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52nd Year IE United Pres, Full Leased Wira 24 Pages Troy bile Foe Oeoi British Vessel Uses Suez Canal; Egypt By UNITED PRESS The British freighter Breeze sailed through the , West' Suez Canal today, the first British ship to do so since the invasion of last October. The Egyptian press was jubilant and predicted an early end to any Westers boy cott of the canal. The situation in Jordan qui eted down for the rnontes Wut the new anti-Communiet pelicy of the Amman government had repercussions in Jerusalem to day. Jordan border authorities refused to admit three Russian nusis because they carried Soviet passports. Balk at Pilgrimi Jordan opened the border to Russians only last Christmas but balked at today's Easter pilgrims. King Hussein of Jordan told United Press Correspondent Joe Morris earlier in an interview that his country would fight all "imperialism," avoid foreign pacts and steer clear of such im ported dogmas as Communism. But he said Jordan would ob serve "positive neutrality" the course advocated by Egypt, Syria and Saudi Arabia. Banner headlines in Cairo newspapers said the West Breeze and the British freighter Poplar ' Hill had paid their canal dues in Swiss francs to the Egyptian Suez Canal Authority as de manded by President Gamal Ab del Nasser. The Egyptian authority an nounced in Port Said that the American President liner Presi dent Jackson would pass through the canal next Wednesday, the first American ship to do so. It said the 9,2777-ton ship also would pay its toll to Egypt.' Iirael Concerned Israel was reported increas ingly concerned at the way the Suez negotiations were going. A Jerusalem distpatch said Pre mier David Ben-Gurion also was so concerned about recent state ments by resident Eisenhower Kiwanis Club Easier Egg Ibsf Saturday Medfortf Kiwanis club will be host at 9 a. a. Saturday for the annual Easaaer Egg hunt for youngsters 6f the vicinity. The evest will be staged in Hawthorne park. Children will hunt in three age grotps 1 to 3, 4 to 6 and 7 to 9 in separate sec tions of the park. Thoe will fce 21 prizes, one grand prize and six regular prizes each age Kiwanian Jack VaSer will fire a gun to signal the start of the scramble for aawdy eggs which will be packaged i aoUec phane wrappers. Washington U.P.) he feam sters Union said that saae S.&68 members will strike at Midnight Sunday against the Railway Express Agency in seven cities across the country. r Employ Handicapped Award Given 6 Groups, Individual Six organizations and an in dividual received awards from the Jackson county conTmittee for the Employment of the Physically Handicapped on a program" seen over station KBES-TV last night. Organizations receiving the awards for "outstanding public service in promoting the pro gram for the employment of the physically handicapped" were the Mail Tribune, Bear Creek Orchards. American Legion Post 15, Veterans Domiciliary at Camp White, Chin Up club and station KBES-TV. The Veterans Domiciliary award was presented because of the Domiciliary's policy of hir ing handicapped persons in ex cess of their requirements. The award went to the Chin Up club for that organization's efforts in helping to prepare the handi DFORD Jubilant he asked his ambassador in Washington to seek clarifica tion, The chief Israeli concern was Eisenhower's statement that American ships had been ad' vised not to try to force their way where they are "forbid den." Israel feared this meant the Americans were not living up to promises to see that the Gulf of Aqaba was open to inter national navigation. Bill Introduced To Withdraw Water For Industrial Use State Rep. F. I. Bristol, (R) Grants Pass, this week intro duced House Bill 790, which would permit water to be with drawn, subject to strict safe guards, from the Rogue river for industrial purposes. Bristol, in introducing the bill, said it would remove the flat ban on such use of Rogue water, but that the safeguards would not permit pollution, water tem perature changes or other factors to disturb existing values. Water of the Rogue can now be withdrawn for appropriation for domestic, stock, irrigation and municipal purposes only. Bristol's bill would add indus trial use to the permitted pur poses. Proposal Examined But before such a withdrawal could be made, under the bill, the proposal must be examined by the state sanitary authority, the state engineer, the state air pollution authority and the state game commission. They in turn must make a finding that the proposal would not be contrary to the public interest, nor ad verse to fish life in the Rogue. Bristol said that, with these stringent safeguards, it is hoped the bill can receive widespread approval. The measure was the out growth of studies being made in the Rogue valley seeking to stimulate industrial expansion. More and more, the legislator said, industries are dependent on quantities of water for their operation, and his bill would offer a chance to explore the possibilities of an industrial en deavor along the Rogue without its being foredoomed to failure because of a flat statutory pro hibition. Lumber Prices Take 13-Cent Drop in 2 Weeks Portland U.R) Prices in the Pacific Northwest lumber indus try took