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BOY SCOUT CIRCUS A crowd estimated at 2,500 attended
the annual Boy Scout circus Saturday night at Medford Sen
ior Hish school. About 1.800 Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and Ex
plorers from the Crater Lake Area council participated. The.
boys are shown above saluting the American flag after the
Pedestrian Dies
After Being Struck
By Car Saturday
Elias Henry Vinson, 77, of 144
North Riverside ave., Medford,
died early Sunday morning in a
local hospital' as the result of
injuries sustained when he was
struck by a car Saturday night,
according to city police.
The accident occurred at
Fifth st. and Riverside ave.
about 8:15 pm Saturday when
he was preparing to cross River-
ide ave. Police said he was
either in or near the crosswalk.
Driver of the car was Miss
Marcia Lee Presgrave, 18, of
409 South Peach st., Medford
She was traveling north on Riv
erside ave. at the time of acci
dent, officers reported.
Miss Presgrave, wlo witnesses
said was traveling between 20
and 30 miles per hou, was cited
by police for failure to yield
the right of way.
Mr. Vinson was identified
Sunday morning by kis sister,
Annie Vinson, with whom he
resided. Police said ha died of
multiple fractures the skull
at about 12:45 a.m. Sunday.
The fatality brought to eight
the number of people killed in
traffic accidents im Jackson
county so far this year.
Mr. Vinson . bnrn at Lan
gell Valley'. Ore., v. 11. 1879,
and was a Medford resident for
the past 20 yenrc. He was a
stockman and a veterinarian for
many years, an a member of
the Bonanza Odd Fellows lodge.
His parents, Mr and Mrs.
Henry Vinson, were early pio
neers of Medford and operated
a livery stable at Hi Worth Riv
erside ave.. where the family
still resides.
Survivors, other than his sis
ter, include another sister, Mrs.
Phcba Vinson Vaughan, of Med
ford; one daughter, Mrs. Clark
Robinson, of Oakland, Calif.;
and one grandson, two great
grandchildren and several
nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held
al 2 p.m., Wednesday. May 22,
at the Perl Funeral home. The
Rev. D. E. Millard will officiate.
Interment will take place in the
Medford IOOF cemetery. Med
ford lodge of the IOOF will par
ticipate in graveside services.
Salem (W The Oregon Sen
ate today passed and sent to the
governor House bill 60 provid
ing $7 million for construction
artd repair for the university
and various colleges in the state
system of higher education.
"This Needs Action. Let's Send Them Sympathy
..aras
Rath Refuses to Sign
New Proposed Budget
Roger F. Rath, member of the
Jackson county budget commit
tee, has refused to sign the pro
posed 1957-58 budget.
Rath said his refusal is based
on a $104,000 item designated in
the budget as an agronomic re
search sinking fund.
The fund has been established
for. purchase of about 90 acres
of property near Jacksonville for
a new agronomy experiment sta
tion. Installment Basis
Other committee members
agreed to purchase the property
on an installment basis rather.
than m a lump sum. The prop
erty owners reportedly refused
to sell on any other terms. Rate
of interest to the county would
be about 6 per cent.
Officials at the Southern Ore
gon branch experiment station,
other agricultural experts and
local farmers have been attempt
ing to find a new site for agron
omic research for several years.
They haye stated the present site
Leverette Property
Auction Tomorrow
Properties valued at about
$1,250,000 will be acutioned to
morrow starting at 10 a.m. 'by
the Internal Revenue depart
ment. The properties were seized by
the government in March from
Walter H. and Evalyn G. Lever
ette. i
The auction will be held at
the Orchard Park Farms, one
of Leverette's holdings near
Voorhies crossing south of Med
ford. '
The auction 1 was originally
scheduled for April 23 but was
postponed, according to Inter
nal Revenue department group
supervisors, to allow more time
to iron out technicalities.
Included in the sale will be a
packing plant, cold storage
building, 10 pear orchards, the
Leverette building in downtown
Medford and other property and
equipment. Total land involved
is about 3.000 acres.
The seizure of the property
by the government was one of
the largest ever conducted in
the Pacific northwest,, and in
volved about $600,000 in back
taxes owed by Leverettei for the
period from 1941 through 1952,
according to Internal Revenue
agents.
