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I ftiof ait North Mata 'P DllMt C 1 I Unemployment Compensation Boost Favored House Fight Seen Along Party Lines Salem U.RJ A measure to boost the maximum unemploy ment compensation for employ ees from $33 a week to $40 was passed out favorably today by the Senate Labor and Industries committee headed by Sen. Phil Brady, Portland Democrat. But discussion of the measure at a meeting of the committee here Monday night indicated there would be opposition on the floor, ' mainly because of a hike in the minimum contribu tion rate for employers and in clusion of such seasonal workers as cannery workers. Parly Lin Fight Seen Observers look for a fight pretty close along party lines, and inasmuch as the Senate is split 15 Republicans to 15 Demo crats they thought the measure probably would be sent back to committee for further work, b The measure was moved out "do ' pays" by a committee vote of four Democrats in favor and three Republicans against. Employers objected to a boost in the minimum rate of contri bution to 0.9 per cent, and said they thought 0.6 per cent a fair er figure. Utilities, with low turnover of employment, par ticularly objected to the 0.9 per cent minimum, saying it would triple their present rate of con tribution. But experts in the field said the 0.9 per cent mini mum was necessary if the cash reserve fund was to be built up above the danger point. Maxi mum contribution rate is 2.7 per cent. Extended Coverage The committee passed out fa vorably Senate bill 55, which would extend coverage to such agricultural industry workers as those employed by the Hood River apple growers. Also receiving a "do- pass" recommendation was Senate bill 316, which would extend cover age to -public-employees, like state, county and city employ ees, but would not -apply to school employees. Voters Are Being Notified of Change About 1,000 Jackson county voters have been notified of changes in voting precinct boun daries, elections department of ficials reported today. ' Boundaries are being changed In many areas to establish pre cincts within city limits and to divide precincts in which more than 500 voters are registered. Notified of boundary changes to date have been voters in Gold Hill. Rogue River and Phoenix. Residents of Ashland. Medford. Jacksonville, Talent, Central Point and other areas of the county will receive notices by the end of this month, elections of ficials said. Precinct boundary change memorandums have been printed on post cards and are being mail ed to voters in the affected areas. The cards are to be cut as indi cated in accompanying instruc tions and retained as voter regis tration cards. Name and address of the voter appears on the re verse side of the memorandum. Elections department officials emphasized that voters are to keep the cards and not send them back to the courthouse as some already have erroneously done. '-l f J . . . t W few BEAR STOLEN "Smokey," the pet bear cub of 11-year-old Jimmy Welch of Shady Cove, who had raised the animal on a bottle was stolen some time after 11 p.m. yesterday. Thieves cut open the wire cage, where the three-month-old cub was kept, and took him, according to reports. Jimmy, whose parents run the Rainbow motel in Shady Cove, got the bear in March when it was so small that it didn't even have its eyes open, and the two had become great pals. The bear's mother had been killed by a Shady Cove hunter. A recent picture, above, shows Jimmy feeding Smokey his "formula." a mixture of milk, syrup and raw ess. out of a bottle. The bear is still too small to fend for himself in the woods, and Jimmy hopes that whoever has him will care for him. . Hot Rod Si? v Smaller Pear Yield Than Last Year's Is Indicated for 1958 There are indications that this forecaster for the. U.S. weather year's pear crop will be less than last year's record yield, ac cording to C. B. Cordy, county horticulture agent. He said blossom drop, espe cially among Bartletts, has been heavier than usual this year. A certain amount of blossom drop is normal at this time of year, the county agent explained, but not to this extent. "It's too early to predict what the yield will be," he said. "It may approach average but will be under the yield of last year." A large number of Bartlett and Bosc buds were killed by the April 7 frost, particularly in unheated orchards. , A frost the following week resulted in con siderable marking, especially among Bartletts. Prospects for a favorable D'Anjou crop ap pear "pretty good," Cordy said,. Pears' are" now' in the little green fruit stage and are espe cially susceptible to frost dam age. The