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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 15, 1955)
Coty IPflannDng Group denies CommercoaD Zone for East Main Medford United Press Full Leased Wire Tribune United Presi Full Leased Wire The Medford Planning com mission Monday denied a re quest to rezone East Main st. between Genessee st. and Cra ter Lake ave., after about 25 residents of the area appeared at a public hearing opposing the change. The petition requested that an area 150 feet north and 170 feet south of East Main st. be re zoned from multiple family to commercial district and a set back of 10 feet be established. Petition Opposes Objections to the change cen tered around a desire to keep the area zoned for residences only. A petition with 84 signa tures opposing the change was submitted by Ken Denman, 104 Geneva st. Denman said he, as well as other residents, objected to the change because rezoning the area for commercial use would ' have an adverse effect on resi dences. "I can't help being biased when our homes are concerned," he said. He said several pieces of prop erty in downtown Medford are presently zoned as commercial, but are not being used for busi nesses, including two pieces of property in the area proposed to be rezoned. Commenting on increased val ue of property if rezoned for business, Denman said he did not feel "property values in the surrounding area would be in creased greatly." Others Voice Objections Ed Branchfield, 120 Stark st., Dick House, 15 Corning court, Dr. William W. Holt, 11 Corning court, and O. A. Eden, 211 Gen essee st. were among those ex pressing objections to the change. Fred L. Heller, 801 East Main St., supporting the requested change, pointed out that "it is more and more evident that busi ness will be extended on the east side," and that measures should be taken to draw shoppers into downtown Medford rather than let shopping centers outside the city limits attract them. He said he thought business should go where "it wants to go, not where residents want it to 80." The commission also denied a request to rezone East Jackson st. between Hawthorne and Gen essee sts. from non-conforming to commercial on recommenda tion of denial by a commission committee. Mrs. Edith Eden said the committee did not think it a good idea to have a business zone near a public park. Advise Alley Vacation In other action, the commis sion recommended to the city council that a north-south alley in the Edward Place subdivision be vacated. It is a 60-foot blind alley near the intersection of North Riverside ave. and Alice st. A request for rezoning the southwest corner of Crater Lake ave. and East Jackson st from single family to multiple family dwelling was denied because the commission said it would consti tute spot zoning. A request for rezoning prop erty north of the YMCA from multiple family to commercial was granted. Property on two sides is presently commercial, and property on another side is light industrial. Plat Approved Approval was given a tenta tive plat for Douglas Addition No. 1 at the end of Murray ave., and a 10-foot set-back was grant ed Homer J. Pringle on Eighth st. to conform with other resi dences on that street. Letters requesting sanitary sewer con nections from the Congregational and Christian Science churches were tabled until after a special election July 5. Both church properties are just outside the present city limits east of Med ford. Three committees were named to study proposals. A. D. Harvey, chairman, Allen Perry and Mark Goldy were appointed to study terminology of ordinances gov erning building alterations in non-conforming districts. Don ald G. Root and Mrs. Eden were appointed to study a request to rezone sections of Oak Park and Narregan additions from indus trial to commercial. Goldy and Root were appoint ed to study a tentative plat for Earhart addition ' along Bear Creek south of Willamette ave. The committees will report at the next meeting of the commis sion. Sheriff Takes Two Men To Start Prison Terms Two men were taken to prison in Salem and Portland Monday by Sheriff Howard Gault. They were Clifford Quentin Gee, 29, Harlan, Ore., and Hu bert D. Green, a transient. Gee was sentenced to a one- year term in Multnomah county jail on a petty larceny charge involving theft of items from a Rogue River home. Green was being returned to Oregon state prison in Salem, where he had been sentenced in connection with the same case. He was brought here to testify in Gee's trial. Second Section MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 1955 Pagesl-6 New York Payroll Bandit Slain by Policeman In Wild Gun Battle; Three Persons Injured Hugh Bryson Sentenced San Francisco (U.R) Hugh Bryson, handsome 40-year-old former head of a left wing water front union, has been sentenced in federal court to the maximum five years imprisonment and $10,000 fine for lying when he signed a Taft-Hartley anti-Communist affidavit. Mrs. McKay's Foot Encased in Plaster Vienna, Austria (UR) U. S. Secretary of the Interior Doug las McKay and his wife have interupted a vacation trip to have doctors encase one of Mrs. McKay's feet in