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21 m$m$ Mkm TEST MOSQUITO CONTROL EQUIPMENT Jackson county's new mosquito control equipment was tested this morning for the first time. Shown above, looking on during one phase of the test, are Walter Sutherland, former county sanitarian who is in charge of the program; County Judge Rodney Keating; Charles Delorme, who will work on the program; County Com MEDFORD united Cress Full Leased Wire 50th Year 26 Pages Union Presses ...for --QuicEc From Steel f irms- on Fay Mikes Temperature Here Hits 101 Degrees; Water Use Rises The temperature in the Med ford area rose to a sizzling 101 degrees yesterday, and indica tions were that it might be even hotter today. Yesterday's 101 broke a rec ord of 93 degrees for June 9 set in 1918. A forecast of 100 to 102 degrees for today would break a June 10 record of 98 set in the same year. It was even hotter yesterday in Grants Pass, where thermom eters recorded a temperature of 108 degrees. Some relief appeared to be in the offing in the Medford area as the weather bureau predict ed a Friday high temperature of 95 to 98 degrees. Water Use High Coupled with yesterday's rec ord breaking temperature was a record breaking use of city water for this time ot year. Robert Lee, water department superin tendent, said . consumption yes terday was almost as high as the top day, which came later in the year, in 1954. Consumption was "way above" any June day last year, and may well have been the greatest for -any June day in the history of the city water depart ment, Lee said. He added that despite the high rate of consumption ,it will not be necessary to have restrictions on water use this year. "We may have some low pressure prob lems, but there is plenty of wa ter in the reservoirs," he said. "It is just a matter of getting it distributed." Morse Attacks Scheele on Salic Program Boise (U.R) Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, secretary of health, education and welfare, and Sur geon General Leonard A. Scheele showed "gross incompetency" in their failure to assure the safety of Salk vaccine, Sen. Wayne Morse asserted here today. . The Oregon Democrat, en route to Baker, Ore., to address an Oregon postmasters; conven tion, was interviewed between planes in Boise. ; ' , - After his Baker appearance, Morse goes to Portland, where he will introduce former Presi dent Harry S. Truman at a four state Democratic meeting Satur day night MEDFORD, OREGON, Reginald H. Parsons, 81, Passes in Seattle Reginald H. Parsons, 81, Seat tle industrialist, financier, phi lanthropist . and civic worker well known in Medford, died in Seattle this morning. Mr. Parsons has been a part time resident of Medford for many years, and was owner of Hillcrest orchards east of the city. He was the founder of Pin nacle Packing company, and held substantial interest in the firm at the time of his death. Until a few Local Teamsters Accept Truck Offer Members of Local 962 of the Teamsters union, Medford, last night voted 47 to 27 to accept the back-to-work, offer of the trucking companies, according to Robert Shaw, business agent of the local. Some 150 members of the un ion in southern Oregon counties have been involved in the strike. Portland (U.R) Members of Teamsters local 162 voted 458 to 197 last night in favor of an employers' offer in connec tion with the 22-day-old 11-state trucking strike , , Clyde C. Crosby, internation al representative of the union here, said it was possible a uni form back-to-work order move ment might occur next Monday. The offer called for an in crease of eight cents an hour starting for 1955, eight cents on May 1, 1956, and seven cents on May 1, 1957 plus a pension plan and other fringe benefits, according to a union spokesman. Mrs. Hobby, Morse said it was "rather amusing" to her how Mr. Eisen hower and Mrs. Hobby are "con cerned about the safety of the vaccine rather than the speed with which it should be made available.", ) 'If they had been concerned about the safety of the vaccine in the beginning, the program would have been announced as it was last April 12," Morse de clared. "Mrs. Hobby and the surgeon general are guilty of gross in competency in the handling of the program and the president must share full resonsibility," the senator said. missioner Chester Wendt, and County Engineer Paul Rynning. The truck was purchased by the county especially to handle the mosquito control equipment, which was constructed in the county shops. The equipment is designed similarly to one used successfully in Eugene, but it includes some improvements. (Brainerd photo( United THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1955 weeks ago he also owned Mount Crest ranch at Hilt, Calif., which was recently sold. ' 4 Mrs. John Day, Medford, is his daughter, and other survi vors include Mrs.. Parsons, Seat tle; another daughter, Mrs. How ard A. Frame, Los Altos, Calif., and two brothers, Reginald B. Parsons, Los Angeles, and Geor ge, Seattle, as well as a number of grandchildren. Mr. Parsons was born in Flushing, Long Island, N. Y., on Oct. 3, 1873, and received his education in eastern schools, at Colorado College, Colorado Springs, Colo., and the Univer sity of California. He was mar ried to the former Maude Bemis in 1901. s His early business career was in Colorado, but he soon moved to Seattle. He was an officer or director in many different busi ness concerns, including insur ance and investment firms, and was long active in a wide range of civic enterprises, including