Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 15, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextG fin QOCK STRIKE CONTINUES Three members of the In tarnational Longshoremen's Association picket a pier in New York. Tied up at her dock behind them is the Amer- fcan Export liner Independence. Negotiators' are still rying to worlf out a settlement in the East Coast dock strike which involves 45,000 longshoremen from Maine e to Virginia. Pock Strike Talks In Critical Phase New York (U.R) The East Coast's four - day waterfront strike entered a critical phase today with shippers and long shoremen haggling over fine print details of a new contract. Optimism eVer quick settle ment of the walkout that has crippled shipping from Maine to Virginia evaporated Thursday night when the International Longshoremen's Union (Ind.) failed to reach agreement on the shippers "final" offer. The independent union's wage scale committee which repre sents 45,000 striking stevedores said it would continue discussion of the unsettled issues today. "Within Kissing Distance' Before the wage scale commit tee recessed the meeting shortly before midniglcj, federal nego tiator Robert Moore had said the shippers and longshoremen were "within kissing distance." "If there is no settlement to night, we are very apt to find ourselves in a deadlocked situa tion." .Moore said. Alexander Chopin, a spokes man for the shippers, blamed the ILA's leadership tor failure to end the walkout that has caused a rail embargo on perishable food"' and diverted some ships from New York harbor. "If they can ijet enough unity to get a contract, we could make a contract." Chopin said. West Coast Threatened But the ILA denied a lack of (Wiity existed and threatened to prove it bys involving, if neces sary, longshoremen of another union on the West Coast. A spokesman for Harry Bridges' West Coast Longshore men's and Warehousemen's Union, which was expelled from the CIO several years ago on Tickets Available For Lincoln Dinner Reservations for the Lincoln Day dinner may be obtained from members of the Jackson County Republican Women's club and other persons and businesses, according to E. H. Singmaster. chairman. The annual dinner will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 20, at the Jackson hotel. Reservations nust be made by Monday, Singmaster said. Tickets can be purchased from Robinson Brothers, Mrs. 'Audrey Smith at Frake and Smith. Col. W. H. Paine. Jen nings Pierce, Mrs. Kathleen Bash and Republican Women's club members in Mcdford. Iv, Ashland they can be pur chase from Mrs. Faith McCul Inugh. Phil Sftnsbury and E. H. Sincmaster. Dr. William C. Jones, dean of administration at the University pf Oregon, will speak at the dinner. Area Projects Set for Bid Calls Denver Two Oregon projects are slated for bid calls this month and specifications are being pre pared on six other projects on which bids will be invited later this spring, the bureau of recla mation announced here today. Bids will be called soon for exploratory core driliing of the foundation for the Green Springs power plant and power conduit. The site is about 10 miles south east of Ashland. Plans and Specifications G Bureau officials said plans and specifications may be issued today for construction of a rec tangular reinforced concrete chute on the Owyhee project, about 15 miles south of Nyssa. Between the first of March the grounds that it was Com munist-dominatcd. said his group reserved the right to strike in sympathy with the ILA. The threat of a fuel crisis as a result of another waterfront strike, the 15-day-old walkout of tugboatmen, was eased some what Thursday when four-ocean going tankers arrived with 16 million gallons of oil. Six Firms Submit Bids on Proposed Detention Home Besonette and Graff, Medford contractors, submitted a bid of $92,868, this morning when bids were opened by the county court on the proposed county detention home. i Bids, submitted by six con tractors, are for the home which will house 12 juveniles) and an administrative wing. y Other Bidders Other bids, their bids and construction time after the con tract is awarded were Batzer Construction company, 895,472, 150 days; H. G. Carl Construc tion company, $96,610, 180 days; Wiley company, Ashland, $97, 500, 100 days: Minshall Con struction company, Jacksonville, $102,741, 120 days: and Harold W. Salter, Rogue River, $107, 225, 200 working days. Besson ette and Graff asked 180 days for building construction. Members of the county court said bids will be studied and the contract may be awarded some time next week. The proposed $90,000 juvenile detention home will be at the county fairgrounds near the new National Guard armory. Facilities Listed The building will include a juvenile tcourt and juvenile de partment office, living