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Newspaper Page TextS7 MM f a y warn JV IS) $ Call Six Measures Will Appear on Medford Ballots November 6 Annexation Major Improvements Listed Six measures will aDDCar on a special city election ballot Nov. 8. Last nights council meeting was the last at which ad ditional measures could have been added. The election will be held at the same time and places as the general election, but voting will be by sepan.te ballot. They include four separate proposals which, taken together form a $2 million capital im provement program: one minor annexation proposal, and measure which would authorize the addition of fluorides to the municipal water supply as a dental health measure. Slightly simplified, the ballot titles are as follows: 51 To authorize city to pro vide motor vehicle off-street parking facilities; assess one- third of the cost thereof to prop erty benefited: issue not to ex ceed $300. 000 in general obliga tion bonds and not to exceed $200,000 in revenue bonds: to rledge certain revenues for bond payments and other pur poses; and creating city park ing commission. Public Streets 52 To amend Medford city charter to authorize city to desig nate, establish, construct and maintain arterial public streets: t-3 issue not to exceed S220.000 In general obligation bonds and levy an annual tax of $143,000 for 10 years to pay for them. 53 To amend Medford city charter to authorize the city to construct and maintain stoim sewers and provide outlets, and to issue not to exceed $95,000 ii general obligation bonds and levy an annj.-il tax of $47,500 for six years to pay for them. 54 To amend tne Medford city charter to authorize the city to levy an annual tax of $19,000 for six years to pro vide funds to replace or supple ment inadequate sewers and construct trunk sewers outside city serving arca'i within city. Annexing Area 55 To amend city charter by annexing to the city territory wholly surrou.idcd thereby, be ing blocks 7 and 10, portions of blocks 8 and 9. and portions of streets adjacent thereto, all in the extension of Si.'kiyou Heights addition to the City of Medford. 56 To amend 'the Medford city charter to authorize the water commission to add flu orides conducive to dental health to the municipal -water supply, and to use -quipmcnt and meth ods meeting the regulations of the Oregon State Board of Health. You Must Be Registered To Vote November 6 Registration Deadline October 6 "It' Terrible How The Big Money Guys Run Politic" Two 51st ' M. 20 Pages -rORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1956 No. 166 POLICE BELIEVED IN ON LINN JAIL Coos Bay (U.R) An Oregon coastal resident has vanished from his remote home in the Seven Devils road area and slate police speculated here today that he may b the second kidnaping victim of Ernest L, Gibson, fugitive from Linn county jail. Officers said Orlie Lee Ran dleman. who lived alone at Merchants Ber.ch. vanished about noon yesterday, along with his car. Coos Bay State police believ ed thev were close to the trail of escaped Linn county pisoner Ernest L. Gibson today following discovery of the taxicab Gibson Session of Court Adjourns Federal couit adjourned today until 2 p.m. Monday after a case n which Joseph C. Ayoutt, New Pine Creek. Ore., who was suing Medford Corporation, lumber firm, for S75.000 in a personal injuries suit, was awarded dam ages out of court. Monday Miss Noreen Kelly will be .idmitted to practice in federal court. She will be pre sented by her father. Edward C. Kelly. Medford attorney. In the personal injuries suit Registering Voters Keep Clerks Busy Last minute voter registrations at the courthouse continue strong according to Mrs, Bercth P. Hop kins, county clerk, with the reg istrars being kept busy through out the day. Oct. 6 is the deadline for voter registration. The large number of persons registering made it impossible to compile totals of those registered today. The courthouse will remain open until 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, to register voters. Persons who plan to vote in the Nov. 6 general election must be registered in order to vote. It was reported that a petition had been submitted to the coun ty court, asking establishment of a registration booth at the Big Y. The county court was not av ailable for comment and Mrs. Hopkins had not received infor mation from the court regarding the request. A booth open there on Saturdays previously was closed by Mrs. Hopkins on the basis of an opinion regarding temporary registration locations, given by the state attorney gen eral. Salem !U.R) Appointment J of highway revenues totaling S3. 