Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 10, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTimber T En Lane Draws"! Eugene U.R) Lumbermen I watched with alarm and other counties with interest today a move by Lane county to add to the real property tax rolls tim ber purchased from federal and state agencies in the first six months of 1955. Winfred W. Smith, Lane coun tv tax assessor, said the assess ments were being made under an amended 1953 statute. Lane rnuntv Is the only county to take such action. Lumbermen said that if the action stood unchallenged it would mean a new tax burden ' running into hundreds of thous ands of dollars ner year, indus try spokesmen indicated that if necessary they would carry the dispute to tne state supreme court. Assessment Notices Sent . Smith said notices of assess ment on' some $15,000,000 worth of timber under the "omitted property" clause of the tax law had been sent 36 buyers of O&U -timber. About 130 others were Uieing readied for mailing. They involve U.S. Forest Service and state sales. Thirty buyers of O&C-timber have appeared at tax hearings to protest , It was estimated that Smith's decision to assess the timber could mean extra tax expense of $311,508 for the 166 buyers for one year on Jimber which . before has been considered prop erty of the U.S. until harvested and paid for by the operator. Amended Law Cited Smith cited an amended 1953 law which he believes requires him to assess the timber at 25 per cent of the sales contract price as soon as it becomes eligi ble for assessment. He claims the title to timber changes hands to a taxable private party from an exempt public agency on date of contract award. "I must en force the law as it is written," he said. . Smith said he had not receiv ed a requested opinion from the Detention Home Site May Hit Snag A possibIe"shag in plans to locate the new county juvenile detention home in the fair grounds area arose today. . It was pointed out that one of several . alternate proposed routes for a state freeway passes near or through the site, which is located behind the present fairgrounds. The county court has- written the state highway commission asking if a definite answer can be given to. the question of where the freeway is to be locat ed. Alternative routes proposed are east or west of the city, one along Bear creek and " another down Hawthorne and Cottage streets. Both of the latter routes would go through the area, pro posed for the home. A deed for the area, to transfer it from city to county - ownership, is being prepared. The highway commission has Indicated hearings on proposed freeway locations will be held in' Medford early in March. . The court has investigated a score of possible sites for the detention home, which was ap proved by the voters several years ago, but has rejected all but the fairgrounds site for vari ous reasons. Weather FORECAST: Variable high cloudiness tonight and Satur day. Ldw tonight 24. High Saturday 55. ' - ' Temp. Highest Yesterday 56 Lowest this Morning 24 3 Red Cross Flood Rehabilitation Here May Total $103,086, Officials Indicate Red Cross flood hehabilitation expenses in Jackson and Jose phine counties are expected to total $103,086.36 when all ap plications for aid are completed, according to Miss Josephine Mc Namara, Red Cross disaster wrker who has been in charge of rehabilitation work. She made the report Thursday at the regular meeting of the board of directors of the Jack son County Red Cross chapter. A total of 108 families and small ' businesses in Jackson county had received $54,914.36 as of Wednesday, she said,, and assistance in Josephine county totalled $28,171.95. Four Red Cross case workers who have assisted with work here will leave Saturday for Yuba City, Calif., for more flood ' rehabilitation, and Miss McNa mara plans to return south Tues day. Explaioiafi types of assistaaee axati iy oun nterest State Tax commission He said that under the "omit ted property" clause sales for the first six months of 1955 fell within the ad valorem tax realm on Jan. 1. After that date he started the assessment. Figures for the final six months are be ing compiled, he said. Only tim ber not harvested up to Jan. 1 would be- assessed, Smith said. Lower Offers Seen A spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management said that if the assessment is upheld it might "inhibit the bidding and purchasing policies of the indus try." This could result in lower offers for stumpage since the buyer would be assuming more tax burden. Lumbermen claim that sales contracts were merely licenses or permits to enter federal lands for cutting and that title to tim ber does not change until it is harvested and paid for. Arrest Five Youths In Connection With Liquor Theft Here Four . Medford and Central Point youths were arrested Thursday and another today by city police on a charge of steal ing more than two cases of whisky, most of which, they told officers, was consumed at parties held in a vacant house in Central Point. s , Four of the youths signed statements admitting the bur glary of the American Legion Hall, 531 South Riverside ave., on