Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 21, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texto) u Kansas City Sub Price 10c VC . an V ' ' . ' ' " 11 " "?""" 1 " . ' ill . - . I... , , , ., ... ., ii ,. ., ,. . ...... , -s. I JL'vt. i , ! s .! . .- '.. TWO-UNIT APARTMENT Above is an art Isfs sketch of a two-unit apartment to be constructed at Crater Lake National park headquarters. Bids were invited today on the building an on a three-story four unit apart Bids Are Called For Construction Of Park Buildings Invitations to bid on con structing six employee resi- dential units at Crater Lake Na tional park and several sections of park roads were issued today, Tom Williams, park superinten dent announced. The projects are part of the 10-year Mission 66 program. The program, scheduled for comple tion in 1966 to coincide with the Golden Anniversary of the park service, is to restore facilities of the park system and expand them to provide services for an increase in park visitors. . Bids will be -opened at 3-p.m. June 11, in park offices at the post office building, Medford, on one four-unit apartment and one two - unit apartment building with an alternate bid for two additional two-unit buildings in lieu of the four-unit buildings, Williams said. Lower Portions Lower portions of the two story duplex residence and the three-story four-unit apartment building will consist of masonry block and the upper stories of wood frame. They also will in clude plumbing, heating and electrical facilities. Total area of both buildings is about 12,000 square feet, Wil liams said. Completion date of the project is 180 days. Total area of both buildings is about 12,000 square feet, Wil liams said. Completion date of the project is 180 days. Bids will be opened June 10 at the park office on a project to crush 18,000 tons of stone and the construction of several short sections of road. Alternate bids will be for 91 tons of asphalt for road surfacing, Williams said. The projects, along with the sewer and water installation contract awarded last week to Coast Construction company, Eugene, are among several proj ects which will be offered for bids later this year, according to Williams. Defense Spending Cut By $2,596,775,000 Washington W The House Appropriations Committee cut a whopping $2,586,775,000 off President Eisenhower's request for new defense funds today and called for a general belt tightening in the military. But committee members con ceded that half the cut repre sented bookkeeping or paper savings. They said it is question able whether any big part of the slash will show up in enforced spending cuts in the new fiscal year starting July 1. Couples Go On After Exchange of Mates Reno. Nev. HP1 Two Mill brae, Calif., couples who ex changed partners, families and homes in a hectic race from one Nevada court house to another were honeymooning today in se clusion. To Take Over Families When Dr. Frank E. Schwartz, 38-year-old eye specialist, returns t Millbrae with his new bride, Betty, 35. he will take over the responsibilities of her home and her four children. Betty's former husband, J. Martin Brooks, 35-year-old own Berrydale Residents To Vote Tomorrow Registered voters living in the Berrydale area can vote be tween 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. tomor row on a proposal to annex to the city of Medford.' The elec tion will be held at Howard school. Boundaries of the annexation area run generally north from the Big Y junction along High way 99 to Gore st., west to Lynn st., then parallel to the Pacific highway to a point north of Mace rd., east and south across the Crater Lake highway, then west to the highway again, and Redwood Highway Wreck Kills Two Grants Pass (IB Two men were killed Monday evening when a car plunged into a tree about 18 miles south of here on the Redwood highway and a third man was hospitalized after wandering around in a daze for several hours following the ac cident. Killed were Fredrick Nathan Robertson, 38, Grants Pass, and Floyd Maurice Reese, 43, Cave Junction.- Hospitalized here was Ted Medden, about 22, Kerby. Deputy Sheriff Lester Tyth- cott said at Cave Junction that Madden was found about mid night at his home in Kerby. He said Medden apparently suffer ed a concussion and traveled in a daze about eight miles through the woods to his home. He said Madden did not remember the accident. Tythcott said Madden's cloth ing was badly torn. The accident occurred about 4:30 p.m. Search parties hunted Madden in the woods after find ing tracks. Thornton Denies 'Whitewash' Attempt Portland (IP) Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton today struck back at assertions he had "whitewashed" the grand jury investigation of Mayor Terry Schrunk and denied that he had ever attempted to prevent Schrunk's indictment. The attorney general said there had been "several one sided and unfair statements in the press recently concerning the Multnomah county vice probe." " Army in Haiti Seizes Control of Country Port Au Prince, Ham HP) Censored The army seized con- martial law and set a dusk to dawn curfew today. Honeymoon er of a prosperous garden supply