Medford mail tribune., May 26, 1957, Image 14

FOURTEEN -MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
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Cornerstone Laying
To Be Featured in
Ricker Field Event
By SID HOLLINGSWORTH
After seven months of work,
th. new stadium at the VA Dom
iciliary at Camp White is ready
for the Memorial Day opening.
Dedication exercises have been
planned for that day, following
the usual Memorial Day cere
mony at the cemetery where
County Judge Rodney Keating
will deliver the principal ad
dress. The event at the baseball
.field wil be featured by the
laying of the cornerstone, and
the dedication address by Man
ager Eugene K. Ricker. It will
be called Ricker Field.
Special Gam Scheduled
This will be followed by the
flag raising by the color guard
and playing of the national an
thm by the Eagle Point band.
A special game is scheduled for
this occasion between Cheney
Studs and Camp White.
Building of the new concrete
itadium seating 1,200 i one of
th-j outstanding construction jobs
undertaken during the past five
years at the domiciliary. The
entire project was planned and
completed by the engineering
division under supervision of
Burton Sims, engineer officer,
at a cost of S117.500.
The money was made avail
able from the post fund at the
request of Ricker in order to ex
pedite construction work. The
post fund is a special account
maintained by the Veterans ad
ministration for recreation pur
poses. It is accumulated from do
nations and the disposal of vet
erans effects which are un
claimed. Prefatsional Field
"We now have a ball park as
fully equipped as any profes
sional field," Sims declared. The
playing field, he said, is the
same size as the coast league,
with standard lighting facilities
for evening games.
Construction was started on
the stadium Oct. 22, 1956. A
crew of 20 carpenters and labor
ers has been employed continu
ously on the job. By handling
the project on a "purchase and
hire" basis at the station, it was
possible to add one-third more
seating space through the dif
ference in cost, Sims declared.
Some of the specail facilities
provided at the park include:
A broadcasting booth on the
roof and an electric scoreboard
operated from the booth for both
baseball and football.
. Parking lot and gravel road
adequate for 100 cars.
A first aid room fully equipped
for emergency, purposes.
Ramps and space for wheel
chairs over dugouts.
- Dressing room and showers.
Enclosed in Fence
The entire park will be en
closed with a wire fence. The
field is being put in condition
t the present time, with the
outfield fine graded, wet and
rolled until it is seeded for grass
similar to the infield.
The field lighting system is
,et up in accordance with stand
ard lighting facilities provided
ty General Electric. This repre
sents 22.5 per cent of the total
cost.
Concrete work came to 15 per
cent of the total, with steel for
reenforcing and structural uses
aggregating 10 per cent.
. The materials were provided
by Moore Steel company, Tru
mix and Lininger for concrete,
and local lumber dealers. Roof
ing was done by Eckerson.
The VA Canteen service is
making arrangements to provide
a refreshment stand at the field.
Baseball League
The Rogue Valley Baseball
league will be the first players
to take the field. The schedule
calls for the first game to be
played May 26, at Camp White,
but owing to the dedication cer
emony scheduled for May 30, the
first official Camp White game
will be played at Talent. :
The first league game will be !
played at Camp White June 9,
when Camp White meets Glen
dale. Manager Ricker has an
nounced that the field will be
available for other athletic
events sponsored by local inter
ests. The only condition imposed
by the Veterans Administration,
he said, is that domiciliary mem
bers be given priority of seats
with no admission charge for
them.
Frank, Glonning, special serv
ices officer, is arranging a sched
ule for the Senior Men's Soft
ball league to play here twice a
week during the season.
Another Attraction
Another attraction will be the
Girls Softball league games on
dates when the Camp White
team is away from home.
Schools and organizations in
Medford and other towns in the
valley have been invited to make
us? of the stadium, under the
condition that all ticket ar
rangements be handled by the
school or other interest.
Any traveling teams or other
volunteer sponsored events may
STADIUM COMPLETED A center fielder's eye-jew of the
new stadium at Camp White shows the main grandstand, press
box and part of the bleachers at either end of the structure.
