Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 29, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextMil m OWE R TEJffl . - .v5-f " ' ' lilt JS ii iff i yy- I I 1 mi - fc' l;.,4UH- H if. IP Wt DIGNITARIES MEET Mayor John Snider was one of a number of local people on hand to congratulate Michigan governor G. Men ren Williams, left, after his speech at the an nual Roosevelt dinner at McLoughlin Junior high school Saturday. Also pictured above are City Judge Noreen Kelly, who was pro wnmniiinjii wjiiiiMim iiiiimjpii....MiirMp jf t u. himi I. Afc-J fill i . s.rrJ - 'if-4 i&3 fill iu J PRESENTS TIE Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan, right, presented Congressman Charles Porter with a green and white polka dot bow tie at the annual Roosevelt dinner Jackson County Music Get 11 Superior Ratings Jackson county music groups received 11 superior ratings Friday and Saturday at the an nual Southern Oregon Music contest for elementary, junior high and high school music stu dents. Judges directed such com ments as "best we've heard," "thrilling performance" and "'performed with musical taste" toward Medford groups parti cipating in the contest, accord ing to I. A. Mirick, supervisor of instrumental music in Med ford public scchoois. 2.000 Participate About 2,000 participants rep resented Oregon schools as far Byrd Raps Wrife-Oii To Idaho Power Co. Washington U.R) Sen. Har ry F. Byrd (D-Va.) said today the administration's grant of a $29, 250,000 tax write-off to the Idaho Power Co. is "utterly indefen sible." He said the Senate Finance Committee, which he heads, may try to cancel the write-off "on a retroactive basis." Other congressional Demo crats protested the move, charg ing that it was a "subsidy" to Idaho Power to develop power lesources in Hells Canyon. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), a leader in the losing battle for a federal Hells Canyon dam, call ed it a "shocking betrayal of public trust." "It is time a few men had the guts to say this administration is honeycombed with corrup tion." he said. "... This adminis tration is so rotten it stinks to high heaven." Wealher FORECAST: Clrr lonipht. ln rrrasinx r!udine Tuesday with isolated howr nd rhanrr of thunderstorm vn mountain' durini afternoon and evenint. Low tonisnt 46. High Tuesday "S. Teirp. Hiht Y'5tray SJ lowest This Momint - i Our Skies Tonight Sunrise .1:11 a.m. 7:09 p.m. Sunset New Moon 3:45 p.m. Ae annular eclipse oi ine sun be taking place at this time. It will be seen s a partial eclipse in Alaska and the north western part of the Inited States and Canada, beginning a little before sunset. at McLoughlin Junior hign school Saturday. The tie is used as a campaign symbol by Governor Williams. Congressman Porter was master of ceremonies at the dinner. east as Lakeview and as far west as Brookings.- Contests were held at Medford Senior High school and Hedrick Junior High school. Groups entered under classi fications of AA, A. B, C and jun ior high. Classifications are Phone Operators Having Busy Day Telephone operators at the Medford Central office were ex periencing an unusually busy day, Manager Jack Creager re ported Monday. "In addition to an extra heavy load of calls," Creager said, "The operators are getting a lot of questions about the new local calling areas that went into ef fect Saturday night." He added, "The towns that telephone users can dial directly without the assistance of an operator are listed in the front pages of the new telephone di rectory," Calls can be dialed directly from Medford to Ashland, Cen tral Point, Gold Hill, Jackson ville, Phoenix-Talent and White City; Ashland to Medford and Phoenix-Talent; Central Point to Medford, White City, Gold Hill and Jacksonville; Gold Hill to Central Point and Medford; Jacksonville to Central Point and Medford; Phoenix-Talent to Medford, Ashland and Jackson ville, and White City to Medford and Central Point. "In dialing these calls from one city to another," Creager pointed out, "It is important to dial the first two capital letters and numeral of the prefix and the following four numerals." Now that the new local call ing area system is in use it is no longer necessary for persons in Central Point and Jackson ville to dial the directing code "7" when calling Medford. Med ford telephone users no longer have to dial the code "30' when calling Jacksonville, and the code "3" when calling Central Point and White City, Dow-Jones final stock aver ages: 30 industrials 493.95, up 2.45; 20 railroads 148.38, off 0.60, 15 uliliiies 72.96. off 0.03, and 65 stocks 173.18, up 0.32. Sales today were about 2.290. 