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ChargesEisenhower
'Used' by Enemies
Of Public Projects
Former President
Praises Sen. Morse
Portland U.R) Harry S.
Truman was back in fighting
campaign form Saturday night
as he charged that President Eis
enhower was being "used" in a
deliberate campaign against
public-financed power projects.
After riding in a Rose festival
parade before 425,000 specta
tors, the former President told
a cheering audience of power-
conscious Pacific Northwest
Ttomnrrat that "a Renublican
President is being used to crip
ple the program of Kiver Devel
opment that has brought pros
perity to many regions of our
land.
Mr. Truman also mentioned
the budding Atomic Power in
dustry and warned against it
falling into private hands.
"Don't let it happen," he said.
Blasts McKay
Mr. Truman accused private
power proponents of indulging
in "tricky and devious ways" to
destroy public faith in federal
power policies. He charged they
had stacked the federal agencies
with enemies of public power.
They had been encouraged, he )
said, "by a Secretary of Inter
ior who openly opposes public
power."
Mr. Truman's address before
a capacity Jackson-Jefferson day
dinner was full of praise for
Sen. Wayne Morse, one-time
Oregon Republican who will
seek reelection next year as a
Democrat.
Morse had been forced, Mr.
Truman said, to abandon his
party and turn to the Democrats
because he had discovered "that
you cannot protect the public in
terests under present Republi
can management."
Must Keep Mors
He told Democrats from four
Northwest states at a $25-per-plate
dinner that Morse must be
kept in the Senate to help stop
"something evil" that is happen
ing in the country today.
He said "the future of this
part of the country depends not
only on having a congress that
is sympathetic to projects nec
essary to your economic growth
but a sympathetic administration
as well." .
At a press conference earlier
in the day, the former President
expressed dislike for a House ap
propriations bill that failed to
provide for any new hydroelec
tric starts in the Northwest.
He described the bill as part of
the technique of the Republicans
for the destruction of federal
power. Regarding Hells canyon,
he said the technique called for
the federal government to give
up crucial dam sites and get the
Federal Power Commission to
turn them over to private power
companies "for piecemeal ex
ploitation." (Sea story on Pagt 3)
Crowd of 425,000 Watches
1955 Rose Festival Parade
Portland (U.R) A crowd es
timated at 425,000 persons jam
med Portland streets Saturday
to watch the grand floral parade
of the 1955 Rose Festival pass
by with former President Harry
S. Truman as honored guest'
- Viewers started gathering at
dawn for the 3-hour, 44-minute
spectacle of 51 flowered floats
which wound through downtown
Portland and across the Willam
ette river.
Stream of Floats
Sharing honors with a tanned
and fit-looking Mr. Truman were
Oregon Gov. Paul Patterson and
Mayor Fred Peterson of Port
land. They rode by in a stream
of floats composed of roses,
daisies, peonies, lupine and snow
balls. ,'
Portland General Electric
company won sweepsteaks hon
ors in the commercial division
for their "Three Coins in a Foun
tain" float and the City of Van
Order Impossible,
Equalization Board
Tells Commission
The Jackson county board of
equalization Friday informed the
state tax commission that a com
mission order for assessment of
orchard trees by June 16 "is
physically impossible."
A letter to the tax commission,
signed by the three members of
the county board declared.:
School District 6C
Schedules Election
On 1955-56 Budget
Central Point Voters in
School District 6C tomorrow will
cast ballots on a $252,996.48
levy over the 6 per cent limita
tion to provide for additional
teachers' salaries and increased
operational expenses.
The total district 1955-56 bud
get is $600,841, an increase of
S402 over fiscal year 1954-55.
Estimated revenues will bring
the net total down to $276,800.
The amount within the 6 per
cent limitation is $344;041, with
$252,996.48 over the limitation.
Inadequate Base
An election is necessary be
cause of an inadequate base as
well as additional expenses, H.
P. Jewett, superintendent of
schools, said.
The budget provides lor a
new teacher at Central Point
Junior hich school, two in Cen
tral Point elementary school,
one at Gold Hill and one ai
Crater High school.
Jewett said "the six per cent
limitation law, dating back to
the early 1920's, is such that a
favorable vote on the budget is
necessary if schools are to op
erate next year." He pointed out
that district 6C has a school
census of more than 2,200, an
enrollment of 1,800 children and
a staff of 75 teachers.
Canful Consideration
The budget committee he
said, have given careful consid
eration to a budget which they
believe will provide good schools
at a reasonable cost.
A reduction of $44,698 in the
local levy for next year was
noted by Jewett. The reduction
is due to O and C funds avail
able for bond redemption and
to a substantial cash balance
carried over from this year.