Nov. 20, 1955. Two full cases of whisky, three bottles of whisky and a bottle of cham pagne were stolen. One of the boys was 15, another 16 and three 17 years old. ' The boys told police they went down the alley behind the build ing, and while some of them acted as "lookouts," the others removed a screen from a back window and took the liquor. One of the boys had seen the cases of whisky stored - in the legion hall when he was attend ing a church service in the build ing, they told police. Use Vacant House According to the signed state ments, they took the liquor to a yacant house in Central Point, owned by the mother of one of the boys, and hid it in the attic. . Other youngsters were having a party and dancing in the house at that time, and they took five bottles of the whisky and joined the party. ' The boys told police that they had frequent parties at the va cant house arid that most of the liquor was consumed at these gatherings. Several bottles were stolen from them, they said, by other youths ,who had learned where the whisky was hidden. : All five youths are now being held in Jackson county jail. They will be turned over to juvenile authorities. Contract for Hopkins Canal Work Awarded The E-W Construction ' com pany, Eugene, has been awarded a contract for construction of 900 lineal feet of 42-inch siphon in the Hopkins Canal rehabilita tion program, the local Bureau of Reclamation office said today. The company had the low bid of $49,698 for the project. Seven bids were opened Jan. 19. Con struction is expected to start in the near future. The work involves replace ment of the existing Antelope and ' Bear creek wood stave flumes with concrete cylindrical Pipe. , - - - ,' . -;. given locally, Miss McNamara said, family assistance had been chiefly in the - form of food, clothing, furniture and home re pairs. Farmers have obtained maintenance, expenses, fencing and feed for livestock. Three motels, one barber,' a cafe and gas station received assistance. One case required medical aid through Red Cross, she reported, and one death1 was flood-aggravated.. Only one residence in need of complete replacement appeared on applications, she said, and jthat family received aid through payment of the mortgage on the destroyed home and financial help with . the down-payment on another resi dence. , . . Averaged $2,500 An average of $2,500 help was received by each family seeking aid. Miss McNamara . stressed that aid frpm Red Cross is in the fftcm. of "gifts, presented with,; 1 f IViEBFQI United Press Full Leased Wire 50th Year Hood River Man To Oppose Morse On Primary Ballot Three Mentioned for Norblad's House Seat Portland (U.P.) Seri. Wayne Morse picked up his first op ponent for the Democratic nom ination for U. S. senator today while three prominent names were mentioned as possible can didates for the Congressional seat to be vacated by Rep. Walter Norblad. Woody Smith, Hood River Democrat, filed at Salem to op pose Morse in the primary. Cir cuit Judge Donald Long of Port land,' who had considered ' op posing Morse, said he has "just about definitely decided not to be a candidate." Newbry Possible Candidate Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry, Dr. Frank Fowler of Astoria and Eugene Marsh of McMinnville were considered possible candidates for Norblad's seat. Newbry and Dr. Fowler said they were "seriously con sidering" filing their candida cies. Marsh indicated his politi cal plans were indefinite. Norblad announced earlier this week he would seek the GOP nomination for governor. Jason Lee, Salem attorney, is the only announced Democratic candidate for the first district Congressional seat. Seeks Senate Presidency State Sen. Warren A. McMini mee of Tillamook announced he would be a candidate for presi dent of the state Senate in 1957, assuring a contest for that posi tion. State Sen. Warren Gill of Lebanon also seeks the position. State Sen. Howard Belton of Canby, who has been mentioned as a possible candidate, said he was "not an active candidate at this time." James L Pullman Appointed Welfare Administrator Here James L. Pullman, 34, has been appointed administrator of the Jackson County Public Wel fare department, County Judge Rodney Keating announced yes terday. ; -. ' Pullman replaces Mrs. Blanche Lyman, who was dismissed from the job Jan. 1 by the State Pub lic Welfare commission. He will assume his duties here March 1. He comes here, from Union County Public Welfare commis sion at LaGrande, where he had been administrator since Sept. 1, 1954. Education Listed Pullman, who received ele mentary and high school educa tion in Iowa, has a bachelor's degree in sociology from Wash ington State college and a mas ter's degree in social work from the University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Following almost " four years of service with the Navy during World War II, he was in busi ness, but entered social work in 1952, serving with.the Salt Lake County Welfare department, the Utah State Welfare '. department at Salk Lake City, the Clacka mas County Public Welfare commision at Oregon City and the Multnomah County Public Welfare commission in Portland. Portland (U.R) A new cor poration Rose City; Transit Company will take over the mass transportation business in Portland next Friday. 