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TWO MEDFORD (OHEtSfrN) MAIL TRIBUNE Salaries for County Officials Show 48.2 Per Cent Increase Salaries for the six top county officials in Jackson county have increased 43.2 per cent from 1352-53 to 1956-57, according to a comprehensive survey of coun ty salaries recently completed hy Orrgon tax research. Port lnr.d. Wages for the top county offi cials totalled $33,150 for 1956-57 an increase from S25.776 in 1952-' 53 Increases in Jackson county ' were the fourth highest in the j sta'e. ! Actual 1956-57 salaries for top ' county officials in the 36 Oregon counties were compared by OTR with compensation for the offi cials in 1952-53. Salaries Fixed Those were the last years be fore the legislature cave county officials the richt to set their own j salary. Prior to 1953. the county I salaries wpre fixed by Legisla- j tive act. j Top nfficis! covered by the j OTR survey include the county judje. county commissioners, sheriff, treasurer, assessor and i clerk. Lamest wage increase for a Jackson county official was rec-1 orded for county commissioners. They are now receiving S5.520 a year, a 66.fi per cent increase over the $3,300 paid them in 1952-53. The county clerk has received a 63.6 per cent wage increase since 1952-53. Annual salary for clerk is now S5.400. compared to S3.300 four years ago. Increase in earnings for coun ty assessor was 50.4 per cent over the 1952-53 pay scale. The assessor now receives $5,520. compared to $3,660 four years ago. Increase in salary four county Judge was 35.2 per cent during the last four years. The judge now receives $5,760, compared to $4,260 in 1952-53. Annual wage for the sheriff is now $5,400. compared to $4,260 four years ago. a 26.8 per cent in crease since 1952-53. g Largest percentage increase during the four-year period was in Curry county, where the 1956- 57 salaries are 103 per cent above thtsse for 1952-53. Clacka mas county was second in the state with an 82 per cent in On he bide (Distributed by King o Now there is a recording ma chine that can be hidden in a necktie. This gadget will record all conversations in. which the wearer is a participant. What did you say to somebody yester- j day that you wouldn't care to I have recorded? Anyway, permit me to again quote that classic I advice, "five things observe with ' care: of whom you speaK, to whom you speak, and how and when and where" Saving Money Our representatives at Wash- Wi n r m t ho real v determined to save the tax payers some money. As for example, a congressional com mittor pnpanpH in luHvinff -oav"? nri means "of cuttine "down ex- penses stated that the Internal Revenue Service could save 5250.000 a year by reducing the width of the cigarette tax stamp bv three-sixteenths of an inch. This inspires a thought as to what the post office department could save by reducing the width of all its stamps by three-sixteenths of an inch. Or even two sixteenths of an inch. And why not? Asking Queries from clients. Q. Did Garibaldi, the Italian patriot, ever live in New York? A. Yes. sir. He lived on Staten Island tor a period. Q. Has thereover been a stage play with a Yale University background? A. Only one I know of was that titled "At Yale." in which James J. Corbett. the heavyweight boxer, was starred. Wives Have vou a five star wife? In a British competition designed to bring unusual wives into the spotlight, the ladies are rated by stars. One star each for face-figure-fashion-food-fun. The five star rating goes to a wife who has a face like Elizabeth Taylor, a figure like Marilyn Jlonroe. the style sense of the Duchess of Windsor, is an outstanding cook and very much fun to be with. If your wife doesn't rate five stars, tell her not to be de pressed. There are a number of celebrated females, including Marilyn Monrce and Elizabeth Taylor who only rate two stars. Those Camps In nudist and naturist camps men greatly outnumber , the women. On the waiting lists of some of these camps are five times as many men as women. Do you know the difference be tween a nudist and a naturist? A nudist is primarily a sun bath ing enthusiast. A naturist in ad dition to being a sun bathing addict is aiso a vecetarian, a non-smoker and a teetotaler. crease. Wallowa county with a 63 per cent increase was third. County commissioners regist ered