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Out t test Jl To .: lisai; las -J K - ON IB Medford United Pre -Full Leased Wire 50th Year ; 24 Pages Me Voids Orchard Tr Technicalities in Procedure Given as Cause of Action 9 , Commission Hearings Expected Next Week The Oregon state tax commis- sion has declared void assess- " ments on Jackson county com' mercial orchard trees because of procedure technicalities follow ed by the county board of equal ization. . , The action followed review of petitions filed with the commission by local fruit grow ers, who claimed the attempted assessment was arbitrary, capri cious, discriminatory and unjust. The orchardists claimed- that values assigned were unreason ably and arbitrarily fixed at uniform and fictitious rates. Hearings Planned Petitions also alleged that they were not notified the re quired number of . days. The commission declared the assess ments void on the basis that "the board shall not increase the assessed valuation of any prop erty on the assessment roll without giving the person . at least fivedays notice to ap pear and show cause ... why the assessed valuation ... shall not be increased." County Judge Rodney Keat ing said today the tax commis sion will hold hearings, probab ly starting early next week, to review assessments on orchard trees. A representative from the commission's clerical depart ment is preparing a list of orch ardists who wiH receive notices of hearing, Keating said. Meeting Slated Keating said he expected to meet with a representative of the commission today in order to determine fully what action would be taken by the commis- sion. He pointed out, however, the representative here was from the clerical office only, and had no authority to speak for the commission. . Notices being sent to orchard ists'include the former assessed valuation in addition to the in creased valuation. Keating said he understood the increased rate would include $300 : per acre on class A orchards, and S225 on class B orchards. The figures previously were deter mined by tax commission ap praisers. Keating said he believed tax commission representatives would hear orchardists object ing to increases in an attempt to show, why increases should not be made. q Orchard trees were assessed by County Assessor Robert Fow- led upon order from the board of equalization. Notices of the assessments were received by fruit growers about July 23. Prior to that, the tax commis sion ordered the board of equal ization to place on tax rolls or chard tree assessments, but the board replied that it would be v physically impossible to make a fair and just appraisal before the June. 16 deadline. Several Meetings Held . - Several meetings between tax commission representatives, the county board of equalization and assessor were held, and on June 17 an extension of time until Aug. 15 was granted by the commission to make assess ments. The board directed that tax commissiSn figures be used in making assessments upon sug gestion by Samuel B. Stewart, tax commission member and sec retary of the group. Stewart out lined possible plans for assess ing orchard trees with the board of equalization. About 175 Jackson county fruit growers filed petitions with th commission for review of the attempted assessment after re ceiving notice of the assessment from Fowler July 23. Petitions contested the legality of the assessment. Tax commis sion attorneys who reviewed the procedure followed by the coun ty found that the required notice was not given. The commission further order ed that "petitions for review of each petitioner be dismissed to allow the board of equalization of Jackson county to properly review the increases in assessed valuations of commercial orch ard properties." MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1955 PERON RESIGNS Gen. Franklin Lucero (left) Argentine Army Minister shown here with President Peron prior to the start of the latest Argentine revolt. Lucero says Peron decided to resign in the face of a threat against the welfare of the nation. Bids Asked Irrigation Rehabilitation Jobs Bid invitations have been is sued by the bureau ' of reclama tion office in Denver, Colo., for three rehabilitation projects in the Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation districts. 1 The projects are part of the rehabilitation program which in cludes work now being done at Fish and Four Mile lakes. The Medford Irrigation dist rict project includes construc tion of a 48-inch diameter con crete pipe siphon about " 1,860 feet long across Bear creek and Medford ' canal . rehabilitation. The work includes removing about 600 linear feet of existing eight-inch drain and replacing it with 12-inch drain. Open Bids Oct. 27 Bids for the Medford work, which is situated near Phoenix, will be opened at 10 a.m. Oct. 27, at the Medford office of the bureau of reclamation on North Riverside ave. ' Work in the Rogue River Val ley Irrigation district includes construction of about 100 feet of 42-inch concrete pipe siphon at Antelope creek, and construc tion of about 700 feet of 42-inch pipe siphon and a wasteway at Bear creek. The work will re place a .wooden flume across Bear creek. ' - The project, which is located (Baseball NATIONAL (First game) . Pittsburgh 1 8 1 New York .. 