the Seattle Symphony orchestra, the community fund there, and historical and international wel fare groups. . One tf his chief interests was the Boy Scouts of America, and he served, on the national execu tive ' committee of the Scouts. He was a frequent and often anonymous donor ' to causes of which he approved. The Statue of Liberty in Hawthorne park, Medford, was given" by him through the Boy Scouts to the city of Medford. , Mr. Parsons was also active in a number of social groups and clubs, including the Rogue Val ley Country club, Medford, and the Arlington club, Portland. Funeral services will be held Saturday, June 11, at 10 a.m. at St Mark's Episcopal cathedral in 'Seattle. Two National Guard Units Ready for Camp One of the largest contingents of the National Guard to leave Medford for summer training at Ft. Lewis, Wash., will entrain at midnight Friday, according to First Lt. S. J. (Benny) Fagone, commanding officer of head quarters company, 1st battalion. His company is made up of 76 enlisted men and 11 officers, and Company A, with First Lt. Roy Huson in command, has 81 enlisted men and 6 officers. The men range from 17 years up and the companies are made up largely of high school age boys. Tribune frets Full Leased Wire Price 5c No. 69 Reply Recesses Planned To Permit Study' Of CIO Arguments Pittsburgh (U.R) The CIO United Steelworkers union pressed today for a quick answer to its demand for a "substantial" wage increase for the 600,000 workers of the nation's basic steel industry. Moving with unprecedented speed, the union wound up its "primary" arguments with Beth lehem Steel, No. 2 producer of the country, in four h ours Wednesday. The company prom ised to tell the union Monday when it will be ready to reply. To Study Arguments USW President David J. Mc Donald said his representatives probably will conclude their pre sentations of the union's demands in simultaneous conferences with U.S. Steel and Republic Steel to day. Recesses then will be taken to permit the companies to study the union's arguments. As the USW finished initial conferences with these three top firms of the industry, new talks were opened with two more com panies. McDonald met with rep resentatives of Young s t o w n Sheet and Tube and Jones and Laughlin in the third day of the round-robin conferences. Hopes for Wag Pattern Friday, he will meet with In land Steel. These six companies employ two-thirds of the basic steel industry's workers. In the negotiations with them, McDon ald hopes to develop a wage pat tern that will set the pace for 90 other companies of the basic in dustry and eventually for steel fabricating firms that employ an additional 600,000 workers. McDonald, who has shifted from one room to another to ob serve all the negotiations, has ex pressed , hope for an "expedi tious" settlement before mid night June 30, after which he would be free to call a strike if no agreement has been reached. .McDonald has not disclosed what the union considers to be a substantial wage increase, but he was believed to be shooting for an ' agreement approaching the 20-cent-an-hour package granted the CIO Auto Workers by Ford Motor Co. New Jersey Resort Town Damaged by Major Fire Seaside Heights, N. J. (U.R) A major fire roared through this Atlantic Coast resort town of 862 today and destroyed a two and one-half block area of its boardwalk, including about 25 buildings and eonoetuoaa. Br A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington (Special) The prediction of goverrment and railroad officials here is that the railroad freight car shortage that has hit the Pacific Northwest, especially western Oregon lum ber mills, will get worse before it gets better. And they see little prospect of it ending much before Novem ber. , A number of factors enter into these forecasts, any one of which is subject to some change. The teamsters strike that has para lyzed the trucking industry has, for example, aggravated an al ready short supply of cars at this moment and no one is certain at the moment how long the truck strike may last. No Quick Return But even with the settlement of that dispute, and restoration of normal truck service, -officials here see no quick return to a condition of plentiful freight cars, for these reasons: 1. Business is better than ex pected car loadings this year are up above the loadings of the past several years, much to the surprise of the railroad industry which wasn't prepared with suf ficient new cars and repaired old cars to meet the current de mand for rail transportation. "The main thing is that the railroads, haven't bought many new cars," a high official of the Interstate Commerce commission said. He pointed out also that there are currently about 113, 000 cars out of service for re pairs about double the num ber that should be laid up nor mally, because the. lines have in recent years cut back on their repair shop employment. Nationwide Shortage Consequently, the car shortage is nationwide, with varying de grees of severity from one sec tion to another depending on different regional economic con ditions. It is worse in western Oregon due to lumber shipments and in the Northwest and South west due to winter wheat ship ments at the moment. 