048.927 to Oregon counties has been reported by Secretary of state tart r. wewbry. "5 k j nation Elections is believed to have taken from Bend. The cab in which driver Lloyal Van Dyke was abducted Tuesday was found last night about 9 miles south of Charleston where if harl onnp over a hi 11 f f to the Seven Devils road. The scene was barely a mile from a road intersection where police had set up a roadblock in an effort to apprehend the abductor believed to be Gibson. Bloodhounds owned by Vern Gray of Coos Bay were taken to the scene and followed a trail for several miles through dense brush, finally emerging on the beaches near Cape Arago state park. Federa! Ayoutt claimed that the lumber firm was negligent in operating a railroad engine which collid ed with a truck operated by Ayoutt May 4, 1956, near Cen tral Point where the tracks cross Central Point Market rd. Charges Negligence Ayoutt stated in the complaint that the firm was negligent in not providing adequate crossing sins. not maintaining control of the railroad engine, not pro viding warning such a a whistle or bell and that an overgrowth of weeds and debris near the tracks obstructed Ayoutt's vis ion in seeing the approaching train. Medco filed counter charges contending that Ayoutt was neg ligent, that his view was not obstructed, that crossing signs were provided, that a warning whistle or bell was sounded, that the plaintiff failed to yield the right of way to the train, that Aj'outt was excessively speeding, that his truck was not equipped with adequate brakes arid that he failed to keep his truck under control. According to the complaint Ayoutt suffered lacerations on his skull causing a hemorrhage, a punctured right foot, emotion al shock, bruises to various parts of his body and severe con tusions and a sprain to his shoul der, as a result of the collision. Eagle Point School Census Under Way Eagle Point The Eagle Point Elementary school Parent Teach ers asociation is assisting in tak ing the school census for the Eagle Point school district. The census started yesterday when notices were given chil dren to take home to parents, ac cording to Mrs. Stan Smith of the PTA. She said anyone who has a child between four and 20 years old and docs not have chil dren in school should contact her at Eagle Point, telephone VAlley 6-3294. The census will be completed by Oct. 25, she said. Television Highlight Sen. Hubert Humphrey ID Minn.) and Sen. Karl Mundt (R-S.D.) will be debate op ponents on "Pick the Winner" over station KBES-TV tonight at 6:30. Adlai Stevenson, Dem cratic candidate for President, will speak over the sama sta tion at 11 o'clock tonight. Weather FORECAST. Comiderable cloud iness tonight and Thursday. Possibility a few showers Thursdav afternoon or Trun in,:. Low tonight 48. High Thursday 12. , HiEhPt Yesterday .. 1 Lowest this Morninr 3 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise , 6:10 y.sn a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. a.m. A.m. Sunset New Moon PROMINENT STARS A returns, sets Capella, low in north east 8:24 9:26 VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, sets Mars, due south Venus, in the east Jupiter, low in east . 7:36 10:25 .. 4:16 . 5:02 Price 10c Tribune United Press tuli Leased Wir CLOSING ESCAPEE All hunters were cleared out of the area while the search was pressed. Officers said they doubted that the driver of the stolen cab could have escaped the police net. Van Dyke told police a well dressed man appeared at the taxi office in Bend Monday eve ning and asked to be driven at once to Eugene. Once the cab was near Eu gene, the man forced Van Dyke to drive him on to the Coquille area. Van Dyke was bound and dumped from the cab in the Seven Devils area along the coast between Charleston and Bandon yesterday. Van Dyke told officers he managed to free himself and made his way to the Mineral Sands