The stadium will seat 1,200. Modern dressing rooms and show
ers, as well as facilities for a concession, are housed in the
stadium building, and a special ramp, visible at right, has been
Bus Rams Stalled
Truck; Ten Injured
Las Vegas, Nev. IIP) Ten per
sons were injured, one seriously,
Friday when a Greyhound bus
plowed into the rear of a parked
truck-trailer on U.S. 91 about
15 miles south of here.
Attendants at Southern Nevada-
Memorial hospital reported
the most seriously injured pas
senger aboard the bus was Mrs.
Amy C. Orohood, 73, Grants
ville, Utah.
Investigating officers said
truck driver Laurence John Mar
wood, 41, Los Vegas, pulled his
vehicle off the side of the high
way for a flat tire. He said he
then began setting out flares but
before he could complete the job
the bus slammed into the trai
ler. No citations were issued.
The bus driver wag identified
as Lemuel Jackson 'Wright, 51,
El Monte, Calif.
O'Brien Cemetery fo
Be Preserved by BLM
Cave Junction Preservation
of Old Waldo Cemetery near
O'Brien as a landmark of histor
ical signifance has been assur
ed by the bureau of land man
agemeent. Mrs. J. J. Villair, Laurel Cem
etery association clerk, has re
ceived a letter from the Med
ford district office stating the
ancient burial grounds and its
picturesque surroundings will
be protected against logging
and timbering work indefinit
ely.. A clean - up campaign for the
area is under way here. It is
hoped, an association spokes
man said, that a marker can be
obtained for the entrance, and
that the long neglected ceme
tery can become an important
part of tthe valley's history.
State Police Issue
Reminder on Licenses
State police Saturday remind
ed residents that operators of all
motor driven vehicles, including
motorcycles, motor scooters and
motor bicycles, must be regular
ly licensed drivers.
Officers pointed out there are
a number of motor powered
cycles and scooters in the Med
ford area and some arrests have
recently been made for failure
to meet license requirements.
They added that instruction per
mits issued to people learning to
operate automobiles are not ap
plicable when learning to oper
ate other types of vehicles.
Graduation for Eighth
Grade at Kerby Slated
Cave Junction Graduation
services for 52 Kerby grade
school students will be held Fri
day, May 31, at 8 p.m. at the
school. According to school rec
ords, this is the smallest eighth
grade class in several years. Last
year's graduates numbered more
than 80.
Rev. Robert Kingsbury, pastor
of Immanuel Methodist church,
Cave Junction, will deliver the
commencement address.
SOFT DRINK BOOTLEGGING
Floraia, Ala. IW They're
bootlegging soda pop here. Dis
tributors cut off supplies of soft
drinks in protest against a 16-cent-a-case
city tax, but the deal
ers' coolers somehow have man
aged to remain fully stocked.
Mayor A. H. Lurie said soft
drinks would remain in plenti
ful supply all summer, tax or
no tax.
biing such programs to the
stadium, assuming full responsi
bility for admissions, with home
members admitted free.
FINISHING TOUCHES Above, a sign paint
er puts the finishing touches on the sign at
the new stadium building at Camp White,
while other workers clean up and complete
last-minute jobs to get ready for dedication of
the new structure next Thursday. The field
was named after Eugene K. Ricker, manager
Comparison of Funds
For Bienniums Listed
By Research Group
Salem Comparisons of general fund appropriations in Oregon
for bienniums 1955-57 and 1957-59 were published last week by
Oregon Tax Research, statewide, non-partisan taxpayer association
in Oregon.
They are as follows:
Basic School Support
Board of Higher Education
Other Education
Hospitals & Institutions
Veterans Affairs ..
State Police
Department of Agriculture
Board of Health ..
Tax Commission
Emergency Board .'.
Oregon National Guard
Capitol Buildings ....
Legislative Assembly
Other Departments & Agencies
Building Program:
Higher Education
Board of Control
Salary Increases
New Programs:
Meat Inspection & Brucellosis ...
Development Department
National Guard Armories
Oregon Centennial Celebration .