quarters for an attendant, kitchen and dining facilities, and a recrea tion room for the juveniles. The detention rjortion will be of reinforced concrete construc tion. The non-detention portion will have wood stud and plaster interior with some plywood paneling. Wiliam H. Siebert is archi tect. Ground Fog and Ice ' Main Road Hazards Salem U.R) Ground fog and Ice were the main hazards to highway travel, the state highway department reported today. Ground fog was reported on highways at Warm Springs junc tion. Corvallis, Grants Pass, Med ford, Coquille. Brothers. La pine, Bly, Pendleton, La Grande, Baker, Ontario, John Day, Aus tin and Seneca. . and the last of April bids are expected to be invited for jobs in the Talent project. Probably the first will be a reinvitation for construction of canals and a di version dam in the Rogue river basin near Soda Creek diversion dam. Included in construction are about 10.3 miles of open canal and a small rockfilled diversion dam. The project includes the Howard Prairie delivery canal, a feeder canal and the Soda Creek diversion dam. Power Plant Another project scheduled is for construction of the Green Springs power plant, penstock and switchyard near Ashland. Included in the project are an OuIIes For Confe. Mid-East Situation Topic of Meeting At Humphrey Estate Defense Secretary Assistant Resigns Thomasville, Ga. (U.R) Sec retary of State John Foster Dulles was reported to be flying here today to confer with Presi dent Eisenhower on the Middle East situation. The President has been here for a week enjoying the outdoor life at Treasury Secretary George Humphrey s South Geor gia plantation. The White House has accept ed claims of resigning Assistant Defense Secretary Robert Tripp Ross that there was no basis for his embroilment in a conflict of interest furore. i Resignation Accepted President Eisenhower Thurs day night accepted Ross' resigna tion effective Feb. 20 or shortly afterward "in spite of your con viction that nothing you ' ave done violates any legal or .nical standards," according t' White House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty. Sen. John L. McClellan .(D- Ark.) said his Senate investigat ing subcommittee will make no further inquiry into huge mili tary clothing contracts awarded firms operated by Ross' wife and brother-in-law, unless something new turns up. A late-day telephone confer ence between the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles apparently produced fur ther administration satisfaction with congressional action on Mr. Eisenhower's Middle East doc trine. Hagerty said a day of further study of a Senate committee's change in the language of a pro vision for use of troops m the Middle East left the administra tion still confident that it had won its objective. In Excellent Condition President Eisenhower's slight but prolonged "scratchy throat" was tentatively blamed various ly on a cold he developed dur ing the inaugural ceremonies last month and exposure to dust dur ing his recent drought inspection trip in the Southwest. Maj. Gen. Howard McC. Sny der, the President s physician, maintained there was no reason for concern. The cough was noticed again Thursday as the President played golf on the Glen Arven Country. Club course, but he appeared to be in excellent physical condition. Woman Injured When Hit by Car Today Hilda W. Russell, 59, of 1139 West Main St., Medford, suf fered a fractured ankle this morning when she was struck by a car operated by Ruth Ma bel Zacher, 517 West 10th st., Medford, at Main and Ivy sts. according to city police. She was taken, to Sacred Heart hospital by Medford Am bulance service. Extent of her injuries had not been deter mined this morning. Ruth Zacher was cited for failure to yield the right of way, police said. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 468.07, up 6.51; 20 rail roads 143.09. up 1.60; 15 util ities 69.39, up 0.27, and 65 stocks 165.62 up 1.86. Sales today were about 2.060.000 shares compared with 2,220,000 shares Thursday. outdoor-type power house with a 23.500-horsepower turbine. Improvements to the Medford canal, near Medford, involving removal of a 48-inch wood-stave pipe siphon and construction of a siphon and flumes near Med ford also are scheduled, it was reported. ' Other bid calls in Oregon planned during March and April include construction of a one story combination office, ware house and shop building on the Deschutes project at Madras, and constructing a fish screening de vice ahead of the pump intake structure at the right end of the Savage Rapids dam about six miles east of Grants Pass on the Grants Pass project. Win 51st Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 20 Pages House Memorial Urges Repeal of Wartime Taxes Unfair Burden on Shipper, Traveler Salem (U.R) The