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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (July 10, 1955)
STUDY IN ANGUISH A picture of anguish, Mrs. Easter Benson waits with bowed head on shore of a Milwaukee, Wis., lagoon while police and Coast Guardsmen search for body of her stepdaughter, Joan Benson, 5. The girl's body was recovered about a half-hour after a row boat in which she was riding capsized. Work Started on '56 Timber Sale Program Work has started on the 1956 calendar year timber sale plan for O and C and public domain land by the Medford district of the Bureau of Land Manage ment, Assisistant District For ester John Carnegie has an nounced. Representatives of the forest Industry who wish to suggest specific tracts of timber be among those offered for sale next year may obtain applica tion forms and submit sugges tions at the BLM office in the Medford City hall prior to Aug. 15, Carnegie said. Factors Considered The timber sale plan Is pre pared by BLM personnel on the basis of volume of timber wnicn can be sold under scientific sus tained yield management. Also taken Into consideration Is man power available to prepare for and supervise sales of timber, necessary for sound silvicultur- al practices and interest Indicat ed by prospective purchasers In specific tracts. Priority will be given timber suggested by industry represen tatives provided certain require ments are fulfilled, Carnegie said. Other Restrictions Timber which will be sold must be either old growth or salvage, and tracts approved to be included in the plan will be scattered throughout the district. Carnegie said no sale will be scheduled so large that it pre cludes the average operator from bidding. No timber will be offered un less equal access is assured all prospective purchasers and terms and conditions of access are available to any bidder in advance of the sale, Carnegie said. The BLM requires that manu facturing of timber into lumber, plywood, pulp or other items must be accomplished within the boundaries of the established marketing area in which timber is located. The exception, Carne gie said, is that salvage timber which does not receive a bid may be processed in an O and C marketing area if purchased within 90 days of the date the timber is offered for sale. The three marketing areas in the Medford district of the Bur eau of Land Management are Klamath, Jackson and Josephine counties. Second Man Dies After Collision Portland (U.R) Toll of a head-on collision on the Colum bia river expressway at Bridal Veil rose to two Saturday with the death of 17-year-old Arden LeRoy Bye, Stayton, in a Fort land hospital. Oakley M. Hinkley, 67. of southeast 176th Avenue, Port land, died in the hospital earlier. : Police said both men were alone in their cars and apparent ly crashed head-on without see ing the other car approach. There were no skid marks and no witnesses tot he crash. Both cars were demolished. The double death raised the Multnomah county death toll outside Portland to 12. Yreka Man Killed In Highway Accident Yreka. Calif. (U.R) Clyde Ward, 36, of Yreka, was killed early Saturday when car in which he was a passenger skid ded out of control and over turned on U.S. Highway 99 south of here. The California Highway Patrol said Ward was thrown from the car and the rear wheel passed over his body, killing him in stantly. The driver of ..the car, Joe Allen Page, 27, said he lost con trol on a soft shoulder 15 miles south of here. He was treated for minor injuries. The timber sale plan propos ed by the district forester is re viewed by the state supervisor of the BLM and by the district advisory board. The necessary changes made before the plan is adopted will be made public. The 1956 plan is the seventh prepared by the bureau in which locations and approximate volumes of each timber tract and the calendar quarter during which it will be offered for sale has been publicized prior to the start of the year, Carnegie said. The bureau here has made a special effort to prepare and an nounce the annual sale plan, Carnegie said, so the forest in dustry can better plan the en suing year's operations and so tracts may be examined prior to participation in bidding. Phoenix Phoenix Mr. and Mrs. Walt er Bolz and family moved out on Fern Valley road the latter part of June. The Lewis Bert rand family moved into the house on the South Pacific highway formerly occupied by the Bolz family. The Leo Bonis family sold their place on Fourth st, and bought a place in Medford on Mt. Pitt ave. The Charles Marrs family who lived in Fern valley bought the Bonis' home. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Archer and family of Loleta, Calif., vis ited the various Bolz families over the July 4th holidays. Mrs. Archer is the former Violet Bolz. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Wright, Mrs. Wright being the former Elsie Bolz, spent the July 4th holidays with the Bolz families. Their home is in Citrus Heights, Calif. Mrs. Clarde Smith, who was at a Medford hospital for sev eral days, is now at the Mill edge convalescent home in Med ford. She may have visitors any afternoon. The Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Volkman went to Portland last week to attend the sessions of synod of Oregon for the church. Mr. and Mrs. John Duncan, par ents of Mrs. Volkman, came home with them to spend a few days. Mr. Duncan is a retired Congregational minister. There will be a public hear ing on the city budget at the city hall at 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 21. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Floyd and family vacationed and visited friends at San Francisco the last of June. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Colbleigh spent July 4th with the Hobert Ditsworth family on Buckshot lull in Medford. Federal Funds Slated For Two State Patks Salem (U.R) Gov. Paul L. Patterson was informed this week by the Federal Forestry department under the Depart ment of Agriculture that $36,000 had been authorized to be spent on Oregon parks at Paulina and East lakes, and at Crane Prairie. The money will permit im mediate expansion of picnic, cooking, sanitary and parking facilities. The authorization came as a result of efforts sarted a year ago by Gov. Patterson in con ferences with the Department of Agriculture to help provide for the increasing number of camp ers using this area for recrea tional purposes. A CONCRETE PheiM 2-5336 or 2-5897 M.C. LININGER & SONS Attorney General Wants OLCC to Let Him See Documents Salem (U.R) Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton said he wants the Oregon Liquor Con trol Commission to let him in spect documents and evidence gathered last year on commis sion employees accused of ac cepting money and gifts from distilleries and liquor license ap plicants. He filed a petition in Marion County Circuit Court Friday for an alternative writ of mandamus naming Liquor Commissioners Lester Ireland, J. H. Sroufe and Lowell Seaton; and Robert F. Maguire and Howard I. Bobbitt, Portland attorneys who investi gated the charges, as defendants. The commission has until Aug. 1 at 2 p.m. to appear. Says Commission Refused Thornton said the commis sion had refused to let him see material gathered in the inves tigation. He said: "I have asked them three times. I have also appealed to Gov. Paul L. Patterson. Both have refused to allow me to see this evidence for reasons only they can explain. ' The liquor commission is under the appointive power of the governor. Thornton said another reason for going to court is to get a court ruling as to the powers of the Attorney General's office for investigation "and specifically whether a department of the state government can refuse to permit the Attorney General to inspect evidence obtained at pub lic expense." Hydroelectric Power Supply Said Adequate Portland (U.R) Adequate supplies of hydroelectric power for the Northwest Power Pool through July were forecast Saturday by the Bonneville Pow er Administration. BPA said steam generation would not be necessary to meet anticipated demands. The administration's branch of power resources . said "indi cations are that the favorable hydro conditions may continue through August as a result of the late runoff this year in the Co lumbia basin. Irrigation pumping at Grand Coulee is proceeding at capacity with federal power, BPA said. SEEK URANIUM Burns, Ore. (U.R) Uranium prospectors Saturday were re ported to be heading into the hills 30 miles southeast of this eastern Oregon town following a report that a man had found some good samples in the Stink ing Water Pass area. Court Records FOLIC COURT William Id ward Carta. vloUttaa mt oaaie rule, Slu, bo orafon operators license. SS. Marl owed Keith Sjbnmoa. violation of Mate rule, Sio. Earl Jen Green, violatiom mt feaaie rule. SIO. Joseph Albert MeCalvr. vieUMoa mt baaie rule, 10. CIRCUIT COURT Hark T. Bernard v. Yvonne Sd- wards Bernard, divorce complaint. Clara Etta Young vs. Omer Young divorce comolaint. Sally Joyce Marlon vs. John Alex ander Marion, divorce decree. Irene C. Hutchinson vs. James I, Hutchinson and Macelein Faylor. di vrce decree. Genevieve A. Edmonson v. Clint- wood H. Edmonson, divorce complaint. MARRIAGE LICENSE APPLICATION Orville Jelferson Camp.- SS. Selma, and Eunice Kathryn Sudbury, 51, cave Junction. Schooner Ramona Increases Lead in Transpacific Race Aboard U.S. CGS Gresham at sea tu.PJ xne iua-tooi schooner Ramona, of San Fran cisco, Saturday night increased her lead to 20 miles over the ketch Morning Star, of Los An geles, and might set a new rec ord in the transpacific yacht rsce to Honolulu, it was report ed. It was the time-honored West Coast rivalry all over again, San Francisco versus Los Angeles, as the two sailing yachts con tinued their battle for the lead. A mesage received by race in formation officials in Los An geles via Mackay radio said: "Ramona is 1,035 miles from Honolulu, leading Morning Star by 20 miles. May break rec ord . . . The record is held by the Morning Star. The Ramona, out of the St. Francis Yacht Club, had gained 13 miles over the 96-footer from the Los Angeles Yacht Club since the last official report this morning. Honolulu's prize entry, the 75- foot schooner Constellation, was reported still in third position, but how far she was trailing the front-runners was not known immediately. The radio message reported 18-knot winds, which kept alive hopes aboard the leaders for a new record. The current mark is 10 days, 10 hours and 13 min utes set in 1949 over the 2,225 mile course from San Pedro, Calif. Race information officials in Los Angeles said they were un able to contact the Morning Star by radio Saturday night, ap parently due to transmitter trouble. They said they had to reach the Coast Guard Cutter Gresham, escorting the 50 craft in the race, via Mackay radio to relay race information. Second Tune was when s man wouldn't have eon- -sidered a Cadillac until he had owned four or five or even six different motor cars. But nowadays more and more motorists like the happy man you see in the picture above arc stepping right up from their first car to a Cadillac. There are, we think, two basic reasons for this wonderful change. , . To begin with, the temptation to make ' the move to Cadillac has never been