Educational TV
Rural Library Service
Expansion of Capitol Area
F. M. Dammasch Hospital
Forest Conservation Comm.
Other
The 1957-59 general fund budget
Personal Income Taxes
Corporation Excise Taxes
Liquor Commission Revenues
Miscellaneous, transfers, etc
Available Surplus
TOTAL $283,500,000
The major revenue source will continue to be the personal
income tax. As finally enacted, HB 1 repeals the 45 per cent sur
tax; raises the dependency allowances from $500 to S600; provides
for complete withholding; and revises the income tax rates to 11.6
per cent on all incomes in excess of $8,000.
Under the "complete" withholding provisions of HB 1, every
employer will be required to deduct either by a percentage
method witholding table, or by a wage bracket witholding table.
The tax commission expects to furnish tables by July. The new
witholding procedure will take effect Sept. 1,. 1957.
built for wheelchair patients. The lighting system for the
field has been installed according to General Electric speci
fications at a cost of about $25,000. Total cost of the ball park
was 3117,500, which, was available through the "post fund,"
according to Domiciliary Manager E. K. Ricker.
1955-57 1957-59
.$ 71,742,709 $ 92,361,760
. 33,132,072 44,216,386
. 3,460.209 3.935,426
. 31,176.209 33,165,121
. 27,487,922 31,534,017
5,281.150 6.398,884
5.647,190 6.746,154
1,158.420 1,136,525
. 1,855,814 1,890,982
. 1,798,157 1,978,394
4,667,516" 5,782,592
1,500,000 . 1,500,000
2,435,040 - 3.017,600
. 1,108,589 1,297,572
750,000 1,125,000
. 13,501,505 t 15,512,132
4.021,569 7,000,000
. 11,123,012 5,121.209
4,900,000
781,856
' 238,154
350,000
830,000
145,500
154,078
250,000
170,000
99,473
497,396
$221,846,968 $272,136,211
will be financed as follows:
. $149,300,000
41,200,000
25,000,000
31,000,000
37,000,000
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of the Camp White VA Domiciilary. High
light of. the dedication ceremony will be lay
ing of the cornerstone and an address by
Ricker. The ceremony will be followed by a
ball game between the Camp White team and
Cheney Studs.
Irrigation District
Discussed at Meet
Cave Junction Lee McAl
lister, Salem, area engineer for
the Bureau of Reclamation,
spoke on organization of an ir
rigation district in the Illinois
valley at a Thursday night meet
ing of the Water Resources
group.
He said whether or not an
irrigation district is formed in
the valley is entirely in the
hands of property owners. The
Bureau of Reclamation has
deemed the Sucker Creek dam
project feasible.
In regard to pre-existing wa
ter rights, McAllister said those
who already have enough water,
even though their land is situ
ated within the proposed district
boundaries, could appear before
the county court and petition
for exclusion from the district.
He pointed out it would be
at least 15 years before any
charge would be made except
minimum fees for operation,
maintenance and replacement.
This would be about $3 per year
per acre, he stated.
After completion of the basic
project, about five years, a 10
year development period would
be allowed before construction
costs would be added to the ir
rigation bill. About 39 per cent
or Jess (about $5Vi million) of
the total cost of the two dams
on Sucker creek would be
charged to local people.
Potluck Picnic Honors
Cave Junction Teacher
Cave Junction A teacher
whose career extends nearly 50
years will be honored today at
a potluck picnic on the site of
her one-time school.
Lillie Shoemake will retire
from the Selma school staff at
the end of May. Friends who
have "gone to school to her"
from all over southern Oregon
will gather at the old Central
schoolgrounds at Deer Creek at
1:00 p.m. to wish her well. '
Selma PTA members are in
charge of arrangements.
Akron, Ohio HP) Love has
left the LeRoy Love household.
Love filed a divorce petition in
Common Pleas Court charging
his wife, Janette, with gross
neglect.
NEW SCORE BOARD This up-to-date electric score board,
located near the center field fence at the new ball park at Camp
White, can be controlled from the pressbox. According to B. R.
Sims, chief of the Engineering Division of the Dopuciliary, the
board can be converted to keep score for football games.