'no strings attached' and no ob ligation to repay." r Manville Heisel, finance chair man, discussed plans for the coming fund-raising campaign for the county outside the United Medford Crusade area. He said the drive, which begins in March, will last several months,' with volunteers concen trating on each community at a special time. A report on last week's Port land meeting of Oregon and Washington Red Cross officials was made by Mrs. John Day. She spoke of the serious short age in Red Cross disaster funds and stressed the fact that only 5V- per cent of Red Cross dona: tions goes for administration. The board heard reports of the successful bloodmoble visits in Medford and Shady Cove this week, when 330 pints were col lected in Medford and 179 in Shady Cove 22 Pages - , - - , MEDF- , ; MEDF. " : x, ' 7T iiiiiiiii DOWN BY THE SEA SHORE Eight-month-old Gael is high and dry and safe in his plastic crib from where he watches enviously his mother, Mrs. John Sisich (left), and her friend, Jean Duba, romp in the surf of San Francisco Bay near Golden Gate Bridge. With the plastic crib for a baby sitter everyone gets to enjoy the sunshine, a recent wel come visitor to the Bay Area." : s Final Flood Da ma g e In 16 Western Oregon Counties $7,049,000 Salem (U.R) Final estimated damage to both public and pri vate property in 16 western Ore gon counties by the floods of. late December and early January was reported -:to-';Gov.- Elmo ;i Smith,. this week as being $7,049,000. The report by Arthur ' M. Sheets, director of the state civil defense agency, indicated for the first time some of the personal losses sustained by hundreds of residents of western Oregon. 243 Homes Damaged Sixty-four homes were de stroyed, 243 -homes sustained major damage, and 1781 homes sustained minor damage. Total loss to "private homes was $1, 579,722. Farm damage totaled $2,609, 426. This included losses of live stock, dwellingsbuildings, equip ment, irrigation, erosion, fences Courthouse Offices To Be Closed Monday . Courthouse offices and state liquor stores and agencies will be closed Monday, Feb. 13, a le gal holiday, due to Lincoln's birthday, Sunday, Feb. 12. Medford retail stores, banks, and city hall offices will remain open. Federal offices, including the post office, will be open Monday, but will close Feb. 22, Washington's birthday. . Licensees of the Oregon Li quor Control commission need not close unless they wish to do so, the commission announced. Private clubs which have master locker permits may not sell bot tled liquor: containing more than 14. per cent alcohol by volume, but other sales and services will be permitted. - ; . ; -. Hearing Slated on New Ashland Hospital Ashland-. Residents of the Ashiand-Talent area have been invited to a public meeting at 7:30 p.m. - Monday, Feb. 13, in the Elks lodge here to discuss possibilities of . the need, desire and feasibility of a new. hospital in Ashland to serve the area. ;'. , The meeting was called by John C. Cotton and Ed Sing- master, who last fall were ap pointed co-chairman of a com mittee to study possibilities of construction of a new hospital here. , - They pointed out that there will be no solicitation at ' the meeting, because it will be or ganizational. Invitations were sent to various organizations in the area asking representatives to attend. Cotton and Singmaster were na'med to head a hospital study committee at a meeting last fall. Since then s several plans by which funds might be raised have been considered. If residents determine a new hospital is feasible, the building would be of medium-size. - ! L . - " and crops. " A large slice of the total loss is accounted for in temporary repairs to city - and county roads, $863,0,74: bridge s,. -$339,395; denting islidesVu $257,586; a n d public,. .utilities, ' $218,430. -r ; An amount." of ; $8,409 .was. .listed as being funds directly spent in sav ing life and -property. ;: , Total damage to 'public, prop erty-was- $909,670, ; although Sheets said .claims: from . some cities and counties are still be ing submitted. :-::') r -The federal ; government in formed Gov. Smith -Wednesday that an additional .half "million dollars had; been ' allocated to Oregon under the . federal ' disas: ter act, bringing the total funds available to Oregon for repair of roads, bridges and other public works to $650,000. , Coos Has Heaviest Loss Coos county suffered the heav iest loss, $1,600,198. Other losses by counties included: Benton, $36,020. Clackamas, ' $341,914: Clatsop, $115,000. Columbia, $204,100. Curry, $40,000. Doug las, $442,415. Jackson, $928,995. Josephine, $779,765. Lane $290,- 500. Lincoln, $80,050. Linn $64,- 694.- Marion, $44,850. Multno mah, $185,000. Polk, $856,697 Washington, $563,255. Portland, $476,068. : McKay Testimony in Sarena Case Sought : Washington U.RP-Sen.