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Newspaper Page Textuse HEY it; - -f J v, St- I ' mm irasi of mmn - -- I JIlV FRANCIS I. CHENEY Petition Filed Today Cheney Nominated For Membership On School Board A petition nominating Francis . I. Cheney, 47, route 2, box 413, Medford, for membership on the Medford school district board was filed this morning. One other nomination has been made so far, for Otto Ewaldsen, Medford, chairman of the board, whose term of office expires this year. Election for board members will be June 17. ' Cheney was a member of the board of the West Side school district before it was consolidat ed with the Medford district, and was chairman of the board dur ing the construction of the new school there. Native of Washington A native of Washington, he is a graduate of the University of Oregon law school, and is a member of the bar. He was in government work after gradu ation, then with members of his family started the Cheney lum ber interests, which have mills in Oregon, Washington and Cali fornia. One is located at Central Point. He moved to this area in 1942, and has lived in or near Medford since that time. Mr. and Mrs. Cheney, who live on Hillside dr., off the Old Stage " rd.,- have two children, Bonnie, 43, and Mary, 10, both attending . West Side-school. Active . in.Founding , He was formerly treasurer of the Southern Oregon Child Guidance clinic association, and was active in its founding. He also has been in Red Cross work, and is appeal agent for Jackson County Selective Service Board 17. He is a member of the Rogue River Country club. ' Cheney said he is seeking elec tion to provide the newly-consolidated districts with represen tation on the board, which they do not now have and to bring "new blood" to the board, most of whose members are now in their second or third five-year terms. Lower Yukon Village Wiped Out by Fire Anchorage, Alaska (W A brush fire Monday wiped out the tinv lower Yukon village of Pia- muit leaving 15 persons, includ ing an expectant mother, home less, it was reported today. One of the villagers pushed 20 miles upriver to report the blaze to the Anchorage Civil'Defense. It was not known how the fire started. The 71st Air Rescue Squadron based at Elmendorf Air Force Base near here proceeded to the stricken area to pick up the homeless, all members of three families, and take them to the Jesuit Mission at Holy Cross, about 25 miles away. Portland lffl A budget of some $15,914,000 was ready for consideration bv the Portland city council today. Boy Scout Circus Saturday May Be Largest m History What is expected to be the largest Boy Scout circus in Cra ter Lake Area council history will be held at 8 p.m. Saturday, May 18, in the Medford High school stadium. Richard W. Lamb Jr. is circus advisor. About 1.800 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Explorers will par ticipate in the circus. Lamb said. More than 1.000 of them will be from Medford and Jackson county. Program Theme Theme for the program will be "Onward for God and My Coun try," adopted from the current four-year program of the Boy Scouts of America. Lamb noted. Features of the circus will in clude a grand entry parade led by massed American flags. Act showing Scout skills such as first aid. fire by frictin an( 'nt ant steel, signaling, camping will be held and about .10 Boy Scout Troops will present scenes depict ing "Get Out the fVote" and "Emergency Service." The council alsoiwill present an act called "Noah s Ark" in which about 13 Cub Scout Pack Action on Requests To Determine Hew Sears Store Here Action on requests for rezon-1 ing and annexation of property in Medford owned by Dr. I. D. Phipps may determine whether or not a large ne. Sears Roe buck and company store will be constructed here. The property includes 28.3 acres north of Jackson st. and east of Biddle rd. A 12.6-acre portion of the property is out side the city limits and the city planning commission has recom mended its annexation. If the annexation is approved, the 12.6 acres would come into the city as a single family zone, the same as the remaining 15.7 acres of Dr. Phipps' property. The entire 28.3 acres would have to be rezoned limited com- Two SP Boxcars 'Get Away' From Railroad Workers Two Southern Pacific box cars dgot away" from railroad workers about lli35 p.m. Tues day near Eighth st., according to Medford city police. , The two unmanned box cars, traveling north through the city with no brakes or lights, reached a speed estimated to be in ex cess f 30 miles an hour by the time they had reached the Mason-Ehrman area crossing, after crossing Main, ' Sixth, Fourth, Jackson, and Clarke sts., and McAndrews rd., police re ports showed. At the Mason-Ehrman area, Leroy Storey, a brakeman for the railroad who had flagged down a city police car for assist ance, attempted to jump onto one of the cars but was unable to do so because of their speed. The cars were finally stopped at the south city limits