Arguments Against
Death Penalty Given
By Robert B. Duncan
Portland Rep. Robert B. Dun
can of. Medford delivered a 20
minute argument against the
death penalty in Oregon Wednes
day at the 54th annual meeting
of the Oregon Prison association.
Duncan was co-author of the
constitutional amendment call
ing for abolition of the death
penalty.. The issue will go before
the voters.
"You can't open the tomb to
let a man out if a mistake was
made," Duncan said. He added,
"The jury system is the best we
know, but any lawyer can tell
you juries art not perfect. They
do make mistakes."
Quoting a famed lawyer, Clar
ence Darrow, Duncan said cap
ital punishment is reserved for
the poor. "A man with sufficient
money will never go to the death
chamber," he staed.
The state represenative furth
er commented,. "Statistics show
no correlation between the inci
dence of capital crimes and the
fact capital punishment is a pos
sibility in all but six states." He
said society accomplishes noth
Berenice Constellation is
Visible High in Heavens
By FAY BENTLEY
Consternation reigned in the
royal Egyptian palace! The beau
tiful tresses of Queen Berenice
had disappeared from the temple
of Venus.
King Ptolemy Euergetes was
furious and his faithful wife was
weeping. Queen Berenice had
vowed to cut off her lovely hair
and place, it on the altar in the
temple of Venus if her husband
should return safely from his
military ventures.
In due time the king reached
home and out of deep gratitude,
Berenice fulfilled her pledge.
But shortly after the silky locks
were placed in the temple a thief
stole them away. Nowhere
could they be found.
Becomes Gray
.The situation became grave,
but quick thinking on the part
of the court astronomer prevent
ed disaster. Inviting the royal
couple, to come into the garden
one evening, he pointed to a
shimmering patch of light in the
sky.
"See," he said. "Jupiter, him
self, has taken the queen's love
ly hair and placed it in the sky."
With this thought the king and
queen were happy once more.
The constellation, Coma Bere
nices, or the Hair of Berenice
represents the shorn locks of the
Egytian queen, Berenice. It is an
interesting and beautiful cluster
of faint stars scattered over a
rather wide area. About 20 of
the stars are visible to the
naked eye, if observation is
made on a clear evening. During
the latter part of May and the
month of June this star group is
well placed for viewing.
Coma Berenices has been
known since early times. Eratos
thenes mentioned it in the third
century before the time of
Christ. "
In our galaxy, which is a
group of billions of stars moving
together in space, there are two
types of star clusters; galactic or
open and globular. The open
clusters contain from one hun
dred to several hundreds of stars
and have no particular shape.
They seem to move together in
space, but still are a part of the
immense aggregation of stars
that form our galaxy. The Plei
ades and Hyades in Taurus the
Bull are examples of open star
clusters.
Globular star clusters are
round or globular in shape and
contain many thousands of stars
held together by gravitational;
attraction. When viewed
through a telescope they are
very beautiful and have some
CAMEL CAUGHT GRAZING
Nantes, France (IF) Nantes
police checking out a telephoned
tip, found a camel munching
grass near the Place Royale
Fountain. A few minutes later a
frantic zoo keeper called to re
port that someone had broken
into the city zoo and stolen a
camel.
ing by the "brutal taking away
of a second life" and the modern
trend is to remove death as a
punishment for any crime.
He said it is still possible to
protect the people against kill
ers without the death penalty.
He showed that states and na
tions are doing away with the
death penalty and claimed no
adverse effect is resulting.
Duncan pointed out the phil
osophy behind the Oregon code
is rehabilitation of the offender,
then asked, "Do you consider
you cleanse the soul of the
murderer by death whether he
goes up or down?"
He said the proposed constitu
tional amendment does not com
pletely abolish the death penalty
in two situations: treason, for
which there has . never been a
conviction in Oregon, and first
degree murder . committed by
"lifers" in prison. He added that
provision is made to keep murd'
erers in prison for long periods
"where rehabilitative . efforts
can be applied and where society
still can be protected."
times been called the "beauty
spots" of the celestial sphere."