greater than it is today. The car's arresting grace and beauty . .v its captivating luxury and graciousness . . . Hopper Control Funds Approved by Board Salem (U.R) The State Emergency Board, in special meeting at the capitol here Fri day, appropriated $34,300 as match money to carry on a grass hopper control program in Mor row, Grant and Wallowa coun ties. The special meeting was prompted by the fact that con trol work must be carried out between July 15 and 25 when the females lay their eggs. James Dutton, U. S. Agricul ture Department employees in charge of grasshopper control in the Western states, told the Emergency Board that the situa tion in the three Oregon coun ties was serious. Oveross Trial Hits Snag as Ballistics Expert in Accident Salem U.R) The Casper Oveross murder trial in Marian county circuit court Friday re cessed until Monday when the state was unable to call its final witness. The prosecution said it would call Ralph Prouty, ballistics ex pert from the state crime detec tion laboratory, as its final wit ness in the attempt to prove Ov eross fatally shot Ervin Kaser, Silverton, on Feb. 17. Failed io Appear Prouty failed to appear when called to the stand before the noon recess and state police sent to look for him found, him later asleep in his car where it had gone off the highway and into a field near Aurora. Dr. Homer Harris, head of the laboratory, said Prouty was suffering from acute fatigue and from minor injuries and would not be able to take the stand before Monday. Prouty had left his Portland home at 8:30 a.m in order to be in court by 9:30. SKINNER'S GARAGE 143 S. Riverside) Medford Phone 2-6234 Bandar, July 10, 195S Three Executed at Sing Sing Prison For Holdup Murder Ossining, N. Y. . (U.R) The three notorious "Reader's Digest killers" drank a final toast to the living with soda pop Satur day night and then went to their deaths in Sing Sing prison's electric chair, the losers in a near-record legal fight. The killers, Harry Stein, 58, Nathan Wissner, 49, and Cai man Cooper, 47, paid with their lives for bungling a holdup job in which they murdered a Read er's Digest messenger more than five years ago. The death-dealing jolts of electricity closed the case on a note of mystery involving the still unsolved sensational disap pearance of Judge Joseph Crater of New York nearly 25 years ago. Connected With Disappearance Stein, tried and acquitted in the strangulation murder of Vivian Gordon, a prohibition era playgirl and acquaintance of Crater, was reported to have been connected with Crater's disappearance. He denied the connection and the executioner sealed Stein's lips forever. The three men, numbers 582, 583 and 584 to be electrocuted at Sing Sing, died shortly after 11 p.m. EDT, after a flurry of last minute pleas for their ninth stay of execution. Three Supreme Court justices and the acting governor turned them down in their, final struggle and they were sent on the "last mile from nearby cells to the prison's big, ugly electric chair. New York Should all of the natural ice on the earth melt, it would result in raising the lev el of the oceans by about 100 feet, scientists estimate. sw , t222a V Car He Ever and its heart-winning performance, have all been brought to new peaks of perfection.. And secondly, the path that leads to Cadillac has never before been so clearly marked or so easily traveled. Take original cost, for instance. The pur chase price of the lowest-priced Cadillac is actually little more than many models in -the medium-price field. And then consider Cadillac's gasoline economy and upkeep expense. Few auto mobiles of any size or make will travel farther on a gallon of gasoline ... and the car is so soundly built and so soundly Navy Draws Ire Of Clatsop Judge Astoria, Ore. (U.R) The United States Navy Friday drew the ire of Clatsop County Circuit Judge Howard K. Zimmerman when he imposed a $1000 fine on a Tongue Point Naval sta tion enlisted man on a negligent homicide. Frederick William Ford, a 26-year-old electrician attached to the LST 1123 at Tongue Point, had pleaded guilty of the charge filed in connection with the July Contracts Awarded For Highway Jobs Salem (U.R) The State High way Commission has awarded a Linn County paving contract to Warren Northwest, Inc., of Port land on low bid of $84,187.50. The job involves 4.54 miles of paving on the Orleans-Tangent Junction section of the Orleans Lebanon road, from 3Vi miles east of Corvallis to one mile north of Tangent. (11 IK DUST OILING - ROAD MIX CONCRETE WORK CURBS & GUTTERS All Types of Asphalt Work Hughes & Ootid Go. Medford - Phone 3-4221 Owned ! engineered that it is all but free from any save the most routine costs of maintenance. . And, finally, there is the car's resale value. Year after year, Cadillac used cars return a higher percentage of the original investment than any other make.' So if you want a Cadillac you don't have to advance zradually to the car of cars. If you are ready to make the move, the automobile you now own is the perfect steppingstone. ' . Why not stop in soon and see for your self? We have some very pleasant news for you about cost and delivery. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUKE HTKB 1 death of Thomas Earl Phil brook, 17 -year -old Gearhart' youth. .' Judge Zimmerman learned ; that Ford carried no auto lia bility insurance except for. driv ing on the Naval base. The judge 1 said it was "all wrong" for the Navy to accept no responsibility in requiring its personnel sta tioned in Oregon to comply with state insurance standards. QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Fines Drain Tile m If. MeAndrews raeae 2-41M