Officials said today that the
sale is expected to be completed
by noon Tuesday.
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grand entry parade. Included in the program were demonstra
tions of skills learned in scouting and aims of the Boy Scout
program. Officials at Boy Scout headquarters here said the
crowd, which was about as large as in previous year, was
enthusiastic, and the program went smoothly., ,
(Kenn Knackstedt photo)
near Phoenix is unsuitable be
cause high concentrations of lead
arsenate in the soil undermine
their experimental projects. The
lead arsenate is an accumulation
of spray residue from an old ap
ple orchard located on that site
for many years.
Opinion Sought
Before other members of the
committee signed the budget, an
attorney general's opinion was
sought concerning purchase of
the property on an installment
basis. The attorney general ruled
the transaction would be legal.
Rath made the following state
ment to the Mail Tribune this
morning:
"I did not sign the budget sub
mitted to me at 2:30 p.m. Sun
day and this is the reason.
"At the last time the budget
committee met (May 7), there
was some discussion about buy
ing a farm for $60,000 and the
transaction seemed to be rather
cut and dried. However, it was
not added to the budget at that
time. It was necessary to have
legal advice as to the propriety
of buying a piece of real prop
erty, on an installment plan and
paying interest at a much high
er rate than we are receiving on
large unspent and unbudgeted
funds.
"It was at this time Sunday
that I was acquainted with the
$104,000 amount added to the
budget. The extra $40,000, I was
told, was for fences and build
ings. . . . I questioned the rea
son for purchasing an additional
farm for an experiment station
since there is now a farm devot
ed to this purpose. It would seem
that if the experimentalists could
not correct the soil condition of
4he present farm, of what value
is an experimental farm?"
Tom Wray, chairman of the
budget committee, said he had
no comment to make on Rath's
refusal to sign the budget.
Committee members pointed
out that the absence of Rath's
signature will have no effect on
the usual budget procedures. It
will be presented at a public
hearing on Monday, June 17. To
tal proposed county budget for
1957-58 is $2,990,446.72.
The budget will be published
in full in the Mail Tribune on
Monday, May 27. .
Kaplan Accepts Job
On Rackets Committee
Portland (IB Arthur G. Kap
lan, . assistant attorney general
who helped conduct the recent
vice-probing Multnomah county
grand jury, said Sunday he was
accepting a legal position with
the special U.S. Senate Rackets
Committee.
Kaplan's announcement was
contained in an open letter in
which he listed a number of
questions he said Attorney Gen
eral Robert Y. Thornton should
answer about the vice probe.
Thornton said in Salem today
that he had not received Kap
lan's letter. But he said he be
lieved Kaplan' should remain to
help handle prosecution indict
ments returned by the March
grand jury.
Thornton had assigned Kap
lan and Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Ralph Wyckoff to prosecute
the new cases . on indictments
returned by the March grand
Jury- l
National Guard Fliers
Survive Parachute Jump
Spokane IB Two Air
National Guard flyers para
chuted to safety Sunday when
their F94B all-weather jet fight
er ran out of fuel and crashed
in an open field two miles north
of Odessa.
Guard officials said the pilot,
Lt Robert L. Trumble and radar
observer L. T. Lewley Stevents,
both of Spokane, were Anhurt.
JACK RAAPKE
Heads Retail Division ,.
Raapke Appointed
Chairman of Retail
Division for UMG
Jack Raapke, 400 North Berke
ley Way, has been selected retail
division chairman for the 1957
58 United Medford Crusade, ac
cording to R. A. Johnson, UMC
general chairman.
Raapke is an interior decora
tor and partner in Dempster
Furniture company. He moved
to Medford from Omaha, Neb.,
in 1956. During the war he
piloted C47 'and P51 transports
and fighters and was in seven
major campaigns in the African
and European theaters. During
the "Battle of the Bulge" he
was shot down near Bastogne.
He is publicity ' chairman of
the Medford Kiwanis club and is
a director of Oregon Home Im
provement. He is married and
has three daughters.
Assistant chairman of the re
tail division is Chuck Baucom
of the Retail Grocery associa
tion. '
; Section heads are, appliances.