of Cen tral Point by a switch engine, police said. Police reports showed that the Southern Pacific was contacted to determine how and why the box cars had gotten away, but the reason has not yet been learned. Keating Clarifies Term Expiration The term of office of County Judge Rodney Keating expires at the end of 1960, he reported today. Some confusion arose since his election in 1954, as to wheth er or not he was elected for a four-year term, or for a full six year term. The Oregon Blue book listed his term as expiring at the end of 1958. To clarify this. Judge Keating sought an opinion from the elec tions division of the Secretary of state's office, and has been ad vised officially that his term runs through 1960. It said the I Blue Book report is in error. will dress up like lions, horses, tigers, fish, kangaroos and other animals. Another act of the program will be a "Winning of the West" scene including about 20 Cub Scout Packs dressed in pioneer and India costumes. The Scouts will wear war paint, feathers, make-believe horses and toy weapons. A cavalry group will pull a make-believe cannon. Other Events Other Scouts will hold a tug-of-war, wall scaling, rope climb ing, chariot racing, three-legged races, sack races and mass calis thenics. Lamb said. Robert Cunningham, ticket chairman, said more than 2,000 Cubs. Scouts and Explorers of the council are now selling tick ets. A special circus neckerchief slide will be presented to each Scout who sells 15 tickets to the circus, Cunningham said. Tickets may be obtained from any Cub Scout, Boy Scout or Ex plorer. They also will be sold at the stadium the night of the cir cus, according to Ray Frisbie, general chairman of the event mercial in order for a Sears Roe- buck store to be built there. Public Hearing Set The planning commission will hold a public hearing on rezon ing the property to limited com mercial at a special meeting Monday, May 27, in the city council chambers. Buttress and McClellan, Los Angeles, Calif., architectural and contracting firm, has had an option to purchase the Phipps property for several months. They have stated the site is de sired for a new Sears Roebuck store. It has been indicated that the Sears-owned location be tween Central and Riverside aves., is inadequate in size for the company's operations here. Mark Goldy, who has been promoting construction of the store within the Medford city limits, said construction of the building would probably start in late summer if the rezoning and annexation are approved. Pur chase of the property by the company has not been complet ed, but is under way now, Goldy said. No specific information has been received here as to size or estimated cost of the pro posed structure. Goldy said he has no connec tion with the property transac tion as a broker, but has been actively interested in the local Sears Roebuck development for about a year. Vets Council Plans Parade on May 30 The Veterans Allied council has announced plans are under way for a Memorial Day parade to be held in Medford Thursday, May 30th, at 10 a.m. Participants will assemble at the public library grounds , at 9:40 a.m. Route of the parade will be east on Main st. to the Bear Creek bridge. Ceremonies will be held on the bridge in honor of servicemen who have lost their lives on lakes, rivers and oceans. Flowers will be strewn on the water by women's auxiliaries. The National Guard will fire a salute and taps will be sounded at the conclusion of the bridge ceremony. Memorial services will be held at Hawthorne park after the bridge ceremony. All patriotic organizations and their auxil iaries as well as reserve units of the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force and recruiting units, have been invited to partici pate, members of the council said. The council has asked that all units planning to march in the parade contact M. A. Beneka, parade chairman, at the court house. Arrangements to partici pate may also be made by tele phoning SPring 2-5658 after 6 p.m. Bids Called to Clear Reservoir Area Camp White Bids have been called by the bureau of reclama tion for clearing part of the reservoir area for the Howard Prairie dam about 27 miles east of Ashland in the Cascades. Bids will be opened at the Camp White bureau's office at 10 a.m. June 11. Completion time for the project is 180 days. The tract to be cleared in cludes 871 acres, of which 479 are relatively open or previous ly cleared. Included is an esti mated 178,000 board feet of merchantable timber, according to the bureau. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn 3 4 0 Milwaukee 2 2 0 10 innings. Drysdale. Labine (B) and Campanella; Conley, Burdeiie (8) and Crandall. HR Hodges (Bkn.) Zimmer (Bkn.). AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City 0 5 2 New York 3 5 0 Garrer, Coleman (7) - and Smith; Stuxdirant and Berra. Cuts To Continue Despite Appeal Leaders Declare No Peril Seen To Defense Program Washington (W A House subcommittee has tentatively agreed to whack about $2,500, 000,000 off President Eisenhow er's $36,200,000,000 defense money request, it was reported today. The action was disclosed on the heels of the President's as sertion that the nation risks "terrible consequences" if his defense budget is "materially" cut. . His plea ran head-on into the rampaging congresional econo my steamroller. Leaders of both parties, in cluding Senate Republican Lead er William F. Knowland, said flatly they will continue to cut the budget. Actions matched their words. I Maintenance and Operation Members of the House Appro priations Subcommittee said they did not believe the $2,500,000, 000 cut would imperil the de fense program. Subcommittee sources said the slash would hit hardest at "maintenance and op eration," not at planes and mis siles as the President feared. Budget cutting rolled merrily on these other fronts:. . The Senate Appropriations Committee late Tuesday voted an even deeper slash in the U. S. Information Agency than ap proved by the economy-minded house. It sliced the USIA budget down to $90,200,000, almost $16 million below, the House figure. Even the usually sacrosanct FBI, with funds in the same bill, came in for a small $150,000 cut by the committee. The same Senate committee went along with most of a House cu"t of nearly $218 million in an other bill containing money for the Commerce Department and related agencies. Against Soil Bank The House began voting on a pared-down version of the ad ministration's agriculture appro priation with a Democratic move on to kill Eisenhower's billion dollar soil bank. One voice backing the Presi dent was a Democrat's. Rep. Cleveland M. Bailey (W. Va.). chairman of a House subcom mittee, urged mothers to shower their congressmen with letters and telegrams backing the com promise $1,500,000,000 school construction bill all but crushed under the economy steamroller. Judgment Ordered Against Woody Smith Portland Iff! A $1,369 de fault judgment was ordered by U. S. Judge Gus Solomon today against Woody Smith, Hood River service station operator who unsuccessfully opposed Sen. Wayne Morse for the Democratic senatorial nomination last year. The judgment was on an FHA insured note which Smith gave in 1952 to the Hood River branch of the First National Bank for a $2,874 loan to buy a home. The government paid the bank the balance of the note after Smith failed the f oHowing year to keep up $79-a-month payments. A suit filed by Assistant U.S. Attor ney Thomas Brand for collection of the $1,369 plus interest was not answered by Smith. Corporate Excise Tax Bill Re-Passed by House Salem Iff) The Oregon House today re-passed the cor porate excise tax bill as amend ed by the Senate and sent it to the governor for signature. Vote on re-passage of the measure was 54-4. The other major Democratic tax bill, House bill one repeal ing the surtax and setting new income tax rates will be consid ered by the House Thursday. (See story on page 8) Modesto Man Enters Guilty Plea in Court Claude Julian Adams, 19, Mo desto, Calif., entered a plea of guilty to a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses this morning in circuit court. His case was ordered contin ued pending receipt of F.BJ. records. , Washington (W President Ei senhower played golf this after noon at the Burning Tree Club. NCSEUO 43S3En3 Medforim United Press Full Leased Wire 20 Pages MEDFORD, 'Don't Worry, I Don't Think There's Anything In There" Accepted by Board . Five teachers resignations were accepted by the Medford school board last night, and eight teach ers were, hired for the school year starting next fall.- Resignations were accepted from Max L. Morris, Oak Grove, who is going to North Salem High school; Douglas Brooks, Hedrick Junior High school, who is going to Colton, Calif., High school; Mrs. JoAnne Henry, Mc Loughlin Junior High school; Dereld Verley, Lincoln, who is going to the San Francisco area; and Clair M.' Gurwell, Medford High, who has accepted a position at Taft, Calif., High school and junior college. Miss Maxine Anderson was hired to teach girls physical edu cation and health at McLoughlin Junior High; Oliver J. Erickson will instruct remedial courses in the junior highs; and Marvin D. Kautz has been, hired to teach chemistry and mathematics at Medford High. Other New Teachers Other new teachers Include Dick L. Merriman, intermediate classes at Jackson school; James K. Miller science and wrestling at Hedrick; Albert Jack Teeters, art at McLoughlin; Lenore Za pell, English at Medford High; and Mrs. Grace Kirtley, primary at Oak Grove school. The board also discussed 1957 Practice Run Fatal To Speedway Driver Indianapolis, Ind. (IB Keith Andrews, 36, Colorado Springs, Cala., was killed today in a practice run for this year's 500 mile speedway auto race. Driving a new four-cylinder roadster belonging to Italian ace Nino Farina, Andrews lost con trol in the northwest turn. He ploughed into the inside retain ing wall and was crushed in the cockpit. It was the first fatality at the famous "500" track since two time winner Bill Vukovich was killed in a spectacular four-car pile-up while , leading the 1955 race. Andrews was clocked at a speed of about 136 miles an hour in laps preceding his crash. Weather FORECAST: FiJr throoch Tliurs day. Low tonight 40. High Thnrsdav 7. TEMPERATURE' Hirh5t yesterday T Lowest this mornint 4 PRECIPITATION To :3 .m. today Tract Our Skies Tonight Sunrise ..4:5 a.m. Sunset .7:2$ p.m. The Moon rises ..9:27 p.m. and rides low. Last Quarter May 21 PROMINENT STAR Spica. in the south 9:5 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, hith in south, 8:09 p.m. Saturn, rises :07 p.m. Mars, sets 10:14 p.m. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY er Resignations I high, ' school- graduation plans. Baccalaureate services' will be Sunday, June 2, at 8 p.m. at Hed rick - Junior High school, and graduation exercises will be Thursday, June 6, at Hedrick. A special meeting of the board will be held at 1:50 p.m. Tues day,' June 4, to officially open the polls for the budget election. Polls will be open between 2 and 8 p.m. in the girls gymnasium at the high school. - Patrons of the district will vote on a total proposed budget of 32,329,765.89. General fund ex penditures are estimated at $2, 129,439.01, and the amount for bond interest and sinking fund is $200,326.88. The total to be Taised by taxation is $1,528,- 168.08, of which $1,039,091.80 is more than the 6 per cent limita tion. . ! EP School District Approves Budget Eagle Point Eagle Point school district's 1957-58 budget was approved almost three-to-one in an election Tuesday. A total of 125 votes were cast, 93 in favor and 32 against the budget. Total budget for the coming year is $415,029.72. Budget for the present year is $303,162.08. General, operating budget is $374,947.22 and the amount for bonds and interest is $40,082.50. Levy for 1957-58 is expected to be about 58.8 mills, which is 1.8 mills less than that of the present operating budget. Glenn Hale, superintendent of Eagle Point schools, said chief reason for the budget increase for the coming year is increase! student enrollment which will necessitate hiring two more tea chers and purchasing more books for the high school and grade school libraries. Filing Deadline for Rural Board Friday Deadline for filing petitions for the rural school board is May 17. countv school officials re minded residents today. Petitions are to be filed with the county school superintendent's office. Two positions on the board will be filled. The term of William A. Star- zinger expires, and Lyle Van Scoy is ineligible as a board member. Starzinger is from zone 1, which includes Rogue River, Evans Valley, Elk Trail and Shady Cove school districts. Van Scoy became ineligible when the Eagle Point school dis trict became a first class district. Zone 2 is comprised of Prospect and Butte tails school districts. Petitions may be obtained from the county superintendent's office, j Tribune United Presi Full Leased Wire 15, 1957 No. 47 Documents Purport To Show Dave Beck 'Stole' $322,000 Rackets Committee Probes Property Deal Washington Of) A Senate in vestigator produced a pair of documents today which he said showed that some $322,000 taken from Teamsters Union treasuries "stolen rather than bor rowed" by union President Dave Beck. The Senate Rackets Committee also touched on a deal in which Beck, operating through a front, quietly bought property near the Los Angeles Teamsters Building for $25,000. Then Beck sold it to the team sters for $30,000. Insurance Relations Probed The committee dug deeply into Beck's relation with the Occi dental Life Insurance Co. of Los Angeles which handled many millions of dollars worth of in surance for the 11-state Western Conference of Teamsters. Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy said the records indi cated that money Beck has said he borrowed from the union and repaid "was stolen rather than borrowed. Big Commissions The committee then went into dealings between teamsters Vice President Frank Brewster and George C. Newell, a Seattle bro ker who also was once Brewster's horse racing partner, Newell said his firm received $2,109,338.43 in gross .commis sions for placing teamsters in surance business in a four-year period ended in February, this year. Sen. John F. Kennedy (D- Mass.) drew from Newell that his commissions were "tremendous and' that at least "50" other bro kers" would have done the work for less. Kennedy said Newell's profits were 20 times what they should have been. Vic Presidents Confer Meanwhile, five teamsters vice presidents conferred more than an hour with AFL-CIO President George Meany on the union's dif ficulties. The AFL-CIO suspend ed Beck as a vice president of the federation. No one would say after today's meeting whether the conferees raised the question of ousting Beck also as teamsters president. . The union's public