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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."
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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.
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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
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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.