a 13-cent drop over the past two weeks, according to the Crow lumber price index. Green fir took the biggest decline in the industry, 28 cents, while dry Douglas fir moved up eight cents. capped person for suitable em ployment. Similar awards had been pre sented to radio stations KYJC and KMED earlier in the day. The individual award went to Harry Chipman, wire editor of the Mail Tribune, for outstand ing individual achievement as a handicapped person. He was stricken with polio in 1937. Chip man has been a member of the Jackson county chapter of the National Foundation for Infan tile Paralysis for 14 years, serv ing as the county chairman for the past seven years, is affiliated with the Boy Scout movement in Medford and is serving his fourth term as a national direct or of the Chin Up club. He also served for two years as a mem ber of the county Employment for the Physically Handicapped committee until his resignation last month. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1957 KCESUO 'EKECna luvcsn c io n House Approval -Seen Next Week; Hearings Slated Sweetland Calls Plan ' 'An Excellent Base' Salem (U.R) Despite some opposition, the Democratic tax program announced Thursday should have a fairly easy time getting through the Oregon House. Its future in the Senate was not so clear. Rep. Clarence Barton said the House Tax Committee would hold several hearings on bills embodying the program. If no delays are encountered, the tax program could come up for a vote in the Democratic-controlled House late next week and be sent to the Senate. A majority of the 37 House Democrats are said to have agreed to the tax committee's program. Some trouble may be encoun tered in the equally divided Sen ate, however. Sen. Monroe Sweetland, Mil waukie Democrat and a member of the Senate Tax Committee, called the House tax program "an excellent base from which to start." But Sweetland added: "To deliver the needed built-in prop erty tax relief of our increased state school fund we will need to add to our total revenues by repealing the federal income tax offset. This change will certain ly be proposed before the 1957 tax program is complete. The House committee s pro gram calls for increased income taxes, repeal of the surtax, restoration of personal exemp tions and dependence credits from $500 to $600, elimination of the personal property tax offset to increase corporate ex pise taxes for businesses and utilities and small increases inheritance and gift taxes. in A hndset of about $270 mil lion could be supported by the program and Democratic leaders have indicated they will try to hold the budget to $265 or $270 million. The proposed income tax would raise about $75.5 million .... a year by niKing rates irom t per cent in the lowest range to 11.6 per cent on all income over $8,000. Present rates run from to 11.6 per cent. Net effect of the income tax and exemption increases would be to give some relief to family taxpayers in brackets below $7,000 and slight increases in up per brackets, according to Chair man Barton. Rep. Wayne Giesy, Monroe F.epublican and a minority mem ber of the House Tax Committee, said the program "will do a great deal to hinder the growth of Ore gon in the next few years. He called the proposed income tax program "punitive." I doubt the benefits to the working man and woman of the state of Oregon when the corpor ate excise tax will be raised ap proximately 25 per cent," Giesey said. "All leaders in the state have recognized the need for more in dustry and for keeping and ex panding our present industry in a healthy climate. This program eliminates some 12,000 to 15,000 taxpayers from our tax base. I think this will be the greatest blow to the progress of the state for several . decades," he con cluded. Cloudy Weather Seen For Easter Sunday Cloudy weather with a cpol morning is predicted by the weather bureau for Medford Easter Sunday. Possible showers are forecast for the afternoon and evening Some hope was expressed that sunny conditions might come to sections of Oregon Sunday as a clearing trend was possible late Saturday which may last through Sunday morning, forecasts said. A new Pacific storm is due some time Sunday. The five-day forecast called for showery periods late Sunday or Monday in Oregon. Portland !U.R Otto J. Runte, 76, Oregon liquor administrator from 1936 to 193b, died Thurs day night. 'See Any Other of Us 'Modern Republicans' Around?" Three Local Youths Admit Making Bombs Three Medford youths, one I The three youths were re age 15 and two 16,-have admit-1 leased to their parents yester ted making six home-made ! da with instructions to appear bombs in Medford during the past three weeks, according to city police. The youths were. takuAMnto custody Thursday after an anonymous telephone call. The party told police the boys were responsible for the bombs and had been throwing them from car windows recently, police re ported. Officers said the juveniles ad mitted making about 40 or 50 bombs during the past month. Most of them were exploded, by the boys near their homes. According to police the boys said they made the bombs from explosives in v a chemical set. Dynamite caps and about 10. feet o' fuse were purchased from lo cal stores by the