Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 23, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textmmm Mil MS Inl "Man, Listen Thursday Is Deadline For Entering Floats Local firms and organizations planning to enter floats in the Pear Blossom Festival parade Saturday have until 5 p.m. Thursday to submit entry blanks to festival headquarters, 328 South Central ave. Jay Pierce, festival president, extended a special invitation to business firms to enter floats in the commercial division. Inter est in all other divisions has been good, he said. The parade will form at 12:30 p.m. Saturday at the Library park. All entries must be in County Court Names 100 Roads in Area More than 100 roads in Jack son county are being given names for the first time, the county court reported today. Crews have been installing road signs under direction of the court for the past month and Will complete JJie project in about another month. The name of one road, Stickey lane, has been changed to Mc Loughlin Way after residents of the area requested the change. The road is northeast of Med ford off the 401 road. The county court said the en tire county is being included in the road naming project, which has been subject of promotional campaigns by. home extension units, property owners and oth ers recently. Klamath Falls (U.P.) Klam ath Falls airport has been offi cially renamed Kingsley Field in honor of 2nd Lt. David Richard Kingsley, Portland airman who won the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously during World War II. Oslo U.PJ Dr. Albert Schweitzer, humanitarian and holder of the Nobel Peace Prize, appealed for an end to nuclear arms tests. New Service Will Go Into Effect Greater Medford extended area telephone service will go into effect at 11 p.m. Saturday, according to Jack Creager, man ager of the Medford office of the Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company. Creager discussed coming lo cal telephone changes at the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce Roundtable luncheon yesterday at the Jackson hotel. New telephone numbers will be effective at that time, he said. Fifteen cent toll charges will be eliminated by the change and all local telephone districts will be able to call adjoining areas directly, Creager said. Increase Base Rates He added that the change would increase Ashland and Gold Hill base rates to the same level as Medford, Jacksonville and Central Point. At 11 p.m. Saturday, according to Creager, one, two and four-party lines will be available for residents in the Phoenix - Talent exchange that reside in or near the new base rate boundary. He said 600 Medford cus tomers. 500 Ashland customers end 200 new customers will be affected by the new Phoenix Talent exchange. Discussing future telephone expansion, Creager noted that in 10 years the population on the Pacific coast was estimated to increase from 19 million to 25 million people. This increase will result in an additional 5 million Pacific coast telephones, he said. Creaaer estimated that in a few years direct distance dialing To That Beat" mm" -mm uMMir fwe- position in advance of the 1 p.m. starting time to allow ample time for judging, Pierce empha sized. Gov. Robert D. Holmes will act as grand marshal of the pa rade and will be introduced at ceremonies at Hawthorne park. Queen Linda and King Harold, the royal pair, will officiate and present prizes and awards for parade winners. Sports car enthusiasts have announced arrangements to have a display of foreign and American-made cars on display at Haw thorne park. The public has been invited to examine them and ask questions of club members who will be in attendance. Youngsters will be treated to a free movie Saturday afternoon at the Craterian theater in Med ford. Starting time of the movie will be announced later. Other events for the week end include a parade of wheel chair floats by residents of the Camp White domiciliary. The event will be held Sunday afternoon at Camp White. ' In outlining activities for the festival. Pierce said retail mer chants in the area are planning sales promotions for Friday and Saturday, with sale items mark ed as Pear Blossom specials to tie-in with the festival. Planning Commission To Meet Wednesday The Medford planning com mission tomorrow will consider calling a public hearing on re zoning from single family (class (IA) to light industrial (class V) several acres in the vicinity of Delta Waters rd. and Crater Lake highway in the Rogue Valley Heights section. The special meeting will be held at 5 p.m. Wednesday in the city hall. The commission also will consider rezoning 35 feet adjacent to Crater Lake high way from single family to a parking zone. Next regular meet ing of the commission is May 13. Saturday equipment will be installed in Medfnrd enabling residents to telephone any point in the Unit ed States or Canada. Group to Discourage Directors of the Rogue River Basin Flood Control and Water Resources association las night unai-imously voted to discour age introduction of any Rogue basin flood