a plaster cast. Officials said Mrs. McKay pulled a tendon in the foot, but that the .injury, was not con sidered serious. Dulles Will Address United Nations Meeting San Francisco (U.R) U. S. Secretary or State John Foster Dulles will address the United Nations here next week, accord ing to nearly complete plans for the 10th anniversary meeting. Dulles will speak June 24 in place of U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. GULLIBLE THIEF Hartford, . Conn. (U.R) Mrs. Ann J. Papandrea thwarted a holdup man by telling him, "All the cash is in our other build ing." After the bandit had fled, she told police that a safe di rectly behind her was "loaded." Albany, Ore. (U.R) All mem bers of the Linn county grand jury for the current term are women. FOR DAD D Prince Gardner master-crafted set in Harness Leather - .fl win ( vrt w , I I The Registrar, INVlSIBLY-STITCHEajt onl pull apart. 8-window removable photo-card case. Black or brown. w if s; nr 9 Matching lippered Key Qui 3 plusta Matching Breast Pocket tCaHfil i . plus tax 1750 ' J 217 E. MAIN Medford New York U.R) A police man killed a payroll bandit and three other persons were wounded yesterday in a wild gun battle witnessed by thousands in a crowded commercial dis trict a few blocks from City Hall. Killed by Patrolman The holdup man, fleeing with a $4000 payroll snatched from a 19-year-old girl messenger in a building lobby, was killed by a motorcycle patrolman after an exchange of bullets which rip ped through the windshield of an occupied automobile. Before he was killed, the ban dit shot a building elevator man who went to the rescue of the payroll messenger; grazed a woman passerby with a bullet aimed at the policeman, anii shot another passerby who at tempted to nab him. An unidentified FBI man also went to the patrolman's assist ance, but didn't fire a shot. He was unhurt. Girl Screamed Diana Panzer, 19, clerk and typist for the Lincoln Letter Serv ice, said she had left a bank for her office with the payroll wrap ped in a plain brown paper envelope. "I noticed a man following me," she said. "When he got into the ground floor hallway, he grabbed me. I screamed. -1 thought his gun was a toy pistol." . As the elevator man, Joseph Sotolana, 43, ran to her aid, the gunman fired, dropping Soto lana with' a shot in the groin, and fled with the payroll. Motorcycle Patrolman Aurelio de Filippi, 28, had stopped for a red light at the corner. Shoots at Cop "I heard a shot," de Filippi said. "I jumped off my bike and ran after a man I saw running." A passerby, Detrick Eberhard, attempted to halt the bandit and was shot by him. The bandit then shot at the po liceman. Adele Lambert, 50, a state industrial relations investi- County Judge To Attend Land Meeting in Denver Jackson County Judge Rod ney Keating will attend a meet ing on public land problems on Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Denver, he said yesterday. -Tudge Keating will be representing the Oregon Association of County Courts. The judge is a member of the association's public lands com mittee. Representatives of or ganizations in the 11 western slates will be taking part in the Denver meeting. Washington (U.R) The U. S. Court of Appeals by a tie vote has upheld a lower court's dis missal of two key prejury charges against Owen Lattimore. gator, walked into the path of the bullet. She was hit in the neck but was not seriously hurt. "He barricaded himself be hind a parked station wagon and fired one shot at me," de Filippi said. Home of Wandering Homing Pigeon Finally Located The case of the wandering homing pigeon finally came to an end this week. The pigeon was found May 13 at Camp White and was turned over to the care of a deputy sheriff. The county contacted the American Union in New Jersey and gave lhem the number on an aluminum band on the pigeon's leg. It was found the bird was registered with the federal government as an Army Re serve bird, and the Union no tified the sheriff's office that the "bird was owned by Bob Ebbesen, Grants Pass. Ebbesen was notified by mail and he phoned here, ask ing that the pigeon be sent to him, collect, by bus. Delivery was made Sunday. It took the bird, which can fly at between 50 and 60 miles an hour, almost a month to make the 30-mile trip. "I got behind a truck with an FBI man." In the station wagon, two ter rified men threw themselves to the floor of the car. Windshield Hit "Soon as we did a bullet came through the windshield just at the driver's seat," said Edward Lynch, 50. His companion was Harry Farrington, 63. "The guy shot at me again," de Filippi said, "and I emptied my gun as I jumped toward him. "He was crumpled when I got to him." TYPEWRITERS & ADDING MACHINES Repaired MEDFORD OFFICE . EQUIPMENT COMPANY 41 S. Grape Pfiotia 2-4100 Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 1 a. m. Monday (or Monday: other days 530 orevious day. u Father' Day June 19, 1955 MEDFORD'S FINEST MEN'S STORE MAIN AT CENTRAL wfia.ii . n j f f nr if vr ot IBIUSROREB-N-. SL-. r wl. k-eaassBBB $AN DIEGO e SACRA T EUGENE $ 3.95 TACOMA 8.60 J FRESNO : 7 55 Y SAN DIEGO . 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