Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 19, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texto O 0 o o O O O " O o I o " . n & - ' i O O o o 51st Year . - , a TT Medford United Pif.i Full Leased Wire 20 Pages ehru N ontnbution O ' t f ,1 4 - fir 4 M . -A - i , A. 1 - ZJKSr.i i . m '.9.- 1 ' ' ?- ,! CLOTHING SHIPPED Boxes of clothing for Hiisarian relief are checked by Virgil Rose O (risJll and Art Davis at the Pierce Freight Lines ompaiiy before loading it on a truck for SmD francisro. Approximately a ton of O clothing reported in unusually good condition Copcoio Receive Reserve Award "he Califomi Oregon Power rompanj? Thursday will receive O S department of defense re serve award at ceremonie in Meriord. o OBrig. Gen. Sam Maileius, com mafjt of Mather Air Force 3iise, Sacramento,- will present tle award, vlifch. is in recogni tion of anr outstanding record O is igipcration with reservists und Reserve activities of' the j f 1 president of ' i A. S. '-Cummins Copco. will receive the award' ind citation o behalf of the compiy. o ' award is made to employ ers who have hen unusually ce- ORerWive with"' reservists and ! tlreir mii.tury activities. Duense departmeit ofiiciais puinted .Out that the aard to Copco was ihe Jyvjit of the company's policy O ff stl-inj? militry leave lo re 0jt.ts oncactive duty tours, pursuing po;"i"n:jrl policies fa vorable to feservisfs. providing space andiacilitics for re serveo tivities, and allowing tine off for-i-csr?visls to attend O special twining events. rte- HOW TO PHONE n O Dial Keciiord 2-6 J- or O S530I O O J Between E nd 9 p.m. a" ed nesday Thursday (Through arrangefnents bj O Bedford (Kiwar.fc Club) Pretnier Says Return Gaza Jerusalem vUR) Premier David Bera"iurion tol the Knes set (parliament) today Israel will not retflrn the disputed Gaza trip to Egyj. O The white-maned Premier, in a speech to apacked session of the Knesset, cautiously refused to comment on reports Israeli Ambassador to Washington Abba Enag, said Tuesday Israel does not want thGaza Strip. "But I wou'a like to stress immediately that no one is en titled on behalf of the govern ment to say anything regarding the 4uture of the Gaza Strip ex cept that in no circumstances - Medford Siores Open Until 9 o'clock Through MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, D' Sees Tc - ' , T- . ' . , Hearing Galled on Annexation Proposa The Medford city council will cents per month per water con decide on the annexation of the nection, the council was told last Kenwood-Grahdview district to night by City Manager Robert the city following. a public hear- Duff, ing next Jan. 15, members de- Balance Each Other cided last night. The cost of new city services Voters, in the area approved , to be furnished the area, and annexation bv a vote of 342 to the added income coming to the 283 at the general election in November. But before the an nexation becomes effective it must be approved by the city of Medford. either bv the council - ... . , afldr a nnh if. hoarina nr hv an . ,. v 3 BltLUUIl. In effect, the cost of annexa tion to present residents of the citv. would amount to about 18 MFs Missing Comics Arrive in Mail Today The Mail Tribune's missing comics arrived today, but too lte for inclusion in today's is sue. The three sequences will be brought up to date in tomorrow's edition. Tiie comics presumably were casualties of the Christmas mail rush. The mats from which they are ' reproduced were mailed from New York on schedule on Dec. 7.' and arrived 12 days la ter. . The missing-strips are "Buzz j Sawyer." who is now having troubles with his rocket plane. "Blondie. and "Snuffy Smith. Also missing has been Jimmy Hatlo's "They'll Do It Every Time" panel. Israel Not To Strip To Egypt will Israel agree to its return to the Egyptian invaders," Ben Gurion said. The Gaza Strip is a finger of land that juts into Israel from Egypt along the Mediterranean coast, and some 200.000 Arab refugees are jammed into the area. Israel won the Gaza Strip in its push into the Sinai Desert last month. Since then Israel said it would give up its con- quests in Sinai but has been ad- amant it retain control of Gaza and the refugees who have lived there since they left what is now Israel during the 1948 Palestine war. ' y OS JoP was collected last week bv the Medford chap ter, Oregon United Nations association, for Hungarian relief. The 30 cartons were made ready