Medford mail tribune., May 02, 1957, Image 1

U.S.,
Washington CU.FD The United
States and Russia would destroy
each other in an atomic war.
Adm. Arleigh A. Burke, chief
of naval operations, has warned.
The United States now has the
nuclear weapons for "complete
destruction" of Russia and the
Soviet Union either now has or
will soon have the "capability
of doing the same thing to us,"
Burke said. '
With "mutual destruction" in
prospect from nuclear war.
Burke said "there is apt to be
some sort of stalemate where
neither side dares to start a war
because it will result in destroy
ing the whole northern hemi
sphere." Study of
udget
By .Group Today
The budget committee of
Medford School District 549C
will meet tonight to begin con
sideration of "the spending pro
posals for the district for the
1957-58 fiscal year.
, A preliminary budget has been
prepared by the school staff un
der the direction of Superin
tendent Leonard Mayfield. The
budget proposals include basic
operating costs, plus a number
of alternatives for expansion and
construction, for the committee's
study.
Total Proposed
The total proposed general
fund budget is $2,109,809.01,
compared to $1,903,383.86 for
the current year. In addition,
bond redemption and debt serv
ice . costs total $200,326.88. for
a grand total of $2,310,135.89,
compared to $2,114,133.24 this
year.
Suggested additional outlays
which the committee may con
cider adding this year total
$80,210. If they were all adopt
ed,' the budget would x total
$2,390,345.98.
Despite the increase of $196.
002.65 in the total proposed
1957-58 budget, the tax millage
will not increase greatly, ac
cording to present estimates. If
the budget is adopted as is, the
fnillage will go up an estimated
2.4 mills, to 46.4. If additional
Damage Suit Is
Dismissed in Court
A $41,500 damage suit against
Paul T. Rutter and Helen V.
Rutter, doing business as Med
ford Osteopathic hospital, was
dismissed by Circuit Judge Or
val J. Millard yesterday on the
grounds that the plaintiff had
failed to prove its allegations.
Mrs. K. C. (Mary) Van de
Kamp. Old Stage rd., Medford,
filed the damage suit in circuit
court last July. In the complaint,
Mrs. Van de Kamp, a former
patient at the hospital, charged
she was severely burned as a re
sult of "carelessness and negli
gence" on the part ot the defend
ants after she underwent sur
gery at the hospital Sept.' 19,
1955.
A jury trial to decide the case
had been scheduled before Judge
Millard took the case from the
jury. He dismissed the case on
the grounds that the plaintiff
had failed to prove negligence
on the part of the hospital or
that she had suffered any burns.
Mrs. Van de Kamp had asked
$40,000 for general injury and
damages and $1,500 for nursing
care, medical attention and
medicine. Representing the
plaintiff was Noreen Kelly of
Kelly and Kelly law firm, Med
ford. Hugh Collins, Medford attor
ney, represented the hospital.
Victim of Accident
Positively Identified
City police have positively
identified Ivan W. Lathron. 69.
of Lake Hotel, Medford. as the
man who was killed Tuesday
evening by a northbound South
ern Pacific freight train at the
Mam st. crossing.
Officers reported Glen Knapp
Orecon Rooms. 223 West Main
st., Medford, identified the body
yesterday as Lathrop s. i enta
tive identification of the body
was made by police Tuesday. La-throp's-last
known address was
Rirtrll Ore., according to police.
His bodv was discovered about
8:22 p.m.- Tuesday, lying near
the tracks about 30 feet nortn
of Main st.
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati 9 14 2
New York 1 10
Klippstein. Gross (1). Free
man (7) and Bailey; Burnside.
Ridzik (1). Margoneri (4),
Jones (6). Grissom (7) and
Weslium.
Russia laimed Able To Destroy Each thei in Msraio Uar
Gen. Nathan F. Twining, soon
to become chairman of the joint
chiefs of staff, warned that this
situation increases the danger of
"limited war" because "the So
viets have acquired a greater
capability to wage general war,
and can, therefore, undertake
limited aggression with less fear
of total retaliation."
The comments by Burke and
Twining, outgoing Air Force
chief of staff, were contained in
a heavily censored 1,331-page
transcript of testimony by de
fense officials on President Eis
enhower's $38,500,000,000 de
fense budget for the new fiscal
year.
A House appropriations sub
School
to Sbri
'construction," renovation and
equipment is added, the millage
increase would be slightly
greater.
Present millage in the district
is 43.7, the lowest in the county,
and one of the lowest in the state
for school districts of compar
able size.
