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Berrydale Amexedj
Vole is 219 For,
191 Against Move
In Area Election
Petitions for Sewers
Being Prepared
Voters in the Berrydale dis
trict yesterday approved , by
v the slim margin of 28 votes out
of 410 cast annexation to Med
ford. The vote was 219 yes, 191.no.
About two-thirds of the . area's
estimated 620 registered voters
cast ballots.
The election climaxes a long
campaign, which included door--to-door
canvassing, public meet
ings, and other forms of public
appeals. Arguments for and
against annexation centered on
the best method of obtaining
sewer facilities for the area, in
which an estimated 1,250 peo
ple reside.
The triangular-shaped area is
north of the present city limits,
and is roughly bounded by High
way 99 on the west and Table
Rock rd. on the east. A con
siderably larger area defeated
another annexation proposal in
last fall's general election.
Circulate Petitions
Nick Gier, chairman of the
Berrydale Sanitation committee
which initiated the annexation
plan, said he expected petitions
requesting sewer facilities to be
circulated in the area by com
mittee members sometime next
week. The petitions are now
being prepared by City Attor
ney E. R. Bashaw, he said.
City Manager Robert Duff said
today surveys and engineering
studies forsnitary- sewer-' sys
ten in Berrydale will be- started
in the area as soon as the peti
tions have been filed with the
city council. The council will
meet tonight to canvass the votes
cast in Berrydale. '
The annexation will become
official in about 10 days, Duff
said, when the secretary of
state's office acknowledges re
ceipt of a transcript of votes
in the Berrydale election. The
transcript will be forwarded
there this week, he said.
Estimated Population
The annexation area, which
totals about 450 acres, brings to
5,456 the acreage now in the
corporate limits of Medford.
Estimated population of Med
ford will be about 23,472 as a
result of the annexation.
Service improvements in Ber
rydale, other than installation
of a sewer system, includes addi
tional protection by city police
and the city fire department.
Fire Chief Gordon Barker said
several sites are being consid
ered in Berrydale for eventual
construction of a new fire sta
tion. Police Chief Charles Champ
lin noted that the department
would need several additional
officers to adequately police the
newly annexed area. He added
the department has been "hard
pressed" for personnel ever
since Kenwood-Grandview was
annexed to the city last fall.
The city budget committee has
withheld concluding a budget
for the police department until
the annexation election.
Last week the city council,
representing Medford voters, ap
proved the annexation proposal
following a public hearing. No
further action is required by the
council to make the annexation
official.
Robert Lee, city water super
intendent, said Berrydale water
rates, in conforming to present
city rates, would probably be
about half of what area resi
dents are currently paying. No
additional water facilities are
planned for Berrydale, he said.
Terry McNulty, Figure in
Rackets Probe, Kills Self
Seattle iw Terry McNulty,
colorful racetrack personality
who figured briefly in testi
mony before the Senate Rackets
Committee, was found dead to
day from a self-inflicted bullet
wound.
McNulty, who on occasions
transported the race horses of
Teamsters Western Conference
boss Frank W. Brewster, shot
himself with a .38 calibre pistol,
coroner's deputies said. His body
was found in his automobile
Which had been driven off the
road near Woodinville, Wash.,
north of Seattle, where McNul
ty lived.
MEDFORD, OREGON,
"Next"
Censure of Morse
By Senate Colleagues
Declared Unlikely
Washington (IP) A Senate
censure move against Sen. Wayne
Morse (D-Ore.) appeared unlikely
today despite GOP anger over
his attack on President Eisen
hower. r "Senate "Republicans' demanded
that Morse publicly apologize for
calling Eisenhower and teamsters
boss Dave Beck "the same kind
of immoralists" in a Detroit
speech last Saturday.
Sen. Homer E. Capehart (R
Ind.) told the Senate Wednes
day that if Morse made the
statement on the Senate floor he
might have been "subject to
censDre." Sen. Styles Bridges
Soldier Acquitted
In Taipeh Slaying
Taipeh UPl A U.S. military
court-martial today acquitted
M.Sgt. Robert G. Reynolds, 42, of
the Peeping Tom slaping of a
Chinese Nationalist officer.