the highest salary increas es throughout the state. The 36 county total for commissioner's salary or expense allowance is S253.698 for 1956-57. an increase of 43 per cent over the S 3 80,549 expended in 1952-53 Injunction Stops Georgia-Pacific Corp. Stock Sales New York The Se curities and Exchange commis sion has obtained a temporary injunction against Georgia-Pacific Corp. of Portland, Ore., prohibiting the big plywood pro ducer from further saies of its common stock. The SEC's New York reg ion- al office obtained the injunction from the United States District Court for southern o district of New York, alleging violations of the securities act of 1933. The complaint asserted that the company had used the mails illegally in the sale and offer ing of stock. In newspaper .and magazine advertising, according to the comnlaint. the company em ployed a 'biograph that was "false and misleading," insinuat ing that if all the company's forests were felled and products sold at today's prices the stock would have a value of $145 a share. The SEC said the book value of each share of the common stock was $14.50. The issue will be argued in court next Thursday. A company spokesman said late Friday night the advertise ment in question did not deal with the value of the stock and had nothing to do with the sale of common stock by the comp any on Oct. 16. He said the advertisement was published pursuant to an j advertising schedule which had been set up long before the I stock offering was contemplat ed. By E. V. Durling Fejtures Syndicate, Inc.) ' Traveling o Considering taking a trip shortly? Are you familiar with "travel insurance"? Say your trip is to be of a month's dura tion. For a premium of $29 you can get S25.000 accident or loss of limb insurance. In- addition for the same premium, you get $2,500 emedical care insurance, And S2.0U0 baggage insurance Wild Walking Wild walking is as dangerous as wild driving. Reckless pedes- trians are the cause of too many fatal accidents In London, a Orie nas oeen iduncnea against the wild walkers. The penalty there for the first offense of jay walkers is the equivalent of S28. For the second offense it is S70. Highest penalty for jaywalkin I know of in this country is in Pasadena. Calif. There you can i Salem (U.R) Quick re be fined S10 for wild walking. : sponse by the Salem Fire De- For a second offense you can be jailed. Briefly It was W. S. Gilbert who said of Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's performance of the part of Ham let that it was "funny without being vulgar" -. . . As for cigars I like a natural color Corona shaped Havana that draws well and has been expertly handled in the humidor. Not too fresh, not too dry.o Weight The proper and healthiest weight for a middle aged man is what he weighed in his twen ties. So says a physical culture expert. That puts me right on the beam. I weighed 188 when I was 22. And that's what I weigh now. I have weighed as Locker Meat Sale Cut and Wrapped Phone 3-1665 ALL MEATS ARE INSPECTED Vi or Whole Beet Hind Quarter Front Quarter Pork Loins (Whole) Pork Shoulder (wh.i.) Tasty Horn Cured W CUTIS "(Whole) JIM'S MEATS At AL'S MARKET - 838 Sunday. December 2, 1956 Mass Graves For Indians Planned Portland OJ.R) Mass graves for Indians buried on Memaloose and Grave Islands behind The Dalles dam in the Columbia riv er will be established on the Ore gon and Washington shores. The two iclanric u.-ill K in,,,,- uaiea nexi spring as tne aam pool is filled. Army Engineers have announced award of a S60. 377 contract for relocation of the graves to William Gross Con tracting Co. of Auburn, Calif. Engineers said the relocation work would be conducted behind "No Visitors" signs, in keepifis with the wishes of next of kin of u- -I I t -i : Indians bodies on Memaloose Island, located in three bu u"1.! buildings and in three large red in Klickitat county. Wash-1 inston. about one mile north of the Wasco county bridge. A plaque on the mass tomb will read "In memory of all the Indian Ancestors who died so long ago their separate identities cannot be determined." Bodies on Grave Island will be placed in a concrete tomb on gov ernment property on the Orcson ' chnf'O t-inirrni nt nrr.rlnnb in rt Thr ;"" -r-"" - Danes aam. ah Indians in inai mass lomb will be Warm Springs tribe. from the Strike at Feather