firm, will return home as the husband of the former Mrs. Betty Jean Schwartz, 33, and the pro vider of her two children. Close Friends. ' The couples were close friends for more than two , years after becoming acquainted through church, PTA and Cub Scout ac tivities. Schwartz said the switch in affections was something that "just gradually evolved," and they came to a mutual agreement on the exchange last Christmas. ment, also to be constructed at park head quarters. Bids will be opened June 11 on the projects in park offices in the post office building here. The work is part of the 10-year Mission 66 program. south along Riverside ave, to McAndrews rd. Last week the council repre senting Medford voters, approv ed the annexation proposal fol lowing a public hearing. Service Provided Members of the Berrydale Sanitation committee will pro vide transportation and baby sit ting service for Berrydale resi dents who could not otherwise vote, according to Nick Gier, chairman. . Those needing baby service are asked to telephone either SP 3-2804 or SP 2-2985, Gier said. Transportation to Howard school -befere-4-p.nl-.--will be pro vided for those telephoning eith er SP 3-2804, SP 2-2985, SP 2 6411, SP 3-1509, or SP 2-8957. . Berrydale residents can ob tain transportation after 4 p.m. by telephoning either SP 3-1063, SP 1275, SP 3-4209 or SP 3 4203. Gier said. Tomorrow's election climaxes a long and occasionally bitter argument between supporters and opponents of annexation as to how best to obtain sanitary facilities for the area. The pro posed annexation area is smaller and more compact than the area in which annexation was defeat ed at last November's election. Ashland District Approves Budget Ashland Ashland school dis trict's proposed $913,801.86 budget for 1957-58 won by a margin of 90 votes at an elec tion yesterday. A total of 750 votes were cast, 420 in favor and 330 against the budget. School officials said the voter . turn-out yesterday was "pretty good for Ashland." The total 1957-58 budget is $100,27786 more than last year's budget. Total operating budget is estimated at $816, 801.68. Levy for the coming year is estimated at 55.5 mills, compared with 51.1 for the cur rent year. Officials of the school district said the budget increase for 1957-58 is largely due to antici pated enrollment increases and need for added facilities and equipment. Til Speak Left in Shambles; Soldiers on Patrol 230 Persons Injured; Fear More Killed Kansas City, Mo. (IP) A sav age tornado, the worst of the year, roared out of Kansas and into two suburban Kansas City subdivisions Monday night, spreading death and destruction. The twister left at least 35 dead, many of them still uniden tified today, and 230 injured. Martial law was declared and soldiers patrolled the. rav aged areas, looking for more bodies. Police said that with the great amount of destruction, there could be "many more" bodies still in the wreckage. The tornado cut a 75-mile swath across Kansas, killing six in the state, before it hopped over the state line and boiled into Hickman Mills and Ruskin Heights, two adjoining subdivi sions just south and east of Kan sas City. The death toll in those areas was 28. Another man died at Martin City, a small town south and west of Kansas City on- the Kansas border. Worst of Year Heavy equipment 'moved in today to clear the wreckage of an almost new shopping center, high school and church that were demolished at Ruskin Heights. In the meantime, the Weather Bureau issued new warnings of possible tornadoes for extreme Southeast Missouri and Northeastern Arkansas. The tornado was by far the worst of many that have plagued the Midwest and Southwest this year. A tornado that ripped Dallas, Tex., April 2 killed 10. Another tornado killed 19 per sons last Wednesday at Silver- ton, Tex. United Press photographer Jerry McNeill of Dallas, who witnessed the tornado there and flew here Monday night to pho tograph the one here, said the Dallas tornado "was merely a baby compared io this." "The -Dalhrstornado skipped through - sparsely populated areas," McNeill said. ' "This one was more thorough. And while the path was only five miles long, this tornado caused much more destruction.". Seek Missing Persons Police and Red Cross officials estimated 500 homes destroyed, families were separated and ef forts were being made to set up an emergency clearance head quarters to find the missing, and to unite families. Fears that many persons were trapped when the new brick Presbyterian church collapsed were dispelled by Harry Bren ner, an elder of the church, who said a group of about 60 persons huddled in the basement, and were saved when the floor kept the falling bricks from crushing them. xne area or destruction in Ruskin Heights, in the southern portion of Kansas City, includ ed several hundred new homes, a church and a shopping center where 100 cars were parked. A four-story school was levelled and large quonset type stores were shredded to skeletons. Medford Police Called Check Object Near Creek Medford city police were sum moned Monday when an object which appeared to be a human body was seen off a sand bar in Bear creek behind