11 19 0 ... Law, Donoso (1), Waters (5) and Shepard; Antonelli and Kalt.' AMERICAN New York 6 12 1 Washington ; 3 9 0 Larsen, Morgan (2). Kon stanty (9) and Berra; McDer moli, Pascual (2JT Schmidt (8). Abernathy (9) and Fitigerald. 1955 Shrine Circus Opens; Shows Tonight, Wednesday The annual Shrine-Polack Brothers circus opens today at the Medford high school stadium. The circus is sponsored by Hil lah temple's Shrine clubs of Jackson and Josephine counties. Today's opening performance, set for 3:30 p.m.; will be follow ed by another show at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday performances will be at the same hours. New Acts r" Although this is the fourth an nual Shrine-Polack Brothers cir cus to appear in Medford, this year's show is almost entirely different than .its predecessors, according to L. C. (Les) Taylor, general chairman of the Shrine e$ odd inline on Three near Medford, also includes Hop kins canal rehabilitation. Bids for the project will be opened at 10 a.m. Oct." 25, at the Med ford office of bureau of reclam ation. Third Project The third' bid invitation is for pipe lines, structures and main canal structures in both the Medford and Rogue River Valley Irrigation districts. The work is located east of Medford and includes construction of a reinforced-con'crete bench flume replacing an existing metal flume, and construction of two concrete pipe siphons.' Bids on the latter project will be opened at 10 a.m. Nov. 1 in the bureau of reclamation of fice here. The Denver, office anticipated that specifications for the "Rogue River, Valley Irrigation district work will be available for mail ing about Sept. 26; specifications for the Medford district work about Sept. 27; and specifications for work in both districts about Sept. 28. Copies of standard forms and specifications may be obtained from L. N. McClellan, assistant, commissioner and chief engin eer, Denver, Colo.; H. T. Nelson, regional director, Boise, Idaho; and John L. Hatch, acting con struction engineer,1 federal buil ding on North Riverside ave., Medford. Charlotte Ann Water To Be Off Briefly Water service to a portion of the Charlotte Ann Water district will be shut off for about an hour tomorrow afternoon, dis trict officials reported today. Service south of Kim's restau rant to the end of the line will be interrupted at about 1:30 p.m. to enable workmen to cut in service to the new Bear Creek Orchards office building on Highway 99. circus committee. Among the acts appearing here for the first time are Great Britain's Degenham Girl Pipers, Freya Josse, German aerial star; the Pallamedes, head-balancing trapezists, and Rolando, young Swedish equilibrist. Making Debut ' - Also making their circus de but this year are Ostermaier s trained goats, and Penny, the musical and acrobatic , star of Tiebor"s sea lions. ' ' Among the favorites. of pre vious years returning with this year's show are the Besalou Baby Elephants, and the Klauser family's bear act. 154 Leaders of Revolt Negotiate With Military Group Lucero Said Hiding In Uruguay Embassy Buenos Aires (U.R) Ar gentine warships blocked for mer President Juan D. Peron's attempt to flee into exile aboard a Paraguayan gunboat today - and rebel commanders threatened to renew the civil war. Buenos Aires (U.R) Presi dent Juan D. Peron, ousted by a successful revolt against his nine-year rule as dictator, head ed for exile -in Paraguay today. The Paraguayan ambassador to Argentina escorted Peron aboard the Paraguayan gunboat Paraguay at 8 a.m. today. The former President left to go into exile even as leaders of the revolt negotiated with a 13 man military committee to re store peace to this country. Paraguayan Ambassador Juan Chaves accompanied Peron on board the gunboat. Then he re- . Washington s. (OR) --Tha-State Department said ' today that all Americans in Argen tina apparently are safe. A spokesman said there had been some concern for 15 fam ilies living in Cordova, site of a Henry J. Kaiser plant. But the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires reported they and other Americans were unharmed. turned ashore in Buenos Aires. He returned to the vessel later with food and other supplies for Peron's personal comfort be cause of lack of adequate facili ties on board. In Uruguayan Embassy :A diplomatic source said that former Army Minister Gen. Franklin Lucer,o had taken ref uge in the Uruguayan Embassy here. It was Lucero who asked the