Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 29, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextBRIT fUl a yptiam r AT IMS WORSE Medford United Press Full Luted Wire 5 lit Year 22 Page$ SIPHON PROGRESSES Work on construction of a new siphon across Bear creek at McAndrews rd., is progressing, as the picture above shows. The siphon will carry water of the main canal of the Rogue River Valley Irrigation district. The job is part of the rehabilitation work being done in the RRV and Medford Irrigation districts. In the foreground is Reward Offered For Lead on Fire At Feather Falls Oroville, Calif. (U.R) The Feather River Pine Lumber Mill today offered a reward of $5,000 cash for information leading to the convictions of the person or persons who set fire to a $100, 000 railroad trestle. The bridge was burned early last week as a series of incidents sparked the two-year-old strike of the AFL Lumber and Saw mill Workers Union against the Georgia-Pacific subsidiary. j TBI Takes Jurisdiction - John Hill, Portland, attorney tor the lumber company, said the FBI now has assumed active jurisdiction in the investigation of a Sacramento house bombing as it violated a federal law The bombing was linked to the Feather Falls turmoil. Meanwhile, at the lumber mill at nearby Feather Falls, the sheriff's squad was stepped up to an undersheriff and three deputies as increased picketing activity was expected. Luther Sizemore, international repre sentative of the parent union of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners Union, said he ex pected 150 AFL "observers" to be on the scene by Thursday. The mill has been operating with nonunion personnel since negotiations for a new contract faiied in June, 1954. Somers Low Bidder On Bank Protection F. L. Somers of Medford was apparent low bidder at $19,253 for construction of bank protec tion work along the left bank of Bear creek, the Army Corps of engineers reported today. Bids were opened at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Portland office of the corps of engineers. The project includes 5.260 cubic yards of excavation. 500 cubic yards of embankment from gravel borrow and 4.024 cubic yards of dumped stone e vetment. Completion time is 45 calendar days. Bids were first called for this project on July 16 and opened Aug. 1. Failure to obtain right of way caused delay in award ing the contract and cancellation of the bids. Republicans 'lc' From Democratic Party Washington U.R The Re publican party has launched as "official policy" a campaign to, change the name of the Demo cratic party, a spokesman dis closed today. L. Richard Guylay, director of public relations at the Repub lican National committe, told the United Press it "will be a matter of policy" for Republi cans to refer to the opposition as the "Democrat party." The GOP convention in San Francisco last week was the first fullscale tryout of the new policy. It omitted the word Democratic" from all party ut terances. Guyuay said the GOP feels that "Democratic as an adjec tive oot dasciiptivs of the MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1956 Price 5c No. 137 Current Tax Millage Rates for Jackson County Announced Tax rates in mills for the cur rent year, for each taxing unit in Jackson county, have been compiled and were announced this week by the county asses sor's office. The rate is an expression in mills (1-1 0th of a cent) of the amount of tax levied on each dollar of assessed valuation. It is computed by applying the total amount of the tax to be levied in each taxing district to the assessed valuation within the district. No General Levy The millage for the county as a whole is only .4 of one mill, and this is for two continuing levies, to support the Jackson ville Museum and for the County Juvenile Detention home, both voted by residents of the county. There is no general county levy this year. Last year the county BASEBALL AMERICAN Kansas City 6 6 1 New York 7 10 4 McMahon, Krimian (5), Shantz (9) and Smith; Kucks, Morgan (7) and Berra. Home runs: Robinson. Kansas City; Mantle. New York; Collins. New York. Chicago 0 14 2 Washington 7 9 2 Wilson. Kinder (9) and Lol lar; Wiesler. Griggs (4). Grobe (7), Chakales (9) and Courtney. Detroit 7 7 1 Boston 4 10 2 Hoeft. Bunning (2), Master son (6). Aber (8) and House; Brewer. Delock (8) and White. NATIONAL Brooklyn 11 11 0 Chicago 4 11 2 Erskine and Campanella; Kaiser. Hughes 1. Hack.r (6). Valenlinette (8) and Chilli. Landrith (8). Home runs: Hoak. Chicago; Campanella, Brooklyn; B a k t r, Chicago, Snider. Brooklyn. SCHOOL COOKS TO MEET School cooks of Josephine, Jackson and Klamath counties will hold their 12th annual con ference Friday at the Eagle Point school cafeteria. Registra tion will start at 9 a.m. Open Campaign To Remove party as it exists today. Edited GOP Speeches He said Republicans feel that