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TAX STATEMENTS The
mated 33.578 Jackson county tax statements
for the 1956-57 fiscal year were expected to
be in the mail yesterday. Shown preparing
the statements for mailing are, left to right,
Mrs. Delpha Offcnbacher, county court secre-
Chamber of Commerce Board
Recommends Bear Creek Line
The board of directors of the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce this morning voted
to recommend to the highway
commission the Bear Creek
route for a new Highway 99
freeway in this area. Only one
member dissented.
The vote came on adoption of
the chamber's highway commit
tee report and recommendation
favoring the Bear Creek route
over the other three suggested
routes those on the West Side;
on the East Side in the Hillcresl
area; and along the Gennessce
st. -Cottage st. line in east Med
ford. The highway committee's re
port, as adopted, said that less
residential property would be
disturbed by the Bear Creek
route than by the others, that
fewer acres of producing orch
ards would be eliminated, and
that the other types of agricul-
tural land disturbed by a Bear
Creek location are of lesser
value than those which would
be harmed by the other loca
tions. Flooding Menace
The report discounted the
menace of flooding of the Bear
Creek route, saying straighten
ing and channeling of the creek,
as part of the highway construc
tion, would alleviate this dan
ger. The route would do less
damage by diagonal separation
of existing properties, the report
said.
The report also declared the
Bear Creek route (in which the
four-lane freeway would be
built at about high-water level
along the east side of the creek
and the west side of Hawthorne
park) would create less of a
"barrier" to cast-west traffic
than would the Gennesse
route.
Either the Hillcrest or West
Side routes would make neces
sary added costs to the city in
constructing streets and roads
giving access to the freeway,
the report said, and it added
that the Hillcrest route would
prove damaging to the new
Rogue Valley hospital now un
der construction on Barnctt rd.
It also pointed out the West
''Side route would be an esti
mated $4 million more expen
sive than any of the other three.
The committee report also
recommended to the commis
sion, if the Bear Creek route is
finally selected, that homes and
businesses along Hawthorne
street bordering the present
park be purchased and convert
ed to park use to compensate
for the park area used by the
freeway.
Report Presented
The report was presented to
the board by Paul Rynning.
chairman of the highway com
mittee and county engineer.
Construction
City Sewer System Starts
Phoenix Construction start
ed this week on the Phoenix
sewer system, according to may
or Dan Adams.
The work is being done at the
Coleman creek crossing, at the
north end of town, where Phoe
nix will connect with the South
Bear creek system, and where a
master meter will be installed.
The south Bear creek system '
is complete except for the sy
phon at Barnett rd.
When the work is finished
at Coleman creek crossing the
trenching will begin for the 24.
834 feet of six to 12 inch pipe
to be installed throughout the
city. There will be approxi
mately 300 connections made as
the line is put in and plans call
for 70 manholes in the system.
The cement pipe being used
last of an esti- tary, Mrs. Joan
Support was voiced for the rec
ommendation by the Retail
Merchants association, and by
the irrigation districts of the
area.
Sole dissent to the Bear Creek
recommendation was made by
Eric Allen Jr., who stated that
I any of the four routes will
cause hardship to some people,
but that the Bear Creek route,
I four lanes wide, would inevit
ably create a division in the
city, providing a hindrance to
proper urban development in
the future, both inside and out
side the present city limits.
Allen said it would prevent
Bear Creek from eventually be
ing developed as a park strip
through the city. He also de
clared he believed that tourists
on the Hillcrest route would
SENATOR CHAVES
Public Works Committee
Ivy i M v1- i A
One-Day Hearing on
Flood Control Friday
A one-day senate interior and
public works committee hearing
will be held in the federal court
room in the Medford postoffice
building at 10 a.m. tomorrow.
The hearing, which is on flood
control of Rogue River, will be
conducted by Sen. James Mur
ray (D-Mont.), chairman- of the
interior committee, and Sen.
Dennis Chaves (D-N.M.). chair
man of the public works com
mittee. Today the joint committee is
conducting a hearing in Klam
ath Falls relating to the end
of federal control over the Klam
ath Indians. The hearing here
of Phoenix
is a new type, especially design
ed for sewer use. and features
rubber sealer rings. It will be
furnished by a local company as
it is needed.
