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Dulles Calls on V Price 10 5? o JNE gypt To Reveal v to d Press Full Leased Wire Plans for Canal 16 Pages 'EDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 19J7 No. 10 52nd Year s IT United Press FuM Leased Wir - Q 1 1 Iran Government To Quit Wednesday, Official Declares Move Seen Result of Slaying of Americans Tehran, Iran (U.R) iran- lan Foreign Minister Ali Gholi Ardalan told the United Press today that the government will resign Wednesday. The move is believed to be a result of the slaying of three Americans. "The government has not yet resigned," he said. "We are hold ing our final meeting Wednes day afternoon, after which we will tender our resignations to his royal highness, the Shah." Bandits Believed Slain Gendarmerie sources reported, meanwhile, that three of the bandits believed to have killed the Americans have been slain in a fight with federal police hear the Pakistan border in re mote southeast Iran. Although the slaying of the three Americans last week is considered the triggering action which set off the resignations. the underlying reason is the Shah's dissatisfaction with the nation's economic progress un der Premier Hussein Ala. Memorial Services , Ala is scheduled to attend a memorial service at midday Wednesday for the three Amer ican victims of the brigands. They are Mr. and Mrs. Kevin M. Carroll, Issaquah, Wash., and Brewster A. Wilson, Portland. They and two Iranian drivers -were ambushed and slain while on a trip through the mountains of remote Baluchistan, 800 miles southeast of Tehran, a week ago Sunday. Meanwhile, sources in Wash ington said American officials in Iran have received an infor- F mal offer of willingness to pay an indemnity for the deaths of the three Americans. So far, there has been no official offer, the sources said. Medford Population Listed at 22,232 The population of Medford is now estimated at 22,232, includ ing about 1,553 in the recently annexed Kenwpod - Grandview district, according to City Mana ger Robert Duff. An officiale numeration in the Kenwood-Grandview area was completed this week. Gilbert Gutjhar, administrative assist ant, directed the enumeration. An earlier estimate showed about 1,300 Kenwood-Grandview residents. This is an increase of about 2,139 from the official popula tion of Medford at this time last year, which was certified at 20, 083 by the state board of census, Duff said. The 1,553 figure estimated for Kenwood-Grandview will be for warded to the census board this week. City officials throughout the state make estimates for their cities, which are then certified by the census board, and are used as the basis for distribuiton of certain state funds on a per capita basis. Training Classes Slated For Forest Fire Training classes for fire fore men will be held in Medford Wednesday and Thursday, April 17 and 18, and in Grants Pass Friday, April 19, according to L. L. (Doc) Simpson, forester manager of the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association. The school is sponsored jointly by SOCTFA. the" state forestry department, the U.S. forest serv ice and the bureau of land man agement. The school is the result of a survey of the serious fire situation of 1955, when it was determined that there was a lack of adequately trained per sonnel to act as foreman and in other supervisory capacities. Originate in Medford The training classes for fire foremen and other types of overhead originated in the Med ford area last year. Classes will .be divided into two phases. Two basic courses will be conducted and one ad vanced course. The first basic course will be held in Medford at the state for- j estry department headquarters I "We Vrt Te fen & Bfe k Tfesr. Wt'i ft" : : Airport Grant Will Be Used for Lights The $48,750 grant-in-aid fund released today by the Civil Aero nautics administration for the Medford municipal airport ten tatively is planned for a high in tensity lighting system, accord ing to City Manager Robert Duff. The amount is part of a $87, 785 request made by the city of Medford last August under the 1958 Federal Aid Airport pro gram. The remaining $39,035 of. the request was cut by the CAA be cause of ineligibility and low priority of some of its items, Rep. Charles Porter (D.-Ore.) re ported today. Duff said the re quest will be resubmitted for ap propriation under the 1959 pro gram. Under the Federal Aid Air port program 75 per cent of the Hospital Files Lien Against Workman Rogue Valley hospital officials have filed a $238.85 lien against Lawince Alvis Workman, 25, Seattle, Wash., seeking payment for care of Jack Engler, 25, Se attle, on March 24. Engler died at the hospital the night of March 24, about 3Vi hours after he was struck by a car as he was pushing his stalled vehicle north on Highway 99 at Talent. Workman was identified as driver of the vehicle which struck him. Workman was charged with negligent homicide in connection with the accident. District Judge Rawles Moore dismissed the charge for lack of evidence dur ing the preliminary hearing last Wednesday. The hospital claims the $238.85 bill incurred in care of Engler represents surgical, laboratory, anesthetic, drug and dressing ex penses. The lien was filed on Wednesday, March 27. Fighters April 17 and the other will be