chrome mine to spread the alarm. FBI Aiding in Hunt Road blocks were maintained along all highways in the area tor'ay and state police said sher iff's officers, city police and the FEI was participating in the hunt with them. Gibson faced a life sentence in Oregon state penitentiary and was being held in the Linn coun ty jail at Albany awaiting out come of an appeal at the time of his escape. The fugitive had been con victed of robbing the Linn coun ty treasurers office in Albany of $8,000 earlier this year and was arrested in North Bend. At the time of his arrest only S2, 000 1 of the stolen money was recov ered. Officers speculated that possibly he was returning to this area to pick up the rest of the cash which might have been cached here. The quartet fled the Albany jail Sept. 7. A stolen car con taining a revolver owned by the Albany jailer, L. W. Andrus, was recovered in Idaho Falls. Ida., Sept. 13 but no other leads have been turned up. The body of one of the four, Dan C. Ott. was found last month in the Willamette river about six miles north of Salem. Six Persons Appear In Circuit Court Six persons appeared in cir cuit court this morning before Judge H. K. Hanna. Two were given suspended sentences and sentencing of four others were deferred pending FBI informa tion. Mertie Manley, 785 B St., Ash land, was given a one year sus pended sentence and fined $200 on a charge of non-support. John Simon, route 1, box 63, Central Point, received a three year sus pended sentence and was fined S75 on charges of injury to prop erty by explosives. Three Portland men, Glenn Arthur, Andrew Meske, Larry Phillip Stubbs. and Ronald Hen ry Morgan, pleaded guilty this morning to charges of burglary not in a dwelling and are being held in county jail pending FBI reports. C. M. Northrup, Vancouver, Wash., is also being held pend ing receipt of FBI reports after pleading guilty to larceny - by bailee. i Appointments Being Made for Bloodmobile Appointments were being ac cepted today by the Red Cross office in the courthouse and Mrs. Eva Seggessenm'an of Shady Cove for the October visit of the Bloodmobile. The Bloodmobile will be in Shady Cove Tuesday, Oct. 9, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall between 3 and 8 p.m. Goal for the Shady Cove visit is 150 donors. Appointments can be made by telephoning Mrs. Seg gessenman at TRinity 8-2431. Wednesday, Oct. 10. the Blood mobile will visit the Elks temple in Medford betwen 1 and 5 p.m. Goal for the Medford visit is 250 donors. Red Cross officials said. Appointments can be made by telephoning the Red Cross office in the courthouse, 3-3813. Residents in Areas Northeast of City To Vote November 6 Planning Commission Recommended Proposal The Medford city council last night passed ordinances calling for elections in the Berrydale and Grandview - Kenwood dis tricts on annexing the areas to Medford. The council action followed a recommendation by the city planning commission last Mon day for annexation of the two districts, located north and northeast of Medford. The pro- City officials and council members will hold a special meeting to inform residents in tha Berrydale district of the legal and financial implica tions of annexation at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Oct. 10, in tha city hall. posal will be submitted to the voters in the two districts during the Nov. 6 general elections. The council has decided that the annexation would be sub mitted to Medford voters at a later special election, if it is approved in the districts. Mayor Miller said Medford would have a year in which to call such an election. The ordinance calling for the election in the Berydale district was passed after William Doern bach, 143 Mace St., representing some property owners in the Berrydale district, told the coun cil many residents in that area signed the petition requesting annexation believing the petition was for a new sewer system, not for annexation. Doernbach staled that the woman who brought the petition to his home told him that in 250 homes in tile Berrydale district, ill residents had signed the peti tion. He said, after checking in the county assessor's office he discovered there were more than 600 homes in the Berrydale dis trict. Appeal to Prejudices He added