county "agent urged fruit growers to keep heating equipment in the orchards for a few weeks. The frost season will official ly end Thursday, May 30, and William Rogers, official frost Local Man Bound Over To Grand Jury Today Donald Raymond Rice, 28, of 217 South Riverside ave., Med ford, waived preliminary hear ing and was bound over to the grand jury this morning in dis trict court. He is charged with using a motor vehicle without permis sion of the owner in connection with the theft Saturday night of a station wagon from Skinner's garage. He was arrested Sunday morning by state police. Rice was arraigned yesterday and was given until today to ob tain counsel. He is represented by Paul Haviland, Medford at torney. Bail has been set at $500. Baseball Washington 3 3 0 Detroit 5 9 0 Abernalhy, Brodowski (5). Clevenger (7) and Berberei; Foytack and House. HRS House Dai. Boiling Det. bureau, will return to Pomona, Calif., at that time. Meanwhile, Cordy noted that likelihood of frost occurance is steadily de creasing. He said orchards in intermediate temperature areas will probably not have to be heated again this season. Bids Called for Reclamation Jobs Bids have been called by the bureau of reclamation for con struction of a fish screen at Sav age Rapids dam and for con struction of a garage at Talent Bids on the garage, plans for which will be issued May 10, will be opened at . the Camp WhfleTiureau'soffice at 10 a.m. May 28. Bids on the fish screens will be opened at ... the Camp White office at 10 a.m. June 19. Specifications for the fish screen will be issued May 17.. The garage project includes clearing and grading, gravel sur facing, sewer and water lines, installation of a gasoline tank and pump and an air compres sor. Completion time is 90 days. Work on the fish screens in cludes excavation and construc tion of a fish screen structure and two screens. Completion time is 640 days. Plans and specifications may be obtained from J. A. "Callan, project engineer, at the Camp White office. Election in District 6C Will Be Wednesday Central Point School district 6C residents in north Jackson county will vote between 2 and 8 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, on a pro posed $480,543 tax levy for the 1957-58 school year. This is $297,450.33 above the 6 per cent limitation. It com pares with $282,255.51 for this year, or an increase of $15, 194.87, school officials said. Total estimated expenditures for the year are $808,843. Esti mated receipts and available cash balances total $353,300. Bal ance to be raised by taxation is $455,543, and the estimated amount of taxes which will not be collected during the fiscal year for which the budget covers is $25,000. Board of Education To Meet Here Tonight The board of education of the Medford school district tonight will be given a demonstration of methods of accelerating read ing speed and improving under standing, used in the school dis trict. The meeting, at 7:30 p.m. in the school office, is the "cur riculum" meeting of the board. This spring . the group started holding two meetings a month, one for business matters, the other concerned with teaching and curriculum. Two Men Enter Pleas In Circuit Court Horace F. Knight, 44, of 452 Fairmont st., Medford, pleaded guilty in circuit court yesterday to a charge of burglary not in a dwelling. His case was ordered contin ued pending receipt of FBI rec ords. Robert Edward Findlay, 37, of 330 North Front st., en tered a plea of guilty yesterday to a charge of non'-support. Hi? case also was ordered continued I pending receipt of FBIrecords. 52nd Year Medford United Press Full Leased Wire 22 Pages Fire Starts Near Green Chain Early Monday Evening Damage Estimated to Be About $150,000 Fire last night leveled all but one small office and tool build ing at the Jackson Creek mill, located a mile east of Jackson ville near the Jacksonville high way. Total damage was estimated between $140,000 and $150,000. The loss was partially covered by insurance, according to For rest Albert, office manager of Donna Timber, Inc., owner of the mill. No one was injured in the fire. Officials of the Central Point Rural Fire department said the blaze, which was reported at 6:23 p.m., started at the north end of the green chain, which was in operation. Exact cause of the fire was not known, but Albert theorized it resulted from an overheated motor or possible explosion in the motor. Fir Trucks on Fira Ten firemen with five trucks fought the blaze from 6:35 p.m. until midnight. Firemen said the establishment was com pletely engulfed " in flames when they arrived. ; . Pumpers and tankers were brought in from both the