Garner Couey, Couey Appli
ances; bakery, Bill Wood, Ham
macker Lumber company; ladies
wear, Bill Moffat, Mann's De
partment store; , meats, Morris
Bouchner, Groceteria; shot
stores, Dick Wray, Barker's
Men's store; food marketing,
Darrel Mitchell, Groceteria; of
fice equipment, Charles Hill,
Jewett Office Supply; furniture,
Don Fordt Western Auto; drugs,
Dave Koblik, Toy House; jewel
ry, . Larry Schade, Schade's
Jewelry; men's wear, Fred Rob
inson, Robinson Bros.; and sport
ing goods, Morris Leonard, Leon
ard Electric. .
Election Wednesday
In Kings Water District
Registered voters in the Kings
highway water district will vote
Wednesday, May 22, in a special
bond issue election on fire hy
drant and water main improve
ments in the district, according
to Mrs. : Jeannette Marshall, at
torney of the district.
The election will be held at
the' Wayne Troxell residence',
1833 South Peach st.f Mrs. Mar
shall said. ,
Forestry Training
School Starts May 22
Annual training school for
personnel of the southwest dis
trict of the state forestry de
partment will be held Wednes
day, Thursday and Friday, May
22-25.
Most of the sessions will be
at headquarters on Table Rock
rd., but one-half day Thursday
will be spent in the field, ac
cording to Curt Nesheim, district
warden. '
Portland (IB A trial has
opened here on a suit by Port
land Traction company to have
set aside a Public Utilities com
mission order requiring it to re
store its interurban service to
Portland's west side.
Executive Council
Removes Teamster
As Vice-President
Tongue-Lashing Given
By AFL-CIO President
Washington (IB Teamsters
President Dave Beck was kicked
out of the AFL-CIO high com
mand today for using union
money for "personal gain and
profit."
His ouster as an AFL-CIO
vice-president and Executive
Council , member followed a
brief, but stormy "trial" at
which Beck's peers in the labor
movement found him "guilty as
charged" of diverting teamsters'
dues into his own pocket.
Beck walked out of the un
precedented trial, conducted by
25 of his fellow members of the
AFL-CIO Executive Council.
But before he left, he had to
listen to a 20-minute tongue
lashing from AFL-CIO Presi
dent George Meany who said
there was not "the faintest ques
tion" that Beck had violated his
"sacred trust" as a union leader.
The 25 council members then
voted unanimously to strip Beck
of his official positions in the
AFL-CIO. He remains president
of the Teamsters Union, an of
fice over which the AFL-CIO
Executive Council has no con
trol, but a rank and file move
ment is under way in the union
to oust him from that job, too.
Approval Expected
Chairman John L. McClellan
(D-Ark.) of the Senate Labor
Rackets Committee predicted
that "all good union people . . .
all good citizens . . . will heartily
approve" the Executive Coun
cil's action. He said the ouster
was "more than justified."
Beck had no immediate com
ment. He refused at the closed
door "trial" to answer charges
that he had brought the labor
movement into 'disrepute."
i'There is not the faintest
question in our minds that he is
completely guilty of violating"
trade union laws through his use
of union money which is 'a
sacred trust," Meany said.
. Meany said the question
whether the 62-year-old Team
sters Union chief was guilty of
violating federal or state laws
Involving "theft ' or embezzle
ment" was not the concern of
the Executive Council of which
Beck had been a member since
August, 1953.
Two Youths Held
For Burglaries
Two Medford boys, aged 14
and 15, were arrested Saturday
evening by sheriff's deputies on
South Chestnut st. on charges of
burglary.
The boys were arrested after
Bill Roberts Smith. 942 Cherry
st., notified sheriff's deputies
that two youths on bicycles had
entered a vacant house on his
property. -
The two boys admitted to sher
iff's officers 12 other burglaries
in the last five weeks. The bur
glaries were from private homes
and one business building.
At the time of their arrest one
of the boys was carrying a gun
and the other had a knife. Two
other guns were recovered by
sheriff's officers at the home of
one of the boys.
The youths are being held in
county jail pending action by
the county juvenile authorities.
Rural School Budget
Election Held Today
Polls will be ODen until 8 p.m.
today for residents t . vote on the
proposed $1,844,777.55 county
rural school budget for 1957-58.
The elections are being held in
Jacksonville, Griffin Creek,
Ruch, Lone Pine, Talent, Rogue
River. ADDleeate. Elk -Trail,
Prospect, . Evans Valley, Shady
Cove, Butte Falls, Pinehurst and
Howard school districts.