for shipment last Friday and taken to San Francisco by the freight lines without charge. city as a result of annexation, almost balance each other, he said. The added cost would come through water department serv ices, where added costs would exceed increased income of some SU.UUU per year, ihis could be paid in several ways, Duff said, and he suggested either a general water rate in crease throughout the system totaling about S2.18 per connec tion per year (or about 18 cents per month), or a levy of 0.41 of a mill on all city property. Duff said costs chargeable to. the water department shpe up this way: There would be an annual cost of S10.568.75 for debt serv ice on S153.000 worth of out standing district bonds, plus S3. 190 per year net loss in reve- i n"e and in additional mainlen ance costs, for added annual costs totaling S13.758.75. Also, over the next few years, about i - S20,300 . would be needed for capital improvements in the district for fire protection and water service. Expenses Handled These costs could be handled either through the small in crease in water rates, or in the small property levy, Duff said. General city services to the area, including street mainten ance, lighting, police and fire protection, street signs, building inspection and drainage, would total about S52.550 annually, Duff estimated. But added income created by the annexation would come within a few hundred dollars of offsetting this cost, he said. The added income he estimated at S41.670, and it would come from city taxation of the area on its assessed valuation of Sl, 002.003, state assistance paid from gasoline and liquor taxes on a per capital basis, business licenses, and franchise fees. The original petition for an nexation submitted by residents i of the area was based on the need for sewase facilities there, which they say has become criti- cal. and could be solved only by annexation, I (See council story page 11) Price 10c BUNE mted Press Full Leased Wir No. 232 eoce People in Russia Believed Unhappy Oyer Hungary American Policy Found Not So Rigid Washington (U.RS Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Neh ru concluded his formal talks with President Eisenhower today with a prediction that their meeting will make a definite contribution to world peace. To Be Host At Dinner Nehru told newsmen as he left the White House after talking with the President for one hour and 40 minutes: "I think India and America Radio Highlights A presi conference by In dian Prime Minister Jawahar lal Nehru wil be heard over station KYJC (1230 kc) at 9:30 tonight. will get along very well in the future in international affairs." The Indian Prime Minister will be host to Mr. Eisenhower at a state dinner tonight but his visit to the White House today was the last man to man secret talk with the President on his schedule. Nehru also told a news con ference that he believes "the people in the Soviet' Union are not very happy about events in Hungary, to put it mildly." Nehru also said he found in his talks with President Eisen hower that American policy "is not so rigid as I had thought." In explanation, he added, "the general approach to problems ap pears to be governed by appreci ation of the changing world." American Prisoners Nehru said he has talked with Premier Chou En-Lai about re leasing the 10 Americans still held prisoner in Communist China, and will again. He said he "very much" wants them released and hopes they will be freed soon. The Prime Minister expanded his schedule to talk with Sec retary of State John Foster Dul les and with Harold E. Stassen, the President's disarmament ad viser, this afternoon. Presidential News Secretary James C. Hagerty said he did not know what Stassen and Neh ru planned to discuss but it was "mutually agreed to have Stas sen call on Nehru." Chinese Complaints Nehru said he had not deliver ed to Mr. Eisenhower any for mal message from Red Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai with whom he met before coming to Wash ington. But he said he conveyed to Mr. Eisenhower Chou's view point on Asia, and explained Red China's thinking r'jout some Far East problems. Asked to give details of his report, Nehru said Chou had made "certain complaints." He said Chou's position is that Red China has "gone several steps forward" while there have been no comparable moves to improve relations by the United States. Wore Familiar