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Newspaper Page Texte c o o TWXLVE MEDrORl(ORECON) County Treasurer Tells Resignation Reasons in Letter Following is the text of the letter of resignation submitted to the Jacksh dainty court last week tjy County Treasurer Ralph E. Sweeney: Gentfsmen: Asyou are aware, I have been 111 lor two years, now going on the third, and have been unable to give the office the attention and direction that a county treasurer should give to his po sition. I sincerely regret this conqjgt tion that has come upon me, and had hoped that I would be able to finish this term in good health and with the satisfaction of hav ing faithfully performed my du ties to the citzenry of this county. With these facts in mind, I do not ?el that it is fair and just on ttfjy part t continue holding tl Office and draw" the salary connected therewith without contributing something to the welfare of the county. (I! I therefore respectfully tender Siy resignation as county treas urer, with the hope that action may be taken at the earliest pos sible date. Since assuming the duties of this office, nineteen years ago, I have watched its volume of bus iness increase nearly eightfold, during which time many new school bond issues have been issued, as well as the formation of several water, fire, and sani tary districts, all of which have issued, or will issue, bonds soon. This has increased the clerical work, and the financial respon sibility connected tigfewith. In conclusion, the selection of a successor is highly important. It is highly desirous to select someone ..who has had years of experience in the handling of such financial details. Therefore, I would strongly urge and rec omiftend the appointment of my deputy, Mr. Karl L. Janouch, who has been with me three and a half years, and who has grown into the handling of this work as my program has called for. His appointment would be a contin uation of the fine service I have tried . to render the citizens of Jackson county. . Thanking you for your careful consideration of this matter, and thanking you for past kind nesses, I am, ' Sincerely and faithfully yours, Ralph E. Sweeney, County Treasurer. . (See story on Page 1) Blinker Lights At Camp Approaches Camp White , The Oregon State Highway commission will install a blinker light on Crater Lake highway at the approaches to the Veterans Administration domiciliary, Governor Paul Pat terson .yesterday advised Vet erans of Foregin Wars Post 4612 in a letter to Hans Sorsenson, post commander. The flight will be to "correct the verjrbad traffic situation" at the intersectionOGov. Patter son said he appreciated the post and VFW bringing to his atten tion the intersection. The Camp White post and VFW took action as a result or a recent-bus crash whim i killed orupeftsmv-arid in Two domiciliary residents have been killed in the past few years while crossing the high way at the intersection. Church Women Hear Prbblems of liidians' Leaving Trusteeship Problems involved nv freeing the Klamath Indian tribe from federal trusteeship were dis cussed here Friday by Don Fos ter, area directo2of the bureau of Iwijan affair,) j Hepoke at a meeting $ the Medford Council of Cjurch Women at the Eastwood Beptist church. A study of Indian prob lems is part of the national nd state agenda of the church women. ' . Ur&er recently enacted laws, the Klamath tribe will be free of "the trusteeship by 1958, Fos ter explained, and he outlined some of the provisions of the law through which this will be ac complished. To Obtain Appraisals.. Three management specialist have been appointed to obtain appraisals of all the tribal re sources, including some 600,000 acres' of the finest stands of pon derosa pine in the west. "The . management men then musfid viseembers of the tribe of the approximate amount each can expect under the appraisal, Fos ter explained. () Then the tribal members, to ; taling more than 2,000, will have an. opportunity whether they wish to remain in the tribe, or MAIL TRIBUNE Two Men Injured in Auto Accident; Six Other Mishaps Listed Seven automobile accidents, six of which were of a relatively minor nature, were reported to state police late Friday and early Saturday. In the most serious, tf car driven by Jeph Franklin Kremer, 20, Myrtle Creek, and carrying