The decision, reached after
one hour and 35 minutes of de
liberations, was greeted by an en
thusiastic outbreak of applause
by Americans in the courtroom
but appeared to have caused
Chinese resentment.
Reynolds, of Colora. Md., shot
and killed Liu Chi-Jan outside
his home the night of March 20
after he found him peeking
through a, bathroom window at
his wife, Clara. 36, as she dried
herself after taking a shower.
Reynolds pleaded innocent to
voluntary manslaughter charges
and said he shot at Liu when he
raced outdoors and Liu came at
him with what he thought was a
weapon.
It was the first trial of an
American serviceman for the
shooting of a Chinese. It came
during negotiations between
American and Chinese officials
for a status of forces agreement
which would give Nationalist
courts the right to try "off duty"
cases of American military per
sonnel. A general court-martial board
of five colonels and three mast
er sergeants ruled that the bald
ish brown-haired Reynolds, A U.
S. Army medical corpsman, was
innocent of the charges.
The sheriff's office said Mc
Nulty, 69, left a "suicide note,"
and Prosecutor Charles O. Car
roll said McNulty was one of 15
persons so far sought ,by sub
poena servers of the King Coun
ty Grand Jury, called to investi
gate officials of the Teamsters
Union.
McNulty, who recently spent
two weeks in a hospital, came
into the Brewster phase of the
Senate hearings in connection
with Brewster's race horses and
an automobile, purchased with
a Brewster-signed teamsters un
ion check for McNulty's "girl
friend."
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THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1957
(R-N.H.) called Morse's state
ment "shocking."
Morse, a former Republican,
promptly repeated the statement
on the Senate floor and chal
lenged Jus GOP. criticsto try, lo.
censure him for it.
He "invited" the Senate GOP
Policy Committee to introduce
a censure resolution and include
remarks he made "on or off the
Senate floor."
"Introduce it and let's get on
with the trial," he said.
Morse charged that Eisen
hower had in effect taken money
out of the pockets of taxpayers
by giving a tax write-off to the
Idaho Power Company for the
construction of power dams on
the Snake river between Idaho
and Oregon.
Morse said he saw no distinc
tion between "a Dave Beck"
reaching into the pockets of his
union members for "an interest
free loan" and the Eisenhower
administration "putting its hands
into the pockets of the taxpay
ers" for what he said was in ef
fect a similar loan to Idaho
Power.
He said the . administration's
tax write-off program for util
ities, such as Idaho Power, was
a "prostitution" of legislation
enacted by Congress to help
build defense plants which would
have limited productive use
after the war.
By "comparison of the wrong
doings of the Eisenhower admin
istration" in case after case,
Morse said, "I can't square this
administration with political
morality."
'In Poor Taste'
"In my book," he said, "the
President of the United States is
guilty of political immorality."
Sen. Bourke B. Hickenlooper
(R-Iowa) said Morse's remarks
were "far more odious" than
anything ever said by the late
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R
Wis.), whose conduct was con
demned by the Senate.
Bridges, chairman of the pol
icy committee and leader of the
attack against Morse, said Morse
"went further than it is proper
to go" and that his remarks were
"in poor taste."
"It is shocking to compare
the President of the United
States to a man who has taken
the Fifth Amendment more than
200 times," Bridges said.
A few Democrats rallied to
Morse's defense.
Sen. Olin D. Johnston (D-S.C.)
said Morse failed to make clear
'one distinction between Beck
and Eisenhower: Beck did know
what he was doing."
Council To Hold Public
Hearing at Meeting
The Medford city council to
night will hold a public hearing
on the vacation of an alley be
tween Columbus ave. and Elm
st. running parallel between
Main and Eighth sts. The meet
ing will be held at 7:30 p.m. in
the city hall.
Other council business will in
clude awarding bids on several
improvement district bonds.