Cen tral Point Rural Fire depart ment and the Vhite City fire department. A 1,000 gallon per minute- LaFrance truck, pur chased several months ago by the Central Point Rural Fire de partment was used until ,. mid-. night. One 600 gallon per min ute truck was usel for 1V4-hours. Firemen from the Central Point city . fire department, Jacksonville fire department and mill employees also assisted in fighting the fire. . The main plant mostly was of frame 'construction. Forty men were employed there on two shifts. The office and tool building, and a few tools it -' contained, were saved from the fire, but other equipment was destroyed, Albert said. A small amount of salvagable lumber was saved. - Two firemen with one truck stood by at the scene until 6 a.m. today. Albert said he did not know whether or not the mill would be reconstructed. L. C. Lisenbee, Centra! Point Rural Fire chief, expressed ap preciation this morning to all who assisted in extinguishing the fire. This was the second major fire in the Jacksonville area in one week. On Monday, April 29, an estimated 50 per cent of the historic Britt estate was de stroyed by fire. One fireman was injured in that blaze. County Court in Salem Interviewing Applicants Members of the Jackson coun ty court are in Salem this week interviewing applicants for. su pervisor of the county farm and the county farm home. The court left Monday and will return Thursday. They will in terview local applicants after their return to Jackson county. About 40 applications for the positions have been received from people living in all areas of Oregon. Pendleton, Ore. OJ.R) About 250 students were evacuated from St. Joseph's academy here this morning after superiors oi the school received a call say ing a bomb was set to go off in the building. Police and firemen searched the building, found no bomb and the students returned to school. Weather FORECASTS: Thunderstorms over the mountains bringing scattered showers to the val- ley this' evening. Consider able cloudiness tonight and Wednesdav. Low tonight 48. High Wednesday ;s. Temp. Highest Yesterday as Lowest this Morning 49 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 1 . 4:59 a.m. Sunset ":1S p.m. Moonset Wednesday 1.45 a.m. Full Moon . May 13 PROMINENT STAR Regulus. near the Moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, setting at 1:2S p.m. is now in the constellation, Gemini. - Saturn, low in south east. 10:46 p.m. Juoiter, high in south west 10:45 p.m. GKSID MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1957 UVJ SAWMILL BURNS Flames consumed all but the office and tool building of the Jackson Creek sawmill near Jacksonville yesterday. The alarm was turned in to the Central Point Rural Fire department about 6:23 p.m. and Eagle Point School District Election Scheduled May 14 Eagle Point Eagle Point school district 9 residents will vote on a 1957-58 school budget totaling $415,029.72, May 14, from 2 to 8 p.m. at the high school gymnasium. Budget for the present year is $309,162.08. Chief reasons ior ..the increase, according to Glenn Hale, super intendent of Eagle Point schools, are because increased student enrollment will necessitate re taining two additional teachers and purchasing more books for the high school and grade school libraries. Because district 9 is now a first class school district, re ceipts for next year are estimat ed to increase to $142,479.27, compared to $125,035.47 for the current year, Hale said. As a result, he added, the district's millage rate will be lower. . General operating budget is $374,947.22 and the amount for bonds and interest is $40,082.50. Most of the bond and interest payments have been covered by O and C money in the past two years. However, since there is no more money available from this fund, it is necessary for the district to raise the full amount, school' officials pointed out. Estimated receipts for next year are $142,479.27. The amount to be raised by taxation is $272,550.45, compared to $184,126.65 this year. A total of $52,720.67 is within the 6 per cent limitation, leaving $219, 829.78 more than the 6 per cent limitation. ' With an estimated assessed valuation of $4,658,935.41, the levy would be 58.5 mills, which is 1.8 mills less than that of the present operating budget. : The budget is posted on the school house door, at Ashpole's Hardware and at Putman's Cold Storage in Eagle Point. First Fires of Season Reported in County A lightning fire nea.r Jackson ville artd a small brush fire near Prospect Monday were the first fires reported in Jackson county this year, according to the state forest patrol. Liehtnine Monday night ignited a