Oregon House today unanimously passed a joint memorial urging Con gress to repeal its wartime ex cise taxes on transportation of persons and property. The taxes were imposed to dis courage war time travel and placed a 10 per cent levy on transportation of persons and a three per cent levy on transpor tation of property. Legislation is before Congress to repeal the taxes. Unfair Burden ' Rep. Al Flegel, Roseburg Democrat, said the tax imposed an unfair burden on the long distance shipper and traveler and, in effect, put an added tariff on goods shipped from Oregon to eastern markets. Flegel said the transportation taxes could not stand up under any theory of taxation. House members appeared es pecially interested in repeal' of the taxes to provide an open market in the east for Oregon1 forest and agricultural products so they might compete" with southern products. ' Discrimination Charged Rep. R. E. Shedeen, Gresham Democrat, said the taxes dis criminated against the Northwest because it was isolated from large market areas. A bill enabling governing bodies to pay final judgments when certain public officials are sued under certain circumstances was referred to the Judiciary Committee for further study be fore the House adjourned until 10 a.m. Monday. Chicken Pox Party Held for Children Two Medford hostesses had an idea for an original party, but few will be able to copy it. They gave a chicken pox party Because eight pupils in the first grade at Roosevelt school were home with the chicken pox, although not -really - sick, and! because they were so mournful over missing the val entine party at school, Mrs. Vic tor Milnes and Mrs. Robert C. Browne gave a special party for them at the Milnes home, 15 North Groveland ave., yesterday afternoon. The two mothers pro vided decorations, ice cream and cookies just like the party at school, and the youngsters exchanged valentines. Guests were Loretta Carman, Gregg Middlekauff, James Al len. Meryl Ludwig, Dick Berry. Jack Pepper, Martin Browne and Viki Milnes. All sported lots of "spots," but a check by the mothers proved that Jack Pep per could boast of the most. Before the party ended the children's teacher, Mrs. Georgi anna Beier, and the student teacher, Mrs. Betty Pruett joined the party. Portland (U.R) At least 140 city employees may be lopped oil the city payroll and a S600, 000 cut made in the budget for city services on July 1, according to Finance Commissioner Or mond Bean. Weather FORECAST: Fair thmufh Sat urday with patches of fojr Saturday tnnrninr. Low to night 35. High Saturday s-6S Temp. Hichst Yesterday 5 Lowest thi Morninr 3.1 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:0 Sunset Moctnrise Last Quarter PROMINENT STAR 5:44 7:35 p.m. p.m. Feb, 21 Ricel. in the south ... 7:43 VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, high in south west S:3fi Jupiter, low in east .. 8:52 Saturn, low In south east . 4:06 p.m. p.m. -C aO A MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1957 District 60 Bond Elections Monday Central Point An election on two separate bond issues total ing $235,000 for classroom addi tions and athletic field improve ments will be held in school district 6C Monday, Feb. 18. . One bond issue is for $150,000 for a classroom addition to Cra ter High school, and the other is for $85,000 to finance comple tion of the athletic field at Crater. Voting will be done in three locations in the district, accord ing to Superintendent H. P. Jewett. Voters will have an op portunity to vote on each of the two issues separately, he said. Legal school voters of regu lar election precincts in and around Gold Hill will vote at the Hanby elementary school gym nasium in Gold Hill, voters in the former Sams Valley school district will vote at the Sams Valley school, and voters in and around Central Point, including those in the Mound precinct. will vote in the music room at Crater High school, Jewett said Any legal voter who has re sided in the school district for six months and who has been registered for at least 30 days preceding the election is eligible to vote. Classrooms at Crater High school are badly needed, Jewett said, because increasing elemen tary enrollments in the past several years are now exerting force on the high school. Crater had an enrollment of 350 in 1950, when it opened, and now has an enrollment of about 600. A freshman class of about 200 is expected in September, and only 125 seniors will graduate to make room for the increase, Jewett noted. At present three teachers are without home rooms, and two sub-standard rooms in the gymnasium are be ing used as classrooms, Jewett said. The necessity for adding class rooms was anticipated in plan ning the original building, Jew ett said, so all facilities are stubbed to the area of the addi tion and