Millage Estimate
The millage estimate is based
on a proposed tax levy of
$1,518,321.41, applied to the as
sessed valuation of the district
of $32,389,795.67. The tax levy
proposed is $6.1,003.35 higher
than the curi ax' levy of
$1,457,318.06.
The relatively small increase
in the tax levy is accounted for
by an increase in estimated re
ceipts of $140,665.90. This is
money received from the coun
ty's share of receipts from con
troverted O&C funds last year.
It is applied to bond redemption.
Increases called for in the
proposed budget are based in an
increasing number of children,
estimated to total 300; addition
of 13 new teachers to handle
this increase; an increase in
teachers' salaries averaging 5.8
per cent, to place them on the
same schedule as teachers in
Grants Pass and Klamath Falls;
smaller increases for non-teacher
personnel; increased transpor
tation costs, largely due to con
solidation with the West Side
and Oak Grove districts; higher
costs for supplies and books;
purchase of future school sites;
increases in fixed costs such as
social security and retirement;
costs of new furniture and equip
ment, . and relatively small in
creases in assessments, better
ments and upkeep of grounds.
Citizen Members
Citizen members of the budg
et committee are Hugh Coleman,
Robert Cunningham, M. M. Hug
gins, Dr. D. Kirkland West and
Mrs. Sara Fay Puhl. They serve
with the five elected members
of the board of education, who
are Otto Ewaldsen, Mrs. Evelyn
Nye, Frank Bash, William Bark
er and Edward Branchfield.
The5 members have been pre
sented with folders containing
detailed budget information,
both on spending proposals and
data as to school enrollment, pol
icies, and financial and taxation
matters to be considered in ar
riving at an approved budget.
After the budget is finally
approved, with any changes in
cluded, it will .be published in
full twice in the Mail Tribune,
and voters of the district will be
called up to approve it or re
ject it at a school election.
This is necessary because the
budget exceeds the constitution
al 6 per cent limitation estab
lished many years ago, as do
virtually all school budgets in
rapidly-growing areas.
Date of the election will be
set by the committee.
'Well, Last December We Had The Christmas
Spirit"
committee heard the testimony
behind closed doors recently and
made public the transcript to
day. Defense Secretary Charles E.
Wilson said he believes the Com
munist threat has reached its
peak. But he warned that Russia
still is a world menace and the
52nd Year
Medford
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CARROLL E. BROWN
New Forest Supervisor v
C. E. Brown Named
Forest Supervisor
To Succeed Wood
Carroll E. Brown has been
promoted to forest supervisor of
the Rogue River National for
est, replacing Jack Wood, who
has accepted a position in Wash
ington, D. C, Regional Forester
J. Herbert Stone announced to
day in Portland.
. Brown has been staff officer
in the regional division of rec
reation and lands in Portland
for IV2 years. He has had re
sponsibility for . planning, or
ganizing and coordinating activ
ities pertaining - to administra
tion of mining claims on nation
al forests in the Pacific north
west. Wood was promoted to a
staff position in the office of
the chief of the forest service.
Both promotions become effec
tive about June 1. ..-
Brown, a native of Vancou
ver, Wash., began his' career in
the forest service with seasonal
work in 1928. He worked three
seasons each in Gifford Pinchot
and Mt. Hood National forests.
He received his degree in for
estry from Oregon State college
in 1933 and received a forester
appointment the next year in the
Nicolet National forest in Wis
consin. On it and Chequamegon
National forest in the north
central region he served as fore
man and camp superintendent in
the civilian conservation corn
program and as assistant rang
er. He was transferred in 1938
to the Pacific northwest region
and worked briefly .on Wenat
chee and Mt. Hood National for
ests. He spent a year on the
Gifford Pinchot forest as assist
ant ranger at Trout lake.
District Ranger
After a brief period as a staff
officer in the regional forester's
office in the' division of state
and private forestry he became
district ranger on the Siuslaw
National forest at Hebo from
1940 to 1943.
He was promoted to a staff
officer position on the Olympic
National forest in 1943. He serv
ed as a staff- officer three, four
and five years respectively on
the Olympic, Fremont, and Gif
ford Pinchot forests.. .
United States will have to main
tain its armed might for years
to come.
"Either she has a capability
now or shortly will have the
capability of doing the same
thing to us."
Other highlights of the testimony:
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY
Knowland Turns
Against Federal
Aid for Schools
Budget Situation,
Control Said Reasons
Washington (U.R) Senate Re
publican Leader William F.
Knowland, who voted for school
aid bills twice before, said to
day he switched to the opposi
tion this year because of the
"budget situation" and other
factors.
