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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 27, 1955)
o r . ,,., ., ,,..,. ., ,,. ...... ,lf ; : , ' - , , . t I I - - ' - - ',-,'.':. ' .,..' log Four 6 Mi fef Talk r at SdMU ; a ? o P2 1J mH Ulrr li rnrr chard to THE two Sys the rough seas County Court Announces PJans iFor Seven Parks Along River Plans for development of sev en recreational parks along the Rogue river in Jackson county by the Oregon State Game com mission were announced today by members of the county court The- parks, which will have picnic and boating facilities, will be developed through use of game commission funds and maintained by the county Shady Cot Area Tracts The game commission has ob tained options to buy, or ease ment over three tracts of land in the Shady Cove area. An op tion to purchase a tract of land Immediately below Shady Cove baidge for boat access develop ment, and an option on a 10-acre tract four miles "below Shady Qpve for boat access and bank angling, has been obtained by the commission. Right of way to a tract of public domain one mile upstream from Shady Cove has also been obtained. In addition, several sites have been investigated for develop ment possibilities including Lau relhurst Park, immediately be low Peyton bridge; McLeod State park; a parcel of O and C land below Lost creek; and a parcel of public domain one mile above Shady Cove. Statement of Policy Members of the county court signed a statement of policy to day regarding purchase of recre ational lands in Jackson county by the game commission.. The statement agrees that the county would maintain such 50C Registration Hits Record 815 Ashland Fall registration tota at Southern Oregon col lege have reached an all-time high of 815, it was announced to day by Mrs. Mable W. Winston, registrar. Of the 815 registered and at tending classes,- there are 509 men and 306 women, an increase of 28 per cent for the men, and slightly less than 1 per cent for the women compared with last year's figures. The overall increase from 1954-1955 is 16 per cent. The previous top total enrollment for SOC, not counting students auditing classes, was 757 in 1950, when the number of students at tending college under the ."GI Bill of Rights" was large. Freshmen totals are up 19 per cent over 1954, and the total in crease of new students is about ' 18 per cent. The ,combind total of freshmen aria other students Ofi?w to the campus is 275. Veteran enrollment shows an increase of 13 per cent over last year, with 184 currently enrolled. Portland (U.R) Testimony In the trial of Sherry Fong, 24, on first degree murder charges will begin next Tuesday. A jury of five men. and seven women was sworn in yesterday to hear the case resulting from the 1954 death of Diane Hank, a 16-year-old Portland high school girl. Iceland Author, American Critic, Wins Nobel Prize Stockholm (U.R) Author Halldor Kiljan Laxness of Ice land, a onetime monk known for cis anti-American views, to day won the 1955 Nobel prize for literature. The 18 -member Swedish Academy awarded him the tax free cash award of $36,720 and the plaque that goes with it for his sentitive novels of the little man in the cold mountain waste lands of Iceland. , The 53-year-old Laxness is a winner of the Stalin prize, and this fact was believed to have weighed against him during the eight years he was considered for the Nobel award. Laxness, born Halldor Gund jonsson, lived for three years in the United States but left in 1930 after a public clamor RESCUE Lifeboat from U. S.' Coast Guard cutter Casco with mainsail missing and ib torn. lands and, where they are ad jacent to county road, maintain the access roads to them. The statement requires that the re creational parks must enhance natural recreational features; be compatible with the general over-all recreational plans and policy of the county, and that the board of county commission ers must be consulted to estab lish the feasibility and responsi-. Generation off Power Said Actual! Issue . - Oregon's actual power issue is power is provided. "We seem to generation of adequate hydroel ectric power to meet the state's needs rather than a political ar gument of public versus private power, Congressmen Harris Ells worth, (R-Ore.), brought out yes terday in a talk to Medford Ki- wanis club members.