Total cost of the system, in
cluding engineering, construc
tion and supervision will be
about $90,000. according to Har
vey and Watkins, construction
engineers.
Property owners will be as
sessed S3. 65 per front foot, and
will be able to either pay the
amount in a lump sum. or over
a period of 10 years. Trunk lines
in the city will be financed by
bonds issued to the city of Phoe
nix. No estimate could be made as
to when the Phoenix system
would be ready to use, Mayor
Adams said.
Bailey, Mrs. Ilene Bogcner
and Miss Delia Mast, tax department em
ployees. The four have been working on the
project since Monday. To be eligible for
the 3 per cent discount, residents must pay
their taxes on or before Nov. 15.
find it, and therefore the city,
more attractive, and would be
more apt to stop in Medford if
that route is used, than if the
freeway were to cut right
through town, presenting a view
only of business property or the
sub-standard type of develop
ment which historically grows
up adjacent to major highway
routes.
. After adopting the committee
report, the board voted to have
representation at the highway
commission hearing on the mat
ter next Thursday. It was sched
uled for 10 a.m. at the county
courthouse auditorium, but
Mayor Earl Miller made ar
rangements today to have the
hearing at the Cratcrian thea
ter to better accommodate the
large crowd expected to attend.
SENATOR MURRAY
Interior Committee
was requested jointly by Sen
ators Wayne Morse and Richard
Neuberger. Senator Neuberger
is a member of both commit
tees. Officers to Testify
Three interior department of
ficers have been designated to
testify at the hearing here. They
are Arthur M. Piper, U. S.
Geological Survey staff scientist
and chairman of the Rogue
river task force survey group;
O. M. Browne, bureau of recla
mation, Boise, Idaho, regional
project development engineer,
and Doren E. Woodward, fish
and wildlife service, supervisors
of river basin studies for the
regional office in Portland. Sev
eral other witnesses are sched
uled to give testimony.
The bureau of reclamation, in
1950, outlined a comprehensive
plan for irrigation, power and
flood control development of
Rogue river. When sports groups
and other recreationists protest
ed, the plan was shelved, and
only last year a non-controversial
portion of it. the Talent
project, was started.
Bulletin
Vice President Richard Nix-'
on will spend the night of Fri
day, Oct. 26. in Medford, it
was learned this afternoon
Plans are being made for a Re
publican rally and a speech
by the vice president, and ten
tative arrangements have been
made to use the auditorium at
Hedrick Junior High school.
51st Year
Medford
United Press Full Leased Wire
28 Pages
Korean War Medal
Of Honor Winner
Broken lo Private
Sergeant Sentenced on
Charges of Disrespect
Parris Island, S.C. U.R) A
Korean War Congressional Med
al of Honor winner was broken
to private, fined and sentenced
lo three months of hard labor
Wednesday for drunkenness, dis
respect to an officer and being
AWOL.
T-Sgt. Alfred Lee McLaugh
lin, 28, of Leeds, Ala., holder of
the nation's highest award for
bravery under fire, personally
presented by President Eisen
hower, was tried by a four-member
court-martial board.
McLaughlin, credited with
killing 150 enemy-soldiers' and
wounding SO at Bunker Hill in
Korea, pleaded guilty to two
charges and was found guilty
of two others. His fine was
placed at $120.
His bravery in firing two ma
chine guns at his post despite
severe wounds and blistered
hands in defending the lonely
outpost in Korea on the night
of Sept. 4-5, 1952, won him the
nation's top military honor a
year later.
President Eisenhower made
the presentation at the White
House on Oct. 27, 1953.
The charges grew out of an
incident last March while Mc
Laughlin was stationed with a
Marine Corps reserve unit at
Rome, Ga. He was a member of
the inspector - instructor, 4th
Rifle Company.
The Marine pleaded guilty of
the charge of drunkenness and
absence from his organization
without proper authority, and
he-was found guilty of disrespect
to his commanding officer and
a" superior non-commissioned
officer.
Neuberger to Speak
At Esquire Tonight
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
will speak In behalf of Sen.
Wayne Morse at 8 p.m. today at
Democratic headquarters in the
Esquire theater here.