Medford Muf fler company, 1130 North River side ave. Officers said that the object turned out to be a large rubber doll. With one arm torn off, the doll looked like' the body of a baby, police reported. To Him Again' essFull Leased Wire i 8 Pages i mt iiiiiiiiiiiMiiwiMiiiiiwiiiiiMimi inn ir 11 i i. n n I nTiiirr iiriTiaml ''jm iiv ! ir iti-m-tti TAKING SHAPE Construction of the new Rogue Valley Memorial hospital at Barnett and Murphy rds., Medford, is shown in another progressing stage in the above picture. The front of the hospital, which is estimated to cost a total of about Dike Cutis Foreign Aid Senate Struggles For Adjournment Sometime Tonight Salem HP) The Oregon Sen ate, still struggling toward an attempted session adjournment tonight, .passed six measures on its heavy calendar, then adjourn ed at noon until 1 p.m. with 30 measures on the calendar still up for final action. The Senate passed House bill 566 providing $95 basic school aid per census child instead of the current $80, then sent the bill back to the House for con currence in Senate amendments. Bill Provides Suspension Also passed was Senate bill 319 providing for suspension of a district attorney or deputy dis trict attorney who has been in dicted for incompetency, cor ruption, misfeasance, or a crime involving moral turpitude. The Senate . reconsidered and then passed, 16-14, House bill 382 requiring that appraisers must take a state civil service examination before they ' are hired by county assessors.. Residents Reminded Of Board Vacancies Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent, reminded resi dents today that two vacancies exist on the Jackson county non high school board. - Nomination petitions must be submitted to the county school superintendent's office by June 1. The vacancies are from zone 3, which represents Howard school district, and from zone 4, which consists of Applegate, Ruch and Griffin Creek school districts. A. E. Brockway of zone 3 has become ipeligible for member ship on the board since he re side in the Oak , Grbve area, which is no longer in the non high district because of recent consolidation. Brockway has served 24 years as a jnember of the Jackson county non-high board. The term of Edmund Ramsey, zone 4, expires this year. Mekvold stated that nominat ing petitions for the non-high board may be obtained from the Jackson county school superin tendent's office prior to June 1. Washington API President Eisenhower has proclaimed May 30 as Memorial Day. Weather FORECAST: clearing tonitbt. Partly cloudy Wednesday. Lnw tonight 31, high Wednes day 75. - Temp. tfiehut Vertrdv SI Lowest this Morning 4( Our Skies Tonight The Sun rises ..... 4:45 a.m. and sets 7:32 p.m. The nnseen stars in its back ground are now those of Taurus. The Moon, at its greatest dis tance from the Earth for the month (in Apogee), r i se I Wednesday at ...12:59 a.m. The dim stars in its background are now those of Aquarius. MEDFORD, OREGON, Radio-TV Appeal To Public Tonight Washington (IP) President Eisenhower today formally cut his foreign aid budget to $3,865, 000,000 and warned Congress that, any further big Reduction would be a "foolhardy" gamble with American lives. J ' " In a fighting defense' of his foreign aid proposals, the Pres ident warned Congress that re- Radio-TV Highlights President Eisenhower will make public appeal in de fense of his budget over radio and television tonight. It will be heard locally over radio station KWIN (1400 kc) at S p.m., over KMED (1440 kc) at 5:30 p.m. and again at 8:30 p.m KYJC (1230 kc) at 6:30 p.m., and KBES-TV at 6:30 p.m. duced aid spending would mean increased United States defense costs, heavier draft calls and re newed Communist gains abroad. Special Message He stated his case in a special foreign aid message to Congress. Tonight he will, follow it up with a radio-TV- appeal to the nation, seeking public support to check the congressional drive to slash his record peacetime spending plans. Key support for the President came on the eve of his message. House Democratic Leader John McCormick of Massachusetts, gave his unqualified-support to the full foreign aid request. "Whatever calculated risk we should take with our security should be taken on the side of strength and not weakness," Mc Cormack said. Some Savings Mad . . Eisenhower asked congress fof $535 million less than he esti mated would be needed for the program in his January budget message. The savings, he said, were made possible by improv ed administration, better plan ning with America's allies, and experience indicating less need for military spare parts. However, he said $500 mil lion in foreign aid spending Reappraisals Ordered By Equalization Board The Jackson county board of equalization has ordered reap praisals on real property owned by several residents and will study the new appraisals at a meeting Monday. The meeting will be held at 10:30 a.m. in the county clerk's office. , Members of the board have re ceived petitions for correction of assessed value of real property from 10 landowners in the coun ty. These petitions were re viewed at a meeting yesterday. The new appraisals wil be made by personnel