boys, officers reported. Bombs Discovered During the past three weeks six bombs have been discovered by several Medford residents, in cluding small children, in street gutters and back yards: No in juries have been reported or damage has resulted from any of the bombs. Valley Woman Named To National Group Mrs. Hanley Heffernan of Ross lane has been appointed to the advisory committee of the Na tional Rivers and Harbors con gress on the nomination of Con gressman Charles O. Porter. Mrs. Heffernan said she would attend a meeting of the Con gress May 17 and 18 in Washing ton, D. C. She will be accompa nied to Washington by her moth er. Mrs. E. B. Hanlev. . Mrs. Heffernan is serving her second term as a member of the board of the Rogue Soil Conser vation district. She has been ac tive in the soil conservation pro gram since its founding in this area. She operates ranch land on Ross lane, where the Hanley family settled more than 100 years ago. Congressman Porter's nomina tion of Mrs. Heffernan went di rectly to William' H. .Webb, ex ecutive vice president of the or ganization, who confirmed the appointment in a telephone con versation with the congressman. Weather FORECAST: Scattered ihoweri through Saturday. Outlook Sunday cloudy and cool in morning. Showers in after noon and evening. Low to night 38. High Saturday 63. ' Temp. Highest Yesterday ........ 58 Lowest this Morninc 45 Free, to 4:39 a.m. Today .17 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:25 a.m. Sunset 6:57 p.m. Moonrise Saturday 12:32 a.m. L43, vuarier jipiu (. a PROMINENT STARS Sirius. in the south west - 7:59 p.m. Arcturus. in the east 8:04 p.m. Betelegeuse. low in west 9:3 p.m. Procyon, low In west 11:31 p.m. RIBUNE eeim ram before Jackson county juvenile authorities, police said. Two 14-year-old Medford boys also were questioned by city po lice Thursday in connection with the explosion of a home made bomb near Sacred Heart hospital last week end. According to police the boys said they, found the bombs earlier in the street nearby. They were released to their parents'. Attempted Burglary Reported to Police some small cnange irom a candy vending machine was taken last night in an attempted safe burglary at Modern Plumb ing and Sheet . Metal company, 613 East Jackson st., according to Medford police'. Police said two unidentified men were surprised in the build ing about 10:45 p.m. Thursday, a night watchman, Eugene Ed ward Bibey, of the Forest Green Detective agency. ine two men were opening the safe, which contained an un disclosed sum of money, when the watchman discovered them, They ran from the building be- iore ponce arrived, ponce re ported. . Police said an electric drill, several hammers and other tools were found near the safe. Two other stores,' Mike's Seat Cover Center, 621 East Jackson St., and the Ekerson Paint and Roof Store, 619 East Jackson st., also were entered last night, ac cording to police reports. An undetermined amount of property was reported stolen from Mike's Seat Cover Center, and nothing was reported taken from the other store, police said. Entry was made by a ladder to the roof from where the burglars got into an upstairs attic from the roof skylight, police said. Khrushchev Warns Western World Moscow (U.R) Soviet Com munist party boss N i k i t a Khrushchev warned the Western World today not to stir up any revolt in East Germany lest the Soviet Union "rap your knuckles." Khrushchev made his remark at a reception at the Polish Em bassy for Polish Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz, who is passing through Moscow on his way back from a visit to the Far East. Facing foreign ambassadors, Khrushchev said: "Don't joke with us. Don't try to test us as you did in Hungary. Or are you thinking of doing it not only in Hungary but also in East Germany, for example? "Be careful, for we ,are not saints. And if necessary we can rap your knuckles," Price IO United Press Full Leased Wira No. 25 Controversy Oyer Promotion of Home Show Develops First Public Event Scheduled May 30 Whether the Medford Home and Auto Show, the first public event scheduled in the new Na - tional Guard armory, now near- ing completion, would be locally produced or by Johny Walker Attractions, a Portland firm, was not known by early this after noon. Controversy over who would promote the show developed this week when the National Guard armory board, headed by local National Guard officers, leased the armory to the Portland firm for a home show starting May 30. At an armory board hearing last night, however,' Capt. S. J. Fagone, board president, in formed representatives of the Medford Kiwanis club that the board had been instructed by Col. Paul Kleiver, director of Oregon National Guard arm ories, Salem, yesterday that the Kiwanis club had a prior con tract for the armory. Ron Rice, representing the Kiwanis club, noted that in 1955 the Kiwanis club had secured an agreement with Col. Kleiver that the first home show to be produced in the new armory would be a Kiwanis project. Fagone , stated that Kleiver earlier in the week had approved the board's action in leasing the armory to the Portland firm. He apparently did not realize at the time the agreement with the Ki wanis club was in conflict