- Rich ard L. Neuberger (D - Ore.) de manded today that Interior Sec retary-Douglas McKay tell ,A1 Sarena Mines, Inc., to operate a mine on its mining claims m an Oregon national forest. . '. In a speech prepared for Sen ate delivery, Neuberger said the Al Sarena Company, Mobile, Ala., has done ho mining on the claims since the Interior Depart ment awarded it title two years ago.. But, he said, the company has cut a "substantial, amount of timber on the land. ; : Neuberger, ; who ; has - charged the ; grant was a ."giveaway" of forest resources, said McKay awarded the claims for operation of a mine. He said the interior secretary should bring suit to re cover the. claims for the govern ment unless the company mines them. . ' Negotiations Collapse In Westinghoyse Strike '. Pittsburgh 0J.R) Negotia tions in the .Westinghouse Elec tric Corp. strike collapsed today and the Federal Mediation Serv ice withdrew from efforts to set tle the 117-day walkout. POLICE SEEK MAN ' " ; " City police said this afternoon that their assistance ' ias . been asked in locating Daniel Weston Davis, 305 : Northeast ,47th st., Portland, who is reported to be in the Medford , vicinity. The help was : requested - by Davis' wife.': ; ----- - - RIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1956 IF FieTlGlOU Air Force Mercy Mission To Snowbound Greece London (U.P.) The U. S. Air Force dispatched transport1 planes on a "mercy" airlift mis sion to snowbound Greece to day and alerted others to stand by for possible emergency oper ations in stricken Italy. - U. S. Air Force European headquarters in Wiesbaden, Ger many, announced three C119 Flying Boxcars left for Athens today to parachute 52 tons of badly-needed food and clothing into snowbound areas in nor thern Greece. The planes were dispatched in. response to an ur gent appeal from U.S. Ambassa dor Cavendish W. Cannon, the announcement said. - Other flying boxcars were on a - stand-by alert to fly similar emergency missions into Italy, if necessary, the Air Force said. Relief Trucks Roll , The first American relief ship ments already were enroute to southerh Italy,; immobilized by the worst winter storms in a century. The U.S. Army "mercy" con voy crawled for hours through snow, and ice to deliver supplies of food and clothing to Rome for shipment south.. A new Siberian-born . cold wave swept over the rest of Europe, barely recovering from record-breaking cold spells, of last week. Temperatures were plummeting and many countries received heavy snowfalls.- ' - At least 247 persons have died since the first icy winds from the east hit Europe Feb. 1. Italy, which has' had "no 'relief in the past 10 days, counted 68 dead. Ships Missing . '. ..' : Storms -also plagued ships at sea. The 261-ton British coastal steamer Conlea radioed for help Medford Hearing in Federal Court Room ' The public hearing on the dis continuance of Southern Pa cific's passenger service between Portland and Ashland will be held at 10 a.m,. Thursday, March 15, in the federal courtroom in the post office building. Clifford W. Ferguson; superin tendent of rail transportation for Public Utilities Commissioner Charles H. Heltzel, will be examiner. - Southern Pacific discontinued the Portland-Ashland overnight service' because it claimed pas senger service was operating at a loss.- Heltzel ordered the rail road to continue operation pend ing public hearings, but the com pany's action was upheld in Mar ion county court. The case has been appealed to the Oregon su preme court. .. Several organizations, includ ing the Jackson County and Ash land Chambers of Commerce, protested Southern Pacific's ac tion. ; State Senators Philip Lowry, Medford; . Gene Brown, Grants Pass, and Paul E. Geddes, Rpseburg, have filed a protest with ; United States Attorney General Herbert Brownell, that the railroad violated an act of Congress of 1866 concerning federal land grants for railroad construction. ' , Copper Wire Sale To Russia Concerns U.S. 'v Washington (U.R) The Unit ed States is seriously concerned about large-scale purchases of copper wire from the west by Russia and its satellites, it was disclosed today. President Eisenhower, during his recent talks with British Prime Minister Anthony Eden, was reported to have voiced American alarm at the heavy copper wire sales to" the Soviet bloc by British and other sup pliers after controls were lifted in August, 1954. ; ? Informants said there is evi dence that the Russians have been buying large quantities of unsheated copper wire and melt ing it into hard - to - get ingots. Copper has thousands of military and industrial uses. Chicago U.R) Director ' Wal ter H. Zinn, 49, resigned as di rector of. the atomic research Argonne National Laboratory eectiv June 30. . RIBUI Price 5c but rescuers could find no trace of the vessel at its last reported position in the English, Channel. The 46-ton motor yacht Episode was reported sinking 150 miles off Land's. End with heavy seas frustrating rescue attempts. Reports from behind the Iron Curtain said Pcland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia also were suffering from cold and snow. The Hungarian News Agency said strong winds and heavy snowfalls dropped temperatures in Budapest to four degrees be low zero and the frost extended over the whole country. By UNITED PRESS Two inches of new snow cov ered the ground today in Texas from a new storm that hit the blizzard-stricken Southwest. The heavy fall was reported at Lubbock, Tex. More than an inch of new snow blanketed most of New Mexico and West Texas. . .