Knowland, who has been mov
ing steadily toward a position
of opposition to the Eisenhower
administration, revealed in a
speech two days ago. he is op-
Washington (U.R) Support
ers of federal aid for school
conslruciion won a tentative
victory in Congress today. -
The House Education and
Labor Committee tentatively
approved a program . that
would run for five yean at
$400 -million.
posed to President Eisenhower's
program of federal aid for school
construction. The program calls
for $1,300,000,000 in grants, to
states over a four-year" period.
In 1948 and again in 1949
Knowland voted for bills to pro
vide federal aid for schools. He
was asked in an interview what
factors prompted him to change
his mind.
' "The budget situation is one,"
he replied. This referred to the
drive he is supporting for sub
stantial cuts in the close to $72
billion Eisenhower budget for
the coming government year.
' He ' said . since his previous
votes in favor of school aid "I
have had an opportunity to see
the greater concentration of
power here in Washington. When
the federal government puts
money into projects, there is
a tendency to exercise control."
He added he believes educa
tion is "one thing that belongs
to the states."
Council to Continue
Zone Change Hearing
The Medford city council to
night will continue a public
hearing on a proposal to rezone
five acres on Barnett rd. and
Black Oak drive from single
family (class IA) to limited com
mercial (class IIIA). The meet
ing will be held at 7:30 p.m. in
the city hall.
Action on the rezoning pro
posal was deferred by the coun
cil at its last meeting. The area
proposed for rezoning is near
the new Rogue Valley Memorial
hospital, now under construction
in southeast Medford.
Other council business will
include awarding bids for con
struction of a sanitary sewer
and a water main on South
Grape st. between Melrose and
Stewart aves. - -
Mrs. Hamilton Named
To Welfare Group
Salem Mrs. Scott Hamilton,
route 1, box 189, Central Point,
has been appointed to the Jack
son County Welfare commission.
Governor Robert D. Holmes, an
nounced late yesterday.
Mrs. Hamilton will serve the
unexpired term of Mrs. A. P.
Klomhaus of Rogue River who
resigned last month.
Weather
FORECAST: Partly cloudv to
night and Friday morning, -
' becoming cloudy Friday after
noon. Rain Friday night. Low
tonight 4ft. High Friday .
Temp.
Highest Yesterday JS
Lowest this Morning 42
Our Skies Tonight
Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 11
Sunrise S:05 a.m.
Sunset 7:12 p.m.
Moonset 10:14 pjn.
First Quarter May C
The Moon rides high tonight
and forms a triangle with the
planet Mars, and the star. El
nath. The star, on the right, is
believed to he 300 light yean
from the Earth.
Adm. Arthur "W. Radford,
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, said the U.S. has a "mark
ed superiority" Qver Russia in
the air.
Dr. Clifford C. Furnas, then
assistant defense secretary for
research and development, said
the US "definitely" is ahead of
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ADOPTS KITTEN When Mr. and Mrs. A. J. .
Maclnnes of 210 Cottage St., Medford, found
a small kitten on their porch Easter morn
ing, Heidi, their ' iO-month-old dachshund
, made. .'friends "withit right away. . In fact, :
Heidi became so fond of the kitten that she "
has even assumed the role of mother to it,
and allows it to "nurse" whenever it is con
venient. The kitten doesn't get any nourish
Group Asks End
Of Ban on Rogue
Water for Industry
Salem, Ore. U.R) A delega
tion of Jackson-Josephine coun
ty citizens Wednesday night
asked the legislature to remove
a ban on the use of waters of
the Rogue river for industrial
purposes. , , '
The delegation, . headed by
Grants Pass Attorney Gene
Brown, former state senator,
said it also will seek to have the
State Water Resources Board
make a survey of the river and
then determine the uses the
river and then 'determine the
uses the. river could support. ;
Area Said Suffering
' Th" southern Oregon interests
told-the House State and Fed
eral Affairs, Committee that the
two-county area is suffering
from a declining supply of tim
ber and a weak lumber market.
They said the Rogue waters
must' be allowed to serve in
dustry, so that .new payrolls
could be attracted into the
Rogue basin. -
L. C. Binford, chairman of the
Water Resources Board, support
ed the delegation. He said the
statutory ban on industrial use
of Rogue waters "Ties our hands
and prevents us from- making a
determination as to the use of
the river."
Program for
Association of
The program for the annual
convention of Oregon United Na
tions association, to be held in
Medford May 4-5, includes two
outstanding speakers and a for
um discussion according ' to
George Rode, president of Med
ford chapter, OUNA. Rode urged
the general public to participate
in convention meetings and hear
the speakers.