000 shares compared with 2,380, 000 shares Friday, gram chairman at the dinner, and Oregon Gov. Robert D. Holmes, extreme right. The two governors, as well as other state and local Democratic leaders, were present at an informal reception held later in the evening at the Medford hotel. Groups in Contest based on school enrollment, Mi rick explained. Jackson county ' groups re ceiving number 1 or superior ratings in the contest were Marian choir, St. Mary's of Med ford, Class C; Medford High school girls' chorus, class AA; Hedrick Junior High orchestra, junior high division; Talent High school band, class C; Central Point Junior High band, junior high division; Medford High school orchestra, Medford High school choir and Medford High school band, class AA; McLough lin Junior High school band, junior high division; Hedrick Junior High band, junior high division; and McLoughlin Jun ior High A band, junior high division. Other Ratings Receiving number 2 or excel lent ratings were Jacksonville High school chorus, class C; Oak Grove grade school band, junior high division; Jackson ville High school band, class C; Howard grade school band, jun ior high division; McLoughlin Junior High school cadet band, junior high division; and Crater High school band, class B. The Ashland High school orchestra performed at the contest for cirticism only and did not com pete. Sheriff's Deputies Get Call to Unload 1849 Revolver at Museum Do you know how to unload , an 1849 single action cap and ball Colt revolver? If so, the Jacksonville museum and the Jackson county sheriff's depu ties would have been interest ed in knowing it last week. Last week the sheriff's of fice received a call from Miss Mary L.tianley,-curator of the Jacksonville museum. She asked for assistance in unload ing an antique firearm that had been a pari of the Emil Britt collection, and is now on display at the museum. Deputy Glen Wright and Chief Deputy Joe Walsh at tempted to unload the antique cap and ball gun. Later, Dr. Edwin Sickles of Medford, who collects antique weapons, stopped at the museum and, since the gun was in' very good condition, suggested fir ing it. Sheriff's deputies reported that the firing proved lo be successfuL 52nd Year Unite I -XZP 1 Lei Eif( Taxation Problems No Counter Proposals Immediately in Sight Salem (U.R) The Oregeon Legislature, launching the 15th week of its 1957 session, concen trated today on two of its main chores taxes to finance the state government for the next two years and appropriations to keep its institutions and its agen cies going. Measures proposed by the House Taxations Committee would revise the income tax schedules. It would take out what some have come to call the "naughty word," surtax. But it would wind up with a sched ule not much reduced from- the surtax level. It also would impose taxes de signed to raise some $6 million more from corporations and util ities. Special Order Of Business The two measures, House bill 1 relating to personal income taxes, and House bill 796, relat ing to corporation excise taxes and corporation income taxes, were made a special order of business for House floor action at 2 p.m. No counter tax plans were im mediately in sight, and with a strong Democratic majority in the House, the measures by the Democratic controlled House Taxation Committee were ex pected to pass that chamber without too much difficulty. But the long look at the tax program was expected to be tak en in the Senate. The Senate Taxation Committee is headed by Sen. Walter J. Pearson, Port land Democrat and has a 4-3 Democratic majority. - : But the Senate- itself is split down the middle, 15 Democrats and 15 Republicans, and the pro gram is not expected to get past that chamber until it is in a shape that, as they say, the Re publicans as well as the Demo crats "can live with." Up for final action in the Sen ate was Senate bill 301, which would empower the public utili ty commissioner to regulate min imum rail rates as well as max imum. The Senate also had before it several appropriations bills," in cluding appropriations for the next biennium for the Oregon State hospital in Salem and the Eastern Oregon State Hospital in Pendleton. Sunday Hottest Day This Year Medford vicinity experienced its hottest day in 1957 yesterday when an official high tempera ture of 87 degrees was registered at the airport station of the weather bureau. Forecasts indicated duplica tion of that temperature this afternoon but cooler weather is in