Senator Neuberger, who visit
ed in Ashland yesterday, is at
tending a senate interior com
mittee hearing, today in Klam
ath Falls concerning problems
relating to the end of federal
control ver the Klamath In
dians.
He plans to return to Medford
late this afternoon. Tonight's
speech is open to the public.
Senator and Mrs. Neuberger
will be guests at a reception
following his talk.
Tomorrow, Senator Neuberger
will attend a joint interior and
public works committee hearing
here concerning Rogue River
basin flood control.
He will give the principle ad
dress at a no-host dinner at 6
p.m. tomorrow at the Medford
hotel. Following the dinner. Sen
ator Neuberger will go to the
northern part of the state.
Porter Schedules
Coffee Hours in Area
Charles O. Porter, Democratic
candidate for congressman from
the fourth district, will be in
Jackson county Friday, Oct. 19,
and Saturday, Oct. 20.
Several coffee hours have
been planned for Porter. Friday
coffee hours include one at 10
a.m. at the home of Mrs. M. E.
Norton in Phoenix: at 12:30
p.m., Mrs. Richard Kane, Talent:
1:30 p.m. Mrs. Al Miller, 160
Scenic dr., Ashland.
Between 3 and 5 p.m. Friday,
Porter will be at the home of
Mrs. Edward Kelly. Mrs. Maur
ine Neuberger also will be a
guest of Mrs. Miller and Mrs.
Kelly while Senator Richard L.
Neuberger is attending a sen
ate interior committee hearing
in Medford.
Coffee hours Saturday, Oct.
20, will be held at the home of
Mrs. Ray Claflin. Phoenix, at 10
a m.: and at the home of Mrs.
Mark Balfour, Medford, at 1
p.m.
The coffee hours for Porter
will be open to the public.
Jerusalem. Israeli Sector (U.P.I
Officials in Amman said the
first two of a group of British
Hawker Hunter jet fighters ar
rived in Jordan today to
strengthen British military forc
es In that desert kingdom.
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1956
Eisenhower Sets Campaign
Speech Tonight in Portland
Diplomatic Circles
Predict Reshuffle
In British Ministry
Observers Say Failure to
Strike After Suez Cause
London (U.P.) Britain's 'ina
bility to strike at once when
the Suez crisis first broke will
lead to a drastic shakeup in
the Defense Ministry, political
observers said today.
Diplomatic circles said Britain
fully intended to use force dur
ing the opening days of the
Suez crisis last summer but
found it had no troops to do
the job.
Although officials deny this,
increasing and apparently auth
oritative reports of an impend
ing reshuffle in the Defense
Ministry lent strength to the
reports. Added credence to the
reports came Wednesday in a
speech by the new chief of the
British navy, who said emphasis
on atomic warfare had . left
Britain weak in conventional
weapons.
Press reports said youthful
War Minister Antony Head may
soon replace 65-year-old Sir
Walter Monckton, who has been
defense minister for only 10
months.
Monckton to Step Down
The London Daily Mail added
today that Monckton will step
down on the ground of illness
and take over as paymaster
general, vacant advisory post
without portfolio in the cabinet.
Diplomatic quarters sincerely
believe that Prime Minister An
thony Eden's cabinet was on the
brink of ordering armed inter
vention within hours after Egypt
nationalized the Suez Canal. Ac
cording to this theory, the idea
was abandoned because of an
insufficient number of troops,
ships and planes within striking
distance.
Britain fell back, instead, on
a diplomatic offensive and start
ed a belated military buildup.
Deer Hunter Reported
Missing in County
James Kennedy, about 70,
has been reported three-days
overdue from a deer hunting
trip in the vicinity of his home
near Copper about four miles
south of the McKee bridge.
The sheriff's office reported
about noon today they had re
ceived a call from a neighbor
of the missing hunter, stating
Kennedy left home at 2 p.m.
Tuesday and has not yet re
turned. State police, sheriff's deputies
and forest rangers from the Star
ranger station began a search
early this afternoon in the vicin
ity of Kennedy's home.
This is the first time this sea
son that a hunter has been re
ported missing in Jackson
county.
County Republicans
Visit in Portland
Seven. Jackson county Repub
licans are in Portland today
to meet President and Mrs.