Raymond Lee Rhodes, 19, Riddle, as a passenger, crashed into a guard rail off the Crater Lake highway about a half-mile north of Union Creek, officers reported. The crash occurred at about 8:49 p.m. Fri day. High SjSeed The car was traveling at a high rate of speed, the report said, when the driver found himself on the wrog side of the road in the middle of a curve. He told police he 'applied the brakes and cut back toward his own lane, and the car spun around, skidded 312 feet, and Psychiatric Aid Slated for Mother ftrtland (U.FS-A 20-year-old Portland mother who abandoned two small daughters in Portland last Tuesday will receive psychi atric treatment at the state hos pital in Pendleton. w . ' Mrs. Shirley Ruppel heard that decision Friday from Dis trict Judge John F. Gantenbein when she appeared on charges of causing her children to be come dependent. Mrs. Bunnel's mother, Mrs. Levida Martin of Wallowa, will care for 2-year-old Jean Michele and -months-old Joanne Maree whil their mother is in Pendle ton. After pleading guilty to the charges in a barely audible voice, Mrs. Bunnel heard Port land psychiatrist Dr. Ivor Camp bell recommend psychiatric care. He said mental confusion appar ently had, led her to abandon her children and that he doubted if she could participate in her own defense. Judge Gantenbein postponed imposition of a sentence indefi nitely. Policemen Elect Berle Stephens Berle E. Stephens was elect ed 'president of the Medford Police Benefit Fund association at an officers meeting at the police station . Friday. Keith M. Gildesgard was elected secre tary-treasurer. Members of the board of trus tees elected for a six-month term are Frank L. Lengele, Milton L. Hanson, Robert F. James and Wallace P. Bowen. Officers are elected every six months to the association, which maintains an emergency fund for. police officers. MM Wood Working Shows $500,000 Gain Portland (U.R) M and M Wood Working company Satur day showed a gain of more than $500,000 in its first six months earnings, despite . a one-month plywood strike at M and M plants., 1 v. .President Clay Brown re ported consolidated earnings reached $1,618,113 as of Aug. 31. He said sales totals for the period were $20,712,407. to leave the tribal organization Those wishing to leave will bj paid their pro rata share of thf tribal resources in cash, but they can buy back, if they wish, a share of the physical resources. This, however, will go on the tax rolls.. Joint Owners Those remaining in the organ ization will be joint owners of the rest of the property, which will be handled throught a tribal management plan Foster also explained some re cent changes in provisions of law affecting Indians, including the fact that the state of Oregon will inothe future be responsible for the guardianship of Indians need' ing such supervision; that a pro gram of education has been set up for adult Indians, adminis tered by the state department of education; that the functions of the Indian health service have been transferred to the U.S. pub lie healthservice, which is plac ing greater stress on preventive medicine, and that Indians can avail themselves of voluntary relocation program, under which the government will give assist ance Gto those wishing to move and get started in a new area or field of endeavor, Sunday, October 2. 1955 crashed into the guard rail, which was forced entirely through the rear portion of the car. Kremer was taken to the Myrtle Creek hospital by Med ford ambulance, where he was treated for back injuries. Rhodes, who suffered less serious hurts, also was taken home by the same ambulance. Cars Collide Walter John 8 Sandquist, 45, Grants' Pass, suffered Qa knee iy- t injury at about 2:50 p.re. Friday when the car hit was driving collided with one driven by Eleanor Mae Wenbourn, 30, route 1, box 25, Rogue River, near the Foots Creek bridge, police said. Both vehicles were considerably damaged. Thirty-two children in a school bus and the driver, and drivers of two other cars, all escaped injury Friday afternoon in a minor three-vehicle collision in involving the bus, driven by Walfer Richard Bolz, 42, of 4129 Pacific Highway south. A car driven by Earl M&es Manley, 33, of 601 Plaza apartments, Medford, and a car driven by Jean Ardith Starr, 36, of 45 Mountain ave., Ashland, was cited for