the party of the Democrats should be "more properly' call ed the "Democrat party" be cause of the "divers viewpoints" within it. Guylay was one of those re sponsible for editing Republican speeches at San Francisco to see that no "ic" got through the teleprompter. In press copies of Thomas E. Dewey's speech there were two blank spaces after each "Demo crat" where industrious staffers had smudged out the "ic." Guylay claims the origin of the shortened name is "ob scure." But simmering Demo crats recall most vividly that it was used repeatedly by Sea.' Jo the temporary flume which built after the old flume was siphon, a big U-shaped pipe, suck the canal water under some 550,000, is being done by Eugene. millage rate was 8.7, To determine how much the rate will be on his own real property, a taxpayer can add the millage rates for all the taxing districts in which he resides (such as city, county, school dis trict, or special district). Millage Rates Given With this figure, plus the as sessed valuation of his real pro perty, he can determine how much his real property tax bill will total when, it comes due Nov. 15. Following are the millage rates for each taxing district in the county, with the 1956-57 figure first .and the 1955-56 fig ure following in parenthese: County: .4 and (8.7). Cities Ashland 14.7 and (13.2); Butte Falls 12.8 and (8.7); Central Point 16.9 and (17.6); Eagle Point 22.3 and (25.2); Gold Hill 25.6 and (19.6); Jacksonville 26.2 and (17.5); Medford, 18.7 and (18.9); Phoenix 26.9 and (24.8) ; Rogue River 17.0 and (15.0) ; Talent 16.9 and (20.6). School District School districts Rural school board 54.7 and (50.2); Jackson ville 59.0 and (50.2); Griffin Creek 54.7 and (56.6); Ruch-Sterl-ing 54.7 and (50.2); Phoenix 53.8 and (50.2); Ashland 51.1 and (47.1) ; Central Point 50.1 and (40.0); 6C (consolidated) 49.4 and (40.4); Eagle Point 60.3 and (50.2); 9C (consolidated) 60.0 and (50.2); Lone Pine 63.9 and (50.2); Tal ent 64.8 and (51.3); Rogue River 54.7 and (51.0): Applegate 54.7 and (50.2); Trail 54.7 and (50.7); Medford 43.7 and (39.9); Pros pect 57.2 and (50.2); Wimer 54.7 and (50.2); Shady Cove 66.5 and (50.9) ; Butte Falls 54.7 and (50.2) ; Pinehurst 54.7 and (50.2); West Side 61.4 and (53.3); How ard 54.7 and (54.5); Water Districts Water districts Charlotte Ann 4.2 and (3.4); Elk City (new) 9.3; Grandview 9.2 and (9.4); Kenwood 7.0 and (9.1); Kings Highway 17.4 and (13.4); Maple Park 18.7 and (6.7); Midway 1.4 and (1.6). Sanitary district South Bear Creek 5.1 and (4.3). ' Rural fire departments Cen tral Point 4.0 and (4.3); Medford 4.4 and (4.0); Rogue River 2.9 and (4.3). Reference seph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.) dur ing the Army - McCarthy feud hearings. Other' Republicans adopted it and now the commit tee has made it official. Hears Outraged Mutters With most Democratic' big wigs out of town or campaign ing with Adlai E. Stevenson, the only Democratic National committee comment immediate ly available was outraged mut ters from secretaries and the like. Most of these embraced whole heartedly suggestions in "letters to the editor" columns here call ing for a countermove to short en the GOP name to "Publican party" or "Republicrat party." In the Bible the word publicans is usually followed by "and 1 signup. Tribune United Press Full Leased Win now carries the water. It was washed out last winter. The is about half installed. It will Bear creek. The job, to cost E & W Construction company, Record Spending Said in Prospect; No Tax Cuts Seen Washington (U.R) The ad ministration expects to spend more money in the current fiscal year than ever before in peace time and end up S707 million in the black. But no tax cut ap peared in prospect. The latest look at the budget released Tuesday night estimates spending in the fiscal year end ing next Jan. 30 at $69.1 billion. Receipts mostly from individ ual and corporation taxes are expected to hit a record $69.8 billion ; " ' -" ' Surplus Nearly Double That would leave a surplus of $707 million nearly double the surplus of $434 million estimated last January. But officials said that is still not enough for a tax cut. Congressional fiscal experts disagreed with the figures. They said they expect the surplus to reach $2 billion despite the in crease in spending. Budget Bureau Director Per cival F. Brundage told United Press that since only about seven weeks of the new fiscal year have gone by "it's too early to discuss tax cuts . . . that can be faced when Congress recon venes." Record Collections But Treasury Secretary-George M. Humphrey said last Janu ary that a surplus of between $2.5 billion and $3 billion would be necessary before tax reduc tions could be undertaken. Although it didn't start out that way, last year wound up breaking peace time revenue collecting records as receipts reached $68.1 billion. It was