Eisenhower during his campaign
visit there. The delegation is
headed by Mrs. Frank Bash,
Medford central committee
chairman, and Ben Lombard,
vice chairman of the commit
tee. Others are Mrs. William E.
Frake, Mrs. Ernst Ruegger and
Donald B. Whalin, Medford;
Mrs. Lester Adams, Applegate,
and E. E. Bolt, Gold Hill.
The group attended a workers'
rally this afternoon and had
an opportunty to meet the Eisen
howers. They also will attend
tonight's meeting at the Civic
auditorium.
MEETING SLATED
An open meeting of the Farm
ers Home administration's farm
loans will be held in room 202
in the Medford post office build
ing at 10 a.m. Friday. Oct. 19, E.
M. Denney, county FHA super
visor has announced. The meet
ing will be to acquaint farm
lenders, agricultural leaders and
others interested with the FHA
program.
PRESIDENT EISENHOWER
Plugging in Oregon
Seven Appearances
Made This Morning
In Circuit Court
Seven people appeared in cir
cuit court this morning to enter
pleas to charges and receive sen
tences. Donald LaVerne Ambuehl, 31,
of 1615 Crater Lake highway.
Medford, pleaded innocent to a
charge of unlawful possession of
narcotics. He is represented by
Edward Kelly.
Mrs. Bernice Phillips. 32. of
532 Pennsylvania- ave., Medford
entered a plea of innocent to
an indictment charging posses
sion of stolen property. She is
represented by A. Eugene
Piazza.
Lawrence Robert Stanton, 35
Portland, was sentenced to one
year in the Multnomah county
jail. Rocky Butte, after pleading
guilty to a charge of receiving
and concealing stolen property.
He was represented by Robert
Boyer.
Suspended Sentence
C. M. Northrup, 28, Vancou
ver, Wash., received a suspended
one -year penitentiary sentence
after pleading guilty to a charge
of larceny by bailee. The charge
involved sale of a mortgaged
range and refrigerator owned
by Leonard Electric company.
Cases were continued pending
receipt of FBI records on Wil
liam Raymond Pickett, 28, of
233 South Riverside ave., Med
ford, and Ralph Amos Rodkey,
33, Kokomo, Ind. Pickett plead
ed guilty to obtaining money
under false pretenses, and Rod-
key pleaded guilty to a charge
of making a false "check to
Ryan's Cleaners in Medford.
Rodkey also is wanted on a
fugitive warrant from Indiana,
concerning another check
charge.
Prentice Kenneth Cox, 30,
Wichita Falls, Tex., appeared for
resentencing on a charge of lewd
cohabitation. He was originally
sentenced to one year in the
Multnomah county jail. The sen
tence was changed this morning
to six months in the Multnomah
county jail after it was found
the crime carried a sentence of
only six months.
Ad Valorem Tax May
Be Under '55 Figure
Ad valorem tax on real estate
in Jackson county for the 1956
57 fiscal year is expected to be
5272,636.98 under the 1955-56
figure, and total of taxes and
liens is expected to be $259,
775.31 less than last year's fig
ure. According to Mrs. Eva Jen
nings, county assessor, last year's
ad valorem tax on real estate to
taled 55,110,880.47 as compared
with S4.838.243.49 for 1956-57.
Last year's total of taxes and
liens was $5,413,239.45 as com
pared with $5,153,464.14 for
1956-57.
Tax funds for the 1956-57 year
will be distributed through
county agencies as follows:
Cities. S665.867.72; water dis
tricts, S34.093.95; sanitary dis
tricts. S4.007.76; rural fire dis
tricts. S84.041.83; county fund,
$31,867.93; and schools, $2,613,
419.41. (
Price 10c
fllBUNE
United Press Full Leased Wira
No. 179
Chief Executive,
First Lady Stop
En Route to L. A.
GOP Expect Overflow
Crowds at Auditorium
By UNITED PRESS
The political spotlight was
again on Oregon today as the Re
publican faithful awaited Pres
ident Eisenhower's major cam
paign spech tonight at the Port
and Civic Auditorium to be
televised nationally.
The chief executive and Mrs.
Eisenhower were due in at the
Portland International Airport
at 2:05 p.m. today after a speech
last night at the Seattle Civic
Auditorium and a visit and over
night stay with the family of
his brother, Edgar Eisenhower,
in Tacoma.