control bill until the Army corps of engineers has re ported on their survey, now underway. The vote was taken after dis cussion of a bill Congressman Charles O. Porter has indicated he plans to introduce for a flood control and reclamation pro gram in the Rogue basin. Porter is scheduled to be in southern Oregon this week and is to attend a public luncheon on the Rogue basin program Wednesday at Grants Pass. Another luncheon conference is slated for Saturday noon in Medford. Directors Selected Five directors were selected last night to represent the asso ciation at both luncheons. They include William Jess, chairman, Ben Hilton, Howard Norwood, Rodney Keating and Milton Walker. Members of the association had planned to hold a separate, semi-private meeting with Por ter during his visit here. Consid erable discussion was held over the matter last night. Hilton said he had been informed Porter might hold a special meeting Dulles Visions Reporter 'Pool' Going To China Proposal Would Be Experiment Washington (U.R) Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said today he feels a limited number of American reporters could be permitted to go to Red China under an experimental "pool" arrangement.. Although this represented a retreat from his previous adam ant stand. Dulles emphasized that the United States has no intention now of dropping its general ban on travel by Ameri cans to Red China. Dulles told a press conference both he and Undersecretary of State Christian A. Herter have been carefully studying the question whether or not to let U. S. newsmen go to Red China. He said the department would be glad to have the American public obtain factual informa tion about Communist China, through American reporters. But he said the department is not willing to have Americans in general traveling to Red China while the Chinese Com munists are holding Americans prisoner and while Red China and the U.S. are technically still fighting each other. Dulles said that some news paper officials had suggested the possibility of letting a limited number of reporters go to Com munist China. He said the State Department feels such a selec tive experiment could be made. Dulles said he thinks such an experiment should be a one-shot test to see how it works. Plans Report To UN Dulles also said the United States plans to report to the Un ited Nations Security council this week on its Suez Canal ne gotiations with Egypt. Dulles said the report may be presented Wednesday or Thurs day. He said its seems appropriate now that the canal is open, that there, be greater public know ledge of the Suez problem. Therefore, he said, it seems ap propriate to the U.S. that an early report be made to the Se curity Council on the ' negotiations. Preliminary Plans Approved by Board Portland The Oregon state board of higher education today approved preliminary plans for a $460,000 science building at Southern Oregon college in Ash land. Plans were presented by Med ford Architect Robert J. Keeney. Action to complete final plans are pending appropriation of funds by the state legislature. The board also approved ex tension of the SOC campus boun daries to include a four-block area between Highway 66 and Webster st., and Wightman and Walker sts., according to SOC President Dr. Elmo Stevenson. The area will be used for housing, Dr. Stevenson said. The college plans to relocate Veter ans village, which includes sev en buildings with 28 apartments. Between 20 and 30 houses now owned by the college will be moved to the location within the next few years, Dr. Stevenson added. Portland U.R) The Port land Chamber of Commerce said that its 1957 ' Grassman of the Year" contest would be its last. with about five of the directors for not more than 15 minutes. The board of directors said they felt they were entitled to more time than that and dis cussed possibilities of schedul ing a meeting between Porter and the directors before Porter returns to Washington, D.C. Di rectors were to be notified in dividually if a special meeting could be arranged. Mrs. Kathryn Heffernan, re cently appointed to the advisory committee of the National Riv ers and Harbors congress, spoke to the group on the need for more funds to complete the Army engineers flood control survey here. She said about $20, 000 has been spent so far on the survey, and another $14,000 would be needed to complete the project. Applying for Funds She stressed importance of applying for the funds soon in order for the project to be con sidered at the May 17 and 18 meeting of the Rivers and Har bors congress in Washington, D.C. The association agreed to complete the application form and send it to Washington. Directors also went on record as being actively interested in a Bear Creek water shed protec tion and flood prevention plan ning aid program. 