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Newspaper Page TextIU1 Pi Water Department Budget for '57-53 Totals 5436,967 Robert Lee, Medford water department superintendent sub mitted to the city budget com mittee last night a proposed budget for fiscal year 1957-58 totaling $436;9G7, which is $110, 503 less than the present year's budget. Estimated total revenue dur ing 1957-53 is S557.6l9.25, which is 349,330.10 less than estimat ed revenue this year. Lee point- . Rogue River Man Found Early Today Near Diamond Lake Andrew Kolstead, 79, Rogue River, was found alive and in good condition about a mile from Diamond lake today, Doug las County Sheriff Ira Byrd re ported. Kolstead had been missing since Wednesday. The elderly man was found on a forest trail by Eugene Leist and Chuck McHenry, two forest rangers from the Big Camas ranger station. They reported he was in "excellent" condition, Byrd said. ' Kolstead had been last report ed seen by a California Oregon Power Company crew about 11:30 a.m. Wednesday and search started that afternoon. About 13 men, plus bloodhounds owned by Norman Wilson of Dallas. Ore., took , part in the search. Kolstead was at Diamond lake visiting his two daughters, Mrs. Morris .Tollefsrud and Mrs. Floyd Tollefsrud, caretakers at Diamond lake lodge. Open House Slated By Reserve Units w Three armed forces reserve units in Medford will hold open housa at the training center in observance of Armed Forces Day Saturday, May 18, according to City Councilman Don Hansen. Hansen is representing the city ' f Medford in contacting local eserve and National Guard units. The Air Force Reserve will oU open house Saturday be tveen 1 and 6 p.m. at its training mnter at 216 East Main St., Med erd. Open house will be held usday. May 14, by the Navy nd Army Reserve units at the fWderal building. 33 North River ejfta ave., Medford. Army and Navy equipment ill be displayed Tuesday and Pirsonnel will be present to ex flein to those attending facets f the Reserve program. In ad Jition to the 'Air Reserve open Aouse Saturday, exhibits of ground Observer corps. Civil ,nd Air Patrol, and the Air couts will be presented. Hansen indicated Medford fc'ational Guard units would not participate in this year's Armed Forces Day activities. The units are now moving equipment to the new $400,000 armory, he said. Hansen noted that President "Eisenhower has requested all businessmen to display Ameri can flags near their establish ments Saturday. He added there would be no Armed Forces pa rade in Medford this year. Officers Planning to Attend Crime Conference Two Jackson county law en forcement officers will leave Saturday to attend the Western States Crime conference May 13 ol5 at Salt Lake City, Utah. They are Chief Deputy Sher iff Joseph Walsh and Medford Police Lt. Lyle Perkins. Detec tive James Mattson of the Mult nomah county sheriff's office will accompany them. Russia Resolves To Appeal To America, Pritain for End Moscow U.PJ The Supreme Soviet resolved today to appeal directly to the American Con gress and British Parliament for an immediate end to nuclear test explosions. Will Continue Production Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko charged before Russia's Parliament that the western powers "consistently oppose and vr.dermine efforts to reach rreement" on disarmament. In a report on atomic tests, he reiterated that Russia will con tinue to produce nuclear weap ons and guided missiles as long as there is no agreement ban ning them. ed out, however, the estimated water revenue of 5379,040 is aBout $14,000 more than the present year because of an in crease in rates April 1. ' Operating expenses estimated at 5145,877 for 1957-58 are about S5.000 less than this year's 5150,475, and capital expendi tures are down from $292,970 to 5241,605. Interest on Bonds Interest on bonds during fis cal year 1957-58 will be greater, Lee said, because of added bond interest for the Kenwood and Grandview water district bond issues assumed by the depart ment when the area was an nexed. The additional interest will be $5,060. Included in the capital ex penditure budget are several ex ceptional items. Lee said. A total of $62,700 has been budgeted for facilities for a high level system on Barneburg Hill, including a pumping station, 300,000 gallon reservoir and overflow. Construction of the project, he said, depends on whether or not the Rogue Valley Manor retirement home is built Also in the capital expendi tures is an item of $12,000 for installation of cathodic protec tion on the Big Butte Springs pipe line number 1. The pro tection will not reduce the num ber of leaks, Lee said, but will keep the number down to about the present number. The ca t h o d i c protection will last about 10 years before replace ment is necessary, he said. Install Meters Sufficient funds have been made available in the 1957 58 budget to install meters in all two-family residential services, Lee said. There are 303 such services. After they are metered, there will remain about 4,300 sing'e family residential flat rates. The 308 two-family services are pres ently on a special flat rate of Hi times