- . Ellsworth, representative from the state's fourth district, gave a brief report on the last session of Congress. He mentioned in particular the highway bill and the Talent division reclamation project and ..spokeof timber, power and transportation' mat ters in Oregon in which the gov ernment will need to help in the next few years. . The congressman expressed re gret that power has become a political issue. Pointing to Ore gon's growing need for power, Ellsworth took the position that "in my book it makes no differ ence", as to whether it "is public or private. Migration To Continue Without power the state will run into stagnation of economy, Ellsworth declared. He brought out that westward migration will continue regardless of whether County Pear Harvest Completed for Year The pear harvest in Jackson county has been completed for 1955, according to C. B. Cordy, county horticultural extension agent. Activity in the packing houses, which were recently filled with workers, is limited 1 to taking care of stored fruit and prepar ing' gift packages. . A ' few apples remain to be picked in the county, Cordy Armory Progress Report Postponed A report on progress of Med ford's new armory, which was scheduled for tomorrow noon at Rogue Valley Country duo, has been postponed because of insufficient information at this time. Col. Paul L. Kliever, director of armories of. the state adju tant general's office at Salem, will give the report at a later date. against him. . Laxness, who terms himself an "idealistic socialist," has pub licly deplored the North At lantic Treaty Organization which includes Iceland. Favorite of Communists He has said he is without par ticular leanings toward Russia, but has been a favorite in the Communist literary world. Many of his earlier writings attacked life in the United States. Runnerupto Laxness was be lieved to have been French poet St. John Perse, Icelandic moral ist Gunnar Gunnarsson, and exiled Greek novelist Nikos Kazantzakis. Laxness wrote eight novels, but only one, "Independent Peo ple," was published in the Unit ed States. bility of county participation in the projects. The Rogue river is the only stream in Jackson county how being considered for develop ment of recreational parks. A cooperative agreement be tween the county and the game commission will, be necessary before any expenditure of funds for purchase of the recreational areas. be reaching a stalemate basis,' he said. Speaking of those "on the opposite side" who charge that private power is a ' "give away," the congressman assert ed, "that policy is not going to meet the demand." On timber, Ellsworth said that the state is facing a time when all available timber will be own ed by the federal government. On the boxcar shortage he stated that it should not be a matter that Congress should have to act on. However, he mentioned the need to appropriate the Inter state Commerce Commission money for more "policemen." . Ellsworth reported that get ting the Talent project as a budg et .item next year is hopeful. The speaker termed "just nonsense" charges that the administration and bureau of the budget were playing politics in not getting Talent on the budget at first this year. He reported that incom plete and partly inaccurate pap ers on the project had gone to the bureau. ' Getting appropriations for projects is not just a "push over," according to the legislator, who spoke of the increasing resistance-to power and reclamation proposals. Predicts Highway Bill It is reasonable to predict that the next session of congress will pass a compromise highway pro gram bill, Ellsworth reported. He blamed a "two-headed sys tem" in our present government for failure of a federal highway bill to pass in the last session. The Democratic Congress took to rewriting the bill presented by the Republican administra tion and, when the bill came, no one liked it, the Congressman stated. Three lessons were learned in connection with the highway legislation, Ellsworth said: There is need for a rapidly accelerated program, the people were disap pointed with congressional ac tion and it is not practical to tear legislation completely to pieces. i Ellsworth debunked the idea that a member of congress is a great, . important, magnificent figure." "He is one of you," the Congressman said. No one man is a super hero when it comes to making up the iaws in the Unit ed States," Ellsworth declared. Congress is made up of 531 per sons and things are not accomp lished by any one individual,, he stressed. The Kiwanis luncheon was at Rogue' Valley County club. ; Tours Project Area Ellsworth made a tour of the terrain of the Talent project Tuesday afternoon following a talk before the Ashland Cham ber of Commerce. At the lunch eon meeting, the congressman expressed optimism that a sub stantial construction appropria tion for the Talent project will be obtained at the next session of Congress. ' . ' Ellsworth will discuss the last session of Congress and legisla tion facing the next session at a noon luncheon for the Jackson county Young Republican club at the Medford hotel tomorrow. A question and answer period will follow the discussion. Club officials have invited those under 40 interested in pol itics to -attend the meeting. Medforl United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year 30 Pages Eisenhower Works On State of Union Message Draft President Shaves Self for First Time Denver (U.R) President Eisenhower spent 45 minutes to day working on a preliminary draft of his State r of the Union Message in which he will lay down administrative policy and legislative recommendations to a Democratic-controlled Con gress in early January. The President today also shaved himself with a safety razor for the first time since he suffered a coronary ' thrombosis Sept. 24. He took several steps unassisted in his hospital room, between his bed, an easy chair and, for the first time, a straight backed chair. '.'