in the county as sessor's office. Y TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1957 $2,555,218 when complete, is in the center of the wings at the left of the picture. Construction on building, which is being financed through contributions, gifts, and some federal Hill Burton funds, started about a year ago. originally anticipated for the current fiscal year ending June 30 would have to be carried over to the new fiscal year. If Congress cuts the aid pro gram deeper, he warned, "It would risk not only the ultimate attainment of -tremendous mili tary-savings to which we all aspire; by encouraging aggres sion and ' discouraging . our friends, it would also risk for cing our own defense spending to a level far higher than it is to day. "In this kind of gamble, Ameri can lives are just as much in the balance as American dollars." Gold Hill Man Hurt In Highway Accident George Edward Crump, 30, of route 1, box 428, Gold Hill, was taken to Grants Pass General hospital about 3:20 a.m. today for treatment of injuries re ceived when his car went out of control on old Highway 99 about a mile north of Rocky Point bridge, according to state police. He was taken to the hospital by Medford Ambulance service. Police said they believed his in juries were not major. Police said Crump; was trav eling north when the car left the highway, went 150 feet along tho east shoulder ditch; went back onto the shoulder for 95 feet; crossed the highway to the opposite ditch; went back onto the highway, where the car turned over; continued another 90 feet and turned over again, and went another 50 feet before turning back onto its wheels. ' -The car came to rest about 470 feet from the point ' where it first left the highway, police said. Raymond Refer Successful Bidder on Leverette Land Raymond Reter, of Reter Fruit company, Medford, was success ful bidder on the Leverette prop erties auctioned by the federal government this morning to pay back federal taxes owed by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Leverette. The properties, valued at more than $1,250,000, included the Leverette building in dowtown Medford, Orchard Park farms, Table Top ranch and other hold ings. They sold for $350,000. Bidding against Reter was H. R. Fisher, a Seattle investor. Bid ding started at less than $100, 000, and though more than a hundred persons were present, few bid. Reter said that $350,000 would have been his top figure. Reter has had the properties under lease since January, 1951, and he' said that there would be no change in the operation of the ranches at the present time. Auctioneer was Irving Damitz, Internal Revenue department collectiqn officer from Portland, who has been her since March Tribune United Press Full Leased Wir No. 52 IBudgeft Residents in Rural School Districts Approve Budget Voters in county rural school districts yesterday approved by a margin of more than 2 to 1 a budget totaling $1,844,777.55 for fiscal year 1957-58. The unof ficial total vote was 830 in fa vor and 379 against exceeding the 6 per ' cent limitation by $1,086,814.64. The vote by districts was Jacksonville 169 yes, 19 no; Grif fin Creek, 112 yes, 43 no; Ruch, 36 yes, 23 no; Lone Pine, 45 yes, 26 no; Talent, 59 yes,. 8 no; Rogue River, 148 yes, 121 no; Applegate, 11 yes, 19 no; Elk Trail, 41 yes, 6 no; Prospect, 11 yes, 6 no; Evans Valley 21 yes, 65 no; Shady Cove 81 yes, 13 no; Butte Falls 22 yes, none no; Pinehurst 12 yes, 2 no; and How ard, 62 yes, 28 no. The rural school board tenta tively is scheduled to meet Saturday to canvass the vote. Total operating budget is $1,- 523,366.55, the rural operating and emergency fund is $47,961 and the non-high tuition and transportation operating and emergency fund is $273,450. Estimated income is $544,359.54, leaving a total of $1,300,418.01 to be raised by taxes. Of that to be raised by taxes, $213,- 603.37 is within the 6 per cent limitation. . Total estimated increase in mills is from 54.7 to 68.4 for 1957-58. Portland (IP) Stockhold ers -of Portland Gas and Coke company have voted to approve a split of stock 2-for-l and to au thorize issue of 50,000 shares of preferred stock. Washington W The govern ment rested its contempt of Con gress case against playwright Arthur Miller today. 12, when the properties were seized by the government. With him were collection officers Rob ert V. Rushford of Portland and Virgil Olson and L. C. Thur mond, of Eugene. . . . , The seizure of the properties of Walter H. and Evalyn Lever ette was the largest ever execut ed by the federal government in the Northwest Total land involved was 3,100 acres. ? The sale was originally sched uled for 10 p.m., April 23, but was postponed until today to allow time to straighten out some details of the transaction. The sale was held at Orchard Park farms office near Voorheis crossing. Terms were 20 per cent cash, and the balance within 30 days, internal revenue de partment officers said. The sale is subject to other debts against the property, which unofficially were report ed to total some $430,000. It is understood that the total of the government's claim against the Leverettes was more than a half million dollars.