the single family rate, Lee said. Cost of metering the services is estimated at $16,365, including purchase- of meters, improvements to services and setting meters. The estimated balance of $70, 652.25 in the water fund jn June 30, 1958, will cover long term debt interest amounting to $26,818.75, which will be due July 1, 1958. It also will pro vide sufficient funds to loan to the water sinking fund to pay bonds due until fire protec tion charge taxes are received after November, Lee said. Disposition of Britl Building Pending Ashland Decision on disposi tion of the Britt building at Jacksonville, which was exten sively damaged by fire April 29, is pending receipt of reports from fire insurance companies. Don Lewis, business manager for Southern Oregon college, which owns the building, said claims have been filed with two insurance companies. Reports are expected to be received by Monday or Tuesday, he said, and a decision will be reached after that time. The college had planned to keep the building as part of the Jacksonville . restoration pro gram. However, college officials said they did not know what could be done with it in view of the fire damage. The blaze, which started from a flue fire, destroyed the upper floor, including the first photo graphic studio in southern Ore gon. Total damage was estimat ed at 50 per cent. LOW BIDDER Portland (U.R) F. L. Sum mers of Medford today sub mitted a bid of 5322,600 for construction of two rubble mound jetties at the mouth of the Chetco river at Brookings, Ore. There were six higher bidders. To Nuclear Explosions After Gromyko's report, his first to Parliament since suc ceeding Dmitri Shepilov as for eign minister, the Supreme So viet voted its direct approach to American and British law makers. Calls for Joint Committet The resolution called for all three parliaments- to organize a joint committee which would exchange opinions on the meth ods of outlawing tests and even tually banning use of nuclear weapons. The Supreme Soviet earlier unanimously approved Commu nist party chief Nikita Khrush chev's sweeping shakeup of the UA R. J. O'SULLIVAN Distribution Chairman ' O'Sullivan Named To Head Division In United Crusade R. J. O'Sullivan, 519 North Barneburg rd., has been named chairman of the distribution di vision of the 1957-58 United Medford Crusade, according to R. A. Johnson, general chair man. O'Sullivan is assistant manag er of Courtesy Chevrolet and was a UMC section head last year. ' Before moving to Medford in 1954, O'Sullivan was business manager of the Chevrolet deal ership in Klamath Falls. He was also active in the Junior Chamber- of Commerce and helped with the city budget. At the present time he is on the Lay men's council of the Sacred Heart church in Medford. ' He is married and has three children. Norm Buvick, Union Oil com pany, has been named assistant chairman. He and O Sullivan have enlisted services of the fol lowing men to be heads of sec tions in their division: Don Yo kum, seed; Cliff McGinty, bev erages; Dick Fanger, automotive; Harold Fly, service stations; and Dean Robertson . and Mel Go- guwrvncrassinea"r. .. .: Two County Liquor Licenses Suspended Licenses of two Jackson coun ty liquor outlets have been or dered suspended by the Oregon Liquor Control commission, it was learned today. License of the Veterans club, 42 North Front st., was ordered suspended for 10 days. License of the Paulsen Thrift market, Central Point, was ordered sus pended for seven days. ' Proprietors of the Veterans club were found to have allow ed persons other than members to enjoy privilege of the club. Proprietors of the Paulsen Thrift market were found to have con tributed to a political candidate or party. Alvin Hartley, OLCC inspec tor for this area, said he has received no information as to when the license suspensions would go into effect. He added that he expects to be notified within the next few days. U. S. May Accept Partial 'Open Skies' WashingtonOJ.R) The Unit ed States is hinting it will accept a partial "open skies" aerial in special plan limited to ' Europe, Alaska and the eastern reaches of Siberia, a study of Voice of America broadcasts showed to day. One broadcast said such a plan would be "an effective first step" in preventing surprise knockout attacks in the nuclear age. It said this kind of test area could be expanded to more im portant areas later. The Europe . Alaska Siberia compromise could be the Ameri can answer to a recent Soviet proposal for getting President Eisenhower's open skies inspec tion plan into operation. nation's industry after adding a number of amendments. In making his report, Gro myko spoke for 20 minutes. He discussed the London Disarma ment conference 'and the over all negotiations on nuclear con trol. First Official Answer He offered the first official Soviet answer to recent yvestern statements that nuclear ( tests should be registered because not all can be detected by outside nations. "This contradicts the facts," Gromyko said. "The explosion has not yet occurred which re mained undetected." flips Military Junta Assumes Control Of Colombia Wild Celebration Greets Announcement