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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.
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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.