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Technicalities in
Procedure Given as
Cause of Action
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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
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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 -
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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.
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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. '
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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.