.... The Denver White House also announced that Mr. Eisenhower would not request the U.S. Tariff Commission to impose an im port quota on tung oil during the marketing year beginning Nov. 1. Continues to Recover Medical bulletins from the President's eighth floor room at Fitzsimons Army Hospital con tinued to report progress with out complications. Sherman Adams, the assistant to the President, also sat in on the 45-minute conference, the longest business session Mr. Ei senhower has had since he enter- the hospital. , -: ' ' - Press Secretary Jamas.. C. Hagerty. explained' at h a t the meeting on the S t a t e of the Union Message today : was "a preliminary, discussion of topics," plus an early discussion of legislative recommendations. Numerous other conferecenes on this message will be necessary. Medford School District Census Gets Under Way The annual school , census, is now under way in District 49, which includes the Medford pub lic schools, it was announced today by district officials. The District 49 census is being taken, by eight enumerators working in six sections of the district. The census clerk is Mrs. Bernice Kunzman, who has serv ed in this capacity for the past 30 years. , The census includes young people in the 4 through 19 age group. All in this group, includ ing ' those who are married, in the armed forces, or in college; must be enumerated if their legal residence is within the school district. State law requires that the census be taken. The enumera tion also is being conducted in all Jackson county school dis tricts. Information obtained in the census is used as a basis for distribution of school support funds, and also provides as a check on school attendance. Early returns indicate a size able increase in the number of people in the 4 through 19 age group residing within District 49. School officials have request ed that householders cooperate with enumerators in providing required information. The census takers include Mrs. Minnie Bryant, who has aided with the census for some 25 years; Mrs. Ethel Cope, Mrs. Helen Fagone, Mrs. Jessie 'How ard. Mrs. Eleanor Halsey, Mrs. Ruth Parsons, Mrs. Joy Soren sen, and Mrs. Blanche Powell. Salem (U.R) William J. Stnhl of Washington, D.C., as sistant chief of the division of co-operative forest protection, visited with Oregon State For ester Dwight Phipps this week. Weather FORECAST: Increasing hirh cloudiness tonight. Cloudy and occasional rain Friday. Continued cool. Low tonight 38. High Friday 60. Temp. Highest Yesterdav 54 Lowest this Morning 32 Pree. to 4:30 t.m. Today, Trace. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1955 Fwfleir T Move Alternative To Deleting Boost In Assessments First Statements Placed in Mail Jackson County Assessor Rob ert G. Fowler said this morning he will file an answer to the Oregon Supreme Court's writ of mandamus, rather than comply with an alternative offered him in the legal action. His announcement is the latest step in a dispute which arose last spring involving the State Tax Commission, a number of Jackson county orchardists, and the assessor. Two Alternatives - Yesterday he was ordered by the court to do one of two.things, The first was to delete recent increases in orchard tree assess ments from the assessment roll, to recompute the county millage, and to deliver the assessment roll to the sheriff for-collection. The other was to show cause why he, .had. not, done so. His deadline " was next Monday, Oct. 31. He said today he is taking the second alternative. Fowler said this morning that parts of the assessment roll were delivered to the sheriff yester day afternoon, and that the first tax statements are being mailed. It will take about two days to complete the mailing, it was in dicated. ' Fowler has been advised by the tax commission to turn the assessment roll over to the sher iff for collection. Alfred B. Thomas, an assistant attorney general assigned to the tax com mission, said that normal proce dures of assessment and collec tion of taxes must continue until the court declares othewise. Work With DA . Thomas, who is in town today, said the law section of the com mission will work with the Jackson county district attorney in preparing Fowler's defense in the Supreme Court action. He said an answer to the "show cause" order will be filed by the Monday deadline. It will show, why Fowler does, not have to comply with