The convention, to be held at
the Jackson hotel," opens Satur
day, May 4, with registration at
11 a.m. At noon Dr.' Charles
Schleicher, professor ' of politi
cal science at the University of
Oregon, will speak at a joint
luncheon meeting of ; the Med
ford League of Women Voters
and OUNA in the Pioneer room.
His topic will be "The United
Nations Today." "
At 7 p.m. Mrs. Hazel Robert
son of the Ford Foundation will
speak at a dinner meeting in the
Pioneer room. . Her topic will be
Russia in developing battlefield
atomic weapons.
Burke said as far as the
Navy knows Russia has not yet
floated an atomic - powered sub
marine. But he warned Russia
is building up its naval power
faster than the US and now has
450 submarines, eight times as
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Election Scheduled
May 20 on Proposed
Rural School Budget
Jackson county rural school
district patrons' will ' vote May
20 on a proposed operational
budget totaling $1,523,366.55 for
fiscal year 1957-58.
The amount more than the 6
per cent limitation is $1,086,
814.64. The total budget repre
sents an increase of $125,939.96
more than the current year's
$1,397,426.97 budget.
Total estimated "receipts from
other than local taxes are $544,
359.54, leaving a total of $979,
007.01 to tax on the total opera
tional, budget, of $1,523,366.55.
Emergency Fund
The rural operating and emer
gency fund of $47,961 and the
non-high tuition and transporta
tion operating " and emergency
fund of $273,450 bring the total
to tax in the rural school dis
trict to $1,300,418.01. '
The allowable levy within the
6 per cent limitation is $213,
603.37, . county officials noted,
leaving the $1,086,814.64 to be
voted on by patrons of the dis
trict. . .. , . . . '..
Officials noted that the first
obligation of the levy within the
6 per cent limitation is the rural
board operating and emergency
fund of 2.52 mills, which leaves
only 13.9 mills which can be
levied within the " 6 per cent
limitation on district budgets.
Annual Convention of United Nations
Oregon Includes Speakers, Panels
"The Changeless Middle East
Changes" and she will snow
films taken in the Middle East
countries, where she lived for
several years and made a study
of social conditions and.commun
ications. Sunday, May 5, Dr. Elmo Stev
enson of Southern Oregon col
lege will moderate a panel dis
cussion of needs of the United
Nations as revealed by an analy
sis of the 11th General Assem
bly. The panel discussion, open
to the public, will follow a
luncheon set for'12:30 p.m. in
the Pioneer room.
Panel members will be Mark
Smith, member of the socal ac
tion committee of Oregon Coun
cil of . Churches; Mrs. Beatrice
Stevens, secretary of the Ore
gon Federation of Teachers; Miss
Mildred Wharton, president of
Oregon Education association
and A. C. Fries, repreaitative
of Rotary club.-
many as Nazi Germany at the
outset of World War II. He said
the U. S. "will lose" any war in
which Russian submarines suc
ceed in cutting off U. S. ship
ping from Europe.
Maj. Get. John B. Carv,
deputy Air Force chief of staff,
said "the Russians are now con
vinced that we can destroy
them" through air power if they
launch an atomic war. He pre
dicted the Reds will, not attack
the U. S. as long as this country
maintains ' such a strong Air
Force the Soviets never become
convinced they can "destroy it
by sneak attack."
In pleading for $314 mil-
ment for its efforts because Heidi is just a
pup herself, but the arrangement seems to be
satisfactory to both, and the kitten gets her
, milk from a saucer. The two play together
constantly and Heidi watches over the kitten
as if it were her own offspring. She growled
suspiciously at Mail Tribune Photographer
Bob . Vroman when this picture was taken.
The total estimated increase
in mills is from 54.7 for the cur
rent year to 68.4 for the 1957
58 year. Of the increase, 6.4
mills is due to an estimated loss
in assessed valuation and loss of
tax base in the district because
of withdrawals from the district
and reductions made by the as
sessor's office in compliance
with recent attorney, general's
opinions, officials noted.
The tax base for the current
year is $342,931.88, or 24.4 per
cent of the amount levied. The
small tax base has made it neces
sary for school districts to vote
each year on budgets exceeding
the 6 per cent limitation.
Non-High Budget
The non-high budget accounts
for several mills increase be
tween the 54.7 and anticipated
68.4 mills. The current budget
for non-high is $250,450, which
has been increased for fiscal
year 1957-58 to $273,450 to meet
an estimated 14.1 per cent in
crease in enrollment.