driving with defective brakes. Cars driven by William Earl Sellepk, 39, of 1722 West 11th st., Medford, and Ida May Bor- don, 71, of 724 King St., Med ford, collided at about 4 p.m. Friday on Highway 99 north of Medford. Little damage and no injuries resulted, police said. At about 7:14 p.m. Friday, cars driven by James Oliver Silva, 28, of Lazy L motel on Highway 62, and Arthur Benja min Cearley, 47, of 538 Fran quette st., collided at the inter section of Market an'd Biddle rds. There were no citations and no injuries listed, although police say that Roy Alvin Taylor, 37, of 404 Western ave., a passenger in the Cearley car, indicated his back may have been hurt. Early Saturday morning, a convertible driven by Myrna Rae Robertson, 17, of 436 Put nam st., Medford struck a curb and flipped over onto the traffic island at the Big Y junction north of Medford, police said. No injuries were listed. Robert L. Spencer. 36. of 294 DeBarr ave., Medford, was taken by an Ashland ambulance to Ashland General hospital for a check,- and then taken home, after the jeep he was driving rolled off a mountain road and down a hill at about 8 a.m. Sat urday, state police said. The accident occurred south of the Green Springs highway on the road to Soda Mountain. Oregon Leads in -r- Lumber Shipments Portland (U.R) Oregon coastal ports shipped more lum ber during August than all other Pacific Northwest districts com bined, the Pacific LuAber. In spection bureau said Saturday. Figures, compiled in coopera tion with the West Coast Lum bermen's association, show Ore gon coast waterborne .shipments for the month totaled 93,494,901 board feet. Columbia river, Grays harbor, Willapa harbor, Puget Sound and northern Cali fornia combined shipped 88,409,- 518 feet. The report said exceptionally heavy shipments from Coos Bay and Yaquina bay were respon sible for the coast district record. O Missing Youngster Found byNeighbor Newport (U.R) A 2V4-year-old boy who disappeared from his home on upper Ollala road near here Friday was located by a neighbor after a 40-man sear'ch ingejarty had been organized by state police and sheriff's officers. Little Michael Gibson wan dered off from his home shortly after noon. While searchers were organizing, the Gibson's neigh bor, Mr. Lewis Croston, heard an appeal for volunteers over radio station KNPT O and started a search of his own. He located the boy in a brushy area three-quarters of a mile from his home. Fifteen car-loads of volunteer searchers were turn ed back by Sheriff Jack Stare man when he heard the boy had been found.. Negligent Homicide Charged at Cathlamet Cathlamet, Wash. (U.R) Wah kiakum County Prosecutor Alf Jacobsen Friday filed a negligent homicide . information against Robert Heintz, 6, Portland, in connection with the Sept. 23 highway death of James Mc Ilvenna, 72, of Cathlamet. The elderly flagman for a Wahkiakum PUD construction crew was killed when he was struck by the Heintz car on Ocean Beach highway. A coro ner's jury recommended the neg licent homicide charge. BPA Head Reports Operating Revenue Of $52,066,482 Portland U.R) Dr. William A. Pearl, Bonneville Power ad ministrator, today, reported total operating revenues of $52,066, 482 for the fiscal year ending June 30. The figure was based on the general accounting office's annual audit of the Columbia river power system. . Total operating revenues rose 14.9 per cent from the $45,317, 693 on hand at the end of the fiscal year 1954.. The audit showed a net power income of $8,690,000, an increase of. 3.9 per cent of the 1954 in come. ; Cash receipts rre turned to the U.S. Treasury;,' from system power operations reached a total of $390,000,090 as of June 30. The repayment reduced the capi tal indebtedness of the system by 16.5 per cent and put Bonneville $67,700,000 ahead of schedule on its power payout. " . . Pearl said the Columbia Basin project, including Grand Coulee dam, also was on schedule for payout. Albeni Falls and Look out Point-Dexter projects v$re considered to be on schedule, he said, although no formal payout structure has yet been estab lished. Phoenix PhoenijP Grange At the meeting of the Phoenix Grange Sept. 27, first and second degrees were conferred on 12 candidates from Phoenix, Cen tral Point, Live Oak and Roxy Ann granges. Dee Hendrickson had charge of