the alternatives presented, Thomas said. ' . ' After the answer is filed, it is presumed the Supreme Court will offer time for the orchards attorneys, the firm of Neff, Frohnmayer and Lowry, to pre pare future pleadings. - After this, it is thought, a hearing will be called by the court. The 190 or so corrections to the assessment roll, ordered by the tax commission as the re sult of recent hearings, have all been made according to Thomas, and the' roll now includes the original increases ordered by the commission, as corrected this week. The dispute between the orch ard men of the county and the tax commission'- began last spring, when the commission said that commercial orchard trees here were not listed on tax assessment . rolls, and ordered that they should be included. 30.000 Statements The tax. statements 30,000 of them are being processed for mailing in the office of the coun ty court. The statements must be sorted according to town and put through a machine that seals and stamps the envelopes. The cost of mailing the state ments will be about $900. It is exDected that all of them will be in the mail by Saturday after noon. Members of the tax depart ment have asked that people wait until their tax statement has actually been received be fore going to the office to pay taxes. . ' ! Salem (U.R) Supervisors of state institutions will hold a two-day conference in the state capitol Nov. 3-4, ATT i JlMRmUNE to rrrnr f 0 WIN FIRST PLACE A judging team from Crater High school's Future Farmers of America chapter took first place in the recent Pacific International . Livestock show ' in Portland. The team, which scored 1,657 out of a possible 1,800 points, defeated more than 50 other judging groups from all parts of the northwest. Oakdale, Wash., was second with 1,627 points. The boys judged beef, sheep and swine breeding and fat stocks" Shown above, top row, from left to right, are Leonard Kunzman, chapter adviser and instructor of vacation agriculture at Crater High school; Paul Lof land, a member of the team; Ralph Simon, an alternate; Morton Gossott, - team member, and -tWblter Holt,- Pacific . International secretary. ' Kneeling, in front, is Gunman Asks Hearing On Murde r o f Deputy In Corvallis Spree Corvallis (U.R) Martin Reyes, 23-year-old gunman, ap peared in District Court today with his court-appointed attor ney and asked for a preliminary hearing on the first degree mur der charge lodged against him. Reyes is accused of inflicting fatal wounds on James Appel- gate, 39-year-old Corvallis re- Hedrick To Receive Honors at Eugene E. H. Hedrick. 503 South Oak- dale ave., will be the guest of honor this evening . at Eugene during a dinner program being held in connction with the -an nual fall conference of the Ore gon Association of District Sup erintendents. . Hedrick retired this year after 3C years as super intendent of the Medford city schools. . ' The conference is being held in Erb Memorial building on the University of Oregon campus. Hedrick. who also served as superintendent at Heppner and Central Point, and principal at Monmouth, planned to leave, this morning for the conference. He was to be accompanied by Mrs. Hedrick. Leonard Mayfield, Medford superintendent of schools, will represent the superintendents as sociation at the dinner program. Mayfield also will take part in a school building discussion. The conference, which opened a'. 9 p.m. today, will be con cerned with findings of the gov ernor's conference on education. R. E. Jewell, Bend superintend ent of ' schools, will preside at the business session." ' More Snovv Fas At Crater Lake Two inches of new snow fell at Crater Lake during the past 24 hours, giving a total of three inches on the ground, according to park headquarters here today. Spots of ice. were reported on the south ana west roaas to the rim. The Rim rd. and the north and east entrances remain closed, park officials said. Temperatures at the lake in the past 24 hours ranged from minimum of 16 above . to a maximum of 29 above at 8:20 a.m. today, headquarters offi cials reported. . United Press Full Leased Wire Price 5c - No. 186 Foil Norman Barnes, team member, serve deputy sheriff, while in flight from Eugene where he broke out Of the Lane county jail. Reyes appeared in court today under heavy guard and still wearing the arm bandage covering the gunshot wound he si ffered in te battle with Ap pelgate and a Corvallis police officer. , Date for the preliminary hear ing was set for Nov.- 9 at the re quest of District Attorney Sid ney B. Lewis Jr. . Appearing for Reyes was John Fenner, Corval lis . attorney appointed by tthe court to defend Beyes.' Reyes is being held without bail on the murder charge. .