snag in the Poor Man creek burn area about two miles south of Jacksonville and fish ermen were relieved responsible for a brush fire at Ked JSianicei Falls near Prospect, forest pa trol officials said. The fire near Prospect, which burned about one-tenth of an acre, was entinguished by the forest patrol Monday. Only a snag was burned by the light ning fire, extinguished by the forest patrol this morning. Rome, Italy U.P.) President Giovanni Gronchi summoned political leaders today for con ferences on solving the govern ment crisis brought on by the resignation of Premier Antonio Segni's cabinet. Roseburg U.R) Douglas County District Attorney Avery Thompson has filed a motion in Circuit court here asking dis missal of an action seeking his ouster. . Teamsters May Ask Beck, Two Others To Submit Resignations ... Washington tU.R) Team sters Union leaders may ask Teamster President Dave Beck and two vice presidents to re sign or "retire" as a result of AFL-CIO charges of corruption, informed sources sai'd today'. : The charges," presented the-l union Monday by the AFL-CIO Ethical Practices Committee, in dicated the AFL-CIO ultimately will demand that the union either oust the three national officers and a number of local union officials or get out of the AFL-cio. ; ' . The Teamster Executive Board including Beck requested and received "reasonable time" to prepare a reply to the charges. The committee set May 24 to hear it. Beck was scheduled to make a return appearance Wednesday before the Senate Rackets Com- City Officials to Confer in Salem Mayor John Snider and City Manager Robert Duff will con fer with Jackson county legisla tors in Salem tomorrow to urge Dassapp of Senate bill 245 to in crease Oregon Liquor Control commission payments to cities from 5 to 15 per cent. They will discuss the bill on Wednesdav afternoon with Sen. Phil Lowry and Reps. Robert Duncan and E. A. (Al) Littrell. In the morning mayors of larger Oregon cities will attend a meet ing of the legislative committee of the League of Oregon Cities to consider the bill. Duff is a member of the committee.; Duff said he believed' the OLCC should increase payments to Oreeon cities because of the increased cost of enforcing li quor laws. Mayor Snider noted if the bill is passed it will mean "an addition of $1 per capita in Medford next year and $130 per capita in Medford thereaft er." Snider and Duff will leave for Salem this afternoon and re Medford Wednesday evening. 1 California Woman Sends Contribution Of $120 for Washington (U.R) Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey received today a voluntary con tribution of $120 from Sheila M. Martin, Pacific - Palisades, Calif., for payment on the na-J tional debt, which totals aooui 274 billion dollars. Chairman Harry F. ByrdD Va.) of the Senate Finance Com mittee handed the contribution to Humphrey at the opening of a hearing on a bill that would curtail fast tax writeoffs for in dustrial expansion. - Miss Martin had sent the con tribution, a $60 personal check and a $60 voucher for jury duty, to Byrd because of his efforts to cut federal spending v S. -elOc JNE -Full Leased Wire No. 40 firemen remained until after midnight fight ing the blaze; Damage was estimated at $140, 000 to $150,000. Above, firemen standing in the sawdust burner chute pour water on the main building which had, already collapsed mittee. He also faces "trial May 20 before the f ull AFL CIO Executive Council on charges that his conduct has brought the labor movement into disrepute. Use of Funds Charged ''"' Thft "committee charged that Beck and Teamster Vice Presi dent Frank "Brewster of Seattle, Wash., have used union funds for "personal purposes" and their official union positions "for personal profit or advantage." The committee said the charges were based on disclosures by the Senate Rackets Committee, Beck's nationally-televised ad mission that he "borrowed" more than $300,000 of union funds without interest and on his use of the Fifth Amend ment 117 times to avoid an swering questions before the Senate committee. The committee also charged Teamster Vice President Sidney Brennan of Minneapolis with "corrupt activities." He has been convicted of accepting money from an .employer for alleged "strike breaking." Finally, the committee indict ed the entire leadership of the big union for their "apparent failure" to investigate or take any other action regarding the three national officers a num ber of local officials in New York and Scranton, Pa. and, Senate charges of "corruption and racketeering" in Brewster's West Coast division of the union. Question of Resignation In answer to "inquiries as to