River Settled San Francisco (U.R) The violent two-and-a-half year strike aqainst the Feather River Pine Mills Company's Feather Falls mill was over Saturday. Settlement of the strike was announced by the company and the Brotherhood of Carpenters and the Central California' Dis trict Council of Lumber and Sawmill Workers Friday. The announcement said both sides agreed that: 1. All legal ac tion shall be dismissed; 2. Picket lines will be removed; and 3. All unfair labor charges shall be dropped. The agreement was signedoby Robert E. Floweree, company vice president, and Joseph Cam biano of the union. No Letup Seen in Greyhound Dispute Portland !U.R) The labor dispute that has tied up Grey hound bus sevice between Port land and Salt Lake City since Wednesday continued Saturday with no early letup in sight. The service was halted when some 80 drivers walked off' their jobs in protest against the fir ing of a fellow employee. The company said the driver was discharged because he drove through railroad crossings with j ou stopping, a violation of fed- eral and state laws and company regulations. E. G. Phipps, Portland super intendent for Greyhound, said no negotiation talks were being held in Portland and tne com pany has turned the matter over to its attorneys in Seattle. Salem Man Rescued o From Second Floor partment was credited Satur day with saving a man's life when fire broke out in the Elks club here Friday. Cecil Doty, head steward of the lodge, was trapped on the second floor of the building but j firemen quickly rgscued nim by the ladder from a window. The S20.000 blaze gBtted a ladies lounge. Firemen said it may have started from a drop ped cigarette. I much as 220 but I took it off by eating less. No seconds. Speak ing of weight reduction, Alfred Hitchcock, the film director, once weighed 294. He now weighs 189. He went on a diet which consisted of three cups j of black coffee, two cigars and one lamb chop a day. 33c ib 39c b 32c ib. 49c ib 39c b 53c ib. OPEN SUNDAYS W. McAndrews Road Robert Basey Being Held by California Officers for Robbery Robert Basey, about 21, of 1324 Winchester St., Medford. is being held by Inglewood, Calif., authorities in connection with the recent armed robbery and kidnapping of an Inglewood gro cery store manager and three members of his family, local au thorities have learned. The store manager, his wife ! and two children said they were j forced to leave their home and get into a car with a gunman and his male companion. While one of the men held the wife and children in the car, I the other forced the store man- Mother, Two Sons A ra FniinH Hpflfl i " U 1 Grove City, Pa. (U.R) A young mother and her two sons were found dead Saturday near a deserted farmhouse and barn two miles from here. Authorit ies said the deaths were murder and suicide. A minister discovered.the bod ies lying under blankets and quilts on snow-covered ground behind the family automobile. He found a third son alive and brought him to the police sta tion here. Police look the boy, Frank Mong, 7, to Grove City hospital where doctors said he was suf fering from frostbite but would recover. The dead were Mrs. Lois May Mong, 29, of nearby Pine Town ship, and her sons, William Ed ward, 9, and Timothy Lynn, 3. They died of carbon monoxide fumes from a household sweep er hose, attached to the exhaust pipe of the family car, Dr. A. J. Lyons, deputy coroner, said. Lyons said "it definitely is a case of murder-suicide." 0 Hp Evidence Seen Of Violating Order New York (U.R) The Tri State Waterfront Commission re ported Saturday that longshore men on New York Harbor piers apparently were working on schedule and there was no evi dence of a slowdown that would violate a Taft-Hartley injunction. The U.S. Lines said loading of its luxury liner America was proceeding on schedule and the ship would get underway at its sailing time today. Shipowners charged earlier this week that the longshore men, who returned to work a week ago under the Taft-Hartley injunction, had staged slow downs, delaying ship sailings. Officials of the International Longshoremen's Association Ind. denied any organized slowdown was under way. 1212 COURT Street O ooutnern Have Moved into their New Building at 1212 Court Street from Holland Hotel and will be OPEN FOR BUSINESS MONDAY-DEC. 3rd We invite you to drop in