Republicans looked for large
crowds in Portland. The Audi
torium was expected to be
crammed and arrangements
were made to put up a screen
outside the structure so thous
ands more in the overflow
crowd could see and hear the
president.
Overnight Stay
The president and the first
lady were to travel in a motor
cade from the airport to down
town Portland and then through
the streets of the downtown
area.
President and Mrs.' Eisen
hower will stay over night in
Portland before flying to Los
Angeles and elaborate plans
have been made for their com
fortable stay in the presidential
suite at the Multnomah hotel.
(See Story on Page 8)
15, County Youths
To Attend PIL Show
Fifteen Jackson county 4-H
club members will leave Med
ford at 9:30 a.m. Friday to at
tend the Pacific International
Livestock show in Portland, Oct.
20-27.
Livestock to be entered in the
show will leave Medford at 6:30
a.m. tomorrow. The judging
team will return on Sunday,
Oct. 21, and other exhibitors
will return Wednesday, Oct. 2.
The group will be accompa
nied by Miss Marjorie Hattan
and Glenn Klein, county 4-H
agents.
Americans, German
Share Nobel Prize
Stockholm. Sweden (U.R) A German doctor who discovered a
new method of diagnosing heart and pulmonary ailments and two
American physicians who brought the method to a high state of
perfection were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Medicine
today.
Prof. Dickinson W. Richardson, 60-year-old professor of medi
cine at Columbia University, French-born Dr. Andre Cournand,
61, his associate for 25 years at Columbia, and Germany's 52-year-old
Dr. Werner Forssman, shared the S38.633 prize.
Their method involves catheterization of the heart the
slipping into the heart of a tube which permits study of the
internal conditions and enhances the value of diagnosis. The
medical profession has called it a milestone of medical progress.
Rn AM A LHP I
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Berlin Newspapers
Report Unrest In
City of Magdeburg
Red Spokesman Denies '
Disturbance in Factory
Berlin (U.PJ East German
Communists have rushed troops
to the city of Magdeburg to meet
labor unrest and strikes, re
ports reaching West Berlin said
today.
The reports were given by the
West Berlin newspaper Der Tag
and by the West Berlin organiz
ation known as the Free Jurists
Investigating Committee.
, But the reports of strikes were
vague and contradictory, and
they were doubted by the major
ity of West Berlin organizations
with underground links to the
Soviet Zone.
Workers Object to Work
Der Tag said 2,000 members
of the Communist Police Army
were rushed from East Berlin to
Magdeburg Wednesday after
workers objected to new work
quotas that called for higher
production at less pay.
The newspaper said produc
tion at Megdeburg's Karl Marx
heavy machinery factory had
come almost to a standstill. Po
lice and soldiers were patrolling
the plant.
Both Der Tag and the Free
Jurists said the protests were
caused by the industrial speed
up. It was just such a speedup
that led to the Poznan riots in
Poland last June 28 and the re
volt in East Germany on June
17, 1953.
Plant Cut Off
The Free Jurists, considered .
reliable group with excellent in
telligence sources, said "strong
units'' of Red people's police
were at not only the Karl Marx
factory but also the Thaelmann
plant in Magdeburg. It said the
Thaelmann factory was cut off
completely from the outside
world.
The United Press reached
spokesman for the Works Coun
cil for the Karl Marx factory by
telephone in Magdeburg.
"We have seen the report in
Der Tag and is is completely in
correct," he said. "There Is ab
solutely no unrest in our factory,
and the report that troops ere
being rushed to quell disturb
ances in Magdeburg is certainly
untrue."
Weather
FORECAST: Clearing tonight.
Becoming foggy early Friday,
clearing by nitdmorning. In
cr canine cloudiness Friday
afternoon. Rain late Friday
or earlv -Saturday. Low to
night 38-40. High Fndav 2.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 78
Lowest this Mornfnc 51
Our Skies Tonight
Prw, to 10 a-m. Today JZ
Sunrise a-m.
Sunset 5:24 p.m.
The nearly Full Moon
riei 4:43 p.m.
and makes things noticeably
brighter tonight. Yet the Earth
on a clear day receive at much
heat and light from the Sun In
ibout 13 seconds ai It does
.'rom the Moon in an entire
year.