rebels to start cease fire talks yesterday, and who later broad cast Peron's offer to resign over the official state radio. Lucero resigned shortly , afterward, along with the rest of Peron's supporters in the government. Diplomatic sources said that judicially Peron's status aboard the Paraguay, which is a foreign ship, was the same as taking asy lum in a Foreign Embassy. The quarters said the warship is considered extraterritorial ground under the terms of inter national law. Diplomatic quarters reported meanwhile that a number of air planes were waiting at the big Ezeiza International Airport to take a large number of import ant members of the Peron re gime to Asuncion, capital of Paraguay. Offer To Negotiate The committee offered to ne gotiate with the revolutionary leaders "to seek pacification in order to avoid useless bloodshed among brothers." It also shook up the security, system, naming new heads of federal police, national . gen darmerie and the Coast Guard. Both sides emphasized that hostilities only had been "sus pended" pending the outcome of negotiations. But for the 13-man committee it seemed an empty . gesture. Revolutionary leaders negotiated under the comfortable safety of their naval guns which still pointed menacingly at Buenos Aires and the valuable oil instal lations in nearby Eva Peron (La Plata). From throughout the country came reports of former loyalist leaders surrendering to the victorious rebels.' Progress of the negotiations remained secret. Los Angeles (U.R) A judge has continued to Oct. 10 a hear ing on a paternity suit against the husband of Peruvian singer Yma Sumac. 1 - ill Weather FORECAST: Flr tonight. Slightly cooler Wednesday with variable cloudiness. Low , tonight SO. High Friday 72-75. Temp. Highest Yesterday 80 Lowest this Morning ' 51 Communist China Releases Two More Yank Missionaries Women 8th and 9th To Be 'Deported' Hong Kong (U.R) Two Amer ican women missionaries crossed the border to freedom from Com munist China today. They said they were so suspicious of their jailers they were almost afraid to accept Red Cross packages. The missionaries, both Presby terians who were kept in the same jail for 4V years, were Sarah Perkins, 63, of New York City and Dorothy Middleton, 42, Cicero, 111. They taught in leper colonies. They were the 8th and 9th Americans the Communists an nounced on Sept. 11 would be "deported" before "expiration of their terms." Almost all the Americans were charged with some form of "espionage." The two women were t charged with "sabotage." The 10th, Dilmus T. Kanady of Houston, Tex., a Shanghai businessman sentenced to 41i years by the Reds, was expected at the border Wednesday. They were the first ten of 41 Americans in Red China listed by the Peiping regime for im mediate freeing under terms of an agreement worked out in Geneva conferences. Reports from Shanghai today said some other Americans were making plans to leave soon. ' - The reports said 10-year-old' Emma Angelina Barry,, the daughter of an. American, would leave Sept. 23 by ship with her mother, a White Russian and not an American citizen. , Robert Howard Parker, 82, a retired businessman originally from Philadelphia, will leave at the same time with his Chinese wife. ' Mr. and Mrs. Howard (Cappy) Ricks were reported making ar rangements to sail direetly from Shanghai Jo Japan where Ricks has a firm. Their date of depar ture was not known. Eve Stella Dugay, 62, (Sister Theresa), a Catholic nun and a native of New York, is expected to leave in October. Mrs. Juanita Huang, 51, a na tive of Mount Olive, Miss., and a Southern Baptist missionary married to a Chinese, was ex pected to leave 'as soon as she winds up her affairs." Nothing was known in Shang hai about Mrs. Nadesha M. Ro manoff and her daughter,- Irene, 15, still in Harbin, Manchuria. Mrs. Romanoff is a naturalized American. - Supplies Shuttled To Stricken City Tampico, Mex. '(U.R) Gov ernment transport planes, shut tling food and medical' brigades from Mexico City, began swarm ing in at dawn today bringing the first aid to this flooded gulf port city of 160,000 since hurri cane Hilda smashed through Sunday night. There were 37 known dead and more than 300 injured in and around Tampico in the wake of the storm, with the casualty toll still mounting ' and ' 90 per cent of the port city reported destroyed or damaged. Tamaulipas State Gov. Nor dico Teran has requisitioned all vehicles for rescue operations and all private homes were 15, 000 homeless will be housed. Mexican .Air Force pilots re ported the whole region flooded by the big Panuco river and five foot tides from the Gulf of Mex ica were a "vast sea of rusty water covering tens of thousands of acres." They said three-fourths of the stricken city was covered with water and the floating wreckage of smashed houses. An estimated 60 per cent of Tampico suffered