. The non-high levy has to be
carried on a reduced valuation
of $19,019,082.78 compared to
the present valuation of $25,349,
179.20. representing an increase
of 4.5 mills for non-high pur
poses alone, county school of
ficials noted.
Anyone wishing to atttend any
of these ' functions is asked to
call Mrs. Herbert Sampert, SP-2-4328
for; reservations.- "
Dr.' Karlin' Capper-Johnson,
Portland, president of the Ore
gon UN association, will preside
for the convention. Saturday
afternoon from 3 to 5 p.m. re
ports are to be given and new
directors elected. Mrs. Harlan P.
Bosworth Jr., officer of the
Medford chapter, has been nom
inated for the board.
Saturday at 5 p.m. a social
hour for convention delegates
and Medford chapter members
will be held at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Padgham, 2407
Springbrook rd.
Another business session is
scheduled for Sunday . at 9:30
a.m. and following the 'panel, a
final business meeting will be
held at 3 p.m.
The panel discussion will be
lion to build the Navy's first
nuclear-powered aircraft carrier.
Navy officials insisted it would
not be a sitting duck for enemy
attack. They said a carrier task:
force "is the hardest target in
the world" to hit. They suggest
ed it would be safer during war
time to be aboard an aircraft
carrier than behind a desk in
Washington.
It will take some time for
the Marines to complete conver
sion of their beach assault forces
into "helicopter-borne troops.
Marine Commandant Gen. Ran
dolph McC. Pate said "for some
years the Marine Corps will
have one foot on the water and
one in the air."
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Troops Called
For Defense of
Northern Border
Honduran Attack
Blamed for Deaths
Managua. Nicaragua U.F3-1-
President Luis Somoza ordered
a general mobilization of the
army today "for the legal de
fense of our northern frontier"
in Nicaragua's 50-year-old bord
er dispute with Honduras.
In a statement, Somoza said
Nicaraguans would take up arms
to repel Honduran aggression.
Nicaragua charged that 35 of its
soldiers were killed in a Hon
duran attack Wednesday on the
frontier town of Mocoron.
Somoza asked for patriotic co
operation from the people in a
time of trial, and prayed for
"those who died in the fulfill
ment of their duties when they
were massacred by highly super
ior planes and forces."
Thousands ' gathered Wednes
day night' at the National Sta
dium in Managua to join the re
serve forces which will supple
ment the national guard, Nicar
agua's army. Reports reaching
here from Leon, Granada and
other cities - said many persons
were joining the reserve forces
there.
Somoza met with his Cabin
et and the army's general staff
from 10 o'clock Wednesday
night until early this morning,
dicmiccinff the citnarinn hofnrp
he made his mobilization an
nouncement. Honduras warned its civilian
population . against possible air
attacks by Nicaragua.
Somoza announced the casu
alty toll Wednesday night a few
hours after he .was sworn in as
chief of state. He went into im
mediate conference with his bro
ther, Gen. Anastasio Somoza,
and other officials.
The President said a super
ior force of Honduran soldiers
supported by five airplanes at
tacked a Nicaraguan national
guard patrol at Mocoron be
tween 8 a.m. and noon Wed
nesday. Thirty-five Nicaraguans were
killed, two captured and the
rest fled, he said.
The attack came just 12 hours
after Gen. Somoza, national
guard head, called off an armed
forces alert on the grounds that
Honduras was seeking a peace
ful solution to the dispute
through the organization of Am
erican states.
Salem (U.R) Tha second
major bill of tha Democratic
tax program raising tha cor
poration excise tax rata and
repealing the 50 par cent per
sonal property tax offset pass
ad the House today.
The measure, - house bill
796, Yuld bring in some eight
million dollars. A 151 million
dollar income tax bill has al
ready gone to tha Senate.
supplemented by a tape record
ing of a report made by Larry
LaSuer, CBS news commentator
attached to the UN, who ex
plained the' work of the General
Assembly with special emphasis
on the Middle East over a closed
circuit program April 25. In
Medford the closed circuit pro
gram was viewed at KBES-TV
by a group of Medford and Ash
land residents who have volun
teered to fill local speaking en
gagements concerning the United
Nations. In the group were
Charles Crary, A. C. Fries, Mrs.
Bosworth, Mrs. John Ousterhout.
George- Rode, C. Elwood Hed
berg, Mrs. Justin Smith and the
Rev.' Escrl Hiser. .
Speakers on the program were
LaSuer, Andrew Cordier, Ralph
Bunche, Ambassador Wads
worth, Paul Hoffman, Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt and Ambassa
dor .Gross. ......