-. '," :-y When Reyes appeared in court yesterday he was wearing clean corduroy trousers given him'; by police. He also received a comb after, complaining that his hair appeared wild and messy in pic tures taken by hotograhers after hir. capture. ) The young terrorist was taken without a struggle by Police Chief Edward C Leum of Mon mouth after Appelgate was shot at a Corvallis service station: . Meanwhile, his escape com panion was returned to Eugene to face auto theft charges which originally brought about arrest of the pair. Authorities here said today the companion, known as Jose Mitchell De Mesa, had been identified as Clifford (Sonny) Shadd. Bus Driver Tells of Seeing Wolf, Woman on Rural Road McMinnville (U.R) A school bus driver from Ridgefield, Wash;, testified at the murder trial - of Marjorie- Smith today that he saw Victor Laurence Wolf and a woman parked on a county road last March. The driver, Fred Fritz, was one of several witnesses called by the state to back statements of Wolf, who has implicated the pretty, 34-year-old widow in the dynamite-bomb slaying of her attorney husband last spring. Didn't Get Good Look ' Fritz said he slowed his school bus to see if the car was in trouble, but that he did not get a close look at the woman. Wolf has stated he and Mrs. Smith parked - along the road . near Ridgefield while testing the dy namite hook-up, . . The courtroom her agaia was West Ready To Challenge Russia With Peace Plan Dulles Set To Take Initiative Geneva (U.R) The Big Four foreign ministers met today for m "acid test" conference, with the West geared to offer Russia a challenging peace package in return for a united Germany. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was set to take the initia tive for the Western Big Three. But it was feared Soviet For eign Minister V. M. Molotov would try to stall and block the west's move. Dulles, Molotov, British For eign Secretary Harold Macmillan and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay met in the Palace of Nations in the first of a series of sessions designed to keep the world on the road to peace against a background of threat ened war. in the Middle East New Troubles The question of European se curity and German unity was the first item on the conference agenda. But the Middle East and a new crisis in France added ' possible new trouble to the dis- cussion. Israeli Premier Moshe Sharett' arrived here from Paris to Dress hir demands for Westen guaran tees of his nation's fontiers and to ask for arms to match the Communist supply of weapons to Egypt. . . j. ' y "Israel will fight again if' she must," he said, in emphasizing the urgency , of his stand. ; Meanwhile, Pinay disclosed that he will fly back to Paris tomorrow to await the outcome ot a vote of confidence test in. tht. French National Assembly. Its result will determine whether he returns to Geneva with, new power , to negotiate . for France,, or merely as an observer with out authority. , -West Has Program 1 r The West planned to.' move first and 'fast. Its views were contained in a nine-page docu ment drawn up beforehand and backed fully by the entire North Atlantic Alliance membership. i The package plan called for: .' 1. The reunification of Ger many by-free elections, a goal the West has sought through all the years of cold war. 2. An offer to Russia, in re turn, of solemn non-aggressit 1 guarantees, as a means of calm ing any legitimate Soviet fears fo security. - It was up to Dulles to sell the program at the outset.. But Western diplomats frankly were dcubtful that Molotov would go along with the plan. They fear ed he would tie un the confer ence in procedural wrangles and cause it to end in "the same old deadlock - but perhaps with a politer ending than in the past. so that further talks still wtuld he possible. ; Forest Patrol Resumes Five-Day Schedule ! Medford headquarters of the state forest patrol has returned to a five days per week, eight hours per day office schedule. District, Warden Ted Maul said this moming. The office had been operating on a 24-hour basis since last May. Maul warned, however, that the fire season has not been lifted and that burning permits are still required. They can be obtained through regular office hours. The office opens at 8 a.m. and closes at 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. packed today. ...... i Wolf, 45, completed 1V4 days on the witness stand yesterday and showed no sign of cracking despite intense - cross-examination by Defense Attorney Bruce Spaulding. Wolf, who has ad mitted planting a dynamite bomb in Oliver Kermit Smith's car, said he did so at the beckoning of Mrs. Smith. . ; Maybe a tittle Jealous' i Wolf said he might have been a "little jealous" of Smith. But he denied enjoying the spotlight of public attention which has. come to him through his testi mony, as charged by Spaulding. Wolf also denied having made any arrangement with authori ties whereby his punishment for murder would be less if he were able to bring in Mrs. Smith in the slaying. . . - i i .. f V if n, If ' '' ! ! : i It