heavy damage. (Bulletin United. Nations, N.'Y U.E The United Nations General assembly today shelved, by a 42-12 vote, any consideration during this session' of Russia's proposal to oust Nationalist China and seat in Chinese Reds. ' IWIWISMiiliipafflB iliiillillll 9M9BWBSf9SMSi9MtM, iiliiSiliilPllil Ji HURRICANE ALERT Hurricane lone causes high winds and water as it bore down on Portsmouth. Va. This mem ber of a local boat club ties down small craft as "water crashes over dock. Search Fails To Find San Francisco Infant Taken From Hospital San Francisco (U.R) A mass search of a 30-block area around Mount Zion hospital failed today to turn up any clue to the where abouts of a three-day-old baby stolen from the hospital nursery. ; Nearly 300 police officers took part , in the search. They had orders to "go beyond the call of duty,", if necessary, to find City To Receive Safety Award at Council Meeting l&esentation of an award to the city of Medford for not hav ing a traffic ' fatality (in 1954 will 'be "made to Mayor Earl Miller and the city. council" by James R.' Banks, representing the Oregon secretary of state's office, at the council's 7:30 p.m. meeting today. The award is from the Nation al Safety council. Earlier this year the Automobile Association of America and Oregon Motor Association presented Medford a safety plaque. Freeway Report ' Also on tonight's agenda is a report by. Mayor Miller on a conference with state highway engineer R. H. Baldock concern ing the location of a freeway route through Medford. Two public hearings will be held.. One is for change of set back at the east end of Reddy ave. The other is a continued hearing on change of zone from two family to heavy industrial on the north side of Clark st. between Narregan st. and Mc Andrews rd. The hearing was continued from last meeting when a petition was submitted objecting to the change. ' . Ordinances calling for hear ings on annexation of California Pacific .Utilities property, on South Groveland ave. and on the Jefferson Grade school site and other adjacent properties will be introduced. City Manager Robert Duff will report on various requests concerning traffic conditions, and' two planning 'commission recommendations will be receiv ed. The recommendations are annexation of Benton Smith and Odell Larson lots on Columbus ave. and Murray st. and on adop tion of a tree ordinance. , . 150 UMC Workers Attend 'Kick-Off of Annual Fund Drive; Leaders Confident More than 150 persons who will be active in the United Med ford Crusade this year gathered for- the fund drive's "kick-off" dinner at the YMCA last night. i M- M. Huggins, campaign chairman, told them he is confi dent the goal of $109,000 can be met, and that he is hopeful of going over the total, up to. $115, 000 or more, to build up a back log of funds for any possible emergency use. ' Four Reasons Huggins explained that there are four basic reasons for a united fund drive. The first is that it eliminates constant soli citation, the year around, for separate organizations, each of which is worthy of support. There are 24 groups which re ceive funds from the UMC, Hug gins said. - - . The second reason is that it saves campaign costs, the third is that it saves manpower, and little Robert Marcus, But the mass questioning of householders failed to uncover any clue to the infant's where abouts and it had to be given up. Police officials then switched headquarters for the search from the hospital to the Hall of Jus tice. Several FBI agents were assigned to help in the search. Officers guarded all exits from the city, including San Francisco International Airport, Meanwhile, the heartbroken father, Dr. Sanford Marcus, 34, remained at the hospital to com fort his distraught wife, who gave birth to the baby Sept. 17 He had a cot placed in her room. He pleaded with the kidnaper to return his son to the hospital as soon as possible.. He promised he "will not sign a complaint or prosecute" if the child is re turned unharmed. The kidnaper was believed to De a Dionae in ner mid 30s. "I feel that this was done bv a lonely woman . . . one who was loneiy ior a cnua and went to the most obvious dace to cet one," Marcus said. . He asked newspapers and ra dio stations to relay a message from him and his wife, Hanna, 29, that they want their baby back. "Tell her I am not vindictive. We are not angry . . I know she is someone who. loves chil dren, but we love cir children too. ' My wife is completely broken up. I had to give her a sedative . . . within our ability we will refrain from punishing her if she. will bring our baby back unharmed." Mount Zion hospital offered a $1,000 reward for information leading to recovery of the child. Planners Recommend Loading Dock Approval The planning commission late yesterday recommended to . the city council that Albers Milling company be granted a request to encroach; on Evergreen st. The company plans construction of a railroad loading dock. The commission also called for a public hearing on a request from James H. Clabby for a change of set back at the corner of ' Eighth 'and" Laurel -sts.'