at the Grants Pass headquarters April 19. The basic course will consist of both lectures and field dem onstrations and will cover large fire organizations, radio proce dures and practices, fire be havior, proper use of water, time keeping and safety practices. Advanced School The one-day advanced school for fire foremen, a new course offered this year, will be avail able only to those men who at tended the basic course last year. It will be held at the depart ment's headquarters in Medford April 18. Included in the course are fire behavior, fire line con struction by hand and with heavy equipment, water mop up, dry mop up, proper use of water and safety practices. Sponsoring agencies have re quested both mill and logging operators to send personnel to the training schools since mill crews are needed to supplement logging crews in the event of a fire of any magnitude. The classes will start at 8 a.m., Simpson said. . .... cost of the high intensity light ing system is borne by federal funds and 25 'per cent by the city, Duff said. Medford's participation in the new lighting system will be $16,250. The present lighting system on the east and west run ways of the airport, which is medium intensity, will be used on the cross runway after the new system is installed, Duff said. The high intensity lighting system is a portion of a compre hensive improvement program planned at the Medford airport over the next several years. To tal cost of the overall proposed project will be $134,730, of which $46,945 will be Medford's share and $87,785 the CAA's, if the 1959 funds are approved. Other Improvements Other airport improvements planned include a paved parking area, landscaping, resurfacing of the east-west runways, con struction of additional tie downs, resurfacing of taxiways along the ramp and old hangar site, seal coat of asphalt at the west end of taxiway No. 8, resurfac ing of taxiways No. 5A, 7A, and 10A, construction of a taxiway in a private hangar way, .con struction of an approach road, and wider taxiways along the concrete ramp. The CAA is scheduled to re lease grants-in-aid funds for Oregon airports totaling $1,074, 477 today, Rep. Walter Norblad (R.-Ore.) reported yesterday. The largest grant, $821,557, is scheduled to go to Portland International airport. Also scheduled to receive grants are Grants Pass, $56,611; Eugene, $137,403; and Pendleton, $10, 356, Norblad said. County Purchases Land in Applegatt Members of the Jackson coun ty court today reported the coun ty has purchased a 4.3-acretract of land located near the south approach to the Cameron bridge in the Applegate area. The county purchased the property from Joe and Mary Farrand, route 1, box 46, Jack sonville, for $500. A county road maintenance building will be constructed at th site and stockpiles of road building material will also be kept there. The building will contain county equipment fteing used for road improvement proj ects in that area. Ike Says Peace More Important Than Tax Cuts Washington UR President Eisenhower, in a speech indirect ly aimed at Congress, said today that achieving would peace is "far more important" than cut ting taxes. "As much as we hate taxes." the President said, the high price of running the government must take second place behind the "overriding objective for peace." Portland ;U.R) Corvallis Ply wood Corporation has asked Federal Court for permission to reorganize under terms oi tne federal bankruptcy act. Stall Thousands By UNITED PRESS 4 new blizzard howled into the storm-battered Great Plains ttday and weathermen warned it may be "very similar" to last Veek's disastrous snowstorm. ' Blizzard and. heavy snow warnings were issued for a six-state area as strong northerly winds swept thej storm out of the Rockies. Snow was reported from Montana to the Texas Panhandle. The blizzard was expected to slam into western Nebraska and est and central South Dakota today. Heavy snow warnings were out for western Kansas and the Oklahoma Panhandle and provi sional warnings were issued for eastern Wyoming and eastern Colorado. The disturbance began Mon day in southern New Mexico. It dumped 5 inches of snow at Lan der, Wyo., during the night, 3 inches at Colorado Springs, Colo., and 2 inches at Cheyenne, Wyo. Moterist Killed The storm already was blamed for one death in Colorado. A mo torist was killed near George town, Colo., when his car skid- ed into a snow plow. . Weathermen said spring's sec ond major storm could rival the snowstorm that paralyzed trans portation in 13 western states last week and caused at least 48 deaths. The storm isolated scores of Colorado communities from highway traffic and cut dozens more off from all forms of com munications. Airports Closed Thousands were stranded as the depths piled to more than two feet with drifts much high er. Lower but still paralyzing depths were reported in "other areas. Airports were closed. Bus schedules were cancelled. Trains were running hours late. But Weather Bureau officials said the new storm, in the wake of the killing blizzard of 10 days ago, would not carry the punqh of its predecessor. Graund. blizzard conditions prevailed over much of the plains area from Southern Wy oming to Northern New Mexico. Heavy snow was reported in the mountains. Roads over most of the Colorado passes were