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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
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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,
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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. .
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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. . . -
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