Clothing The 67-year-old Indian leader faced 300 newsmen from all parts of the world at an early morning news conference at the National Press Club auditorium in downtown Washington. He wore his familiar white Gandhi cap, white jodphurs and a tight fitting, brown coat. In a radio-TV address to the nation Tuesday night, Nehru said the "forces of peace are strong" and world opinion no longer will permit "powerful countries to revert to old colon ial methods or to impose their domination over weak coun tries." That, he said, is the lesson to be learned from the "tragedies in Egypt and Hungary. Nixon in Austria To Study Problem Of Moving Refugees Russia Denounces Trip as Interference Vienna (U.R) Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon arrived in Austria tonight to take a first hand look at the problems in volved in the great mass refu gee flight from Hungary. As Nixon's special plane from Washington landed at Vienna's Schwechat Airport, almost the first persons he saw were 72 Hungarian refugees from Com munist rule waiting to take off for a new life in America. They were the latest group of more than 11.000 Hungarians already in or en route to the United States under President Eisenhower's plan to admit a total of 21.500 victims of Com munist terror. The vice president and his party finally landed here after a thick fog over Central Europe had caused hours of delay. Tile vice president will tour several refugee centers and con fer with officials on the scene in an effort to determine Ijpw the United States can help clear up the refugee problem. President Eisenhower Asked Nixon to determine how Ameri can doors can be opened for even more refugees and how the Austrian government can be helped in taking care of the more than 60.000 persons still jammed into makeshift camps in this overburdened country. Even before he landed Mos cow Radio was denouncing his trip. It broadcast a dispatch in the Soviet Communist news paper Pravda accusing him of flying to Austria to organize Hungary's ebbing fight for free dam and said he was jeopardiz ing Austria's neutrality. The official Soviet newspaper, in a dispatch broadcast by Mos cow radio, said Nixon's trip was "gross interference" in the af fairs of other nations and vio lated U. S. pledges to respect the permanent neutrality of Aus tria. Bloodmcbile Quota Exceeded by 6 Pints The quota of 200 pints of blood was exceeded by six pints Tuesday afternoon when the Bloodmobile was in Medford. ac cording to Red Cross Bloodmo bile officials. Of 242 donors, there were 83 drop-ins. Thirty-six were reject ed, the officials said. Blood designated as replace ments for those who have need ed transfusions was greater than usual, with one person named by 21 donors. Red Cross officials said that the success of the drive this month was aided by the recruit ing of donors by members of Crater Lions club. The Bloodmobile will return to Medford in February. Red Hungary To Ask West for Big Loan Vienna (U.R) Hungary's Communist regime is preparing to ask the free world for a S400 million loan to stave off eco nomic disaster, reports from Budapest said today. The reports said Hungary had no hopes of receiving such a huge sum from the Soviet Union or other Communist nations and was being forced to turn to the United States and other Western countries. The appeal for funds would go through the United Nations, the reports said, and the puppet regime of Premier Janos Kadar would be "broadened" to in clude a number of non-Communists and "Titoists." Children Calling Santa May Get Wrong Party Niles Smith, 31S South Groveland ave., Medford, wishes he had as much to of fer as Santa Claus when chil dren call him wanting to talk with St. Nick. Smith said he has received about 25 calls during the past two evenings from children calling Santa through ar rangements by the Medforl Kiwanis club. His telephone number is 2-4178. and the number to be called to talk with Santa is 2-6173. More than 1.000 children from southern Oregon some as far away as Glendale have called Santa through the Kiwanis project, Kiwanis offi cials said. "Merry Christmas. To You, Sir" Cf" lwrm er TT-- Q Zone Change Proposal Referred to Planners A proposal to rezone property in the area near the Rogue Val ley Memorial hospital construc tion site was referred back to the planning commission for fur ther consideration last night. Frank Van Dyke, attorney rep resenting 14 