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Skids Under Beck;
Meeting Scheduled
Movements Aimed
At Ousting President
Washington (IP) Teamsters
Union leaders today greased
the skids under Teamster Presi
dent Dave Beck.
Teamster Secretary-Treasurer
John F. English and several
Teamster vice presidents pre
pared to call for a union execu
tive Board meeting that could
topple Beck as boss of the na
tion's biggest union.
Would Ask Resignation
Sources said a majority of the
board would ask Beck at the
meeting to resign. The sources
predicted Beck would be forced
out if he refused.
At the same time, a grass
roots movement aimed at oust
ing Beck continued to spread
throughout the nation.
Teamster Joint Council 55,
representing 10,000 workers in
the Washington area, called
Wednesday night for Beck's
ouster "forthwith." The demand
was made in a telegram to the
Executive Board.
Teamster Loca' 807, largest in
the New York metropolitan
area, called for Beck's ouster
Wednesday. It represents 8,800
workers.
Other Demands Voiced
Similar demands have come
from Teamster locals in Chicago,
San Francisco and other cities.
The AFL-CIO Executive
Council, which gave Beck
another shove toward the door
this week by firing .him as a
council member, today ousted
the 85,000-member Laundry
Workers Union on corruption
charges. It put two other inter
national unions on one-year probation..-,
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The Laundry Workers, and
the other two unions, the Distil
lery Workers and the Allied In
dustrial Workers, were involved
in welfare fund abuses uncov
ered by a Senate committee in
1954-55.
They had been instructed by
the AFL-CIO Executive Council
last February to clean house or
face suspension at the council's
current meeting.
Defense Rests in
Arthur Miller Case
Washington (IP) The defense
rested today without calling
playwright Arthur Miller to
testify at his contempt of Con
gress trial.
No decision is expected before
next Tuesday. ,
Former Sen. Harry P. Cain,
who has often criticized United
States security methods, was the
only defense witness in the six
day trial.
The lanky, Pulitzer Prize win
ner is, on trial because he re
fused to tell the House Commit
tee on Un-American Activities a
year ago the nams of others
present at Communist meetings
he attended in 1947.
Miller, husband of actress
Marilyn Monroe, told the com
mittee that though he attended
such meetings he was never
under "party discipline."
Medford Man Dies of
Injuries After Fall
Carl Blythe, 52, of 611 South
Riverside ave., Medford, died
this morning in a local hospital
from injuries suffered when he
fell from the roof of a building
in the Camp White area- May 8.
Mr. Blythe, who was born
April 16, 1905, in Missouri, was
employed by Sandy Cleve as a
carpenter.
He is survived by his wife
Mary M. Blythe.
Conger-Morris Funeral home
is in charge of arrangements.
David Espey Selected
To Marine Academy
David Laurance Espey, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Laurance V. Espey,
619 Park st., Medford, has been
selected to attend the United
States Merchant Marine acad
emy at Kings Point, N.Y., ac
cording to Senator Richard L.
Neuberger, who made the nomi
nation. Senator Neuberger said the
appointment is contingent on
Espey passing the final physical
examination.
Portland (IPI Damage was
estimated at 521,000 today from
a two-alarm fire in a two-story
metal-clad tool room of the
Electric Steel company here.
TO BE DISPLAYED Above is one of two
Army helicopters which will be displayed
at Medford's new $376,930.23 National Guard
armory Saturday when the building is dedi
cated. An open house, starting at 7 p.m., will
feature other displays and demonstrations
State Lions Clubs
To Hold Convention
In City Next Month
Approximately 1,000 members
of Lions clubs in Oregon and sev
eral from Canada are expected
to be in Medford June 20-22. for
the 33rd annual state Lions con
vention, according to Herb Seitz,
president of the Medford Lions
club.
The Medford Lions club will
be in charge of the convention
with assistance from Crater, Ash
land, Central Point, Eagle Point,
Gold Hill, Jacksonville, Phoenix,
Prospect, Rogue River, Shady
Cove-Trail and Talent Lions
clubs.