the degree work and songs by a ladies' quartet were greatly appreciated. During the business meeting, horticulture report was given by Dee Hendrickson and dairy by Mervin Hixon. Candidates for state officers were nominated. A vote ot appreciation was given Brother Poe for installing new coat hangers. "Secretary Edith Poe is conva lescing from major surgery at her home, and Sisters Loffer, Cox and Coster are reported ill. At the close of the meeting, Grange , members bowed in a moment of silent prayer for the welfare of our nation's leader. Refreshments were served by the Luens, Niedermeyers and Janoskys. Grange Council will meet at Phoenix October 8. ' Portrait Carved in Wood by Finn Artists Displayed in Medford A strikingly" different form of portraiture has been introduced to Medford by Miss Lizalotta Valesca, who recently moved here and is the new hostess at the Rogue Valley Country club. The portraits, executed by two Finnish artists, V. Tissari and K. Rissanen, are, delicately carved in wood and shaded by burning. Started in Trenches Tissari and Rissanerf; said to be the only artists practicing this form, learned the art during the Russian-Finnish war. Practicing in trenches during lulls in the fighting, their first portrait was of General Mannerheim.' Since that tiifte, they have done por traits of many well-known peo ple including Presidents Eisen hower and Truman, Churchill, King Gustav of Sweden Bob Hope and other screen andnter tainment personalities. The artists work from photo graphs, first taking three sec Value of County Minerals for 1954 Estimated at $2,918,987 The alue of minerals produc ed in Jackson county during 1954 has been estimated at $2, 918,987, "according to the current issue of the Ore.-Bin, publication of . the Oregon department of ge.rJrs gu snowT The The production included ce ment, stone, sand and gravel, quartz, carbon dioMde, gold, Miss Oregon Plans College Education Portland (U.R) Miss Oregon, Dorothy Mae Johnson, of Beaver ton, said Sunday she will use the $3,000 scholarship money she won for taking second place in the recent Miss America contest for a varied college career. The Oregon beauty said she will enroll this month in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York for a year's work. She then will take some summer courses at University of Hawaii and a year from now enroll at UCLA to continue her college education. Trend Here Tov&rd Bigger, Fewer Farms , 1954 Census Figures Show A trend toward larger and fewer farms in Jackson county is shown by a preliminary re port on the census of agriculture for 1954, issued by the U.S. De partment of Commerce. The report shows a decrease in the number' of farms in the county from 2,778 in 1950 to 2,647 in 1954, while the total amount of land area in farms rose from 386,089 acres to 472, 739 acres during the same period of time. , Size Up : The average size of farms in- p creased from 139 acres in 1950 to 178.6 acres in 1954. Much of this increase has been due to the number of farms over 500 acres, which has gone from 132 in 1850 to 162 in 1954. There has also been a slight increase in the number of farms under 10 acres, but all other size clas sification have- declined. The report indicates an in crease in pasture land a decrease in cropland during the past five years. Pasture land has increas ed almost 100,000 acres while cropland has d&reased about 4,000 acres. Land under irriga tion has increased from 49,346 Seven Men Enlist 9 In U. S. Navy Here Six men . from Medford 'and one from Jacksonville were en listed in the U.S. Navy recently through the Medford recruiting station, according to local re cruiters. Those enlisting from Medford were Harold Edward Ashton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Een A. Ash ton, 624 Benson st.; Jerald Dee man Couch, son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin" W. Couch, 908 Beek nian st.; Leslie Gene Gleason. son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie W. Gleason, 2345 Finley lane; Ken neth Devone Hendrickson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph L. Hen drickson, 406 Beatty st.; Carl Randall Orgain, son of Mrs. Stewart Forbes, 40 "North Peach st., and Robert Gene Seguin, brother of Mrs. Esther Hurst, 1125 West 10th st. Enlisting from Jacksonville was Richard Alvin