packed solid with snow and visibility so poor travel was hazardous, if possible at all. By the hour, the Colorado Highway Department was order ing more roads closed. The snow was continuing throughout the region. Busi nesses were closed in some cities, particularly Colorado Springs. Schools also were shut down in Colorado Springs, and in the suburban areas near Denver. Almost all trunk highways through Colorado were closed at some places. Homemade Bomb Is Found Early Today A small homemade bomb in a jar containing "putty like" sub stance with a fuse in one end was found by an employee of tne city street department about 8:50 a.m. today at Niantic and Maple sts., according to Medford police. According to officers the fuse had -been ignited but had failed to burn. The "putty like" sub stance could have come from a child's chemistry set, police said. Explosive capacity of the bomk wae not known by police. They said the bpmb has been turned over to the California Oregi Frwer company where exjpleeivs xgerts wiu detonate it. BOW-JOJEES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 industri als 477.55, up 2.57; 20 railroads 144.43, up 0.67; 15 utilities 71.42, off 0.U; and 65 stocks 168.63, up 0.64. Sales today were about 2,300,000 shares compared with 1,620,000 shares Monday. Portland U.R) The State Board of .Health has warned against careless handling and storage ct pesticides by home gardeners. Weather FORECAST: Variable cloudiness ftmieht and Wednesday. Warmer. Low tonight 35-38. Low tonight 35-38. High Wednesday 65. Temp. Highest Yesterday 58' Lowest this Morning . 34 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset 5:53 a.m. 6:38 p.m. 9:24 p.m. Moonset First Quarter April 7 MARS, setting at 10:59 p.m. is now a dim evening star in the constellation, Taurus. Last Fall it outshone Jupiter as it will again in November, 1958. Main Switchboard Being Planned at County Courthouse Preparations are under way at the county courthouse for a cen tral telephone- switchboard sys tem and information center, ac cording to Chester Wendt, coun ty commissioner and courthouse building superintendent. Construction started last week for a room in which telephone equipment for the new system will be installed. The room is lo cated in the courthouse base ment near the exit facing the rear parking area. The switch board and information desk will be located on the main or sec ond floor of the building. New Equipment Wendt said the new phone equipment will be installed in September and the system prob ably will be in operation by late September. Cost of equipment and training of the switchboard operator will be assumed by the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company. The county will pay $600 to $700 for construction "of equipment' room, $240 for mis cellaneous equipment such as counters, and $2,600 a year for the operator's salary. The funds will be provided in the 1957-58 county budget. Wendt said construction is being started now while carpenters are available and to provide space for the equipment when it ar rives. Expresses Confidence ' Wendt expressed confidence that the new system would prove more efficient thant he present telephone system, whereby each telephone is connected to an out side line. He said the county court has interviewed adminis trators of other large establish ments, including the Douglas county courthouse, where a cen tral telephone system is in oper ation. Administrators of the buildings reported they were well satisfied with the system. The building superintendent also commented there has long been a need for an information center at the courthouse. All-Day Trip Planned On McAllister Road The Jackson county court, County Engineer Paul Rynning and a delegation from the cham ber of commerce will travel to Klamath Falls tomorrow for an all-day meeting on the proposed McAllister Springs rd. The road would extend from Eagle Point to Klamath Falls by way of Lake of the woods. Dis cussed tomorrow will be a pro posal that the route be desig ngted as a forest higl?way, the first step in a proposed recon struction and improvement proj ect for the route. Also present at the meeting will be members of the Klamath county court and a resident state highway engineer from Bend, ac cording to County Judge Rodney Keating. Market Roads Are Slated for Repaying The state highway depart ment is expected to call for bids sometime this week for re paving projects on Table Rock and Central Point Market rds., Paul Rynning, county engineer, said today. Each project involves lVa mile of paving, Rynning said. The road improvements are a federal aid project, for which the county will pay 20 per cent, state 20 per cent, and federal government 60 per cent. Bids will be opened at Salem April 19, according to a report Rynning said he received today from the highway department office. - - Plan Would Raise State Income Tax In Lower Bracket $4,000-$ 10,000 Class Would Gain Something Salem (U.R) House Speaker Pat Dooley, Portland, said Mon day he favored increasing taxes on incomes of about $4,000 to $10,000 to make up for removal of the 45 per cent surtax. Dooley -was the first Democrat to detail a plan for meeting a budget of $265 million or more. Under Dooley's plan, persons in the $4,000 to $10,000 class would gain. something by having