Slogan for the convention is
"Come to Heav'n In '57." The lo
cal Lions club is spending more
than $15,000 on convention pre
parations, Seitz pointed out. .
Activities- Financed-;- v
During their' stay here,' con
vention activities will be financ
ed by purchase of hospitality
books by the : individual Lions
and Ladies. The books cover ex
pense of all food, meetings, en
tertainment, dances and other
parties. Catering is being done
by the Medford hotel, Jackson
hotel and Morris Boughner of
the Groceteria.
Main speaker for the conven
tion will be John L. Stickley,
Charlotte, N.C., president of
Lions International.
General chairman for the
event is Dr. Lee Mellish. Other
chairmen are general secretary
treasurer, E s t o n Humphrey;
housing, Leland Knox; decora
tions, Herb Seitz; building and
meeting places, Elliot Becken;
Golf tournament. Noble Vincent;
and publicity, Allan Jewett. Mrs.
Lee Mellish and Mrs. Ken Camp
bell are in charge, of the auxili
ary program.
Mail Rate Increase
Voted by Committee
Washington IP The House
Post Office Committee today ap
proved the administration's bill
to raise the cost of mailing a first
class letter from three to four
cents and to hike other postal
rates, effective July 1.
Air mail letters would be rais
ed to seven cents, pdst cards to
three cents.
All, told, postage rates would
be raised $462 million for the
year starting July 1.
The measure won approval by
a "decisive majority" and with
virtually no change, Chairman
Tom Murray (D-Tenn.) announc
ed. No Hazards Found in .
27 Dwellings Visited
Firemen found no fire hazards
in 27 of the 39 dwellings inspect
ed in Medford yesterday.
They issued 44 recommenda
tions for correction of hazards
found in the other residences.
A total of 76 residences were
called upon. No one was home
at 24 and occupants of three re
fused inspection.
Weather
FORECAST: Fair through Fri
day. Cooler tonight with low
40. High Friday 7S.
Temp.
Hilh'rt Vestrrday l
Lowest this Morning 47 ,
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise 4:43 a.m.
Sunset 7:34 p.m.
Moonrise Friday 1:52 a.m.
New Moon May 29
PROMINENT STAR
Antares, low ia south
east . 9:05 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Venus, sets 7:5 p.m.
Saturn, rises .. S:33 p.m.
Jupiter, high in south
west 9:4Z p.m.
Mars, seu 10:02 p.m.
Preparations Hearing
Completion for New
Armory Dedication
Preparations are nearing com
pletion for dedication ceremonies
at the new Medford Memorial
National Guard armory Satur
day night.
Open house, featuring displays
and demonstrations of military
equipment, including two Army
helicopters, will begin at 7 p.m.
A concert by the 234th Oregon
National Guard band from Port
land is scheduled to start at
7:30 p.m. The formal dedica
tion ceremony, at which Gov.
Robert D. Holmes will speak,
will begin at 8 p.m.
Special Guests
Special guests, who will be
introduced by James Dunlevy,
master of ceremonies, will .in
clude Governor and Mrs. Holmes,
.Maj.. Gen., and ,Mrs.. Thoma E.
Rilea; State Sen. and Mrs. Philip
B. Lowry; Rep. and Mrs. E.,A.
Littrell, Rep. and Mrs. Robert
B. Duncan, County Judge and
Mrs. Rodney Keating, City Coun
cil President and Mrs. Stanley
Jones, Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Hug
gins, Gen. and Mrs. Raymond
F. Olson, Col. and Mrs. Robert
Irving, Col. and Mrs. Francis
C. Ayres, Col. and Mrs. Donald
Burke, Capt. and Mrs. S. J. Fa
gone, Capt. and Mrs. Bert Riebe,
Columbia Lowlands
Covered by Water
Portland (IPI Farmers along
the Columbia river lowlands
hoped that forecasts predicting
the 1957 Columbia river crest
would be reached today were
right.