Bogota, Colombia (By Tele phone to New York) !U.R) President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla resigned and turned over the Colombian government to a five man military junta amid scenes of wild celebration today. Colombian circles in New York said they had private ad vices that police and soldiers in Bogota had opened fire on crowds demonstrating in Boli var Square, the center of the City. These sources said there were some casualties). To Call for Elections The Junta promptly an nounced it would call for md preside over popular elections to choose a president for the 1958-62 period. It was Rojas Pinilla's action in having his puppet legislature amend the constitution and elect him president for a second term in the face of popular opposi tion that set off the present crisis. Popular indignation mounted rapidly and Rojas Pinilla at tempted to crush it with force. But Ire finally quit in the pre dawn hours today, in the face of bank and business strikes which were paralyzing the na tion's economy. ; . Whereabouts Unclear The whereabouts of the de posed president was not clear. Various reports put him in the British West Indies, in Venezue la, and in Panama. Rojas Pinilla was elected in 1954 to a term scheduled to end Aug. 7, 1958. But Wednesday night his hand-picked puppet Assembly elected him to a sec ond term which would have ended in 1962 There had been violent oppo sition to his dictatorial moves throughout the country for more than a week, with many persons reported killed by gov ernment forces. Church Action Thursday, high prelates of the influential Roman Catholic Church condemned the govern ment of Rojas Pinilla for "mur der" in putting down the oppo sition. The government had blamed the violence on Commu nists. The immediate future of the country was not clear, but a joint civilian-military govern ment was considered a possi bility. New Postal Service Cuts Appear Certain Washington '(U.R) New cuts in postal service appeared virtu ally certain today unless Con gress restores reductions in the Post Office Department budget. Chances of Congress restoring the reductions seemed very slim. The ' Senate . Appropriations Committee late Thursday ignor ed ' administration warnings of mail service cutbacks and ap proved a House cut of $58 mil lion in the postal budget for fiscal 1958. The Senate was expected to approve the committee's action next week. The move forecast possibly great trouble generally for Pres ident Eisenhower's record peace time $71,800,000,000 budget. Some Fruit Damage Results From Hail Considerable scratching and bruising of pears occurred in at least one fairly large orchard south of Medford as a result of hail yesterday, according to C B. Cordy, county horticulture agent. The county agent indicated some damage may have occurred in other smaller orchards. He said the hail damage could be considered severe on an indi vidual basis, but not on a valley wide basis. State Public Welfare Budget Gets Approval Salem (U.R) A S33. 165.121 budget for the State Public Wel fare Commission passed the House today and went to the Senate. . The budget was 20 per cent higher than the 1955-57 budget. Salem (U.R) Senate joint res olution 30 calling for a vote of the people on amending the state constitution to allow circuit judges to sit pro tem with the State Supreme Court was ap proved by the House 34-24. taT JFair IPIiilla U MEDFORD, "And With The One That World We Get X I ja AttE MOKE ECOAlOMICAI. Jf in? Kill If H -1 1 1 ir-fe-1- Employment in County Increases in Latter Part of Last Month Employment in Jackson coun ty increased rapidly in the sec ond half of April as weather conditions made possible the re sumption of outside work, ac cording to John J. Patton, man ager of the Medford" office of the state employment service. This seasonal increase usually occures in March, Patton noted. Resumption of outside payrolls helped other business. Layoffs, which had occurred frequently during the previous five months, stopped almost completely, but the employment level was still below the same period a year ago, Patton said. Relatively Scarce With jobs relatively scarce, there' were few voluntary sep arations from employment. Sev eral people from out of state were looking for work in this locality. Some were interested in seasonal work, while others were looking for a new perman ent location, Patton noted. Most of them were unskilled work men and with little local de mand for their services, they moved on, he said. There were some carpenters and truck dri vers among the new arrivals. Patton pointed out that many had been attracted by incorrect rumors of hiring activity on the Talent project. Unemployment at the end of April was estimated at 1,510, in cluding 275 women. This is down 26 per cent from March, but is about 50 per cent above the same month last year, when saesonal employment opened earlier. During the recent OT Gets $2,239,000 In House Budget Vote Salem (U.R) The House to day passed a budget for the State Department of Education including $2,239,000 for admin istration of Oregon Technical In stitute at Klamath Falls. The institute had asked for 54.772,000. The appropriation still repre sented a 35 per cent increase over the current budget and would limit enrollment to about 1,000 students. Salem (U.R) The Oregon Sen ate sent back to its roads, and highways committee Senate bill 362 designed to strengthen the law concerning regulation of ad vertising signs and structures along highways. Weather FORECAST: Continued mild and graerally cloudy through Saturday with afternoon and evenini showers. Low to night 48. High Friday 73. Temp. Highest Yesterday 2 Lowest this Mnrninr SO. Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today 01 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise - 4:55 a.m. Sunset ;:21 p.m. Moonset Saturday 4:23 a.m. Full Moon Monday Mars sets tonight at 10:20 p.m. The two bright stars well above it are Castor and Pollux (the Twins) and well above them, tn the north, is the Big Dipper. OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY Can Blow Up The Entire Trading .Stamps" I months, more than half of all unemployment c o m p e n sation claims filed have come from the lumber industry. Patton said job opportunities should . increase steadily during the next 60 days. Since present indications are for a short Bart- lett pear crop, the amount of la bor needed for thinning, which usually starts in June, will be reduced, he said. In about 30 days, there will be a large number of high school and college students look ing for summer work. Patton said it is difficult to judge their opportunities for temporary summer jobs, particularly prior to the start of the fruit harvest in August. The employment office man ager said there will also be a considerable number of gradu ating high school seniors who will be looking for permanent employment. The state employ ment service has given aptitude tests to those students. Patton invited prospective employers to come to the office and discuss their qualifications. King Saud Anxious For Ties With West King Saud of Saudi Arabia is "fed up" with his alliance with Egypt and anxious to forge clos er ties with pro-western Iraq and Jordan, Baghdad dispatches reported today. Saud arrives in Baghdad Sat urday for a state visit with King Feisal. Persistent reports said they would be joined next week week by Feisal's cousin, King Hussein of Jordan. A fundamental change in Arab politics appeared to be in the making with Saudi Arabia possibly moving closer to the Baghdad pact. Egyptian reports said Presi dent Camille Chamoun of pro western Jordan also may go to Baghdad for talks with the Arab monarchs. Medford Man Receives Suspended Sentence Horace F. Knight, 44, of 452 Fairmont st., Medford, was given a suspended three-year sentence in circuit court Wednesday after pleading guilty to a charge of burglary not in a dwelling. The fact that the sentence was suspended was erroneously omitted from a story in Thurs day's issue of the Mail Tribune. Big Navy Seaplane Crash-Lands in SF Bay Hayward, Calif. (U.PJ One of the Navy's largest seaplanes, a four-engined C o n v a i r Trade- winds, crash landed today in the mud flats a half mile off Hayward in San Francisco Bay and all 16 persons aboard escap ed with nothing more than bumps and bruises. Washington (U.R) The Agri culture Department estimated 703,208,000 bushels of winter wheat will be harvested this year. i JPragrai Tribune uil incased Win 10, 1957 No. 43 PAimr: ni,:iAr UUI.UI IIIIIIO Berrydale District Residents to Annex Election on Proposal Is Scheduled May 22 The Medford city council last night invited residents in the Berrydale area to annex to the city of Medford. Action on the matter followed a public hearing in which no Medford residents voiced opin ions either for or against the annexation proposal. Berrydale residents will vote on the pro posal May 22. Whether the citv would as sume bonded indebtedness of the Midway and Elk City water districts if Berrydale is an nexed will be considered at the council's May 16 meeting. Sev enty per cent of Midway and 40 per cent of Elk City are in volved in the Berrydale annexa tion area. Bonded indebtedness of the Midway district is $74,000 and the Elk City district '$187,000. Recommendation by Board Robert Lee, water superin tendent, said the water board has recommended that the city not assume the indebtedness of the portions involved. City Manager Robert Duff said estimated expenditures and revenue in the Berrydale area would "just about balance,"' should the district be annexed Estimated ' expenses in the area would be about $40,000 and about $6,100 to the water department, city officials said with revenue estimated at $46,675. The additional cost fo the wa ter department could be ab sorbed without water rate in creases, Xee noted, and Duff said there would be no immedi ate increase in city taxes as a result of the annexation. Population of the district pro posed for annexation is estimat ed at about 1,250. Last November residents of a larger area in the Berrydale vicinity defeated an annexation proposal. Since that time, boun daries have been revised to in clude a smaller area. Lightning Strikes Disrupt Power Here Three lightning strikes on California Oregon Power com pany