that the petitioner "appealed to the prejudices" of many property owners in that district, implying that those who did not sign the petition were "in favor of the children in the district getting hepatitis." Many residents in the Berrv- dale district believe they have been "swindled," according to Doernbach, as they were led to believe the city would pay for benefits arising from the annex ation, not Berrydale property owners. He said that residents who obtain their water from Elk City or Midway water districts, but whose property is in the Berrydale district, did not know the annexation concerned them. Council approval of the Berry dale election was because coun cilmen felt the property owners in the district could best decide whether or not they wanted an nexation. About 337 signatures were on the Berrydale district petition. Mayor Miller told Doernbach that the city will hold public meetings between now and the general election in which resi dents from Berrydale can be in formed of the legal and financial implications of annexation. The Kenwood-Grandview pe tition contained about 385 signa tures and represented about 72 per cent of the residents, ac cording to City Manager Robert Duff. Duff pointed out that the city, after an annexation, assumes both the civic assets and liabil ities of the area annexed. He said there is about $153,000 in outstanding bonds in the Kenwood-Grandview district and about 574,000 in the Berrydale district. He added that Medford water rales probably would have to be increased $1.63 annually, or about 14 cents per month, to cover the debts. A request by State Repre sentative E. H. Mann, 47 Rose ave., to exclude property he owns in the Berrydale district from the annexation boundaries, was denied. Boy Found Colton. Calif. (U.R) An ei-ht-year-oId boy who played hookey from schooj to go swim ming was found dead today in a hobo junele outside the city limits and sheriff's deputies said he had been murdered. George Bryant was reported missing Tuesday and school play mates said he told them he was going swimming in Warm creek wish, near the jungle. A search party found his body, L r-l.--'4 A u , 3 X , if sissssasssaessmsssgaaaaB CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU Postmaster Moore Hamilton tugs on one of several securely chained ball point pens in stalled this week to replace antiquated conventional pens at the Medford post office. Though similar pens in many other Oregon postofficcs have "disappeared," no such trouble is expected here. Pens are chained to desks and "forgetful" in dividuals would have to take "all or nothing," Hamilton pointed out. Buildings, Destroyed A barn, a shop building, and a two-bedroom house-shed struc ture and large amount of or chard equipment were destroyed by fire last night at the Naumes orchard on 401 rd. east of Sticky lane. The' fire came with only half a day left to complete the pear harvest at the orchard but '.he blaze did not stop the work. Central Point rural firemen and state forestry department patrolmen reported the build ings were a mass of flames when they arrive 1. They were able to save three large oil drums and the main house and garage on the property. Origin of the fire was not Savard Elected District Chairman Arthur Savard. 1916 Stratford ave., Medford. was elected chair man for Big Pines district at the second annual district dinner for scouters of the Crater Lake area council, Boy Scouts of America this week, at the Roxy Ann Grange hall. Savard has served as an as sistant scoutmaster, member of a cub pack committee, is a Life Scout, and served 22 years with the Army, retiring last year as a lieutenant colonel.. Jerry Gastincau was elected vice chairman and N. H. (Duke) Gladfeltcr was reelected district commissioner, a position he has held for the past two years. Over 50 Scouters and their wives attended the dinner, served by the ladies of the Grange. Bob Church, . retiring chairman for Big Pines district, conducted the meting. Carroll Smith. Ashland, Bish op of the Latter Day Saints churches of southern Oregon and northern California, was speaker at the dinner. Medford Firemen Answer Three Calls A stove was heavily damaged and the wall above it received minor damage when grease in a pan on the stove ignited about 