and see our New Quarters Watch for Our GRAND OPENING in- the Near Future ager to open a safe in the estab lishment. Approximately 51,000 was reported taken from the safe. The family was unharmed. Enter Room According to local reports, Inglewood officers forcibly en tered Basey's hotel room, where they found Basey (who was us ing the name "Jack Baker") and another man. They also report edly found a gun under a pil- ! low and several envelopes coiv taining large amounts of money. i No lormal charge had been fil- j ed at last report. Basey is currently out on bail from the county jail at Coos Bay, where he reportedly used the name "Robert Quintana" and is charged with carrying con cealed weapons and contribut ing to the delinquency of a min or. On Nov. 1, Basey and two other Medford. men were arrest ed in Dunsmuir, Calif., in con nection with a petty theft. Bas ey escaped from city police there during questioning.. He is still wanted in Dunsmuir on a S5.000. warrant. His two companions were released. Arrested in Yreka During the summer he was arrested in Yreka, Calif., after police fired three shots at his car. They had been requested by officers in Jackson and Jose phine counties to arrest Basey, who was wanted on an attempt ed burglary charge in Josephine county. Ashland police officers had chased him at 100 miles per hour over the Siskiyou high way. After Basey was arrested, Yreka authorities charged him with carrying concealed wea pons. That charge was later dropped. The attempted burg lary indictment was dismissed by the circuit judge in Josephine county, who claimed the state had failed to prove its charge against him. Dr. Harich Arrested By East German Reds Berlin (U.R) East German Communists announced the ar rest Saturday of Dr. Wolfgang Harich, a leading East German Titoist, on charges of leading an anti-Communist spy ring and plotting to overthow the East German government. They said Harich, 32, worked for U. S. intelligence agents. He was arrested with his girl friend, Irene Giersch. and two men iden tified as Manfred Hartwig and Bernhard Stcinberger. ESCAPES HUNGARY Nickelsdorf, Austria (U.R) Mrs. Sandor Kocsis. wife of the Hungarian international soccer star, has escaped to Austria to join her husband, it was reported Saturday. Kocsis is currently touring Spain with his team. Oregon and National Farm Loan Phone 2-6940 O. Production Credit Association S If 5 - ,w TO HELP HUNGARIANS Tracy S. Voorhees of New York, former assistant sec retary of the Army, has been named by President Eisenhower to head the new American Refugee and Re habilitation program for Hungary. Tea Industry Starts Air Lift to England Kampala, Uganda 'U.R) Tea producers Saturday started airlift of their product to ease the tea situation in England. Two planes carrying 5.000 pounds of tea each will fly to England weekly until the Suez canal is cleared of sunken ships. Tea producers said there is a tea shortage in England because of the canal blockage and the sea voyage around the Cape of Good Hope would take too long. RIFLE PRACTICE Hanaa, daughter of Syrian Pres. El Kuwatii, sights her rifle dur ing training in Cairo. Egypt, ttlierfe she lives as the wife of the Syrian Consul. She is one of a large group of Syrian women who are be ing trained in Egypt. Use Tribune Want Ads Production o London Mirror Offers Vacation in Contest London ;U.P.) The London Daily Mirror, strongly opposed to the current British govern ment, offered a three weeks' va cation in Jamaica Satufday as a prize to the reader who writes the best 500-word essay on the Suez crisis. Hie newspaper asked its read ers to write "your view ... on what the British government should now do to repair our al liance with America, improve relationships within the Com monwealth and restore a sense of unity in our own country." Modesto, (U.R) Peter Ricci, 2f -year-old Modesto bakery own er, was killed early Saturday when his station wagon was struck broadside by a semi-truck and trailer at an intersection here. Henry Leroy Boltzer, 31, Brentwood, the driver of the truck, was not injured. 1 3-D mf Dollar for dollar feature for feature the Si Graphic it the greatest 3-D camera buy available. Simple A ... B ... C makes it easy for the beginner to take beautiful 3-D color slides without focusing. 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