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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.
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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."
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