the boom which brought in record revenues and balanced the bud get, overcoming an original an ticipated $2.4 billion and leaving a surplus of $1.7 billion. The administration last Jan uary estimated spending at $65.9 billion and receipts at $66.3 billion. City to Receive Aid For One-Way Couplet The state highway commission has agreed to pay for 75 per cent of the work in constructing a one-way couplet on Main and Eighth sts.. City Manager Rob ert Duff has been informed. The work, which would make Main st. one-way westbound and Eighth st. one-way eastbound, is estimated to cost $241,000. Of this, the commission has agreed to pay S178.750, leaving the city to pay $62,250. The route is part of State Highway 238, enabling the state to participate. The commission's offer de pends on the city's participation. The project is one of several which will be undertaken if the over-all arterial street program, which Medford voters will de cide in November, is approved. The state would assist in that part of the couplet between Co lumbus and Riverside aves. Washington (U.R) Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon said to day labor leaders have a right to take "a personal, stand" in favor of Democratic presidential nominee Adlai E. Stevenson, but he expressed confidence that union members will vote Republican. Inside Today Section On Women's News 2 Editorial 4 Sports 11, 12, 13 Locals, Markets 15 Section Two Comics . . 2 Radio. TV 2 Classified Ads 4. 5 President Appeals For Worldwide Support on Suez London Proposal Called Peaceful Step Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower appealed today for worldwide support of the Lon don conference proposal to in ternationalize the Suez Canal as the best way to "assure a peace ful solution of this great problem." President 'Glad' In a special statement, the President also said he is "alad" Egyptian President Gamal Ab del Nasser is willing to meet with representatives of the Lon don conference to discuss the Suez crisis. Mr. Eisenhower's statement was read to reporters by Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles as he left a two-hour meeting with the President, Adm. Arthur W. Radford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sat in on the latter stage of the meeting in the President's office. Seeks World Support The meeting was Mr. Eisen hower's first with Dulles since the 22-nation London conference on the Suez. Eighteen of the na tions drafted a plan under which an international board would operate the Suez Canal. Nasser has agreed to meet with a five- nation committee picked to out line the plan to him. "This program was conceived in an atmosphere of friendly con ciliation and, in my opinion, ought to rally behind it the sup port of all the nations and peo ples that believe in the processes of international justice and con ciliation," the President s state ment said. "The U.S. government and, I believe, the American nationals completely support the 18-nation proposal thus arrived a in Lon don, which, fully respecting the sovereignty of Egypt, would as sure the peaceful solution of this great problem." Consultant Firm Assistance Urged The county planning commis sion is recommending to- the county court that a firm of plan ning consultants be retained to help get the county planning program started, according to John Pletsch, commission chair man. The group suggested that the firm of Hahn, Wise and Asso ciates, Redwood City, Calif., the same organization which the city has retained for planning assist ance, be hired for similar pur poses. The commission is studying a proposed contract with the firm. The court has made no decision on the recommendation as yet. Two Chairs Empty In Brink's Jury Box Boston (U.R) Two empty chairs in the Brink's jury box were wedged today against the giant government machinery massed to present evidence in the nation's greatest robbery trial. The 11th and 12th jurors were selected Tuesday in the 17th day of trial at Suffolk county's grey. brick courthouse where more than 1,600 veniremen have been dismissed or challenged. Two alternates still must be picked. The death of a prospective trial witness was learned. For mer Pennsylvania Attorney Gen eral Charles J. Margiotti, who died Saturday in Pittsburgh, was to have testified for the state. Margiotti was a witness before a federal grand jury in 1952- 1953 when the FBI tried unsuc cessfully to obtain indictments against several of the present defendants. Weather FORECAST: Fair with variable high cloudiness tonfRht and Thursday. Low Urtiifht 52. Highs Thursday 85. Temp. Highest Yesterday 8 Lowest thii Morning .. - . 