. He said this cut meant a $20 million annual saving on freight bills. Edgett warned the next big freight bat tle WCLA faces is a freight rate reduction being considered for the southern ' pine region. WCLA is seeking an offsetting reduction for western shippers. Edgett also pointed to the successful effort to get legisla tion enacted which exempts lumber destined for foreign mar kets from filing rate schedules in advance. The new law allows U.S. shippers to negotiate for shipping rates on each shipment, tne same as Canadian competi tors. The favorable action of Con gress on the bill requiring marking of lumber as to coun try of origin would help West Coast mills compete with Cana dian mills in U.S. markets, Ed gett said. He said a campaign of nation al promotion of West Coast species by WCLA has been pro jected for 1964. Milk Hearing Airs Producer Quotas SALEM (UPI) Discussion of producer quotas and skim milk dominated Monday's hearing on proposed revisions of milk audit and stabilization regula tions before the State Agricul ture Department. D. P. Shoup, manager of Ore gon Milk Producers, said he was opposed to the department writing any type of regulation on quota transfers. He pleaded the producer has Ihe right un der the law itself to sell or transfer his quota as he sees fit. Ncal Miller, Woodburn dairy man, disagreed, and suggested that any producer who wants to sell any part of his herd get a "per cow" allocation of quota from the deportment. Gas Company To Offer Stocks, Bonds SALEM (UPI) Northwest Natural Gas Company today was authorized by the state public ulilily commissioner to sell 60,000 shares of preferred slock and $7 million principal amount of first mortgage bonus. The slock and bonds will be sold to a group of underwriters represented by Lehman Bros, of New York City, Commissioner Jonel C. Hill said. Hill said (hat underwriters will make a public offering of II stock and bonds. The company has announced that the $12,782,000 net proceeds from Ihe sale will be applied to -the refunding of obligations and construction. TfflMPtfTtfSI -ffM OAK KNOLL LiVe Music fo Dniaf BufM af'te 9 P.M. No Cover Charge o OAK KNOLL GOLF CLUB Highway 66 South of Ashland I 4 MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, Russians Reported Prepared To Start Air Service To N.Y. WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Russians are ready to begin di rect air service between New York and Moscow next sum mer, provided the United States agrees. Outer Casing for Missile Explodes PORTLAND (UPI) A 40-foot high outer casing for a missile blew up at Willamette Iron and Steel Co. here Saturday, but 15 workmen protected by sand bags and steel walls a few feet away escaped injury. The casing was for use on a solid fuel missile. A company spokesman said the firm is working on the cas ing on a subcontract from Unit ed Technology Center in San Jose, Calif. . Bituminous Coal Industry Year Good WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Interior Department reports that 1963 was the best year for bituminous coal production since 1956. It said soft coal out put had increased from 422 mil lion tons to 452 million tons since 1957. family Council Edltnr's Nnte: The Family Coun cil consists 01 a judge, n psychia trist, three clergymen, a newspaper editor, a wumen's editor, and two writers. Eacn article Is a siiLimary of an actual case history. Thr Council reports on problems that nave been dealt with by respon. slble agencies and counselors. (Copyright men General Features Corp.) Gwen R. He's jealous of the attention I pay my son. Myron R. She waits on a grown man as if he were help less. Gwcn R. I'm absolutely 1 dazed by what has happened after a year of a marriage j which promised Myron and me, and our grown children, a mir acle of happiness. It was a sec ond marriage for each, giving his two children a mother and ! my three, a father. The girls are married, but the boys, his son of 18 and mine of 22, share a room in our homo and get along beautifully. My son works nights and when I get up to greet him, Myron makes awful scenes. Myron R. I have nothing against her son, and I don't make awful scenes. I happen to have a naturally loud voice and whenever I say something Gwen doesn't like she calls it fighting. What I object to is the way she pampers her children. Mine were trained to make their meals, lake care of their laun dry, help themselves. Not hers. That fellow sits waiting in the kitchen until Gwen serves him eggs and coffee. Even