prospect. Cool air is expected to move into the valley on Tues day. The 87-degree reading yester day is still nine degrees under the all-time high for April 28. A temperature of 96 was record ed on that day in 1926. Today's expected maximum of 87 com pares to the 88 all-time high for this day of the year, also occur ing in 1926. Weather is expected to be clear tonight but ' increasing cloudiness is predicted for Tues day with isolated showers and possible thunderstorms in moun tains during afternoon and eve ning. Maximum forecast for Tuesday is 75. Granfs Pass had a high tem perature of 91 degrees yester day. Lee to Attend Meet In To co ma This Week Robert Lee, city water super intendent, will attend a three day convention of the Pacific Northwest section of American Water Works association in T a c o m a, Wash., Wednesday through Friday, he reported to day. Lee will discuss cathodic pro tection of water pipe lines at a technical session of the conven tion. The Pacific Northwest sec tion is composed of Oregon, Washington, Alaska, British Co lumbia and Idaho. Washington (U.R) AFL CIO President George Meany has given the Teamsters Union a "take it or leave it" chance to defend itself against corruption charges next Monday. ALA1T 3RD, OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 29, 1957 1 Find I'm Not Just Thinking of Egypt" Warm Weather Lures Throngs To Beaches; Five Persons Drown By UNITED PRESS Five persons drowned in Ore gon during the week end as the state basked in the warmest weather of the season. Three of the ' victims were fishermen, .riaking a total of four fatalities since opening of the trout sea son Saturday. ; Four of the' drownings occur led Sunday a. the thermometer hit the 80s throughout most of The state...- $-.. - -- -Powerless' To Help The other drowning was Sat- Porter Promises Immediate Action To Obtain Funds Immediate action . to' obtain sufficient funds for the Corps of Engineers to continue their study of Rogue river flood con trol needs has been promised by Congressman Charles O. Porter. At a meeting with local peo ple here Saturday, Porter re vealed that the corps has ex hausted funds allocated to the local studies. A statement from Sen. Wayne L. Morse was read at the meet ing, reinforcing Porter's stand that the work should be re sumed as soon as possible.' The engineers discontinued their work here approximately two months ago when funds be came exhausted. Request Funds Morse noted in his statement that the engineers last Thursday requested $50,000 for their study through their north Pacific head quarters. He attacked the Eisen hower administration for the engineers' failure to obtain the money. "This is another example of the failure of the present adT ministration to provide sufficent funds for such projects," Morse said. Porter said he had not been promptly informed the engineers had discontinued their work. He said he was "shocked and sur prised" to find out about it and planned to "say something" when he returns to Washington. The congressman said delay in obtaining funds for the study is another reason why his flood control bill should be introduced now. In Favor of Bill William Frohnmayer, repre senting the- Medford Realty board, told Porter his group Fri day unanimously voted in favor of immediate introduction of the bill. Pqrter was asked to giv spe cial attention in any flood con trol bill to straightening,- clean ing and revetment of stream channels. It was noted that soil erosion caused by floods has been a major problem in the valley. Porter said he would return to Oregon' next fall for about 10 weeks and will be available at that time to talk with any group concerning flood control. He added that the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Re sources association, as well as other groups, would receive copies of his proposed bill be fore it is introduced. urday when Henry Nielson of Seaside was washed off a cliff near Cannon Beach while fish ing. Fred S. Carlson of.Beaver ton said he and his 9-year-old son saw a wave hit Nielson and wash him into the ocean but they were powerless to help the victim. Jerald Anderson, a 16-year-old Willamina high school student, fell 75 feet to his death over a cliff Saturday while on a fish ing trip to the Nestucca river. Anderson apparently slipped on some rocks and fell over tne cliff about six miles east of Blaine in Tillamook county. Ivan Haddix, 39, Coquille, and Henry Jeske, 56, Eugene, drowned Sunday in fishing acci dents. Other victims Sunday were John Rathman, 13, Trout- dale, and Larry McDonald, 