residents, said the group was opposed to recommen dations made by the planning commission recently. The com mission recommended that prop erty be rezoned from Class 1A (single family) to Class IIIB (lim ited commercial). He told the city council the group desired an opportunity to be heard by the planning com mission before the council con siders the commission's recom mendations. Hearing 'Not Fair' Van Dyke added that the in itial planning commission hear ing on the zoning change last month w-as "not fair" and that there was not adequate notice for the hearing. The council asked the plan ning commission to submit a recommendation on the zoning change before Feb. 5. when the council again considers the mat ter. The council tabled an ordin ance proposing reduction of buil ding permit fees for structures in which construction costs exceed S500.000. The present ordinance provides a S3 fee for each $1,000 of construction costs. Under the proposed ordin ance the fee would be S3 per 51,000 for the first S500.000.-S2 per $1,000 for the second $500, 000, and $1.50 per 51,000 for more than S1,000,000. Fees 'Excessive' ' Rogue Valley Memorial Hos pital association representatives said they believed the present fees were "excessive" for the new 52.000,000 non-profit hos pital being constructed at Bar nett and Murphy rds. The Rev. George V. Bolster and Eugene Thorndike of the hospital association requested the city to waive building fees' "in exchange for the benefits the hospital will bring to the city." The motion tabling the ordin ance followed council discussion that collection of building fees might be deferred until comple DOW-JONES A-VERAGES New York (U.P.) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 industri als 493.81, off 1.28; 20 railroads 153.8J. off 1.05; 15 utilities 67.27, nff 0 12- and 65 stocks 174.47. off 0.59. Sales today were about 1.990,000 shares compared wun 2,370,000 shares Tuesday. Washington (U.R) .The Ag riculture Department has esti mated 624,953.000 bushels of fall-planted winter wheat will be harvested in 1957. Weather FORECAST: I.ornt ovrcnt and poor vlslhility in vally; therwise increasing cloudiness tonight. Cloudy Thursday. I.ittle temperature chance. Low tonieht 34. High Thurs day 45. Temp. Highest Yesterday ... - 47 Lowest this Morninr 34 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight sunrise 7:34 a.m. Sunset 4:41 p.m. The Moon rises 7:2" p.m. In Perleee, It IS about 23.',. 106 milrs from the Earth tnirht. Last Quarter - Dec. 24 PROMINFNT STARS Castor and Pollux, above th Moon. (Castor Is the hifher of the two) tion of the hospital. Council members suggested fthat fees would then be collected only if city inspectors had rendered ad justments improving ths hospit al construction. " The ordinance will remain tabled pending completion of n analysis by the city manager of hospital costs resulting from building fees. o 100-Mile Per-Hour Chase Ends With' Crash at Phoenix - . Mrs. June Kllen Liwson, 21, of 51 North Oakdale ave., Med ford. was arrested bv t.ato tio- lice about 1:58 a.m. jtortay after a 100-mile-pcr-liour automobile chase which ended in a crash at Phoenix. c . Mrs. Lawson was arraigned in district court today on. charges of driving while intoxicated. She was released on her own recognizance and to her attor ney, A. E. Piazza. She0 is to Ap pear Jan. 2. o Police said the chafe s,tated on Billings hill nesr Ashland when a patrolman signaled the approaching ca to stop fiecafise the driver did not dims the cat s lights after the officer blinked his lights several times. 100-Mile-Per-Hour The officer5 turned arogndj, but the northbound gar, a 1957 Pon tiac, failed to stop. Police said the car was clockedogoing about -luu miles per hour near Lithia drive-in theater, ; later0 slowed down, then speeded ojp again.0 ine car was cnosKed goinjo about 90 miles an hour on ca curve near Phoenix here ?nere is a traffio separator. o o The far missed the cure, po lice said, went gver the urb, traveled about 112 feet, hut a sign post and knocked it 4$ feel northward. The -car continued another 220 feet0coming to rest facing nSrtk in the southbound traffic lane. o When the car stooped, the mo tor caught fire. It was extin- - -. gas STAtlll - - guished by pfjolmen with anT extinguisher from the patrol car. The fire gutted the gicftor and the back of the dash, they0saii. Mrs. L,awson suffered a nose tor lire aaaio'mai rjsjpensev