worse, she's spoiling my boy, loo, by cleaning his room. The Council: By now our savvy readers know we must squeeze the salient points of a case into our allotted space, omitting much illustrative de tail. But we have enough "fill in' 'at hand to reassure Gwen that she has a good, solid, "normal" marriage, in the throes of growing pains. At bot tom, Mvron wants to be con vinced that he's Number-One-Man in Gwen's heart'. He has his doubts when she creeps out of bed to he Mamma to her adult son. Gwen's goal, then must be to help Myron's heart expand lo include not only her, but what is dear to her, the family she reared alone. As for Myron, doesn't he realize that this merger brought together a household of people who have sintered, who were love-starv ! ed? Along with the love Gwen i gives him should flow generous I and ungrudging tenderness to I Iheir children. It won t spoil 1 them. At OREGON Najeeb E. Halaby, adminis trator of the Federal Aviation Agency (FAA) said last week he expected President Johnson and the State Department lo decide within a month whether to sign an agreement establishing such a service. Halaby, just back from a trip to Moscow where he discussed technical and operational prob lems involved, said, "The Rus sians are ready to sign now. They say they can start prov ing flights this spring and will be ready to start service by summer." Six Months Work Halaby indicated that the technical problems could be worked out in five or six months. These consist principal ly of making sure that the Rus sian state airline, Aeroflol, will be able to navigate safely in the congested airspace around New York's Kennedy (formerly Idlewild) Airport and use U. S. navigational aids. The FAA chief said he told Aeroflot officials their planes Ex-School Clerk To Face Charges ONTARIO, Ore. (UPI)-A for mer school district clerk who was indicted on a charge of "conversion of public funds" has been returned here from Billings, Mont. Mrs. Doris Guthne, former clerk for School District 8C, is accused in connection with the loss of about $3,400 from the district. Mrs. Guthrie was employed by the district from July 1, 1961, until June 30, 1962. An aui'it made between the time Mrs. Guthrie left and Dec. 31, 1962, disclosed that funds were missing. Jhc New Year's Eve Party TiIIwHcn DANCE t Music By The Melody D Airs The Most Danceable Music in The Valley FAVORS FOR ALL Dining 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. New Year's Eve Talent, Oreg. Phone 535-9710 NEW YEAR'S EVE S PARTY In The New CAESAR LOUNGE 1. Hit - . Mil A Mary Antony Hotel Ashland DANCE 9 P.M. BALLOONS - NOISEMAKERS - HATS Dining in the Till No Cover For Reservations Q NEW YEAR'S DAY Watch LIVING COLOR RCA TV In Tho CAESAR LOUNGE ROSE PARADE 8:30 A.M. COTTON BOWL GAME 10:45 A.M. ROSE BOWL GAME 1:45 P.M. RCA TV Sets Courtesy of Don's Radio "THt BCfiT IN SERVICE N ALL MAKES RADIO Jnd TELEVISION" 2' TREMENDOUS HITsFTokTteP Mrim mmi i mi, i m , H. - : "Quitt Man" on 7 pm & 1 2 Bis VIOLDfT NIGHTS... Bis NUHBEBED DATS... e 4 must satisfy New York noise abatement standards and ba equipped to fly safely within the American air traffic control system. He said the Soviet Un ion is behind this country in de velopment nf the latest electron ic navigation aids. Halaby said that if an agree ment is signed, it probably would call for two flights a week in the summer by both Aeroflot and Pan American World Airways, with the sched ule reduced to one flight a week by each airline in the winter months. Use Giant Airliner The Russians are planning to use their giant prop-jet TU114, the world's biggest commercial airliner with a capacity of 224 passengers and a gross takeoff weight of 350,000 pounds. This compares with the long - range version of the U.S. Boeing 707 which carries 187 passengers and grosses 314,000 pounds for a transocean flight. The TU114, which is not a pure jet like the 707, is much slower and shorter-ranged. "They're even willing to change the props on the 114, which are pointed and create considerable noise," Halaby added. "I asked Aeroflot's top official why they were so eager and his reply was: 'To make profits.' " SB PABLO'S MEXICAN DINNERS Daily 5 P.M. to 10 P.M. Closed Monday 1789 Stewart Ave. 779-1328 4- To the Music of DUKE PORTER TRIO Till ? CROWN ROOM 11 P.M. Charge? i Call 482-1721 ACTION! JOHN WAYNE iff BARRY 'm h FITZGERALD M "Nikcd it Dead" 9 30 r,m WAINmCd IKHNICOtOt LDO WAV CLIFF ROBERTSOM RAYMOND MASSFV 9 p.m. to 2 a m. THE rue E?2 f l r I lit! II C 1111 MOl!