Polling places will be Cen
tral Point Junior High school
gymnasium "and the Gold Hill
school gymnasium. Polls will be
open from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Voters are eligible if they
have resided in the district for
six months and have registered
as voters at least 30 days prior
to the election.
couver. Wash., took the non
commercial sweepsteaks with
"Anna and the King of Siam"
portrayed in a quarter-million
flowers.
Japanese Cadets
A special thrill was provided
by marching cadets of the Jap
anese training ship Nippon Maru,
who travelled farther than any
one else to participate in the
47th annual festival. Crowds
cheered the sight of Japanese
and American flags being borne
side by side through Portland
streets for the first time since
Pearl Harbor.
Cowboy star Monte Montana
was grand marshall of the 5-mile-long
parade and festival
queen Nancy Wyly and her court
of seven princesses appeared on
a float of golden and purple
daisies.
Blue ribbons for floats from
Oregon cities went to the Beaver
ton "add Hillsboro Junior Cham
ben of Commerce.
"While we recognize that it
it the duty of the board of equal
ization to carry out an order of
the state tax commission, we are
of the opinion that it will be
entirely impossible for us to
comply with this order for the
reasons set out herein. If you
believe it possible for this board
to fairly and justly assess all of
the orchard trees in Jackson
county within the time allowed
by your order, we would like
to have your advice as to how
the task should be accomp
lished." The letter was in answer to
a state tax commission order
received here June 6. The order,
in two parts, instructed the coun
ty board of equalization to:
1. Assess orchard trees in
Jackson county at the same per
centage of true cash value as
other real property and include
the same in the assessment of
real property upon which the
trees are located.
2. Remain in session from day
to day until there has been sub
stantial- compliance with the
order, but in no event later than
June 16, 1955. .
Have Considered Problem
The letter to the commission
declared that "Since receipt of
your order, this board has given
consideration to the problems
involved in attempting to comp
ly therewith, and we are at a
loss to -determine how to carry
out your order, particularly
within the limited time allowed
thereby.
"According to the best inform
ation available to us, there are
approximately 12,000 acres of
land planted to orchards in this
county. In addition, there are
countless residential and farm
properties containing from a few
to a dozen or so fruit and nut
trees."
Concerning the possibility of
placing a blanket assessment on
orchard trees, which county of
ficials have stated is the only
assessment method which would
be followed in the short time
before the June 16 deadline, the
board of equaliziation said:
"Applicable statutes require
the assessment of property at its
true cash value or a certain per
centage thereof. Obviously, this
board cannot tell in advance
what effect, if any, the existence
of orchard trees on real property
may have upon the true cash
value of that property."
aVriabla Factors
The letter to the commission
adds, "It is also obvious that the
relative value of orchard trees
will depend on a number of
variable factors, and that it will
be necessary to examine the
individual properties involved
in order to fairly and justly
appraise the value of the or
chard trees situated thereon at
a percentage of their true cash
value."
County Assessor R. G. Fowler
has estimated that it would take
two qualified men at least six
months to make the appraisal of
formally planted orchards. The
board pointed out that it "has
no employees to assist in the
task assigned to it by the com
mission, and has not funds with
which to employ help, even if
qualified help were available."
The next step in the dispute
will be up to the state tax com
mission. It has been suggested
by local orchardists that the
most equitable solution to the
problem would be for the state
tax commission to vacate its
order at the present time and
reissue it later when more time
would be available.
The members of the board of
equalization signing the letter to
the commission were County
Judge Rodney Keating, Arnold
Bohnert, and Ralph Cook. The
board was recessed Friday sub
ject to call by Keating, who
serves as chairman of the group.
CONGRATULATIONS are given Pierce J. Gerety (right), by
President Eisenhower after attorney is appointed deputy admin
istrator of Refugee Relief law, succeeding Edward J. Corsi. In
background are Secretary of State John Foster Dulles (left);
Scott McLeod, State Department security chief. (International)
Final Changes Made
In County's Budget
The revised Jackson county
budget for 1955-1956 was being
prepared for the signatures of
the county court and county
budget committee Saturday.
Work on the budget, including
a few changes, most of them
minor, was completed Friday
afternoon following a public
hearing.
Most important change in
volved the district attorney's of
fice, where three substantial
salary increases were approved.
These changes were made fol
lowing receipt of a series of rec
ommendations from the Jackson
County Bar association.
Under the changes, District
Attorney Walter Nunley's salary
will be increased fronr $5,000 to
$7,500 a year.' 'As "in the past,
$5,000 will be paid by the state.