w n injury in the accident, poUqf Iiams said in sorrej the said. estate has hidlec, the engineer- The enr was Registered tv her f'&ig partoof tljj construction by husband. Leon Lawson, fifcos-the .it3s resident engineer sta pect, police safd. ' tioned in the viciniQ. Outgoing Mail in Medford Sets New Record Jhis Week Monday and Tuesday were both record-breaking days at the Medford post office, Postmaster Moore Hamilton reported this morning. On Monday, a total of ssne 111.000 pieces of mail eere can celled here, he said, compared to the previous record-high day, in 1955, just before Christmas, when 97,000 pieces .of mail went through. On Tuesday, the total dropped to 98.000, still over the previous record high. These were outgoing items of mail only, he pointed out. Monday was the peak day this year. Hamilton said, and the volume of outgoing mail can be expected to taper off from now on. The incoming peak volume will also be sometime this week, he indicated. The post office has employed Shepflov Said o Shouted Down m Attemptlo Speak Police Rescue female Member oi Politburo Berlin (U. The West Ber lin newspaper Telegrft said to day a wave of strikes and anti government demcstrations has hit the Soviet Union. The newspaper said reports of strikes and worker anti-government rallies extended from the Donetz River Basin in the Ukraine to thed'rals and to Mos cow. It said students demonstrated at universities of Mrgow, Reval and Vilna and that Foreign Mini.-er Drtri i'lepilov was shouted down and hisscjwhen he tried to speak at the liiver- siUr of Moscow against counter revolutionary tendency. Escorted by Police o 0 1 It said oter party jiff0ials were shoutad down inomeetings at the universities of Revel and Vifca. The 9-gwspapor also repjtcd C 'that Mme. Ekatarina Fui4evay woman candidate member of Oie Communis, party pgtburo, h;3 to bcKortPd by police fronfythe o' Moscow Kagaifcpvich ball bear ing factory, o - q A strike took place at the fac- tory after the Hungarian, revc4) staged an Madam rurtseya o went there in an effort ?o counter demands 3or 0higher q q wges. the newspaper said. 0 Complete haos 0 o P "The meeting hall turned rito a Sjne of complete cns w!SVi pin answer to a shout fromuti5 audience she had to admit she earned 20,000 ruoles a mofitht? ($5,800 at ftie legal ratiO.-'Hne newspaper said. o ( "Police only witf? eyorwifi le to rescue her from the tfur- lous workers. Q O Itosaid reports of stories nd spontaneous0 protest rallies of workers had come from the Don etz Basin and the runOi aidiA "dissatisfaction is gpreadingSap idly over theo entire Soviet Unin" "The e movement is not org;a- ized but breaks out sn'j6i.inenuslv- fTn incident after incident. it saicS "It has a foundation inhe broad mses 10 tl Rus.OiC worker and among the intelfcc- luals.0 The events in Hungary0 pPdj? more tln a iUght rols, in the movement." o o o e O State to Design 0 BearCekfolgeso o State Highway Egir.fcr W? C. Williams ha!0notf ied City Iganager Robert )ufr,h.-i lha state highway departienPCwill fcsisto Medford oo design ? bridges is tha. City's arterial o5lrcei unaigg prognjm. q o"-' str'si. envelopment is oije of ftiree segmi of a cap ital omprnvement pi!grai ap proved by voters Nqj-. 6. Bie lij'iway department will0 alsist in designing Bejsj; creek O brio's? at iryh and llh sg-. Ac cording to Pie plan theity supply ressar maps and otfi- er engineering data ubn which the Sate will base the desi Theoftate e0 estimate the cost of preparing the dctfcjn and will require the gity ft deposit the estinft cost with tfc state. e Tnnn rnmnlpiiati thpKtalo - i . - . - ' - - T-e - eturO the balance of ie depos-S? 0 o If Theyost exctfs the depos- li'. the state will0bill iie gity 31 extra employees to help with the Christmas ftail rush. Hamil ton reported1, and the office has borrowed 11 trucks and panel trucks from other federal agencies to help with the distri bution. The fact that the peak volume passed more than a week before Christmas is attributable to the cooperation of post office pa trons in doing their mailing early, Hamilton declared, and he said that postal employees are grateful for this cooperation. The office will be open until 5 p.m. Saturday, he said, and parcel deliveries will be made on Sunday. He added that in accordance with past custorr a "cleanup" delivery of any un delivered parcel post packages will be made Christmas morn ing. Friday o o o o , o o