transmission lines Thurs day evening disrupted power in some areas for as long as two hours, company officials said this morning. One strike on the transmis sion line between Medford and Phoenix about 6 p.m put parts of the 66,000-volt line out of service for periods up to two hours. Another strike near the fairgrounds blew out a fuse in a substation darkening the southeast and southwest sections of Medford for about 30 minutes. The third strike north of Med ford near Crater Tractor com pany, disrupted service in that area. Officials reported that fusps in some individual transform ers in other parts of Medford also were blown during the elec trical storm for other power failures during the evening. Committee Told Beck Made Profit on Mortgage Sales Washington U.R Team sters Union President Dave Beck and an associate made $11,585 profit from selling their own mortgages to the widow of Beck's best friend, the Senate Labor Rackets committee said today. Beck was trustee of the wid ow's fund to which he sold the mortgages, the committee said. Deal Described Donol Hedlund, Seattle mort gage banker, who shared the profit with Beck, said under questioning that the deal went like this: Beck as trustee of Teamsters Union funds put up money for Beck and Hedlund as individ uals to buy some 30 home mort gages with a face value of $71, 607 on May 29, 1956. They bought the mortgages at a dis count, however. The home owners made pay ments on the mortgages so they Soil Bank Funds Account for Most Of $272,556,860 Ike May Not Be Able To Check Economists Washineton iiU.PJ- The Honsa Appropr' tions Committee sank its economy ax into the usually immune farm program today, ohoDDine S272. 556.860 from President Eisenhower's money requests. Most of the saving "was achieved by reducing soil bank funds which farmers' receive for cutting back plantings. The committee said city folks consider the rjroeram tn hp a scheme for "giving farmers something for nothing" and rec ommended that the soil bank, fund be cut back further next year. Drive Rolling Along The action came as the econ omy drive alreadv was rnllinff along so furiously as to raise considerable doubt whether President Eisenhower's personal intervention would be enough to stop it. But Eisenhower was set to try. The White House was busy arranging for two nationwide TV-radio speeches within the next two weeks for the Presi dent to defend his record peace time spending budget in general and his foreign aid program in particular. Usually Increase Budget The House committee voted to send 'to the floor for debate next week a $3,692,889,757 money bill to operate the Aeri. culture Department and some oi its programs in the 12 months starting" July 1. Included was $2,083,000,000 to pick up the tab for price sup port and other losses during the past year. The cut of mors than 37S million in administration re quests was in addition to a $254 million soil bank reduction the administration alreadv hurl made in revising its original tarm ouaget estimates. Would Be First Cut If the reductions win House and Senate approval, it would be the first time since Eisen hower took office that his farm budget was cut. In the past four years, Congress has wound up voting mure farm funds ifcan the administration requested. The committee action raised the possibility that total farm program spending in the next fiscal year, including separately financed price suDDort funds may be reduced about $500 mil lion Deiow the administration's original $5,300,000,000 estimate. Massachusetts Fires Still Out of Control Boston U.R) At least five major forest iires continued to rage uncontrolled through Massachusetts today, destroying private property and forcing the evacuation of more than 300 per sons. Other serious forest and brush fires were reported raging In the dry timberlands of Maine, New Hampshire,, Connecticut, and Vermont. The worst Massachusetts blaze, near Plymouth, was temporarily contained Thursday night, but sprang up again in a dozen places as fresh morning winds fanned the flames to life. About four homes were reported de stroyed. Modesto Man Waives Preliminary 'Hearing Claude Julian Adams, 19, Mo desto, Calif., waived preliminary hearing and was bound over to the grand jury in district court today to face charges of obtain ing money by false pretenses. Adams was arraigned in dis trict court on Thursday and waived counsel. were worth only $67,137 by last December, the committee sajd. But Beck also was trustee of the Raymond Leheney memorial fund of about $80,000, which the union had raised for the widow of Beck's best friendr In that capacity, he sold to the memo rial fund the mortgages which he and Hedlund held. Invested Millions Hedlund had testified earlier that Beck invested millions of dollars of union funds and prof ited from brokerage fees which were "kicked back" to him. Hedlund said the sale to the memorial fund in other words, to Mrs. Leheney was paid at the full face value of the mort gages, yielding him and. Beck a profit of $11,585.04. Then Beck as union president was told that the mortgages 'had been disposed of, and gave him self a check for $61,137.