Total estimated increase in
mills is from 54.7 for the cur
rent year to 68.4 for 1957-58.
School officials have said rea
sons for the increase in the pro
posed budget include anticipated
enrollment increases, need for
new equipment and new facili
ties, and withdrawal of several
districts from the rural school
districts.
Weather
FORECAST: Frequent showers
thi evening. Partly cloudy to-,
night and Tuesday with show-
:' ers mainly in mountains. Low
tonight 35. High Tuesday S.
TEMP.
Highest Yesterday 1
- Lowest This Morning 43 .
Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today 07
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise 4:4fi a.m.
Sunset 7:31 p.m.
Moonrise Tuesday ...12:31 a.m.
Last Quarter Tuesday 9:03 a.m.
Jupiter, the bricht planet
seen in the south after sunset,
now begins to move eastward
among the stars of the ecliptic
and will continue to do so until
next February.
. incidents Claim Five
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By UNITED PRESS
Five persons died in Oregon
over the week end as the result
of auto accidents and three
others were killed in southwest
Washington late Saturday night,
including a Portland bride of
only three hours.
Killed just north of Castle
Rock, Wash., Saturday night
were Mrs. Jan Leavitt Heller, 21,
Portland; Dawayne V. Taggart,
26, Portland, and LaVoy E.
Smith, 24, Seattle.
STUDENTS HONORED Student Patrol
members from the nine grade schools in the
Medford system were honored at a banquet
given : for, them ; aid. , theirv parents. -by.the .
Medford Safety Council Friday night at the
Jackson hotel. Mayor John Snider presented
each of the 139 patrol members with an
award for their perfect safety record during ,
the" year. Above, Medford Safety Council
President Aubrey Loper, and Police Captain "
Drive To Cut Budget
Due for Giant Stride
, Washington (IP) The congres
sional drive to cut President Eis
enhower's budget takes a giant
step forward this week. A House
appropriations subcommittee is
expected to recommend slicing
$2,500,000,000 from the Presi
dent's $36,200,000,000 defense
request.
Subcommittee Chairman
George H. Mahon (D-Tex.) said
his group will recommend de
fense cuts Tuesday which are
"in the public interest."-
"The people have demanded
more economy and more effi
ciency in all branches of the
government," he said. But in
making the cuts, he added, "we
have sought not to cut the fight
ing edge of our forces."
Mahon' did not specify the size
of the cuts the subcommittee
will make.
But subcommittee sources
have said the reductions will
amount to about $2,500,000,000
by far the biggest single slash
in the President's budget to
date despite a warning from
Rescuers Continue
To Dig tor Miner
Lykens, Pa. (ID A group
of miners "determined to find
David Snyder one way or anoth
er" continued digging today in a
gangway of a mine where he was
trapped by a cave-in Friday
morning. -
Older miners and state mine
inspector Robert Scheinder of
Ashland, Pa., hold out little hope
for the 35-year-old father of
three children. State Police Sgt.
Joseph L. Tochyba at the Lykens
substation said the concensus of
opinion is that Snyder will be
dead when he is found.
The veteran miners base their
opinion on the muffled rumble
they heard a few hours after
Snyder's ; last tappings Friday
afternoon. The old-timers say
this signalled a second but
smaller cave-in that entombed
Snyder in a gangway, a small
passage leading off from the
main shaft of the slope-type mine
in Short Mountain.. . .
Porltand (W There were
more than 2000 commercial air
line flights and 78,626 passen
gers traveling at the Portland
International airport during
ApriL T
MONDAY, MAY
Injured in the flaming two-car
collision was the bridegroom,
Paul Robert Heller, 22, Portland,
who was taken to a hospital with
a broken leg and ankle and se
vere lacerations. '
Curtis Lee Coffman, 55, TCeno,
and Elva Tice Lalo, 45, Chilo
quin, were killed Sunday after
noon when fheir car veered into
the path of an oncoming truck
and trailer about 15 miles south
of Klamath Falls.
Fred Upson, about 40, Yaki
Eisenhower that the nation
faces "terrible" consequences" if
his defense budget is "material
ly" reduced.