relations ad visers have recommended that Beck, step aside. Informed sources believe the teamsters vice presidents discussed the pro posal with Meany. Firemen Make 120 Home Inspections . City firemen on home inspec tion dut ymade 123 recommen dations for correction of fire hazards on Tuesday. They made 120 inspections. some of them in new parts of the city and not checked in previous years. Firemen called at 214 residences but found no one home at 79. No hazards were noted in 49 houses. Fifteen home owners rejected the offer of in spection. The fire department began its annual program on Monday but firemen were called back to the station shortly after leaving be-1 cause of heavy rainfall. Egypt Raps Dulles' Stand On Israeli Use By UNITED PRESS i The Egyptian press attacked Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today for saying he would not oppose an Israeli ef fort to send a ship through the Suez Canal to test Egypt's block ade. '' ' : Use Not Intended Egyptian government sources emphasized that Egypt had no intention of permitting an Israeli vessel to use the canal although Israel has warned that stopping its test ship would be regarded as "an act of war." The Cairo newspaper Al Akh bar asked if Dulles meant the United States would continue to freeze Egypt's dollar holdings Don't Trifle With Country's Defense Congress Urged President Appeals To American People Washington W President Eisenhower warned Congress again today not to trifle with the defense of the country by making large budget cuts. His warning, voiced at his weekly news conference, fol lowed up his nationwide radio television appeal to the Ameri can people Tuesday night to sac rifice dollars rather than their sons and cities as the "price for peace" in a world threatened by atomic-armed Communism. Acknowledges Differences Eisenhower told reporters that he acknowledges honest differ- . ences of opinion between the ex ecutive and legislative branches of government. But he said that if Congress trifles with the de fense budget, this country will be in serious trouble. But Congress seemed in no mood to retreat in its economy drive. Eisenhower's remarks about the budget, particularly on de fense spending, started when a reporter told him that reports from Capitol Hill indicated that a House Appropriations Subcom mittee had decided to cut the Defense Department budget by $2,500,000,000. Wants To Know How The. President shook his head and saidvthat if the subcommit tee could make such a cut hon estly he, as a former Army chief of staff, wanted to know how it could be done. Eisenhower said that if we the executive and the legislative branches of government are going to trifle with defense on the basis of the reported com mittee cut, then the country is going to be in for real trouble. He said if such a cut is pos sible, then he would have to be reeducated. The President, in a broadcast and televised defense of his $72 billion budget, told the nation it risks "terrible consequences" if his defense program is "mater ially" cut. Warning of danger fronva So viet "despotism . . . fully cap able of the supreme folly" of trying to destroy the free world, he said this country must keep up its armed strength to convince Moscow's rulers "they cannot escape . . . destruction" if they start a general war. . Proper Dividing Line Eisenhower, however, declar ed not only that his defense budget represents the "proper dividing line" between "national danger" and overspending, but that unless the world arms race ' slowed, defense costs "will tend to go up year by year." Declaring that economies In domestic programs would be relatively small at best, Eisen hower said the "only one hope of making "really great savings" is to obtain an "effective disarm ament agreement" that would ease world tensions. To "hasten that day" he call ed on the public to support his embattled foreign aid, diploma tic and propaganda programs as vital to "w age peace aggres sively." Additional Expenses For Legislature Approved Salem (IP! The Joint Ways and Means committee today ap proved a bill appropriating an additional $350,000 to meet ex penses of the 1957 legislative session. Already appropriated was $800,000. Today was the 122nd day of the present session. Chicago (ffl Clyde C. Crosby, chief of the Oregon Conference of Teamsters, has filed a $200,- 000 libel suit here against the publishers o Time magazine. of Canal in America and "create further trouble"- for Egypt unless Egypt permits passage. Reports seeping , through the Syrian censorship hinted again that Syria is in the throes of a new political struggle. 'Political Illness' , One report published in Beirut, Lebanon, said Syrian President Shukri El Kuwatli was undergoing a "political ill ness" which might be the fore runner of his resignation. The Beirut newspaper Le Soir also reported Kuwatli's "illness" and said he may resign because of anger at his left-wing cabinet for maintaining a, state of siege in the country.