personal exemptions increased from $500 to $600. Concerned With Property Tax The House Tax Committee headed by Rep. Clarence Barton, Coquille Democrat, is occupied currently with proposals to take the state out of the property tax field and hasn't yet talked about hiking income taxes.' Dooley's plan would lower taxes on higher incomes slightly but, when figured with the fed eral income tax, would actually remain about the -same as at present. Rates in Dooley's plan would be 5 per cent on the first $1,000 of taxable income, 6 per cent on the next $1,000, 8 per cent on the next $2,000 and 10 per cent on all above that rate. Would Be Enough About the same amount of money as is now collected with the 45 per cent surtax would be raised by his plan, Dooley said. He added it would be enough to finance a budget of $265 million. Gov. Robert D. Holmes said he had heard Dooley's plan dis cussed, but said he hadn't studied it enough to comment. He said e' would not have a specific tax program of his own to announce. Five Are Sentenced On Liquor Charges Five men, one a 17-year-old Phoenix youth, appeared in dis trict court Monday and Tuesday in connection with charges in volving liquor. Enterfng pleas of innocent yes terday, but changing their pleas to guilty today, were Jack Thomas Rose, 19, of 3612 South Pacific highway,. Medford, charged with . illegal possession of intoxicating liquor; James Wayne Lick, route 1, box 409, Medford, charged with furnish ing liquor to a minor; and Myron Wentworth Fultz, 18, of 125 Nut ley st., .Ashland, .charged with illegal possession of intoxicating liquor. Rose was fined $10 plus $5 court costs, Lick was fined $30 plus $5 court costs and Fultz was fined $5 plus $5 court costs and sentenced to three days in jail. . Pleading guilty in district court Monday were Melvin Ray Jolls, 19, of 662 B. st, Ashland, and a 17-year-old Phoenix youth. Jolls was fined $5 plus $5 court costs and given a seven-day sus pended jail sentence. He was committed to the county jail in lieu of fine payment. The Phoenix youth was fined $25 plus $5 court costs and was given a seven-day jail sentence. The five were arrested Satur day night at Eagle Point by sher iff's deputies. They appeared in court before Alan Holmes, dis trict judge pro tem. Ted Williams Attributed To Sarasota, Fla. (U.R) Ted Williams apologized publicly to day for remarks attributed to him in a New Orleans newspaper interview. "I have too many friends and have spent too much time in the Marine Corps not to know that that organization is tops," he said. Contained in Statement The apology by the Boston Red Sox slugger was contained in a mimeographed statement handed to newspapermen at the club's hotel headquarters. Wil liams, who had telephoned his remarks to a club spokesman, did not appear in person. The statement said: "For the first time in my car eer I am concerned about publi cation of alleged remarks I made at the airport in New Orleans last Sunday night. "I have too many friends and Washington (U.R) Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles called on Egypt today to disclose within the next 24 io 48 hours whether it is willing to enter into' serious negotiations for op erating the Suez Canal.. Dulles also reiterated that the United States does not propose to shoot its way through the canal, or to call for boycott of the international waterway. Certain Weaknesses Dulles - told a news confer ence that Egypt's recent plan for operating the canal has cer tain weaknesses and shortcom ings which should be corrected. Because of its wording, Dulles said the Egyptian plan may in fact be only a unilateral state ment subject at any time to Egypt's unilateral action. The secretary left no doubt that the United States still de sires some form of international control and operation of the Canal. UN Principles Ousted He pointed out that the Egyp tian plan does not include the six principles approved last Oc tober by the UN Security Coun cil for operating the canal. These points, he recalled, includ ed provision for free and open transit of the canal and an agree ment between Egypt and canal users for fixing tolls. Dulles repeated his previous statements that the United States believes every country, includ ing Israel, has the right to send its ships through the canal. But he said this government, so far as he knows, has not been offic ially advised that Israel plans to send a ship through the canal. No Secret Assurances On other subjects, Dulles: Said that the United States has given no secret assurances to Nationalist China that it will help defend Quemoy and Matsu islands in event of a Communist attack. The only U. S. commit ments, he said, are those public ly known and approved by Con gress, namely that the United States shall defend Formosa and the Pescadores Islands and re lated areas. A new book on Dul les by John R. Beal of Time magazine says that Nationalist. China received a personal letter from President Eisenhower that satisfied Chiang Kai-shek that the United States would help defend Matsu and Quemoy. Permits To Newsmen Said the administration is still actively studying the ques tion of whether to permit Am erican reporters to go into Red China. While this problem has been under very active consid Council to Hear Report on Sewer A preliminary report on the