Ik on Radio, TV Tuesday
The White' House' said Eisen
hower will submit his revised
$3,800,000 foreign aid request
to Congress Tuesday. He then
will go on radio and television
Tuesday night in an effort to
save it from the budget-cutting
drive. - "" . ;'
The President's talk, his sec
ond within a week, is' designed
to ' rally public support behind
his $71,800,000,000 record peace
time spending budget in general
and his trimmed down foreign
aid program in particular.
Rural Fire Directors
Call Budget Meeting
Central Point Central Point
rural fire , protection . district
board of directors have called a
budget committee meeting for 8
p.m., Tuesday, May 21, at the
fire station.
The session will be for discus
sion and proposal of a budget for
the 1957-58 fiscal year.
: The committee is made up of
board members, Harold Geb
hard, chairman, Ray Vogel, sec
retary, Claude Hoover, AU Bo
hannon and Bert Smith, direc
tors, and citizen members, C. C.
Thompson, C h a r 1 es Bateman,
Homer Conger, Sam Taylor and
Franklin Gebhard.
Security Council Votes To
Discuss Problem of Suez
United Nations, N.Y. W
France asked the United Nations
Security Council . today . to per
suade Egypt to comply with the
six principles it accepted last Oc
tober for operation of the Suez
Canal, lest the world organiza
tion be discredited. . ' ,
Discussion Voltd
The council, with Russia ab
staining, voted 10-0 ' to ' discuss
the Suez' problem .again. Egypt
was invited to participate with
out a vote. '
French Foreign . Minister
Christian Pineau flew from Pa
ris to reopen before the Security
Council the Suez dispute that has
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20, 1957
No. 51
ma, Wash., was killed Saturday
when he lost control of his car
just south of St. Helens and it
struck a telephone pole. . ."
Elias Henry Vinson, 77, Med
ford, died Sunday after being
struck down by a car Saturday
night while crossing a street.
Robert J. Willson, 17, West
Linn, died in a Portland conval
escent home Sunday of injuries
suffered in an automobile acci
dent near Oregon City, last Au
gust. '
Clyde Fichtner, featured speaker at the ban
quet, talk to the group of patrol members
who received the awards on behalf of their
schools. The youngsters, are front row, left to
right, Douglas Farnsworth, Washington; John
Gates, West Side, Rodric Pace, Jackson; Vickl
-Toenniges,: Lincoln; second row, Lloyd Ham
monds, .Jefferson; Michael Stinson, St. Mary's; '
Ric Schmidt,' Oak Grove; Tim Watrud, Roose
velt and Jim Cummings, Howard, top. -
Trio Arraigned
On Federal Charge
Three California men were
arraigned before U.S. Commis
sioner Frank Van Dyke Monday
morning on federal charges of
interstate motor vehicle theft.
The three men, Everette U.
Becraft, 35, Los Angeles; George
Edward Marino, 31, Sacramento,
and Peter M. Mascio, 34, Holly
wood, were arrested Thursday
by Medford police officers at
East Main and Almond sts. The
car they were driving was re
ported to have been stolen from
Las Vegas, Nev.
They are' reported also to be
wanted by California authorities
on charges of burglary.
The trio waived preliminary
hearing this morning and were
turned over to the U.S. Marshal
who will take them to Port
land to appear 'in Federal court
there. They are being held on'
$2,500 bond each.
Tractor Operator Killed
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Brownlee, Idaho ffl
Goldie G. Johnson, 47, Boise, a
tractor operator on the Idaho
Power Company Brownlee
power project, was killed today
when his machine plunged head ,
first off a dirt fill portion of
the dam structure.
New Orleans rtP The 40,000
ton aircraft - carrier Antietam
crashed into a river'wharf here
today after escorting tugs lost
control of the outward bound
vesseL '
simmered since Egypt nationaliz
ed the canal last July 26. France
is the only major maritime pow
er that has not authorized its
merchant fleet to use the canal
under terms of a code laid down
by Egypt in April.
Presents No Formula
Pineau presented no' formula
for solving the problem present
ed by Egypt's unilaterial declar
ation of rules for operating the
canal. He suggested that France
might offer such a resolution la
ter. But most diplomatic sources
believed the wise course would
hp to have the council exoresi
than risk a formal measure
which Russia was certain to veto-