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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
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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.
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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
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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.