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i Assessment SIMMs Wednesday. April 27, I9SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NTH! For dDrchards To G3e Subject of RffleeMng Methods of assessing taxes on orchard property will be a top Item of business here Thursday at a public hearing to be con ducted by the Oregon State Tax commission. The hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m. In the court house auditorium. , Purpose of the hearing is to allow a full discussion of a pro posed tax commission order to R. G. Fowler, Jackson county as sessor, instructing him to include tht value of orchard trees in the Central Point Boy Wins KP's Speech Contest Last Night Nathan Douthit, Central Point, a junior student at Crater High school, last night was picked as v winner of the Knights of Py thias public speaking contest for this area. Four contestants, two from Crater High and two from Med ford High, participated in last night's elimination contest, con ducted before a small audience of judges and teachers. Second place winner was Mildred Gail, also of Crater High school. The judges were Foster Hib bar'd, Medford, recent winner of a Toastmasters International speaking contest, and Mr. and Mrs. Moore Hamilton, Medford. Subject for the talks was "What Can I Do for Highway Safety?" Douthit will represent this area at a two-county contest, with the Josephine county win ner, tentatively scheduled at Crater High school Friday even ing. The competition is sponsored by the Knights of Pythias youth commission, and later phases of the contest include state, region al and national contests. Rogue River High School Elections Scheduled Monday Rogue River Student body officers for Rogue River High school will be elected during an assembly Monday. Awards for winners of the annual V.F.W. es say contest also will be present ed, will individual awards to members of the high school's track team who placed in events In tht Hayward relays at Eugene recently. " Jenny Friti won the essay con test, on the subject "What Civil Defense Means to Me," and Ro berta Adams was second. Fifteen had entered the contest. Candidate Listed Candidates for student body president are Bill Weaver, Irene 4Bringmann, Windy Williams, and Roland Prefontaine, Vice-presi dent candidates are Bill Speers, Colin McCoy and Bob Wilson, and candidates for secretary in clude Beverly Burgoyne, Dor othy Boucher, Myrna Towse and Judy Farrar. Between two and five cheer leaders will be elected from among Leverne Akers, Darlene Nelson, Irene Bringmann, Nancy Bradley, Dorothy Boucher, Katie Herburger, Beverly Burgoyne, Myrna Towse, Sharon Stevens, Carol Weaver, Marcia Thayer, Patty Wilson and Patty Cowie. Resident Physician Due at Gold Hill Gold Hill The city of Gold Hill will have a resident physi cian for the first time in 20 years when Dr. Stanley A. Brown opens an office for medical prac tice here Monday, May 2. ? The last resident physician in Gold Hill was Dr. W. P. Chis holm, who practiced medicine here for 40 years prior to his death in 1935. Dr. Brown's office will be lo cated in the building just west of Cogswells market on Second ave. until more adequate office quarters can be arranged. Dr. Brown received pre-medi-cal training at the University of Oregon and Willamette univer sity and attended the University of Oregon medical school. " He took his internship at St. Vin cent's hospital in Portland, where he practiced general med icine with another physician. Dr. Brown, who is 33 years old, is a veteran of three years' Army service and comes to Gold Hill from Salem. TO CONTINUE STUDIES Rogue River Leonard Walsh, superintendent of schools at v Rogue River who resigned seve ral weeks ago, has accepted a scholarship at Stanford univer sity in Palto Alto, Calif., to con tinue his studies for a doctor's degree in education. He plans to complete work for the degree in a year. 1 valuation of the land on which they are growing. Those who would be affected by such an order will be given an opportunity to show why such an order should or should not be issued, according to Sam uel B. Stewart, state tax commis sioner. Stewart explained, "The com mission's contemplated order is predicted upon existing statutes which define land as including, among other things, 'trees,' and the practice in the order fruit producing counties of including the value of orchard trees in the value of the land. "Jackson county orchardists have, and continue to allege, that the word 'trees' refers only to standing timber, and that the land only is to be assessed, having no regard to the value of the orchard trees growing there on." . ' Uniformity Sought The contemplated order, as ex plained by the commissioner, would be issued "in order to achieve uniformity in assess ment practice between counties, to achieve uniformity within the county, and as a media whereby the correctness of the commis sion's interpretation can be test ed by the courts." If the courts should rule that the commission's interpretation of the law is incorrect, then the other Oregon fruit - producing counties would have a legal de cision which would allow them to