Elmer Fisher, river forecaster,
said he believed that unless un
expected heavy rains or other
unusual weather develops, the
crest shouW be reached today.
The Columbia at Vancouver
at 8 a.m. today was 23.3 feet and
the Willamette at Portland was
an even 23 feet, both one-tenth
of a foot above the predicted
crest. Fisher said little change
was expected for the next two to
four days.
Thousands of acres of low
lying, undiked farmland along
the Columbia river were under
water, as they are most years
during the spring freshet.
William Caldwell
Elected by Rotary
Lucerne, Switzerland HP)
William ' M. Caldwell, Medford,
Ore., insurance man, today was
elected governor of District 154
of Rotary International, world
wide service club organization,
at Rotary's 48th annual conven
tion here.
Caldwell, as district governor,
will coordinate the activities of
the 54 Rotary clubs in the Dis
trict which covers parts of Ore
gon and Washington. " .
Kings Highway District
Approves Bond Issue
Voters in the Kings Highway
water district yesterday ap
proved a $54,000 bond issue to
finance fire hydrant and water
main improvements in 'the dis
trict, according to Mrs. Jean
nette Marshall, attorney of the
district. -
The bond issue was approved
by a 64-7 vote. Plans are now
underway for the projects and
bids will be called , in about a
month, Mrs. Marshall said.
Portland 0P Wendell L. Van
Loan, superintendent of schools
at Corvallis, has been elected
president of the Oregon Tubercu
losis and Health association.
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of military equipment. Gov. Robert D.
Holmes will deliver the dedication speech
during formal dedication cerempnies which
start at 8 p.m. A public dance will be held
after the ceremony.
Chaplain and Mrs. Glenn Wade
and Mrs. Dunlevy.
Representatives of . various
groups in Jackson county who
were instrumental in obtaining
the armory also will be intro
duced. General Rilea, Oregon adju
tant general, will present a
plaque to Colonel Ayres for the
armory. General Rilea will also
introduce Governor Holmes.
Chaplain Wade will deliver
the invocation and benediction.
. Following the program, a pub
lic dance will be held in the
armory with music by the Na
tional . Guard band. Coffe and
doughnuts will be served.
Dallas Battered
By Severe Storm
' Dallas, Tex. Iff) A severe
hail, wind and rainstorm that
turned day into night hit Dallas
shortly after 1 p.m. today.
Wires were blown down in
many sections of the city, which
was hit earlier un the day by a
cloudburst that stranded hun
dreds of motorists and flooded
streets. '
The sky became so black be
fore the storm hit that it was
impossible to drive without head
lights. Trees were leveled by the driv- j
mg wind and debris flew as if
a tornado had hit.
Police said they had not re
ceived any reports of a tornado
funnel.
Numerous hot wires were
down at many points.
The Republic National Bank
building, tallest in the South
west, was reported to have
swayed in the wind, which
reached 69 miles per hour in
gusts. -
Power and telephone lines
were wrecked in different sec
tions of Dallas. Power was off at
United Press for 10 . minutes,
stopping transmission of news.
District Kiwanis Club
Conference Slated Here
Spring conference for clubs of
Divsions 15 and 15A of the Pa
cific Northwest district of Ki
wanis International will be held
in Medford on Sunday, May 26.
Sessions wilL open at 9 a.m.
in the Pioneer room at the
Jackson hotel.
Among officials at the meet
ing will be Mel Dennis, Puyal
lup, Wash., district governor.
Expulsion of Rossellini
Sought by Girl's Husband
Bombay, India W The
Bombay Chronicle said today the
husband of the beautiful Indian
script writer whose name has
been linked romantically with
Roberto Rossellini Jias asked the
government to expel the Italian
movie director.
The English language news
paper said . Hari Das Gupta ac
cused Rossellini of disrupting his
marriage. . . - .
Petition Filed
It was the first story published
in India concerning Rossellini
and Sonali Das Gupta, 27.
The newspaper said Das Gupta
filed a petition with the central
government at New Delhi asking
Rossellini be declared an unde
sirable alien and ordered to leave
India.