- The hearing will be held Oct. 3. Tentative approval was given a subdivision plat submitted by the Rogue Valley Land company. The subdivision is off Barnett rd. the fourth is that it gets the job done and does it welL Huggins declared. : Can't Duck Problems John Dellenback, the principal speaker, had as his topic "Life in a Vacuum," in which he- dis cussed the natural human desire to shun responsibility. But the problems are there and cannot be ducked successfully for long, Dellenback said. He suggested that the united fund drive is de signed to make the solution of many of the problems easier for everyone. Basically, Dellenback i n d i cated, fund drives for health, character-building, welfare and recreational agencies are simply a way which mankind lias de vised to substitute his money for his own personal efforts, and he quoted Harry Emerson Fosdick's definition of a dollar: "The dollar man's personal energy reduced to portable Storm Expected ' To Continue Path For Next 12 Hours Hurricane Warnings Along Coast Lowered Norfolk, Va. (U.R) Hurricane lone swept "well out to sea" to day and the Weather Bureau said the East Coast was out of danger barring a sudden- and 'radical change of course. A Weather Bureau advisory said lone was centered about 210 miles east of Norfolk, and head ing toward the open Atlantic at about 20 miles an hour. It said the storm is expected to continue heading east or . east northeast for the next 12 hours, a course that would "carry it well to the east and south" of Nantucket Is land, Mass. Radical Change Neded Conrad P. Mook, meteorolo gist in charge of the Emergency Warning Center in Washington, told reporters that it would take a "radical change of ' course" within the next two or three hours for lone, to present any threat whatever to the East Coast. ...... Even that theoretical threat should be erased by late after noon if the storm continues on , its present course, he said. The Weather Bureau lowered all hurricane warnings along the coast . lone had lost much of its punch before it put out to sea. Millions In Damage - But ' before swerving out to. sea during the night, it struck savagely through North Caro lina and Virginia coastal areas. leaving at least two dead and tens of millions of dollars" of damage in its wake. For anxious hours, it appear ed that the storm, which pack ed 100-mile an hour winds as it came ashore, would continue its destructive course up the East Coast. Heavily populated New York and Southern New England were elerted to stand by for a hard blow. But the anticipated worst nev er came. lone, after churning around off Norfolk most of the night, set off almost . due . east toward the wide open spaces of the Atlantic.' Morse Asks Review Of Smith Problem Washington (U.R) Sen." Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), said -yes-. terday he would ask Sen: James Murray, chairman of the Senate Committee on Interior and In sular affairs to review carefully the Smith river burn timber problem in Oregon. Morse's statement expressed concern as to whether the Bu reau of Land Management had a program for effectively salvag ing O&C timber in the Smith river dramage of the Oregon Coast range. Morse said it was his under standing that the Bureau of Land management "has spent $6,000, 000, which is over three-fourths of the access road money appro- oriated by Congress, to out a high grade timber access road system into the Smith "river burn." But Morse said he was con cerned because under area mar keting rules now in affect, the timber may be available for only one company. He proposed that the salvage timber be allowed to move to any mill that could buy it, without regard for the market area. Omaha, Neb. (U.R) Some 20 key members of the National Civil Defense . Advesory coun cil opened a two-day series of discussions today at the head quarters of the Strategic : Air Command. , , form, endowed with powers he himself does not possess, enabled to go where he cannot reach, to life burdens he cannot touch, to save lives he never knew. Others on Program - Other features of the program included music by a group of musicians led by John Drysdale and including Shirley Stafford, Myra - Frohnmayer and John Lusk: a motion picture, "You and Your United Fund," shown by Chief Petty Officer Ted Wer der of the Navy recruiting office here, and a torchlighting 'cere mony featuring Ray Konopasek of Boy Scout Troop 13. - . ' Tri-Hi-Y girls served the food, which was provided by Acme Hardware, the U.S. National and First National banks, and Mann's department store. The dinner committee ' included Ray Sorensen, Tony Manno and Ken McDonald.