9:55 a.m. today at. the Dorothy J. O'Connor home, 616 Cherry St., firemen reported. Firemen said that there was smoke damage through the en tire house. Articles stored on a utility porch and the kitchen were dam aged by smoke late yesterday morning at the Stephen Harbert residence, 1509 East Main st. Firemen said gasoline being used to clean the floor was ignited by a gas water heater. The fire department answered a house fire alarm about 7:25 p.m. yesterday at the home of Jerry McDougall, 425 Lynwood ave. Smoke which led to the alarm was found to be coming from a deep well cooker of an electric range. There was consid erable smoke damage. Slain in Hobo Jungle bruised and with lacerations cov ering his face. Deputy Sheriff Ken Halstcad said it definitely was a homicide and it appeared the boy was the victim of a sadistic sex deviate. The coroner's office said a preliminary examination showed the boy had been criminally at tacked and death was due to drowning. The victim's shirt, saturated i Equipment in Blaze learned, but the possibility that it may have started at the back of the house and shed was men tioned. Equipment Destroyed Four tractors, two spray rigs, a fertilizer spreader, a seeder. trailers and orchard heating equipment were among the prop erties burned. Joe Naumes of Nye and Naumes fruit packing firm said that the buildings and equipment were insured. The fire was discovered by Eugene Hunt, occupant of the main house which is on the prop erty but not associated with the orchard operation. Mrs. Hunt turned in the alarm about 8:30 p.m. Hunt was able to pull a large truck out of danger from the fire. Boxes containing cornice ready to be brought to Med ford for processing caught fire and were pushed from the truck Police Called Slate police were called be cause of the traffic jam cause! by cars and spectators. Fire Chief L. C. Lisenbce said that it was "nothing but rough so far as traffic was concerned." Lisen bee said that some volunteer firemen had to walk as far as one-fourth mile to get to ths fire. The chief said that traffic caused a problem in getting trucks between the fire scene and 401 orchard to haul water. He reported .that police did a good job in clearing the way for the trucks. Three Central Point rural rigs and 12 men and one state for estry department pumper and two men were on the fire. Rural firemen remained on the scene until about 12:30 a.m. Tex Hale was said to be the occupant of the small house. Late News Briefs ACCEPTS INVITATION Washington (U.R) Russia has accepted a United Slates in vitation to send Soviet observers to this country to watch the windup of the presidential cam paign. PINBALL STATUS DELAYED Portland (U.R) Jack Sav age, head of the intelligence div ision of the Internal Revenue Service here, said today that it may be weeks or months before the status of Oregon pinball ma chines under the federal gaming device tax law is known. Sports Bulletin Portland. Ore. (U.R) Carl "Bobo" Olson, former world middleweight boxing chamion. today announced he would re tire from the ring. Olton had been scheduled to fight Sammy Walker i na 10 rounder here Thursday night. Sid Flaherty, Olson's man ager, said the fight was called off after Olson did not per form well in workouts here week. with cologne, was found in near by brush and the empty bottle was near his body. Deputies began an immediate roundup of all hobos in and near the jungle. . Young Bryant formerly lived in St. Helena, Calif., and was the 1949 Napa county March of Dimes poster boy. He was handi capped with a withered right arm from an attack of polio. Maglie Pitches Out of Trouble To Stop Yankees Homer by Hodges Provides Cushion Brooklyn (U.R) Swarthy Sal (The Barber) Maplin nitV-hino .with his heart, his head and a weary arm. took a three-run cushion from the home run bat of Television station KBES will broadcast the World Series games daily, starting at 8:45 a.m. f ' Gil Horfpps anri Ki..n4 .inn v n uic mighty New York Yankees, 6-3. today to win the opening game of the World Series. ' The 39-year-old Maglie, re garded as a "washed up has been" last spring, thrilled a crowd of 34,479, which included President Eisenhower, five Cab inet members, former President Hoover and the Duke of Wind sor, as he yielded two home