Rossellini flew to New Delhi
Wednesday night. He told report
ers he went to the capital on per
sonal business but refused to explain.
Israel Agreement
Said Violated by
'Military' Bridge
Envoy May Reopen
Palestine Question
By UNITED PRESS
The Soviet Union threw Its
support today to a Syrian com
plaint in the United Nations Se
curity Council that Israel had
endangered Middle East peace by
building a "military" bridge in
a demilitarized zone between
the countries.
A dispatch from Damascus
said Soviet Ambassador Sergei
Nemtchina pledged Soviet sup
port in a 45-minute talk with
Syrian Foreign Minister Salah
Bitar. Russia backed Egypt ear
lier this week in debate on the
Suez Canal.
May Reopen Question
The Security Council called a
meeting today to hear the Syrian
complaint. Western observers
said it was possible Syrian Am
bassador Rafik Asha would re
open the entire Palestine ques
tion, with Russia using the occa
sion to further its championship
of the Arab cause.
The Syrians said Israel had
constructed a Bailey bridge in
the Huleh Marsh area north of
the Biblical sea of Galilee, scene
of several Israeli-Syrian clash
es in direct violation of the 1949
armistice agreements ending the
Palestine War.
Reclamation Project
The area concerned is a 45,
000 acre triangle in Northeastern
Israel where three streams join
to form the Jordan river. Israel
has been working since 1950 to
reclaim some 15,000 acres of
marshy land.
Israel said it built a bridge
for use by earth moving equip
ment; Syria says the bridge could
be used for tanks and other
heavy military equipment. A U.
N. investigation found the bridge
could be strengthened for mili
tary purposes but thought the
bridge was built in connection
with reclamation work.
Israel, which is expected to re
ply in the Security Council early
next week to the Syrian charges,
concentrated today on a new mil
itary" training program 'for- its
armed forces and the threat of
a Cabinet crisis.
Anglo-Egyptian Talks
Premier David Ben - Gurion'a
Mapai labor party held a series
of conferences on the threatened
revolt by the left wing Ma palm
and Ahdut Zhoda parties over ac
ceptance of the Eisenhower doc
trine. The showdown will come
during parliamentary debate on
the Cabinet's decision to accept
a watered down version of the
doctrine.
U.S. Demands Russia
Pay for B29 Plane
Washington (IB The Unit
ed States today demanded Rus
sia pay $756,604 for the "hos
tile" and "unprovoked" destruc
tion of a U.S. Air Force plane
over Northern Japan in Novem
ber 1954.
Soviet MIG jet fighters attack
ed a B29 as it flew over North
ern Japan and nearby waters on
a reconnaissance mission.
The. crew of 11 parachuted
from the B29 after it had been
set on fire by the attacking plan
es. Ten of the airmen landed
safely.
In a 5,000-word note, delivered
in Moscow today, the U.S. reject
ed the Soviet argument that the
incident of Nov. 7, 1954, was
caused by the B29 firing on the
Soviet planes, and that the inci
dent took place over Soviet terri
tory. Elgin np James R. Dunn, 53,
an Elgin logger working in the
Gordon Creek area, was killed
Wednesday by a log which ap
parently rolled on him from a
steep hillside.
mere were uncomirmea re
ports Rossellini went to New Del
hi to seek a passport for Mrs. Dag
Gupta. Mrs. Das Gupta has been
working with Rossellini on a ser
ies of documentary films.
Reports Said "Nonsense'
Rossellini has termed reports
he planned to divorce . Ingrid
Bergman and marry Mrs. Das
Gupta "nonsense." Mrs. Das
Gupta, mother of two children,
said the reports are "humbug." -
According to the Chronicle,
Rossellini's visa expired at the
end of April. It said he applied
for a three-month extension but
has not yet received it."
The Chronicle said Das Gupta's
petition has been taken under
consideration by the Foreign
Registration Authority.
The reported romance has been,
a prime topic of gossip for weeks.
But until today no Indian news
paper had published a line.
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