the present heating plant will not be increased. Proposed state or federal leg islation for buildings will be of no help to the district, JeVett said, since legislation is designed to aid "distressed" school dist ricts. "Distressed" districts are those which have used all bond ing capacity, he noted. District 6C still has more than $700,000 of unused bonding capacity, and will not be eligible for state of federal aid. Completion of the ' athletic field has been delayed in the past because of the necessity of adding classrooms, chiefly at the elementary level, Jewett said. The junior high school field has been used for varsity, jun ior varsity, freshman and eighth grade football teams and other events. The field also has been used for fall and spring class work of the seventh and eighth grade physical education department. Jewett said it "is becoming al most impossible to keep this field in satisfactory shape for use." Seating capacity is inadequate for games, and there is limited space for expansion, he said. The school board plans to sell 20-year bonds if the issues are Ashland Truck Driver Involved in Collision Salem (U.R) A car-truck col lision eight miles south of here about midnight resulted in the death of one man and injury to another, state police reported. . The dead man was identified as Thomas W. Kennedy, 34, Tacoma,.Wash. The injured man was tentatively identified as Vernon Dean, Spokane. State police said they were in a car which was involved in a collision with a truck driven by Arthur W. Barth, Ashland, Ore. Barth was not reported hurt. Directories list Arthur Barth's address as 444 Litway, Ashland. trtfitth Piresideinrfc approved. Present indications are that it may be necessary to pay 4 per cent interest on the bonds, and if this is necessary, Jewett said, the average in crease in millage will be 2 mills. The first two or three years, the rate would be not to exceed 2V4 mills, and would reduce gradu ally as bonds are paid. The millage rate in the school district is the second lowest in the county among school dist ricts, he said. State Rests Case In McMillan Trial In Circuit Court Five witnesses have so far testified that Carl W. McMillan 50, Central Point, was not under the influence of intoxicating liquor when ' his car was in volved in a collision last July 21 with a jeep operated by Arthur Hanshew, 305 North Fir St., Medford. The Hanshew's eight-week-old son, Michael, was killed in the accident, which occurred on Highway 99 near the Mason Ehrmann rd. Last August, a district court jury found McMillan guilty of driving while intoxicated at the time of the accident. McMillan's attorney, Edward Kelly, appeal ed the case to circuit court and the appeal was granted. The cir cuit court trial began Wednes day. The state rested its case at 4 p.m. Thursday after testimony by State Police Officers Robert Wievesiek and Charles Offen bacher, Franklyn and William Saxbury, both of Central Point, and Hanshew. The officers and Hanshew each testified McMil lan appeared incoherent, un steady and had blood-shot eyes when they met him at the acci dent scene. They said it was their opinion . that McMillan was intoxicated. First witness for the defense was Donald Bauska, 620 Palm st., Medford, a passenger in Mc Millan's car when the accident occurred. He testified he and the defendant had had two mixed drinks at Bauska's home before going to Central Point. He said McMillan later consumed about a half-bottle of beer at the Cor ner club in Central Point before Bauska became ill and he and McMillan headed toward his home in Medford. Aware of Accidert Bauska said he was aware of the accident, but remembered nothing more until Mrs. McMil lan telephoned him at his home the next morning. Bauska said he then went to- the state police headquarters where he was in terviewed by Officer Wievesiek and signed a statement concern ing circumstances of the acci dent. Baueka stated neither he nor McMillan was intoxicated before or at the time the accident occurred. McMillan's wife, his mother-in-law, Mrs. Nellie Neimoyer, 515 Bessie st., Medford, his son, Delbert J. McMillan, and John Peyton, 331 South Ivy St., for mer bartender at the Corner club, also testified McMillan did not appear to be under the influ ence of intoxicating liquor the night of the accident. Also appearing as defense witnesses were Darrell Hughes, 3791 Hilsinger rd., Medford, and Mrs. Shirley Christensen, 324 Mary St., Medford, who saw the accident, and Mrs. Rita Cum mings, former cashier at the Valley Drive-in theater, who heard the accident and saw sparks from pne of the cars aft er the accident occurred. Circuit Judne Orval Millard of Josephine county is presiding at the trial at the request of Jackson county's circuit judge, H. K. Hanna. ? 