The additional $2,500 will be
paid by the county.
The budget committee also
approved' a $2,000 a year supple
ment for the $3,000 state salary
Teamsters Ratify
New Wage Contract
Los Angeles U.R) An
AFL Teamsters strike which had
tied-up trucking in 11 western
states since May 19 was formal
ly ended Saturday with ratifi
cation of a new contract be
tween the union and the truck
ing industry.
Federal Conciliator John Fen
ton said truck firms expected
to resume full-scale operations
at midnight last night follow
ing what was described as
"overwhelming" acceptance of
the agreement by union mem
bers. The agreement generally gave
long-haul operators an immed
iate eight-cent hourly pay in
crease, an additional eight cents
next year and seven cents the
third year. Local contracts will
vary.
The union had asked for
hikes totaling 29 cents an hour
over a three-year period, but
that amount was granted only
to short-haul drivers.
The Teamsters also received
an $a.B5 monthlv emolover con
tribution for a drivers' pension
plan and a one-fourth cent per
mile mileage increase. .
Two Burmese Men
End County Visit
Maung Thein Nyun, Rangoon,
and Ko Tun Oo. Myaungmya,
two Burmese who have lived in
Jackson county farm families
for the past month, ended their
stay yesterday.
They left at noon for Oregon
State college at Corvallis. From
there they will go to Camp Meri
wether, Sand Lake, Ore., where
they will attend a western states
regional Boy Scout administra
tion session for one week.
The two are in the United
Sfatoc under the International
Farm Youth Exchange and Boy
Scout programs. Ko Tun Oo has
been with the John Ousterhout
familv. Dutton rd.. Eagle Point,
while Maung Thein Nyun has
been with the Don Minears,
Jacksonville-Phoenix rd.
They will spend a month in
Marion county and then will go
to Illinois. The two will attend
the International Boy Scout
Jamboree at Ottowa, Ont., Can
ada, before returning to Burma.
for a deputy district attorney.
The county will continue to pay
$4,200 a year salary for a second
deputy.
Deputy District Attorney
Gene Piazza, who has been the
county paid deputy at $4,200 a
year, will now hold the combi
nation county-state paid position
and will receive the total of
$5,000 a year. Nunley will seek
to obtain a second deputy to
fill the $4,200 a year county-paid
job.
Position Vacant
For several months, since the
resignation of Russell DeForest,
the $3,000 a year state paid posi
tion has been vacant. DeForest
served in a part time capacity.
In another change, all items of
equipment were returned to -the
various departmental budgets.
They had been lumped in one
grouping under the title of
"Sinking Fund for Improve
ments and Equipment," together
with $60,000 for construction of
the new armory building, to be
located at the county fair
grounds, and approximately
$105,220 in courthouse improve
ment funds.
These equipment items includ
ed $450 for typewriters and $1,
200 for other equipment in the
county clerk's office. However,
a requested $5,800 for an auto
matic addressing machine, re
quested by Mrs. Bereth Hopkins,
county clerk, was turned down.
The budget committee also ap
proved increases in salary for
two employees in the county
schools office, bringing their pay
into line with salaries paid for
similar duties in other depart
ments.: Request Approved
A request by Sheriff Howard
Gault for added funds for legal
department equipment was ap
proved, and Gault was told that
funds would be available for
extra help, despite the fact that
this item was removed from all
departmental budgets.
Extra help, this year, is in
cluded in a lump item of $9,960
under the "Miscellaneous Gen
eral County" listing. In the ten
tative budget, extra help had
been set at $11,560.
Despite the changes, there will
be no change in the overall
budget total, which will remain
at $3,542,368.20 with a levy of
$615,459.13. This was made pos
sible by changing the total
amount allotted in the tentative
budget to the sinking fund for
improvements and equipment.
Those working on the budget
this year were the budget com
mittee, composed by M. T. Wray,
chairman; Roger F. Rath, secre
tary, and Arnold Bohnert, com
mitteeman, and the county
court, made up of County Judge
Rodney Keating, and Commis
sioners Chester Wendt and L. G.
Morthland.
Earl Herman Imhausen, 25,
route 3. box 180. Medfcrd. wai
fatally injured when the car
in which ha was a passenger
apparently missed a curve on
the Valley View rd., about S
p.'m. Saturday night.
J. C. Skaggs, 38, route 2,
box 376D. Medford, the driv
er, was injured, but state po
lice said his injuries were not
considered serious. He was
taken to Sacred Heart hos
pital. State police said the car ap
parently missed a curve and
struck a power pole beside the
road.