White, son' of Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. White, 102 Fifth st. ' All seven men are receiving nine weeks of basic training at the Naval Training center, San Diego, Calif. tions of alder wood, called "clo bal," which are glued together to prevent warping in the finished portrait. The image is carved deeply into the wood and the finishing tones and shadows are achieved by scorching the wood with a -torch. Examples of Tissari and Ris- sanen's art have been displayed at various art shows in this country, including one in Los Angeles and the Art of Celebri ties Gallery during the Laguna Beach Festival of Art last year, According to Miss Valesca, who is the only representative of the artists in this country, por traits of this type are obtained by sending a photograph to the artists in Finland. The finished wood carying," an exact duplicate of the photo, will be returned in about two months. Miss Valegca, who is staying at the Medford hotel, has samples of the work wnich she will dis play for those interested. chromite gnd mercury, the pub lication said. o Among Top Counties The total valuation of Jackson county production placed it as one of the highest mineral-pro- only county ranking above Jack son was Clackamas, with a value of $5,300,456, mostly in non metallics such as cement, sand and gravel, stone, clay and coaL Baker, another top-producing county, was given no production figure; Douglas county (where the new nickel plant is now in operation) had a production val Announcing the Opening NEW OFFICES OF - LOU L. MARTIN Public Accountant at 520 East Main St. (Formerly. Located at 1030 Court St.) acres in wiv 10 oa.of acres in 1954. Utilities Increase Almost half the farms in Jack son county had television sets in 1954; 1,863 had telephones as opposed to 1,361 in 1950; and the number of farms having electricity has increased from 2,417 to 2,494. Horses and mules seems to be definitely on the way out in the county. Tneir number has decreased from 2, 665 in .1950 to 1,756 in 1954. Tractors, on the other hand, show an increase from 1,836 to 2,510. In the pear industry, the re port shows a trend toward more bartletts and fewer of other var ieties. The number of barlett trees has (icreased from 257, 203 in 1950 to 281,194 in 1954, with nearly 25,000 of that num ber being trees not yet of bear ing age. Other varieties decreas ed from 414,945 to 389,034 trees, with only 7,790 trees not yet of bearing age. -'54 Harvest Down O The amount of pears harvest ed in 1954, a year of heavy frost, was substantially less than than in 1950. Among other varietiesnpf fruit JACKSONVILLE New Teachers i. Jacksonville Among new high school teachers this year at Jacksonville are Miss Abby Stur tevant, commercial typing, short hand and office practice. Miss Sturtevant makes her home in the Rogue valley and taught here ,ix or sevn years, ago, and at Myrtle Point last year. Miss Gwynn Morgan is a new teacher in the home economics depart ment. She is from Oelwein, la. The new grade school teachers are Mrs. Georgia Ross, Ashland, who teaches the seventh grade; Mrs. Ida McArthur, Phoenix, fourth, grade teacher; Miss Eliz abeth White, Medford,. third grade; and Dee Cox, Talent, di rector of elementary athletics. Miss Sydney Sutherland, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Sutherland, recently entered Lewis and Clark college, Port land, with a scholarship award ed last year by the Elk Lumber company.. The scholarship was one of ten of $300 each: According to Mrs. Ted Hew lett, new librarian at the Jack sonville library, the hours are from 2 to 5 p.m. on Monday and Thursday. She also stated that she is expecting approximately 50 circulating . books from the Medford library within the next two weeks, both fiction and non fiction. One new children's book, 'Kit Carson,' has been added and a new biography of Mamie Doud Eisenhower. . Mack Griffin is home recov ering from a recent operation. Guests -last week end at the home of Mrs. Pearl Kitchen were her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. B. T. Bronaugh, Riv iera, Calif. Mrs. Kitchen also reported her daughter, Mrs. Elise McCutcheon, Tiller, Ore., has a new baby . garl namjjd . Marilyn Kay, born Sept. 21. Miss Terry Ann Carter, Mrs. . Kitchen's granddaughter, is spending this week with her. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Christean are in Galice, Ore., this week where Christean is engaged in a logging operation. Out of town relatives visiting at the D. E. Serry home recently were the Serrys daughters and families, Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Lee and son Danny, La Grande, Ore., and Mr. and Mrs. Roger Keener, El Monte, Calif. Mrs. John Hatch, Hot Springs, S. D., Mrs. Serry's sister, has been vis iting her a month. Serry and his son-in-law, Roger Keener, re turned this week after a luckless bear and prospecting trip into Northern California. : Mrs. . Robert Stewart and uation of $2,050,535, and Lane county had a total of $2,302,427, most of it in sand, gravel and stone. Total $32,223,000 Mineral production from the state as a whole was valued at $32,223,000 for 1954. Ranking highest in value were sand and gravel products, stone was sec ond, followed by chromite, clay, gold and mercury. , Other minerals produced in the state included coal, copper, lead, nickel, pumice, silver, carb on dioxide, cement, diatomite, gemstones, quartz and tungsten concentrates. and nuts in the county, filberts and sour cherries have increased, while all other varieties listed have decreased. Filberts and hazelnuts show an increase of more than 7,000 trees. The census shows a decided increase in dairy production in Jackson county. The total num ber of cattle and calves increas ed 14,976 between 1950 and 1954. The amount of whole milk sold increased 11,800,215 pounds, while the amount of butterfat sold decreased more than 19, 000 pounds.. Total income from whole milk and butterfat during 1954 was $2,103,638. The only other farm animals that increased in number dur ing the five year period were sheep and goats. The number of chickens was about the same in 1954 as in 1950, but the number of chickens sold last year was substantially more than in 1950, which would 1 indicate ' an in crease in the number of chickens produced for meat. 2,183 farmers in Jackson coun ty own farms; 2,504 reside on the farm they operateand only 148 farms are operate by ten ants. Listed daughter Sherry, Garland, Tex., left Wednesday after a two weeks visit at the home of her sister, Mrs. M. D. Schmidt. Mrs Stewart was also here to attend the funeral services of her fath er, Alexander Reed, Jackson ville, who recently passed away. Hyrum A. Berntson came home from the hospital Thurs day, recovering from a badly in jured left hand which he caught in machinery while working in his home work shop last week. The bone in his thumb was broken but is knitting nicely. Mrs.. Ida Wright is recovering this week at her home from the flu. The Region 5 Student Council conference is to be held at Reeds port Oct. 3. Jacksonville is send ing four students as representa tives, including Miss -Romelle Fossen, Miss Nancy Nieder- meyer, Larry Peterson and George Perreard. Thev will be accompanied by Superintendent of Schools Clyde Sutherland. The students will attend group discussions on Student Council problems and report on the con ference to the student body here at some future assembly. The annual and newspaper staffs vrtll attend a High School Press conference at the Univer sity of Oregon campus at Eu gene on Oct. 7 and 8. ' M , sW. sf ' fc ' ' Medical Society Elects Portlander Portland (U.R) Dr. Russell H. Kaufman of Portland was named president-elect of the Ore gon' State Medical society at its 81st annual convention here Fri day. - ' , . Dr.' Kaufman, currently head of the Multnomah County Medi cal society, will take office in October, 1956, succeeding Dr. E. G. Chuinard, Portland ortho pedist. Dr. Chuinard took office Friday, replacing Dr. A. O. Pit-r man of Hillsboro, who was named delegate to the American Medical association for a two- year term. Named first, second and third vice - presidents, respectively, were Drs. W. T. Pollard of Junc tion City, C. L. Gilstrap of La Grande and A. B. Blanchat, of Lebanon. - . 'XGT'IjIH- UiftHI' MAT;) Ul APPROVED Cavalier tapered cone construe1 tion circulates Vi more heated : air up through heating element ; than any other radiant convec tor type heater on the rfifcrket.; AVAILABLE IN 2, 3 or 4 KW - , . SIZES. Big enough to heat, largo rooms or offices. ( EASY TO CLEAN IN FIVE '- . 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