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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.
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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. .
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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
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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.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 7, 1957
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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
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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
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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.
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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." .