52nd Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 20 Pages COST OF Washington '(U.P.) The gov ernment reported today that the cost of living reached a new rec ord for the seventh straight month in March. It brought automatic wage hikes of 1 to 3 cents an hour for 1,400,000 workers. The government also reported that the purchasing power of the average factory worker's pay check declined in March for the second month in a row. The de cline wiped out gains made in buying power since March, 1956. . The Bureau of Labor Statis tics price index rose two-tenths of 1 per cent between February and March to 118.9 per cent of average 1947-1949 prices. The Amusement Device Tax Recommended In Oregon House Salem (U.R) The House Tax committee Monday recommend ed out "do pass" a bill taxing all types of music and amusement devices after defeating a move to double all the taxes. Rep. Richard Eyeman, Mo hawk Democrat, recommended the increases after noting that coin-in-slot and similar amuse ment devices were a lucrative business. However, committee member Vernon Cook, Gresham Demo crat, and Chairman Clarence Barton, Coquille Democrat, op posed the move on grounds the machines were already subject to heavy state and city taxation. Barton said he thought dou bling the tax would not produce any more revenue since it might have the effect of driving many machines out-feirculatton. -- Taverns Would Suffer Cook said all the machines were legal and that they were already being taxed at least as heavily as other types of prop erty. He and Committee Counsel Rex Ellis agreed that doubling the lax would be hard on tavern owners now operating on a small margin. The bill would raise more rev enue bv brinains bowline games and other games involving throwing of balls or pucks under an annual $25 tax or $100 if the game can be played by five or more persons. It also would allow substitu tion of game machines with the same annual tax so they could be moved to different establish ments without being taxed again. Some $125,000 in revenue was raised by the tax on music and amusement machines in 1956. Bulletin . By UNITED PRESS Jordan's moderate Premier Hussein Khalidi met with his Cabinet in Amman today to decide whether io surrender lo boiling leftist opposition against his pro-Western re gime. A Cairo radio broadcast said he had decided to resign immediately. , Introduction Earlier in the day, the project received interest and tentative endorsement at a meeting cf representatives of the Izaak Wal ton league, the Rogue Soil con servation district, the county court, and the cities of Medford, Ashland, Central Point and Jacksonville. Ronald B. Elmes of Portland, representing the U.S. Soil Con servation service, was present to explain the water shed protec tion and flood prevention act. Elmes said the act is a "com munity affair" and not a govern mental one. The purpose, he pointed out, is to get good con servation of water and land on resources that are available. The federal government would pay up to $5 million per project with 2V per cent interest, and the remainder of the program would be fianced by contribu tions or assessment districts. Flood Control Elmes said the government would not include rights of way, easements, operation or main tenance of the project. Drain age, irrigation and similar phases of the project would be handled on a cost-share basis. The act must be sponsored by a soil conservation district, it was pointed out, and the spon soring group here is the Rogue Soil Conservation district. 1VLATT Jmsb.. une MEDFORD, OREGON, LIVING CONTINUES HIGHER index was 3.7 per cent higher than a year ago. The rise means a 3-cent hour ly pay raise for nearly one mil lion railroad workers on May 1 under semi-annual wage escala tion provisions in their wage contracts. Another 400,000 work ers scattered through the air craft, electrical, and a variety of other industries also will get some pay raises under similar clauses. The BLS reported that aver age weekly take-home pay, earn ings after federal taxes, for fac tory workers declined by more than 30 cents between February and March. The decline, it said, PORTABLE TRANSMITTER L. L. (Doc) Simpson, secretarymanager , and forester SbuthernOrego"n"Conservation and Tree Farm association, demonstrates one of two portable radio transmitters which will soon be avail able for use in forest fire and disaster work in Jackson county. According to Simpson, the addition of the'two field units will give Jack son county the best emergency radio system in the United States. The transmitter cases, designed and built at Elk Lumber company. Soviet, British Letters London (U.P.) Britain and France invaded Egypt last fall in face of direct private Soviet threats that such action could touch off a larger war and de stroy the Suez Canal and the Mid-east oil fields, publication of an exchange of letters showed today. ' Britain told the Soviets they were using a double standard condoning the use of force by Egypt in nationalizing the Suez Canal but condemning military preparations by Britain and France to protect their interests in the waterway. The exchange of letters be tween Premier Nikolai Bulganin and former British Prime Minis ter Sir Anthony Eden, were pub lished by the Soviet government organ Izvestia in Moscow today and broadcast by Moscow Radio. The