whether the union Executive Board . would ask . for Beck's resignation, the board passed a resolution saying his resigna tion had never been discussed or requested. But sources close to the union said they expected the question of resignation by Beck, Brewster and Brennan to be discussed among the union's leaders in the next several weeks. . Beck so far has not backed down from his announced inten tion to run for reelection at the union's September convention. Nor have the other two national officers announced any inten tion to quit their posts. r- Payment on National Debt "Now, George, there's no ex cuse of you coming up here this year on the debt limit," Byrd said jokingly as he gave Humphrey the contribtuiori. Humphrey in the past has had to ask Congress to raise the lim it on the national debt because it threatened to go above the legal ceiling. Miss Martin insisted in an accompanying letter that her contribution be applied against the principal of the government debt and not on the interest which is running about $7 bil lion a year. She said she didn't send the 200 Prisoners Out of Control, Warden Declares Rioters Expected To Set Prison Fires Bismaric N.D. 'UR) A fly ing wadga of prison guards nded a four-hour riot at tha North Dakota ilaia peniten tiary today by charging into a mass of 200 rebelloiui con victs with guns biasing. Six convicts wera reported woundad in t h a guards' charge and four guards who had been trapped in the pri son wara fraad. Bismarck, N. D. (U.R) Two hundred inmates of the North Dakota penitentiary rioted in the prison yard toda.y and au thorities said two guards were 'stranded." One guard was trapped in the hospital, Deputy Warden Mike Ryan said, and another in the boiler room. The rioting inmates were be tween them and the security of the penitentiary administration building, Ryan said, but he be lieved the prisoners were not aware of the fact since they made no effort to force their way into the- hospital or boiler room. Security Wall Manned Other guards, reinforced by 22 city policemen and stale patrol men, manned the maximum se curity wall around the peniten tiary, training shotguns on the rioters. "I'm afraid that when they've destroyed everything in the cell house and the yard, they 11 start setting fires," Ryan said. "They are completely out of control." Approximately five hours aft er the disturbance broke out, the men seized an ax and tried to batter their way into the kit chen and the supplies of food ' stored there. Ryan said the disturbance be gan at mid-morning when the inmates staged a sitdown strike in the prison plane mill. Building Torn Up Guards ordered the men into the cellhouse, Ryan said. Once there the men began "tearing tip ' the building," he said. Ryan ordered the guards into the administration' building where they trained guns on the prisoners who milled about the penitentiary yard and in the cellhouse. City , police were summoned and stood by ready to aid the prison guards if any inmates tried to escape. Ryan said, the men had made no demands, and he could not account for the disturbance. He said this was the first incident of its kind in North Dakota prisons. McCarthy Honored At Appleton Funeral Appleton, Wis. U.R) Sen. Joseph R, McCarthy, one of the most controversial senators in history, was honored by his home townsmen in funeral serv ices today as a man "of zeal and love" who fousht for "God and my country." From 25,000 to 30,000 per sons filed past the bier at th little St. Mary's Catholic church he had attended since boyhood, and more than 1,000 crowded the church and spilled into the street for a solemn requiem high mass. McCarthy, who died of a liver ailment last Thursday, was buried with military honors be side, his parents, Timothy and. Bridget McCarthy, in St. Mary's cemetery. State Penitentiary Budget Gets Approval Salem !U.R) The House Mon day approved a $4,042,288 budg et for Oregon state penitentiary. Rep. R. E. Scheedeen, Gresh am Democrat, said the budget was $15,000 lower than request ed in the governor's budget and represented a six per cent in crease over the current budget. money to either of California's two Republican senators, Wil liam F. Knowland and Thomas H. Kuchel, because of what she considered their "spend-spend-spend attitude." "I think it is too much 'mod ern Republicanism," she said. . She urged that foreign aid be stopped and that the huge fed eral spending budget be cut in half. "It is about time to bring our boys home and stop supporting other countries so their people won't have to pay their debts and their own taxes," she said. "Let us keep Dulles, Ike and Nixon home for the next four years." .