Offer Buy
DeadiiiiB
Detroit (U.R) General
Motors Saturday handed the
CIO United Auto Workers union
a new offer aimed at averting
a strike by 385,000 GM workers
at midnight Sunday.
The offer came shortly before
a four-hour recess late Saturday
afternoon. The recess was called
by the union to study details, of
the offer.
Like Ford Settlement
The offer was reported to be
patterned closely after the set
tlement reached between the
UAW and Ford Motor company
last Monday. The three-year
Ford contract included a "guar-
Bill Thomas Dies;
Services Tuesday
For Medco Official
William J. (Bill) Thomas, 56,
Butte Falls, one of southern
Oregon's best known loggers,
died Saturday in Medford.
Mr. Thomas, woods superin
tendent for Medford . Corpora
tion, was stricken by a heart
attack while in his car near the
Medco office.
Funeral services will be held
Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Conger-
Morris chapel with the Rev
Paul Calhoun of the First Pres
byterian church officiating.
Committal will be in Siskiyou
Memorial park, with Medford
Lodge 103, AF&AM in charge.
Mr. Thomas was born May
31, '1899, in Cucamonga, Calif.
He came from San Bernardino
county in 1912 with a logging
group, and helped found the
town of Brookings, Ore. A res
ident of the Rogue Valley since
1926, he has been employed by
Medford Corporation for 20
years. "
A member of the Masonic
lodge and the Butte Falls Lions
club, Mr. Thomas also was ac
tive in the Southern Oregon
Conservation and Tree Farm as
sociation and the Society of
American Foresters.
On July 20, 1920, in Crescent
City, Calif., he was married to
Anna K. Hibbard, who survives.
Other survivors include four
daughters, Mrs. Wesley W. Dris
keyy, Medford; Mrs. P. B. Kea
kell, Medford; Mrs. P. B. Kea
Rodgers, Brookings, Ore., and
Miss Joanne Thomas, at home;
two brothers, Ben A. Thomas,
Reedsport, Ore., and Carl Thom
as, Smith River, Caljf.; a sister,
Mrs. Ed Hoar, Brookings, and
seven grandchildren.
Sports Bulletins
Pitcher Ray Slratton tossed
three-hit ball and smashed a
two-run homer last night as
Bandon bowed into the South
ern Oregon Baseball - League
with a 5 to 2 decision here
over the Medford Cheney
Studs. The game was scoreless
until Stratton - socked the
roundlripper in the sixth inn
ing. '
Nations Friendly to U.S. Receive Offer
Of Aid in Building Up Nuclear Research
University Park, Pa. (U.R)
President Eisenhower offered
Saturday to help friendly na
tions build research and power
reactors to open "the gateway
to a broad avenue of world prog
ress." Dramatically lending new em
phasis on his original atoms for
peace proposal, the President
proposed that tthis nation:
Would Pay Half Cost
1. Pay half the cost of con
structing research atomic reac
tors in partnership with free
nations which would use them
for "peaceful atomic progress."
The United States would furnish
the fuel free.
2. Make available "within
prudent security considerations"
American skills and know-
how to those friendly nations
which would build their own
power reactors and operate them
for "peaceful purposes."
Standing before some 20,000
rain-drenched persons in Beaver
Stadium, Mr.' Eisenhower made
BBap-as
Hears
anteed semi-annual wage," i
six-cent hourly pay hike (or 2.5
per cent if that is larger) each
year, higher pensions and im
proved insurance benefits.
General Motors spread its new
offer before union negotiators
shortly after CIO President Wal
ter Reuther tried unsuccessfully
to get GM President Harlow Cur
tice to join the contract talks.
Curtice turned down the in
vitation and said other company
officials had "full authority to
negotiate."
No Confirmation
The abrupt recess came after
the exchange between Reuther
and Curtice. It raised specula
tion that the company had come
up with an offer to ease the
threat of a company-wide walk
out. But because of a "new
blackout" shrouding the negotia
tions, the company action could
not be immediately confirmed.
A flurry of activity followed
the recess.
Union negotiators hurried to
their hotel near the General Mo
tors building for a private con
ference. The company's top
negotiators went to executive
offices high up in the GM build
ing for special meetings. GM
financial experts also went into
a private huddle in a special
conference room . just off the
bargaining room.
Reuther told Curtice negotia
tions "have reached a critical
stage, with time running out and
with a number of basic issues
still unresolved."""--'
10 Americans Die
In Air Force Crash
Stuttgart, Germany (U.R) A
U. S. Air Force Superfortress,
climbing blind up a fog-shrouded
dead end valley, smashed into a
German mountainside Friday
night in a flaming crash that
killed all 10 airmen aboard.
