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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.