1 2 On top of the steady de mand for cars being made by industry and agriculture this year as result of generally fav: orable business conditions, sea sonal demands will keep the cars in even shorter suddIv through the summer and fall harvest seasons and the peak lumber producing period. The ICC pointed out that car loadings are continually increas ing by about 10,000 cars per week, last week by 20,000. "When loadings increase every week it indicates someone is doing something about it," an official declared. Neither the railroads nor the government can do much to re lieve the prospective shortage this summer, officials indicated, simply because the overall na tional demand exceeds the sup ply of cars at this time. The ICC expects to watchdog the nation as a whole to see that no one section is favored with a more liberal supply of empties than another within reason. Western Oregon's position at the end of the Southern Pacific line, which has led to many com plaints over the years by ship- Orchard Tax Order Action is Slated A state tax commission order concerning assessment of Jack son county orchard trees is ex pected to be the principal item of business when the county board of equalization meets at 1:30 p.m. Friday. The state tax commission has ordered that the assessments be made before June 16, a deadline which local officials have termed impossible. The order was received June 6. Action concerning the order is expected to be taken at to morrow's meeting. Members of the board of equalization in clude County Judge Rodney Keating, Arnold Bohnert, and Ralph Cook. Weather FORECAST: Variable cloudi ness throurh . Friday with icattcrcd afternoon thunder storms in mountains! Low to night 60. High Friday 95-98. Temp. Hlfhest Yesterday 101 Lewcat thla Morning 9 at (Lock Hvm7 pers who claim the SP favors California and Texas shippers to their detriment in moving- in empty cars, is being watched by the ICC. "Southern Pacific is spreading the shortage over its entire sys tem," according to the ICC. Just a year ago the ICC pro mised that in the future if Ore gon shippers were discriminated against by SP, in favor of other sections of the line's system, that it would step in with an unprece dented car service order which Five Medford and Ashland men appeared before the Jack son county court this week to discuss the possibility of the county approving licensing of a dog racing track in the Ashland area. Those meeting with the court were w. D. Huber. Medford: Henry Enders, Ashland; Robert Van Vleet, Ashland real estate man; William Briggs, Ashland attorney, and Richard Watson. Near Ashland The proposed site for the dog racing plant would be the grounds owned by the Ashland Riding association. This site, lo cated north of Ashland and east of Highway 9S, has been used for some time for hardtop auto racing. County Judge Rodney Keat ing said this morning that the court is studying the matter and will announce its decision in the near future. A law passed at the most re cent session of the Oregon state legislature allows the state rac ing commision to turn down li- Hearing Tomorrow On County Budget A public hearing on the pro posed Jackson county budget for 1955-1956 will be held starting at 10 a.m. Friday in the county court offices of the courthouse. The proposed budget totals $3,622,003.20, and calls for a tax levy of $695,094.13. The levy includes $65,000 for construction of a detention home facility, and more than $14,000 for the South ern Oregon Historical fund. Both are outside the 6 per cent limitation on budget increases. The budget includes some $685,859 in O&C cash from the controversial lands fund. This money has. been earmarked for use by the county s school dis tricts to pay current bonded in debtedness. The budget also in cludes funds for the county's share of the construction cost of the new armory building to be located at the county fair grounds. '" City Swimming Pool Opening Set Friday Hawthorne ! park swimming pool will open .for the season Friday at 1 p.m., it was announc ed today by Darell Huson, park director. . ' The pool will be open from 1 to 9 p.m. daily, with Ed Knapp charge. 'Lifeguards will be Paul Sanders and John Smock. The admission charge will be un changed from last year. A playground supervisor will be on duty afternoons and even ings starting Monday, June 13. The park wading pool will open about Wednesday, Huson said. Swimming lessons will be given for youngsters eight years of age and older starting about July 1, the park director stated. City Council To Meet for Paving Petition A special meeting of the Med ford city council has been call ed for today at. 4 -p.m., it was announced this morning by May or Earl Miller. Purpose of the meeting is to consider a paving petition for East Jackson st , from the Jack son street bridge to Gennessee st. and to set the date for a pub lic hearing on the project. log muglm iy 'County Court , u would make movement of emp ties into Oregon mandatory. Only act taken to date by ICC was to issue an order restricting the practice of Oregon lumber men arranging for cars to be partly loaded in western Wash ington state and moved south' ward to their mills for complet ing the load. The ICC order would require that no cars less than half loaded could be used in this way by Oregon shippers, in order to "put all shippers on an equitable basis." v cense applications for cause. This "for cause" provision is understood to include objections from the area in which the dog racing plant is proposed for con struction. . In recent months, dog racing has been proposed for both Lane and Douglas . counties, and has met with strenuous objections in both cases. Licenses have been granted in neither county as yet. At the present time, Multno mah county is the only one in the state in which dog racing