remove orchard trees from liability for ad valorem tax pur poses.. If the commission's interpre tation of the law was found to be correct, the course to be fol lowed by Fowler then would be clearly outlined, Stewart said. A large delegation of oichard ists and other Jackson ccunty property owners is expected at the hearing. Stewart noted that owners of non-orchard property should be concerned with the problem, in that if orchard trees as such are not assessed for tax purposes,, they will pay "a signi ficantly greater portion" of the total ad valorem tax burden. TOWERING SUSPENSE A man, later tentatively identified as Sam Romppner, 42, edges away from a bridge worker (left) seeking to coax him down from a Queensboro Bridge girder 200 feet above New York's East River. He was first discovered atop the bridge tower 500 feet above the water attempting to climb the flagpole. Failing, he descended to run back and forth on the girder. Three bridge workers and three policemen finally snared him, trussed him up and lowered him by rope. At right, he wears grin and nonchalantly flicks ashes from his cigar a a rescuer guides his descent He was taken to Bellevue Hospital for observation. Federal Income Tax Said Root of All Evil San Francisco (U.PJ Silent screen star Corinne Griffith be lieves that the root of all evil is not love of money but the federal income tax. Miss Griffith, the wife of George Preston Marshall, owner of the Washington Redskins pro fessional football team, express ed this belief last night Jn a speech to the Congress of Free dom. The congress is a "coalition of patriotic American organiza tions" now holding its annual convention. Object of the week long meeting is to appraise the United Nations. So far, delegates have been highly critical of the UN. Miss Griffith, who is honorary president of the Organization to Repeal Federal Income Taxes, Inc., told .300 delegates: "I've been brought to the. solid conviction that the root of all evil is the federal income tax." Youth Program Set By Townsend Club A public entertainment pro gram featuring young people of Medford will be given at the Pythian building Friday at 8 p.m. under the sponsorship of the Townsend club, it was an nounced today. Some 45 or 50 youngsters from pre-school to Junior High school age, will participate, according to Mrs. Florence Boussum, pres ident of the club. They will in clude a group of students of Eve Prentice' accordion studio, Miss Pat's dance pupils, baton twirl ers from Bliss Heine's Juniors, and entertainers from the Junior High school and St. Mary's school. Instrumental, dance and vocal numbers will be given. Refresh ments will be served in the ban quet room after the program, Mrs. Boussum said. The public is invited, and there will be no admission charge. It was also announced that the two Townsend clubs, Nos. 1 and 4, consolidated recently, all members of club No. 4 joining club No. 1 in a group, so that all Townsend club members of the area belong to the same organization. Loyalty Day Program Slated at Rogue River Rogue River A Loyalty day program, sponsored by the Rogue River Veterans of Foreign Wars and auxiliary, will be held at ? p.m. Tuesday, May 1, at the Veterans' clubhouse, Leo Orvis, commander of the local post, has announced. Following the program, to which county officials and Rogue River officials have been invited, refreshments will be served. TO MAKE CONTEST PLANS Rogue River The Rogue River Boosters club will com plete plans for the annual Rooster Crowing contest June 18 at a meeting at 8 p.m. tonight at Waller's Inn. Mediators Meet in Parke - Davis Strike Detroit (U.R) Mediators met separately today with officials of Parke, Davis & Co. and the CIO Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers in an effort to head off a strike which would cut off a major supply of Salk vaccine. TMe mediators explored a company offer and the union's demands in a 3x,i hour session yesterday and said they mal call the officials to a joint ses sion after conferring with the company at 10 a.m. and the union at 1 p.m. EST. Contract talks were broken off last week when a union, of ficial charged the company was refusing to bargain in good faith. The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis ordered 60 per cent of the 18,000,000 cubic centimeters of the vaccine need ed for its "no charge" program this year from Parke, Davis and Eli Lilly & Co., of Indianapolis, Ind. . iQRE BEAUTY!,., THt HMfl LOOK f Lj MORE MJJ D THAN ANY OTHER CAR IN THE LOW-PRICE 31 HERE'S WHY- Because Plymouth Is the biggest ear in the low-price 3, and also has tht newest styling, you'll see more glamor outside, more luxury inside, when you inspect this great new car. And when you step inside you'll find more comfort, too, because Plymouth is the roomiest car of the low-price 3 with the most comfort able seats, most leg room, most hip room, the largest trunk. The glamor ous new Full-View windshield gives you the greatest visibility, because it's swept back at the sides. - Now, for the greatest thrill of all, take the wheel and drive the new Plymouth. 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