-. . .-: ... . - Some melted in about 35 de gree temperatures and then turn ed to an icy glaze in freezing early morning temperatures. A 17-degree temperature drop dur ing the night - was recorded in Southern Texas. . Four Sentenced To Penitentiary In Circuit Court ; Three men and one woman were sentenced, to..' terms in the state penitentiary yesterday in appearances before. Circuit Court Judge H. K. Hanna.' ' '. Arthur R. Huff Jr., .19, Phoe nix, received a three-year sent ence on a charge of burglary, not in a dwelling. He was arrested by sheriff's officers for burglary of the Talent club and the Phoe nix grade school. A two-year, six-mohth sent ence, was --. given Laurence E. Ericks, 32, Klamath Falls, on a charge of uttering and publish ing a false check. He was ar rested by Ashland city police. -Malicious Injury Charge ' Benjamin Shearer, 19, Brook dale rd., ' received a , one-year, eight-month sentence on a charge of malicious injury to personal property involving damage to cars parked near Central Point, Jan. 26. Hazel Rasmussen, 32, who was extradited from Wisconsin by Medford . police, received . a one-year, six-month sentence fol lowing a previous plea of -guilty to publishing a false check. She was arrested as a parole violator. !. A one-year suspended sentence was given William J. Hinkle, 34, Pendleton, who pleaded guilty to a charge of non-support. The case of Kenneth Wayne Gorum, 23, and James Lewis Gorum, 29, who pleaded guilty to burglary not in a dwelling, was continued. The two were arrested by sheriff's officers for entering the Echo tavern, Shady Cove, Jan. 30. i Also continued were the cases of Kenneth A. Sheldon, 31, Cen tral Point, charged with sodomy; David W. Paton, 51, Medford, burglary not in a dwelling in volving the Triangle market, Phoenix; and Robert Amador Lopez, 27, Compton, . Calif;, charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor'. Starts ..:,-:--?;-k:.. FROLICKING LIKE KITTENS, these polar bear cubs are liveliest in history of Njiernberg, .Germany, zoo. Equipped with formidable array of claws, they- make ferocious passes at one another but rniraciLbuely escape mjtiemMali United Press Full Leased Wire No. 276 Telegram Urging Gas Bill Support Said To Be Phony Disclosure Made Before Committee Washington (U.R) Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.), disclosed today that he had received an apparently fictitious", telegram purportedly signed by one of his campaign aides and urging his support for the natural gas bill. Case made the disclosure in testimony before the special Sen ate committee investigating whether a Nebraska attorney made an improper attempt to influence his vote on the gas measure. r He urged the committee to investigate the telegram. Case- said he thought the tele gram had been sent to him by John Griffin, Sioux Falls, S.D., druggist who had been accept ing election campaign contribu tions for him. Came To Office - Case mentioned the telegram in his testimony this morning. When he resumed his testimonv this afternoon, he said Griffin came to' his office "in the last 10 minutes" to see the telegram. When it was produced, Case told the committee Griffin de clared: "I never sent the telegram.' " Case said the telegram was among several he had received before the Senate last Monday, approved the controversial nat ural gas bill. - . Case voted against the bilL Case suggested that the com mittee subpoena all such tele grams from Sioux Falls. "The committee may want to determine who was in Sioux Falls - affixing the names of friends of mine to telegrams in an attempt to influence my stand on the bill," Case said. : To Consider Matter - Chairman Walter E. George (D Ga.), said the group' will con sider the matter. But counsel Charles W. Steadman comment ed that Griffin's views on the gas bill were not the subject of the inmiinr a " Earlier, Case testified that it "sounded sort of fantastic" when he learned a Nebraska at torney, interested in passage of the gas bill, had contributed $2500 to his campaign fund. Harriman, Entered In New Hampshire Ballot Concord, N.H. U.R) . The name, of Gov. Averell Harriman of New York was placed in New Hampshire's first in the nation March 13 presidential primary today. , William A. Joyce of Nashua filed as a delegate at large to the Democratic National Con vention favorable to Harriman. " Under New Hampshire law, Jayce does not need Harriman's permission to run favorable to bis candidacy. A slate of ' delegates pledged to Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) and a slate favorable to Adlai E. Stevenson already have b.een ruea in tne .Democratic side oi the primary. . " DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: '30 indus trials 467.66, up 0.44; 20 rail roads 155.38, up 0.57; 15 utilities 65.09, . up 0.17, and , 65 stocks 166.66, up 0.34. Sales today were about 1,770,000 shares compared with 2,080,000 yesterday. ;