0 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:33 a.m. Sunset 6:51 p.m. The Moon rises 11:38 p.m. and rides high. New Moon Sept. 4 VENUS rises - 2:13 a.m. MARS is in the south west 3:52 a.m. and SIRIUS rises 3:45 a.m. Venus is now more than three times as bright as Mars and Mars is now more than twice bright as Sirius. JJUIIH.. i.JvJ., " J.I Open Diplomatic Break Predicted By Some Observers Mission By Menzies Said 'Prelude To War' London U.R) The five power Suts committet an nounced tonight it will meet Egyptian President Gamal Ab del Nasser in Cairo Monday lo discuss the future of the Sues Canal. London iU.R) Anglo-Egyp-tion relations worsened today, with Observers in Cairo speak ing of the possibility of an open diplomatic break. Some London newspapers called the Menzies mission to Cairo a "prelude to a war against Egypt." British and F r e n c h pessi mism increased sharply with the expulsion of two British diplo mats from Cairo for "espionage" and a Soviet statement of all-out support for President Gamal Ab del Nasser in his firm stand against the West. Britain was reported seeking alternate measures if Egypt re fuses to negotiate a Suez settle ment. Planning ranged from out right military seizure of the ca nal to a liberal party proposal for construction of a new canal or pipeline. To Study Operations The five-nations Suez Com mittee headed by Australian Prime Minister Robert Gordon Menzies meets today to study operations of the 10-mile water way that supplies most of West Europe with its oil. Any doubt of the Soviet posi tion was dispelled Tuesday night when Evgueny Kissilev an nounced after an hour-long talk with Nasser that any settlement should be based on the "sover eign rights of Egypt as the abso lute master, owner and manager of the canal." The strong Soviet statement meant Egypt can now take the strongest possible line in nego tiations with the Western pow ers. Some observers in Cairo said it meant failure of the Menzies mission even before it left London. Probe Broadens In Baby Deaths New Haven, Conn. U.R) The coroner's office today broadened its investigation of a "nurse" accused of the deaths of three infants by studying death certificates of all babies who died in the New Haven area in the last five years. Coroner James J. Corrigan said he wanted to determine whether there were any other deaths of infants cared for by "pediatrics nurse" Virginia B. Jaspers, 33, other than the three of which she already is accused. Miss Jaspers, who is not a registered nurse but has cared for babies as a private nurse for eight years, admitted violently shaking or patting three infants who later died and two who sus tained injuries. She is six feet and weighs 250 pounds. ' She refused to testify at a coroner's inquest Tuesday on the advice of her attorneys and Corrigan postponed the inquest for about two weeks. She is be ing held under $50,000 bond on a technical charge of idleness pending further investigation. Her attorneys said they wanted time for psychiatric examina tions. Keating Appointed To 0 and C Committee County Judge Rodney Keating was appointed to the legislative committee of the general assem bly of O and C counties at a meeting In Eugene Tuesday. The committee will study feasibility of joint county proj ects and will prepare legislation for consideration by state and federal governments. Studies made by this group will be pre sented at the next meeting of the general assembly in Novem ber. County Commissioner Chester Wendt accompanied Judge Keat ing to Eugene. The two returned late yesterday with a check for $1,867,393.17, Jackson county's share of receipts from timber sold on the revested Oregon and California railroad land grants within the county. Jackson coun ty's share was the second largest in the state. Payrolls of Oregon Employers Set Mark Salem (U.R) Payrolls of Ore gon employers reached a new high in the first quarter of 1956, about 9.2 per cent above the pre vious record, the State Unem ployment Compensation Com mission reported today. Employment was up four per cent during the came period. - Seaton to Speak At GOP Jamboree Fred A. Seaton. secretary of the interior, will fly to Medford tomorrow to appear as principal speaker at the Republican Jam boree, scheduled to start at 6 p.m. in Hawthorne park. Seaton is expected to speak on policies relating to natural re sources, according to Mrs. Kath leen Bash, county Republican Central committee chairman. Others to Appear Several GOP candidates will be introduced, but will not make formal speeches. They include Seaton's predecessor as secre tary of the interior, Douglas Mc Kay, now candidate for the sen ate; Harris Ellsworth, congress man from the fourth district; Gov. Elmo Smith: Sig Unander, state treasurer, and Mark Hat field, candidate for secretary of state. With the exception of Seaton, guest candidates will be dressed in big barbecue aprons and will 1 Seaton Says McKay Not First To Open Wildlife Reserves Portland (U.R) Interior Sec retary Fred A. Seaton said today it is a fraudulent misrepre sentation to charge that this ad ministration