is allowed. Dog racing has been conducted in Portland for many yeats at Multnomah stadium. Court Rules on Tax Limifatfon Salem (U.R) When the peo ple vote a new tax base the six per cent limitation applies to that base, the Oregon Supreme court ruled yesterday. The court gave its majority opinion affirming a Multnomah county Circuit Court decree af ter hearing further arguments in a re-hearing in connection with its original opinion handed down May 11. The high court originally held that under the constitutional amendment for establishment of a new base, that base becomes static and not subject to the six per cent limitation. After the rehearing, the Su preme Court in an opinion writ ten by Justice Earl C. Latourette modified its former opinion and held that, after the tax levy reaches the new tax base voted by the people, the levy can be raised up to the six per cent limitation on the new base. Justice George Rossman filed a dissenting opinion, adhering to the Supreme Court's original opinion that the six per cent limitation would not apply to the new tax base. j Baseball AMERICAN Boston 4 8 1 Cleveland 2 6 3 Sullivan and White; Score, Narelski (8), Houtteman . (8) and Hegan, Naragon (8). NATIONAL Chicago ...... 6 13 0 Pittsburgh ....... 2 6 1' Minner and Cooper; Purkey, Wade (8) and Peterson. Army Man Here Sees Father For First Time in 35 Years Sfc Warren M. Long, Army recruiter for the Medford area, has returned from Los Angeles where he saw his father for the first time in 35 years. The reunion, Sergeant Long said, "was one of the greatest thrills of my life' ; Mother Died -' The career Army man's 'mo ther died when he was born, and he lived as a small child with his grandparents? As some times happens, the family drift ed apart, and up to this week Long never again saw his fath er, a retired 30-year employee of the Los Angeles county public utilities commission. . Sergeant Long, who has been in the army for 17 years nev er ceased hoping to locate his family. Recently he wa abla Tankers Become Blazing Infernos In North Sea Crash 20 Still Missing In Oil-Slick Sea Amsterdam, -Holland (U.R) Two loaded oil tankers collided and burned in a fiery holocaust in the North Sea early today. Maritime authorities said 21 persons were feared dead. One body had been recovered and 20 still were missing in the flaming, oil-slicked sea. Twenty - one per sons, including the lone woman passenger, were rescued. The first survivors were land- were, taken to Dover. The accident occurred shortly after 1 a.m. (4 n.m. fPSTl . Wednesday at a point between Belgium and England when the 7,256-ton Panamanian tanker Buccaneer hit the 10,788-ton Swedish tanker Johannishus. Vessels Catch Fire Both vessels caueht fire, but the Buccaneer reported.it had brought its blaze under control within two hours and headed for port at Rotterdam, Holland. The Johannishus, which was reported to have 42 men and one woman aboard, burned through the night after its crew leaped into the sea. - The collision 'came so swiftly and with such shattering impact tnat only the Buccaneer was able to send a distress call. Its SOS brought nearly a dozen res cue ships to the scene. Seamen Given Help The Buccaneer stood by to help the struggling seamen from the Johannishus immediately af- xer tne crash. - Survivors were picked up by the first vessels on the scene at the south end of the North Sea, one . of the busiest spots in the world for ship traf fic. - - . Among the vessels with sur vivors aboard were the Apollo, The S.S. City of Brussels ra dioed that it had "searched until 7 a.m. in vicinity of Johannishus. Was within three cable lengths of tanker and think it impossible there are survivors on board. It is an inferno." Capt. Daan Heynis Maas. 43. of Groningen, Holland, caotain of the Arak, told the United Press by radiophone that he thought the woman aboard the Johannishus was saved by a small German vessel which had no radio. Seaman Klaus Bunte. 17. of Hamburg, Germany, was one of those rescued from the Johan nishus. Still trembling from shock, he told the United Press by radio phone from the Arak that he was in the mate's cabin when "we suddenly saw a ship at the port side only 60 feet from the bridge." - "When the Panamanian ship hit us," Bunte said, "fires broke out immediately, and in great disorder we all ran as fast as possible to the lifeboats. . "When our , boat, which was supposed to carry 15, was lower ed into the water, it hit the tanker and was damaged and several sailors were tossed over board. They climbed back on the Johannishus." Patterson Returns From Fishing Trip . Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson was back at his desk today, tan and looking refresh ed after a five-day fishing trip in Malheur county. Rapidly melting snows in mud dying the lower streams prompt ed the governor to go to higher elevations for his fishing., ' to piece together several bits of information he had gathered and located an aunt living in War ren, Pa., another aunt in Cleve land, O., and an uncle in Stock ton, Calif. Family Joins They were able to put him in touch with his father, Frank Earl Long, and he went there for the reunion last week. Oth er members of the family joined to make the occasion a big one for Sergeant Long and his fath er. Ironically they discovered that at one time they lived within a few blocks of each other in Los Angeles without meeting. Sergeant Long said that both he and his father each have al ways had a "feeling" that they would find each other some) day.