1 Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wit Not 281 McClellan Renews Request for Study Of Union Records Beck Expresses Desire To Cooperate Washington (U.R) Chairman John L. McClellan said today if Teamsters Union President Dave Beck really wants to "cooper ate" with the Senate Labor Rackets Committee he can start right now. ' The Arkansas Democrat re newed his request that Beck fur nish his personal financial rec ords for study by the committee staff preparatory to questioning the union leader later. Voices No Objection Beck, reached in Vienna by the United Press, said he has "no objection" to supplying his records and is "willing to co operate with the committee in any respect. On hearing this, McClellan said: "That's all the committee asks of him his full coopera tion. . " .: "He can begin, by making his personal financial records avail able at once so the committee staff may examine them and thus expedite its work so public hearings may be held at an early date." He suggested that Beck have his attorney or aides furnish all his records since 1950. Subpoena Possible If the records are not turned over voluntarily, the committee can subpoena them. However, a subpoena could not be served on Beck until he returns from Eu rope. Beck arrived In Vienna four days ago to check into the Hun garian refugee problem. He said he would return to this country on March 26. The special eight-man commit tee was reported to be issuing subpoenas for many other offic ials of the 1.4 million-member Teamsters Union, which appar ently will be the first target of the labor racketeering investiga tion. : Officials of the union would not comment on McClellan's re quest for the records, except to say that the matter would have to be taken up with the union's attorneys. Change, Cigarettes Taken From Tavern Approximately $200 in small change and 50 cartons of cigar ettes were stolen from Hunter's Tavern, 5011 Crater Lake high way, according to sheriff's depu ties. . Officers said amusement de vices in the building had been opened but an attempt to open a large safe was unsuccesful. "You Got Elected, Didn't You?" Gromyko Appointed Foreign Minister Of Soviet Union Action Follows Secret Meetings Moscow (U.R) The Soviet Union dropped Dmitri T. Sherji lov as foreign minister today after only nine months in of fice, the nine months of Hungary ad Poland. Andrei Gromyko was promoted to replace him. The action was taken follow ing secret meetings of the Soviet Communist party Central Com mittee Wednesday and Thursday. Shepilov, 51. former editor of the Communist party organ Pravda, replaced V. M. Molotov only last June. The new foreign minister was first deputy to both men. " Now Secretary Shepilov now becomes one of the eight secretaries of the Cen tral Committee under party chief Nikita S. Khrushchev. The official Tass news agency announcement of Shepilov's re moval gave no reason for- the sudden government change. It said only that he was "released" in connection with a transfer to other work. Nikolai S. Patolichev -was named to take over Gromyko's former spot as first deputy for eign minister. s Shepilov generally was asso ciated with Soviet policy in the Middle East. It was his visit to Cairo while still editor of Prav da which preceded agreements for shipment of Communist arms to Egypt. Gromyko Known To Wait The new foreign minister, Gromyko, is well known to the West. He spoke for the JBoviet Union in many of the major U.N. debates in New York. He also has attended most of the inter national conferences since World War II. Shepilov's last major task as foreign minister was his foreign policy report to the Supreme Soviet (parliament) last week. It was then that he launched the new Soviet "hands off" doctrine for the Middle East, generally interpreted as Moscow's counter to the Eisenhower doctrine. O Patolichev, G r o m y k o's suc cessor as No. 2 man in the For eign Ministry, was a deputy for eign minister. The shakeup came as a com plete surprise to Moscow observ ers who recalled the starring role played by Shepilov at the meriting of the Supreme Soviet. ' Shepilov had been regarded as tb leading Communist spokes man on foreign policy even be fore he was named to replace Molotov June 24, 1956. Stassen Optimistic On Averting Wartare Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) Harold E. Stassen, still shunning any mention of political plans, told Nebraska lawmakers today that he is optimistic about chances of averting future wars. Stassen, here to address a state youth conference, made a brief appearance before the Legisla- . ture, and held a news confer ence. He repeated that he has de clared "a moratorium on polit ical speculation at this time. He declined all comments on reports that he would resign his post of disarmament advisor to Presi dent Eisenhower to run for gov ernor of Pennsylvania.