16, Sandy. . Thousands of persons .headed for the mountains and . beaches Sunday as the temperatures shot into the 80s. Roseburg was the warmest spot with 88. Boat Overturns , Haddix drowned in Siltcoos lake when his boat overturned. A fishing partner, Walter Combs, also of Coquille, clung to the boat and drifted to shore about an hour after the acci dent. . Jeske was lost when a boat capsized in Lookout Point reser voir near Lowell. Jeske's wife, Lillian; Joseph P. Richards, op erator of the boat, and Richards' daughter, Patricia, escaped. Young Rathman drowned when, he fell into a deep hole in the Sandy river near Trout dale. McDonald was drowned when he slipped off a log raft in a pond. His compainion, Dave Har rington, 17, dove in after him but was unable to hang on to ihe McDonald boy. McCarthy in Serious Condition in Hospital Washington :(U.R)' Sen. Jo seph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin is in serious condition at Bethes da Naval Hospital with acute hepatitis, a liver ailment, the hospital said today. McCarthy was admitted to the hospital Sunday. A spokesman there said "his condition is con sidered serious." Five Members May Quit Soon, GOP Circles Declare Washington (U.R) Five members of President Eisen hower's cabinet may resign soon, according to informed GOP circles. t Secretary of Defense Charles e! Wilson and Treasury Secre tary George M. Humphrey, pre viously have been reported ready to return to private life. Three Others Named The GOP circles said the three other cabinet members who may bow out soon are Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, Sec retary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks and Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield. - Wilson and Humphrey were expected to stay on until after Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire No. 33 Hussein Talk With Saud Could Lead To New Alignment Arab Conference On Policies Expected By UNITED PRESS Jordan's King Hussein return ed today to his capital of Amman from talks with anti-Communist King Saud of Saudi Arabia that could lead to a new alignment of power in the Middle East. An Amman dispatch said a "major announcement" was ex pected there later in the day, possibly an agreement for a new four-power Arab "summit" con ference to try to reunify Mid East policies after Jordan's up heaval. But whether the four-power solidarity of Jordan, Egypt, Sy ria and Saudi Arabia could con tinue in the same form as before appeared doubtful. A Jerusalem dispatch said that only Saud's intervention saved Jordan from oeing carved up by its neighbors. Syria, Egypt Warned The Jerusalem dispatch said informed observers there believ ed King Saud had warned the Syrian and Egyptian delegates which visited him in Mecca this week end that the United States intended to intervene militarily if they tried to tear Jordan apart. Syria was reported apprehen sive that Jordan reach an agree ment with the West a move that could encourage the pro Western elements now suppress ed in Syria. Cairo dispatches said Egypt and Syria were very jnxious to keep Jordan1 within their neutralist fold despite Hus sein's move toward the West. Hussein flew Sunday to Riy adh, a . political center of Saudi Arabia, for talks with the king whose Saudi troops backed up Hussein at the height of Jordan's crisis and even helped maintain order in the troubled area on the west bank of the Jordan river. Jordan Stability Favored Throughout the Jordan crisis the threat of military action by Israel hung over the Arab na tions. An Israeli foreign office spokesman said Sunday Israel would still take action if the Arab states try to change Jor dan's boundaries. But Israeli Ambassador Abba Eban said on a television broad cast at the same time Jordan 'ieed have no fear of an attack from Israel that Israel favors the "preservation of .-Jordan's integrity and stability." Congress Returns To Work After Recess , Washington U.R) Congress came back to- work today, after a 10-day Easter recess with fresh signs of a growing revolt by Re publican leaders against Presi dent Eisenhower's legislative program. The lawmakers returned to the capital over the week end with little evidence that the'ir so journ among the grass roots abated - the economy fever Con gress has been running this year. A number of the leading eco nomizers promptly began beat ing the drums f gain for a cut in federal spending and renewed their appeals for tax reductions. The second half of the session began with the split apparently deepening between "modern" and "conservative" Republicans. The Democrats were engaged in their own tug of war over the civil rights issue. Portland U.R) Arthur W. Priaulx, public relations direc tor for the West Coast Lumber men's Association ha$ been nam president of the Oregon Free lance club. of Eisenhower's Cabinet the outcome of the congressional fights over appropriations, de fense and taxes. Wilson's resignation has been rumored, and , denied, for months. Rumors Spring Up Reports that Humphrey is leaving sprang up again last week and the Treasury secretary himself dropped a strong hint that he plans to resign soon. Humphrey said it was well known that he had "been in the cabinet much longer than I originally planned." Three names have been men tioned as possible replacments for Humphrey. They are Robert B. Anderson, a Texas Eisen Thunderstorms, Rains Soak State For Eleventh Day At Least 15 Dead As. Result of Weather Dallas. Tex. U.R) At least nine rivers and countless small er streams poured their flood waters out over cities, towns and farms in Texas today and new thunderstorms and rains soaked the state for the 11th straight day. The worst flood danger now was in the central and south por tions of the state. Eight hundred to 1,000 persons fled the Guada lupe river at Victoria, a south Texas city of about 45,000 per sons. At Eaves of Homes The river at Victoria was lap ping toward the eaves of homes in a 20-block section in South Victoria and police steadily evacuated residents of that area. They expected to take out a to tal of at least 2,000. Houston, the state's largest city, was hit by floods for the first time. More than six inches of rain fell in Houston over the week end and water went into perhaps 25 homes. The flooding in Houston was local, however, rather than from rivers. Growing Death Toll At least 15 persons have been killed by the weather, nearly all of them drowned by floods, since an epidemic of tornadoes, deluges and floods started in Texas April 19. A 16th person died of a heart attack in Mineral Wells Sunday while digging a drainage ditch around his home. Two others are missing and pre sumed drowned. Damage totals many, millions of dollars. Agriculture Commis sioner John White estimated $25 to $30 million damage to agri culture alone. United States en gineers said Dallas suffered $6, 500,000 from a flood now sub siding. "Every stream of any conse quence from the Pecos (the westernmost river in Texas) to the Louisiana border is flooding, and has been flooding' or is bankful," R. O- Bland of the weather bureau at Fort Worth said. "This is the greatest accumu lation of water we have had at this time in 35 years." Crowd Helpless Rivers carrying flood waters now include the Trinity, Brazos, Frio, Colorado, Guadalupe, Dev il's, Upper Rio Grande, Cabine and Nueces. A crowd out looking at the raging west fork of the Trinity river near Dallas Sunday help lessly watched Burnis Lee Goodwin, 22, swept away and drowned. Continued thunderstorms and rains were predicted through Tuesday. A tornado hit Ray mondville, near Edinburg in the lower Rio Grande valley, early today, but police said the only damage was to power lines. Importance of Tapes Described by Schrunk Portland U.R) Mayor Terry D. Schrunk testified today that he ordered copies made of seiz ed tape recordings because he decided they were "important." Schrunk testified as a govern ment witness in the federal wire tap trial of racketeer James B. Elkins' employee, Raymond Clark. The mayor, who is under state indictment for conspiracy to ob tain wiretaps, said he put the recording in his safe when they were delivered to him by Depu ty Sheriff George Minielly. About an hour later, Schrunk, who was then sheriff, testified, "there was so much concern about the tapes- and so much traffic around the place at the time of the raid that I decided they were important." He said he decided to "pre serve the evidence by making copies of the tapes as soon as possible and storing them in a safe place." hower Democrat and former dep uty detense secretary; Under secretary of Treasury W. Ran dolph Burgess, and Lewis W. Douglas, former ambassador to Britain and one-time budget di rector under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Herter Likely Successor Should Dulles leave, Under secretary of State Christian A. Herter, former governor of Massachusetts, would be a likely successor. Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles, recently moved up from secretary of air, was described as Wilson's most likly successor if the defense chief departs.