with the lease for the Portland firm. Fagone told the group the con tract with the Portland firm was in the process of being termi nated. He added that Attorney General Robert Thornton had agreed to the cancellation of the contract with the Portland firm. Representatives of Johnny Walker Attractions this morning indicated they were going to contest the armory board's ac tion. They added they would consider cosponsoring the home show with the Kiwanis club. Boxer Poisoned By Strychnine A boxer doe owned by Dr. M. L. Vorheis, 2679 Eastover drive, Medford, was reported in critical condition this morning irom strychnine poisoning, ac cording to Medford police. The dog was taken to Siskiyou Animal hospital, Medford, about 6 a.m. today after being dis covered by its owner suffering from symptoms of poisoning, po lice said. Poison was put in raw meat they said. Veternarians said late this morning amounts df strychnine had been pumped from the dog's stomach. They, added it was not known if the dog would survive, Police said the dog was the fourth in that neighborhood to be pomsoned by strychnine Owners of three dogs who live in the Hillcrest rd. area reported to police April 4 their dogs also had been poisoned by strychnine, All three died. Officers indicated the poison ing had been done "purposely. Police Chief Charles Champlin reminded residents that presence of the poison constitutes a dan ger to small children. He said most of the strychnine was in serted in balls of raw hamburger and placed on yards where they can be easily found. Oregon Wheat Acreage Allotment Announced Washington U.R) Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra T. Ben son today announced state shares of the national wheat acreage allotments. Oregon was alloted 819.060 acres in 1957; will get 816,443 in 1958. Firepower Demonstration by National Guard Units A National Guard firepower show will be held as scheduled at 6 p.m. tomorrow, barring heavy rains, officers announced today. Weather forecast ' for the Rogue valley is high cloudiness, which would have no- effect on the Vz hour demonstration. The show will be held at the Camp White rifle range, located about two miles east of White City, on the first major road to the right off Antelope rd. Approximately 75 riflemen, automatic riflemen and machine gunners will present the simu lated battle fire mission withi $721,965 Budget For City General Fund Presented The Medford budget commit tee last night received a proposed, general fund budget totaling $721,965 for the fiscal year starting July 1. It shows an in crease of $103,807 more than the $618,158 general fund bud get this year. The total is $3,074 less than the amount of levy allowable under the 6 per cent limitation. Budget Officer and City Man ager Robert Duff noted. Estimated receipts in 1957-58 total $394,969. The estimated balance June 30 this year will !Je $52,365. The $447,334is esti- iiioiea luiai revenue, including the balance, leaves $274,631 to be levied as taxes for the general fund, Allowabla Levy The allowable levy is $277,705 for 1957-58. The figure is deter mined by adding 6 per cent to $247,027, the levy for 1956-57, plus an estimated $15,857 in crease in the tax base because of the Grandview Kenwood an nexation, Duff said. The $277,705 allowable levy total, Duff noted, is $3,074 more than the amount necessary for the proposed general fund bud get. An adequate levy within the Employee Salaries, New Research Site Set for Discussion Salaries for county employees and a new site for agronomic research will be among discus sion topics at the next county budget committee meeting. The committee will meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday, April 24. in the county courtroom. Last Wednes day's scheduled meeting was not held. The group expected to complete work on the budget late this week, but now expect to- hold at least two more meet ings. Committee members said near ly all county department heads have requested salary increases for personnel. Salaries in sev eral departments have been con sidered, but no final action has been taken on any , of the re quests.. Recommend New Siia The county 'court will recom mend at the Wednesday meet ing that funds be appropriated for purchase of a site near Jack sonville for agronomic research by officials of the southern Ore gon' branch experiment station. The proposed site consists of ap proximately 90 acres at the Han ley ranch near the Jacksonville Central Point rd. The property is owned by Clair, Mary and Martha Hanley and purchase price will be between $600 and $650 per acre, the county court said. The present, agronomic re search farm has been declared inadequate because of high con centrations of lead arsenate, an accumulation of spray residue from an old apple orchard lo cated on that site for many years. This concentration of lead arsenate has been fpund toxic to many crops and affects reliabil ity of date obtained in research programs. The county court said this property would be listed for sale aftef- the new site is purchased. Eisenhower Tells of New Appointments Augusta, Ga. U.R) ' Presi dent Eisenhower today announc ed a series of new diplomatic appointments, . including new United , States envoys to Mexi