proposed sanitary sewer system for the Kenwood- Grandview area of Medford will be consid ered by the Medford city coun cil at 7:30 p.m. today in the city halL Petitions signed by 410 Kenwood-Grandview residents re questing construction of a san itary sewer in the area, which was recently annexed to Med ford, were accepted by the coun cil early in March. The council also will consider a proposal to terminate a Grand- view water district contract with the city of Medford for the. in stallation of a water main in the area. Other council business in cludes consideration of institut ing condemnation proceedings against property in the north ap proach area of the primary run way at the .Medford municipal airport for an airport clear zone and a public hearing on the an nexation to Medford of prop erty owned by Wesley Coffeen on west side of South Holly st., 330 feet south of Stewart ave. Apologizes for Remarks Him in Paper have spent t,oo much time in the Marine Corps to not know that the organization is tops. "I. want to apologize to any one who might have been offend ed by remarks alleged to me by a drinking reporter. I have learned as a result of this so called interview that I should never again interview anything with reporters who have been drinking excessively or have a gripe of some sort of their own." Reporter Stands by Story At New Orleans, Crozet Du plantier of the New Orleans States, who obtained the inter view published in his newspa per Monday, said he stood by his story as "accurate and so far Williams hasn't denied any thing." "I think it's ridiculous to quar rel about this thing," said Du plantier. "He said certain things eration for the last week or two, he said he could not fore cast a change at this time, Said the United States should not consider the Korean armistice as void despite serious violations of the agreement by the Communists. Although there have been some recommenda tions that the armistice be de clared void, Dulles said this ii not something favored by the United States. Earlier, U. S. officials said that lifting the ban on American travel in the Middle East reflects optimism that peace will con tinue in that area. U.S. Labor Leaders Seek Policing of Mexican Braceros Nogales, Mexico (U.R) U.S. Labor leaders today issued an implied threat to withdraw their support of the U.S.-Mexican mi grant labor pact unless Congress provides funds for adequate po licing of the international agree ment. The warning was contained in a telegram to Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell from U. S. members of the joint U.S.-Mexi-co Trade Union committee which opened its fourth annual confer ence here this morning. The threat to "re-examine" la bor's position in support of the agreement was coupled with a commendation to Mitchell for his fight to restore cuts in his department's budget. Seek Adequate Manpower The Nogales conference is a meeting of top labor leaders from both Mexico and the Un ited States to work for better conditions for the some 400,000 Mexican braceros imported an nually to work on American farms under the international agreement. The U. S. section, headed by Frank If. Noakes, Washington, told Mitchell it would enlist the support of the entire American labor movement to back his ef fort to restore congressional cuts in the Labor Department .budget in order to assure funds for a more adequate compliance staff for the Mexican contract pro gram. ' American labor men have long insistedt hat the bracero pro gram could not be adequately policed against abuses without at least one Labor Department compliance officer for each 2,000 field hands. At present, this La- . bor Department staff, consists of one officer for each 10,000 bra ceros. Budget Committee To Consider Requests The county budget committee will meet in the county court room at 9 a.m. Thursday to con sider requests for the 1957-58 county budget. A proposed 1957-58 budget to taling $2,807,146.59 was submit ted to the committee last week. This would exceed the 1956-57 budget by $161,877.52. The cur rent budget is $2,645,269.07. No tax levy will be required during the coming year. Local Man Receives Suspended Sentence Joseph George Mattey, 52, of 503 East McAndrews rd., Med ford, was given a one-year sus pended sentence in circuit court this morning after pleading guil ty to a charge of larceny from a ' person. Mattqy was originally charged with grand larceny. He pleaded innocent to the charge and was scheduled to stand trial. The charge was changed this week. He was accused of stealing $700 from Grady A. Connor, 724 Victory st., Medford. , Interview in the interview and I believe they were substantiated in the stories from Sarasota the next day." Duplantier declined to com ment on the player's remarks about "a drinking reporter" oth er than to say, "sure, I had a drink but that's not important." Statement Distributed Williams' statement was dis tributed by Jack Malaney, assist ant director of public relations for the Red Sox. It was released shortly before Williams and oth er members of the club departed for an exhibition game against the Yankees at St. Petersburg. In the published interview, Williams was quoted as firing blasts at the late Sen. Robert A. Taft, the Marine Corps, and ap parently at President Eisenhow er, , (See Story on Pag 6) 5