Soviets had announced Monday they were releasing the letters and the British govern of Bill Until After Survey First step in obtaining this as sistance would be to file an ap plication. After that, a survey would be conducted and a work program outlined. If the com munity approved the outline, the work plan would be signed and the project would start. There would be no obligation on the part of the district until signing of the work plan, it was noted. Association directors have asked both the Army engineers and the bureau of reclamation whether or not a, water shed program would be detrimental to the association's overall flood control goal. Both agencies re plied that the water shed act would not be in conflict with the flood control program in the Rogue basin. Interest -Expressed Interest in development of plans for a "small watershed" project for the Bear creek area was expressed yesterday during a meeting of more than 20 per sons representing agencies in volved. As a result, the Izaak Walton league here, which has drawn up a rough draft of an applica tion for federal assistance . for such a project, will continue its work on perfecting the applica tion, in consultation with other agencies involved. TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 1957 reflected a drop in the average work week. The average factory take-home pay in March for a worker with three dependents was $74.65 a week. The decline in take-home pay and the rise in the cost of living combined to drop buying power of the average factory worker to slightly lower than a year ago. The BLS said it was the first time in more than 2 Vz years that the monthly buying power fig ure showed no increase over the previous year. BLS reported that food prices declined four-tenths of 1 per cent in March,, mainly for eggs and pork. Increases for all other ment got the jump by publish ing them first. Informed sources said Prime Minister Harold Mac millan first consulted with the ailing Eden by telephone to Boston., ... Weather FORECAST: Decreasing cloudi ness and cooler tonight. Fair Wednesday. Low tonight 35, high Wednesday 65. Temp. Highest Yesterday M Lowest this Morning 42 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise ; 5:1S a.m. Sunset 7:02 p.mi The Moon rises Wednes day . ; 2:31 a.m. In Apogee, it is 251.000 miles from the Earth tonight. New Moon April 29 Mars, setting at 10:40 p.m., is now about 193 million miles from the Earth. Agencies represented at the meeting yesterday included the Rogue Soil conservation district, which has cooperated with the Izaak Walton league in prepar ing the application, the soil con servation service, the county court, and the cities of Medford, Ashland, Central Point, Jackson ville and Rogue River. Under federal law, governmen tal assistance is available for de velopment of small watersheds for the preservation of soil and water resources, and the various values attributed to them. Ac tion to work out such a project must begin on the local level, and approximately half the cost also must be borne by local agencies. Planning Design Services The federal government will perform planning and design services, and pay for flood con trol structures, but other phases of the work are done at the lo cal level, with assignment of costs based on benefits received. The meeting was opened by Norton Smith of the Izaak Wal ton league, which sponsored the gathering to determine how much interest and support there is locally. Clem Ault, social con servationist, explained that the project is an outgrowth of the floods of 1955-56, which did so much damage in the Bear creek t- Price 10c Press Full Leased Wira No. 28 major groups of goods and serv ices more than offset the de cline. Price increases were reported for rents, dry cleaning and laun dry services, water rates, mort gage interest rates, and home maintenance costs; clothing, used cars, gasoline and motor oil, medical care, haircuts, toiletries, movie admissions, newspapers, and television sets. H. E. Riley, chief of the BLS Price Division, said the outlook for April is for further increases in major groups of goods and services, iicludin'g food. He refused to predict what might lie ahead beyond April. have handles to facilitate loading and unload . . ing and a compartment to. store antenna sections.- The transmitters are complete with, their own 2.500 watt power plant, which, with the use of long lead-in wires, can be placed some distance from- the ' transmitter' itself to cut down engine noise. Two separate .trans mitters in each unit will make it possible to , broadcast on both the Jackson county fre quency as well as Elk-SOCTFA. dual fre quency, according to Simpson. - Revealed There were three letters from Bulganin to Eden and two from Eden to Bulganin. An exchange of single letters between Bul ganin and French Premier Guy Mollet was not published by Paris and Moscow Radio did not broadcast them. Bulganin's first letter to Eden dated Sept. 11, warned that if Britain attempted to seize the Suez it could result in destruc tion of the waterway and evoke the hatred of the Afro-Asian peoples. It called for a peaceful settlement in the United Nations. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow - Jones averages: 30 industrials 491.88, up 3.09; 20 railroads 145.91, up 0.94; 15 utilities 72.99, up 0.59, and 65 stocks 172.66, up 1.16. Sales today were about 2,840,000 shares compared with 2,560,000 shares Monday. watershed The project is largely for the control and development of small streams, and would con-" flict in no way with any projects which the Army engineers or the bureau of reclamation might have. Land Management Under such a program, much emphasis is given to land man agement practices, Ault said, so that the structures necessary such as dams, channels, silt-bas-ings and others would have the maximum effect in preserv ing soil and water. Before a project is initiated, studies must show a favorable cost-benefit ratio; must have ap proval of the people' involved and the state; and there must be a local improvement district formed to assess costs and ad minister the project. At the meeting it was revealed that the city of Ashland has al ready prepared an application for federal assistance in develop ing the Ashland watershed, and it was decided to incorporate this into the overall plan. . Further meetings will be held as progress is made in develop ing the application, and before it goes to the cities, county, state and other agencies for their approval. Torrential Rains Send Brazos River, Creeks on Rampage 6,000 Expected To Evacuate in Waco Waco, Tex. U.PJ Hundreds of persons fled their homes in this Central Texas city of 100,- 000 today and officials feared that as many as 6,000 residents may have to evacuate their dwellings within a few hours to escape floods. Fed by torrential rains, the Brazos river which flows through the city's eastern side was rising a foot every 15 min utes. Authorities said there was a possibility it may flood out the entire eastern side of Waco. Evacuation Planned Civilian and military authori ties met in emergency session to plan the evacuation - if it should become necessary. It was feared that the river may start spilling out of its banks by mid afternoon, f Waco was the worst hit city in a four-county Central Texas area for which Civil Defense and disaster relief 'headquarters in Austin issued possible flash flood warning. Torrential rains deluged the northeastern quarter of Texas. As much as six inches fell on the' headwaters of the Brazos since midnight. Some of the 6,000 persons who would be endangered by a flood here already had left their homes. Airmen from James Connally Air Force Base were standing by in case it becomes necessary to move residents from their homes in the eastern part of the city. Warnings Issued Dallas and Fort Worth suffer ed heavy flooding1 and. flood warnings were issued for both the Brazos and Trinity rivers. Record rains flooded low places in Fort Worth. In the suburb of Kennedale, southeast of Fort Worth, Village creek was seven feet deep and rising steadily. Creeks near both Lake Worth and White Settlement were spilling over their banks. In Dallas, police reported high water in at least a half-dozen low lying sections. The worst was along Barbaree rd. in East' Dallas where residents reported water at near flood level in their homes. . . Sale of Properties Postponed Until Next Month by IRD The auction of properties val ued at about $1,250,000, which were seized by the government in March from Walter H. and Evalyn G. Leverette, has been postponed until May 21, accord ing to Internal Revenue depart ment group supervisors. The auction, originally sched uled to start at 10 a.m. today was postponed by the Internal Revenue department district di rector in Portland. Reason for the postponement was to allow time to iron out technicalities which would not have been in the best interests of taxpayers, according lo department offic-' ials. The auction today was to be held at the Orchard Park Farms, one of Leverette's holdings near Voorhies crossing south of Med ford. The sale was to include a pack ing plant, cold storage building, 10 pear orchards, the Leverette building in downtown Medford and other property and equip ment. Total land involved is about 3,000 acres. The government seizure of the property was one of the largest ever conducted in the Pacific northwest, and involved about S600.000 in back taxes owed by Leverette for the period from 1941 through 1952, according to Internal Revenue agents. Leverette served a short prison term for income tax eva sion several years ago. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City 5 7 0 Detroit 4 S ' 1 Coleman, Trucks (7) and Thompson; Lee, Foytack (9), Gorman (9) and Wilson. Home runs: Tuttle, Detroit: Simpson, Kansas City; Boont, Detroit; Cerv, Kansas City; Skizas, Kansas City. . Baltimore 1 2 0 Boston I i. 3 9 0 Loes, Ferrarese (8) and Ginsberg; F. Sulliran and White. Home runs: Williams, Boston; Kell, Baltimore. NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 0 3 0 New York 18 1 Kline, Kizara (8) and Foiles; Burniide and Weslrum.