co, Sweden and Colombia. When Congress returns from its current Easter recess, the President will nominate: Robert C. Hill, now assistant secretary of state for congres sional relations, to Mexico. Francis White, now the am bassador to Mexico, to Sweden. John M. Cabot, envoy to Swe den, will be shifted to Colom bia, replacing Philip W. Bonsai who recently was named to Bolivia. Scheduled Saturday Night live tracer ammunition fired si multaneously. An attack problem will be staged by a platoon from Com pany C of Grants Pass as they move against a defensive ma chine gun emplacement manned by members of Company A. Medford Guard unit. Smoke gre nades, flares and other pyro technics will be used in the problem. Blank ammunition will be used for this portion of the show. Weapons which will be shown and demonstrated will be pis tols, carbines, M-l rifles, Brown ing automatic rifles, 30 caliber constitutional budget limitations is possible, Duff told the commit tee, for several reasons. They in- elude increased tax base as a re sult of annexations; propor tionately higher returns from state shared revenues from state gas and liquor revenues because of an increased population; pay ment of engineering charges from capital improvement proj ects; and high returns from other revenue sources. Evaluating Budget Duff said "in evaluating this year's budget requests as com pared to previous years it should be noted that the area of the city has increased over 116 per cent to 7.82 square miles since Jan. 1, 1956. The population increase has been approximately 9.5 per cent during the same period." The latest certified state census for Medford is 22,222. The budget was prepared on the basis of a 1954 job classifica tion and pay plan for city em ployees, ' Duff noted, and no change has been made in the basic rate schedule since that""' time. "A recent comparative anal ysis indicates that the city's pay schedule is lagging in compari son to the amount of wages be ing paid by other jurisdictians," he said. "The present wage scale in the engineering and other de partments has failed to attract any applicants even though strenuous recruitment has been conducted," he added. Adjusting Schedule He urged the committee to consider adjusting the pay sched ule when working on the bud get. A plan to provide $50,000 for off-street parking facilities was suggested. The proposal would include adjusting meter time op eration from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. to 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and changing the rate of 51 12-minute meters to 5 cents per 30 minutes. The changes will become effective May 15. Rates on 66 other 12 minute meters will be changed to 5 cents per 30 minutes later this summer, Duff said. .Estimated increased revenue from this source will be some $15,000 annually, Duff said. An other $35,000 will come from an increased business license. Duff proposed establishment of an off-street parking fund into which . revenues from the two proposals would be deposited1 for " acquisition for parking facilities. Final Action Duff suggested the committee, take no final action on the bud get until after the Berrydale an nexation election May 22. He said both revenues and expendi tures may be changed by the election. . , Proposed expenditures for 1957-58, with the 1956-57 budget figure and the increase or de crease are: Airport, $27,673 proposed, $25, 284 this year, anjncrease of $2,389; building jaUffinspection, $27,517 proposed, $21,982 this year, an increase of $5,535; city hall, $15,040 proposed, $15,430 this year, a decrease of $390; emergency, $10,000 proposed, $16,000 this year, a decrease of $6,000; engineers, $87,398 pro posed, $53,859 this year, an in crease of $33,539. Finance Department Finance, $24,439 proposed, $25,368 this year, a decrease of $929; fire maintenance, transfer, $78,293 proposed, $64,504 this year, an increase of $13,789; general administration, $95,119 proposed,, $85,078 this year, an increase of $10,041; legal, $11, 685 proposed, $9,620 this year, an increase of $2,065; . Library, transfer, $9,818 pro posed, $3,564 this year, an in crease of $6,272; mayor and council, $1,465 proposed, $2,275 this year, a decrease of $810; park aid swimming pool trans fer, $1,857 proposed, $2,717 this year, a decrease of $860; plan- ning commission, $9,106 pro posed, $2,300 this year, an in crease of $6,806; police, $194, 579 proposed, $171,223 this year, . an increase of $23,356; Streets and sewers, $57,572 proposed, $55,952 this year, an increase of $1,620; sewage treat ment, $35,899 proposed, $31,207 this year, an increase of 54,692; and traffic engineering, $34,505 proposed, $31,813 this year, an increase of $2,692. light machine guns, 57mm re- coilless rifles, 60mm mortars, and the Sniperscope, which al lows riflemen to deliver accu rately aimed fire in total dark ness. Lt. Richard Montague, pla toon leader from Company C, will be in charge of the attack problem. The live fire demon stration .will be in the hands of Lt. Jack Phillips, Medford, who is coordinating officer for the demonstration. Children will be allowed to attend the demonstration if ac companied by parents. All pos sible safety precautions are be ing observed, officers said. 5