runs, but continually pitched his way out of other heart-stopping Yankee threats to complete a dramatic victory. Big Don Newcombe, a 27 Came winnpr fni thA rnA- - - "uuscis, and Don Larsen, who won 11 for ine xannees, were named today to pitch the second came. PL A I' BY PLAY: Yankee first: Bauer bounced out. Slaughter singled. Mantle hit a home run. Bcrra walked. Skowron and Mc Dougald struck out. Two runs, two nits, no errors, one left. Dodger first: GiUiam bounced out. me! out. oniarr oouncea out. No runs, no bits, no errors, none left. Yankees second: Martin fouled out. Carey and Ford struck out. No runs, no hit, no errors, none left Dodpers second: Robinson hit a home run. Hodges singled. Furillo- doubled. """"h HWB", v.nj ii panci la ana Am ords flied out. Maglie struck cut. Two """i io, iiu cwuin, une leu. Vank third- ! ci v. . singled. Mantle struck out. Berra pop pea out. Skowron forced Slaughter. No runs, two hits, no errors, two left. afuugci urn u . tamtam popped out. Reese and Snider king led. Robinson flird out. Hodges hit a home run. rur- illn flifri mil Threat fit 11. h-u k.i. no errors, none left. Yankees fourth: McDougald flied out. Martin hit a home -run. Carey Hied out. Wilson, batting tor Ford, struck out. One run, one hit, no er rors, none left. Dodgers fourth: Kucks replaced Ford on the mound ior the lbiiKecb. Cam panella doubled. Amoros singled, hcor ing Campanella. Maglie bunied into a double piay. Gilliam was sate at iirst on Skowron s error and stole second. Reese struck out. One run, two hits, one error, one .eft, Yankees fifth: Bauer singled. Slaugh ter popped out. Mantle walked) Berra and Sttuwron flied out. No runi, one hit. no errors, two left. Dodgers lifth: Snider and Robinson flied out. Hodges rolled out. No runs, not hits, no errors, none left. Yankees sixth: McDougald struck out. Martin popped out. Carey singled. Ccrv, balling lor Kucks, bingied. Bducr popped oul. No runs, two hits, nu er rors., two left. Dodgers sixth: Morgan replaced Kucks on the mound ior the Yankpns. Furillo bounced out. Cam panel la lined oul. Amoros tlied out. Wo runs, no hits, no errors, none left. Yankees seventh: Slaughter lined out. Mantle walkeo. Berra and Skow ron lined oui. Wo runs, no hits, no errors, none left. Doazers seveuth: Maslie flied nut. Gilliam walked. Reese binglea and was run down between first and sec ond. Sniaer walked. Robinson forced Snider. No runs, one hit, no errors. Yankees eighth: McDougald struck out. martin warned. Coians, baiting ior Carey, strucK out. Byrne, balling ior Morgan, louicd out. No runs, no hits, no errors, one left. uoacerk eicnui: niarun moved to third. Coleman went m at Kecniid and Turley toon the mound tor the Yan kees. Hodges struck oul. Fun Ho bounc ed oul. C&mpdnetJ& struck out. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left. Yankees ninth: Bauer struck out. Slaugnler singled. Mantle hit into a ouuie piay. wo runs, one, nil, no errors, none left. box sco lit: W V Yankees ab Bauer rl slaughter li . Maiiue cf Berra c SKowron lb . MciJougala ss 4 Martin Jb-Jb 3 Carey 3u .. 3 C Collins 1 i'uriey p 0 rord p 1 A Wu&on 1 Kucks p r. 0 B Cerv .. 1 Morgan p 0 D nyrne 1 J. Coieman 2b 0 TOTALS ... 35 Brooklyn Gilliam 2b .... Reebe b& .iiJucr ci Robinson 3b flOURCS lb .... Kuruio rl CampaneJla c Amoros If Magiic p TOTALS ab 3 4 3 4 4 4 . 4 3 3 ...32 6 9 27 A .truck out lor Ford in 4th. fi kingied lor Kucks in 6lh. C struck out lor Carey in 8th. rj touied out lor Morgan in 8th. New York Brooklyn . 200 100 000 3 023 100 OOx 6 E Skowron. RBI Mantle 2. Rob inson, unllo. Hodges 3, Martin, Ain oros. 2B Furillo. Campanella. HR ManUe. Robinson. Hodges. Aiarlin. SB Gilliam. DP Skouron-McDoug-aid- Martin; Gilliam- Reese- Hodges. LOB New York 9. Brooklyn 4. Bii Morgan 2. Maglie 4. SO Ford 1. Tur ley 1. Kucks 1. Magiic 10. HO Ford 6-3, Kucks 2-2. Morgan 1-2. Turley 0-1. R&ER Ford 3-5. Kucks 1-1. Winner Maglie. Loser Ford. Um pires Pinelli iN. plate: Soar 'Ai lb; BocgesR INi 2b: NaoD lAl 3b: Gorman (Ni. Runge (A, foul lines. lime 2:32. Attendance 34.479. Washington (U.PJ Sen-te Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson has accused President Eisenhower of making "mislead ing" statements about the coop eration he received from the Democratic 84th Congress.