The big four-engined SB29 was
based in Britain at the Moles
worth Air Force Base that
launched B-17s over Nazi Ger
many in World War II. It was
making a non-stop instrument
training sweep over Germany.
The pilot, flying on his in
struments alone in the dense fog,
let down for a practice approach
to a nearby airfield before
climbing west again to return to
England. His climb was too slow.
The straining plane crashed
1300 feet up the side of a 2200
foot peak in the Swabian Alps.
It burned fiercely. The bodies
of the 10 men were found by
rescue workers - at the scene
some 13 miles southeast of Stutt
gart.
Washington (U.R) Stepped
up aircraft production to keep
the United States well ahead
of Russia may enable the Air
Force to reach its 137-wing goal
much earlier than the mid-1957
target date, it was learned Sat
urday. his proposal in a commencement
address at Pennsylvanvia State
University where he had inspect
ed a new $300,000 atomic re
actor. .
Seek to Spark Skills
"Our purpose is to spark the
creative and inventive skills
latent in the free world, to pool
them and to put them to work
for the betterment of the condi
tions under which men must
live," the President said. '
In making his dual atoms-for-peace
proposal, he also suggested
that where one nation does not
have the skills and resources for
construction and operation of a
research reactor, the United
States would support a volun
tary grouping of several friend
ly nations within a single region
to acquire and operate one. to
gether. . . . '
The Chief Executive's sugges
tions, went far beyond an exist
ing U.S. program for sharing
atomic information with friend
ly nations and was a new chal
French Road Race
Accident Declared
Worst in History
Car Going 160 MPH
At Time of Smashup .
Le Mans, France (U.R) A
Mercedes car hitting 160 miles-an-hour
ran- up the (rear of
another in the LeMans Road
race Saturday, catapulted over
the heads of a screaming throng
of spectators and exploded like
a bomb. Police said the flaming
debris of the wreck killed 70
persona and injured 100 more.
It was the worst racetrack
smashup on record. ,
Unable to Move - 1
More than 250,000 persons
were lined up along the 8.S
miles of road the 24 hour sports
car race is run over. They were
packed in so tightly at the spot
where the Mercedes hurtled . a
double barrier,' that few could
move when the silver-grey death
car exploded.
Flaming fuel dumped on their
heads. Parts of the car flew like
shrapnel in all directions
through the crowd. Straw bales
forming part of the barrier burst
into flame. The screams of the
dying were drowned by the
roar of the powerful cars still
racing down the straightaway.
France s Pierre Levegh was
driving the silver-grey Mercedes
death car.- His American team
mate John Fitch, of Stamford,
Conn., was standing on the side
lines in the gay crowd of 250,000
waiting to take his turn at the
wheel when the accident occur
red. Going 160 MPH
The - Frenchman- was - hitting
160 miles an hour as he came
down the four mile straightaway
on the course, a rectangle of
roads outside Le Mans, which is
sealed off for the famous 2,500
mile race.
An Austin Healey driven by
Britain's Lance Macklin, pulled
aside to allow Britain's famous
Mike Hawthorne to pass in a
speeding Jaguar.
The Mercedes crashed into the
back of the Austin Healey, hurt
led into the air and exploded
like a fragmentation bomb on
the grandstand side of the track.
The rear end of the Mercedes
was flipped over a double bar
rier of wooden fences, straw
bales and sand into the crowd
massed at a point near an un
derpass leading to the grand
stand. (See Story en Page 10)
Medford Blood Donor
Appointments Lag
Only a small number of ap
pointments have been made to
donate blood when the Blood
mobile visits Medford Tuesday,
according to the Red Cross.
Appointments may be made
by telephoning 3-3813 all day
Monday, and drop-in donors are
always welcome during blood
collection hours.
The unit will operate from 1
to 6 p m. at the Elks temple
Tuesday. A total of 250 donors
will be needed to meet this
month's quota of 200 pints of
blood for use here and in the
regional blood bank. . '
lenge to Russia to join in an
international atomic agency to
put the atom to peaceful pur
suits. . ,
This country now is sharing
some non-military atomic infor
mation with friendly nations.'
Ten bilateral agreements have
been initiated and 10 more may
be completed by the middle of
this month. , -
Under these agreements the
United States provides uranium
to run research reactors which
are built or purchased by other
nations: and contributes certain
information.
Those friendly nations now
would build research reactors
with " the United States paying
half the total cost which aver
ages about $350,000. In fact,
the United States already has
embarked on the program.
The reactor the United States
will put on display at the atomic
energy world exhibit at Geneva
in August will be sold to Swit
zerland for 1180,000.
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