opened up the na tional wildlife reserves to oil and gas leasing." seaton, at a luncheon spon sored by the Portland chapter of the Izaak Walton League, list ed several "salient facts" which he said "have been deliberately and inexcusably misrepresented to the people of Oregon." Authorised in 1920 ' The cabinet member said that oil and gas leasing on wildlife areas was authorized in 1920 "under a Democrat secretary of interior by an act signed by a Democrat president." Seaton said that since 1920 only 612 leases on all categories of wildlife land have been grant ed, 335 by the present adminis tration, 277 by its Democrat pre decessors. He said the difference of 58 was accounted for by war depleted oil reserves. He said that income from oil and gas leasing "underscores the fact that there has been no sud den and planned expansion in this field by the present adminis tration." He said it amounted to $5,650,000 from 1947 through 1955 with the present adminis tration collecting but $2 million. McKay Said Not First Seaton said that his predeces sor, Douglas McKay, "was not the first secretary of the interior to open wildlife reserves to oil and gas exploitation." He said that McKay was the "first . . . to close wildlife areas until new regulations could be drawn to supplant the inadequate regula tions of his Democrat predeces sor." And, he said, McKay was the first secretary to' forever close to leasing certain areas as sanctuaries to protect rare spe cies of wildlife. He said several "real strides" were made by the Fish and Wild life Service in Oregon under McKay. Man Found Innocent Of Assault, Battery Robert Stephen Basey, 21, Ash land, was found innocent of as sault and battery this morning. He was tried in district court by a jury of one woman and five men. Basey had been charged with assault and battery by Bert El roy Johnson last March 8, after an incident Feb. 25, according to the court record. . "You Never Had It So Good Since You've Had It Bad" help serve a smorgabord meal. Hot dog and hamburger standi will also be in operation. After the jamboree, Soaton and McKay will appear on a 15 minute television program over KBES-TV at 9:30 p.m. Addrenes Kiwanians Congressman Ellsworth was scheduled to address the Med ford Kiwanis club at noon todav at the Rogue Valley Country club. From Medford, he planned to fly to Eugene to meet Seaton. The two men will then go to Roseburg for a press conference Thursday and continue to Med ford for the jamboree, which is sponsored by the Jackson Coun ty Republican Women's organ ization. Seaton, a 47-year-old newspa per publisher from Hastings, Neb., has held several political positions on state and national levels during the past 25 years. In 1951, he was appointed to the senate to fill the unexpired term of Kenneth S. Wherry. In 1953, he became assistant secretary of defense, then secretary of the interior on May 28 of this year, following McKay's resignation. Entertainment Planned Festivities tomorrow will In clude "live" music and other en tertainment. The event will be open to the public with no admission charge. Charge for the smorgasbord is $1.50. per plate. Tickets are on sale in Medford at Barker's, Rob inson Bros., Jean Hart's. Rogue Valley National bank, Frakc and Smith, Central Rexall Drug and the Republican headquar ters. Tickets may also be pur chased in Hawthorne Park Thursday evening, according to Mrs. Wayne Stine, chairman ot the food committee. Driver in Fatal Car Accident Sentenced Carl W. McMillan, 50, route 2, box 816, Central Point, was sentenced in district court today to 30 days in jail, $255 fine and 90 days suspension of his driv er's license. A jury Saturday found McMil lan guilty of driving while un der the influence-of intoxicating -liquor. He was released on $255 bail as the court granted his attor ney, Edward Kelly, ten days in which to file motion for a new trial. McMillan was the driver of a car which struck a jeep ' in which members of the Arthur Hanshew family were riding last July 21. Eight-week-old Mi chael Hanshew was killed in the accident and several others in the family were injured. McMillan may be taken be fore a grand jury soon to face possible further charges arising from the accident, according to Walter Nunley, district attor ney. Arson Considered In Midnight Fire Central Point Possibility of arson in a midnight fire last night at the Swan Island Load ers establishment here will be investigated by the state fire marshal's office, City Fire Chief Don Turner reported. Several loads of two by four lumber were burned and consid erable damage to the plant re sulted. Turner said. The alarm was turned in by Gale Perdue, employee of the adjacent Che ney Lumber company. A small blaze was discovered at 2 a.m. Monday at the Cheney stud mill by the Central Point police department night patrol man. Turner said only minor damage occurred.