About one hundred of these
great ball-like spherical masses
of stars are known to exist in
our galaxy. One of the finest of
these is the Grefft Globular Star
Cluster in the constellation Her
cules; known as M 13.
Galactic Cluster
Coma Berenice is an open or
galactic star cluster located be
tween aLeo the Lion on the right
or west and Bootes, on the left
or east. By 8:30 p.m. on May 26,
it will be very high in the sky
and practically due south. An
absence of moonlight will favor
observation at this time. The
new moon occurs on May 29.
Berenice's Hair will reach
this point in the heavens four
minutes earlier each evening,
and by the first of June will be
very high and due south by
8 p.m. v
During the last week in May,
a line about twice the length of
the Dipper handle, extended due
south from the star in the cup
of the Big Dipper nearest the
handle will cross this star clus
ter. The use of opera glasses or
binoculars will make the star
gazer feel that . any effort ex
pended to find this beautiful star
cluster has been well worth
while.
through
the yean
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As the requirements of the Medford1 area hire
grown, so have the stiff and physical plant of
Conger-Morris mortuary. Starting with the original
building in 1 928, .permanent additions, including
a large casket display room, were made in 1944,
1950, and 1951. In 1953 and 1954 a large new
wing was built.
We will continue to provide the best possible
facilities and service to the people of the Medford
area.
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ASHLAND MORTUARY
Member Notionol Selected
Members of County
Health Association
Attend Meeting
j Several members of the Jack
son county public health associa
tion attended the annual meet
ing of the Oregon Tuberculosis
and Health association in Port
land May 21 and 22.
Main speaker was Dr. Roger
Mitchell, director of the Color
ado Foundation of tuberculosis
research. He stressed that one
of the main problems in tuber
culosis control is finding new
cases. He noted that in the Unit
ed States groups with a high in
cidence of TB avoid being x-rayed.
This phenomenon is now be
ing studied by a number of re
search teams in order to dis
cover why these people, many
of whom suspect they might
have the disease, avoid asking
for help, he pointed out.
Tracing People
Dr. Mitchell -added there is a
problem in tracing people who
have been associated with a per
son suffering from tuberculosis
and possibly have contracted the
disease. He contrasted the be
havior of these people with the
population of Holland, where 95
per cent of the population is
voluntarily x-rayed annua Uy,
with no apparent distaste for the
process.
Kenneth Ross, executive sec
retary of the' state tuberculosis
and health association, gave an
illustrated lecture on his recent
trip to India. He attended the
world conference on. tuberculosis
control held in New Dehli in
January.
Other speakers and panels on
various aspects of tuberculosis
in relation to hospitals, isolation
and what an ideal health depart
ment should be were also fea
tured. Attending the series of approx
imately nine lectures and panels
were Mrs. Ervine Hoffman, Gold
Hill; Mrs. Chester Guches, Miss
Alena Markinen, Mrs. George
Rode, Glenn Jennings and Col.
and Mrs. William Bartlett, Med
ford; Mrs. Nina Vandir Walker,
Ashland; Mrs. Helen Tweedy,
public health association execu
tive secretary, Applegate; and
Mrs. Robert Paris, Central Point.
Graduation Scheduled
At CP Junior High
Central Point Graduation
ceremonies at Central . Point
Junior High school will be held
at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 28, in
the school gymnasium.
The junior high band will
play the processional and reces
sional as well as two other num
bers. Honor pins will be presented
by William Anhorn, chairman of
the school board, and H. P. Jew
ett, superintendent of school dis
trict 6C, will present diplomas.
Charles "A. Meyer 'is scheduled
to speak. Invocation will be by
the Rev. Paul Kroon.
UNPOPULAR POLITICIAN
Philadelphia, Miss. IPI
A candidate for alderman has
thanked the 12 persons who
voted for him before he retired
from politics. In a note pub
lished in the Neshoba Democrat,
W. ' L. Houston said: "There's
still one thing my friends should
know, live or die, sink or swim,
I won't be guilty of this thing
again. It was signed: "W. L.
Houston, the retired politician."
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Morticians by invitation