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Committee Ends
Work on 1957-58
Medford
Budget
Public Hearing
Scheduled July 5
The Medford budgrt commit
tee Friday night completed work
on the city budget for 1957-58,
and gave it its approval.
Work on the budget by the
f imnuttee, which includes the
eight city councilmen and eight
appointed citizens, has been un
derway since the tentative budg
et, totaling S721.9C5. was pre
sentii to the group April 18.
Changes include those necessi
tated by the annexation of the
Berrydale district, and some
other revisions in planned expen
ditures, few of them of a major
nature.
The overall total of the ap
proved budget is $755,984, and
it is in balance. It is within the
6 per cent limitation on increas
es, so no election will be nec
essary. It will be published in
full in the Mail Tribune prior to
a public hearing on it, set by
the budget committee Friday for
July 5, or 10 days in advance of
! the deadline for completing
budgets.
Receipts $402,699
Total estimated receipts will
amount to $402,899. Both the
receipts and expenditures esti
mated are larger than in the
tentative budget. The increase
in both is largely the result of
the approval of the annexation
of the Berrydale district.
A tax levy of $300,920 will be
needed to balance the budgei.
according to Robert Duff, city
manager and budget officer.
The total estimated spending.
$755,984. compares with a total
budget of $618,158 for the cur
rent year. Increases included ad
ditional outlays resulting from
the Berrydale. Grandview and
Kenwood annexation; increased
costs, and some salary increases.
Russia Wants Peace,
Finland Assured
Helsinki npi Communist
Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev Sat
urday assured Finland, second
victim of Soviet invasion in
World War II. that all Russia
wants now is peace unless its
neighbors engage in "imperialist
aggression."
Khrushchev's statement, in
the first speech he has made
during his current tour of neu
tral Finland, was regarded as
the equivalent, for Finnish con
sumption, of the threats of H
homb annihilation that Premier
N. A. Rulgsnin has been hurling
at U.S. Allies elsewhere in Eur
ope. "Pussia is opposed to tension
In il parts of the world, and
hopes for peace in all of north
ern Europe." Khrushchev told
the Soviet-Finnish friendship so
ciety. "We hope that all these
borders ran be friendly.
"But Russia cannot, of course,
rlose heP eyes when her neigh
bors are drawn into imperialistic
rggressinn. We must warn
against that."
School Official Sits
During Graduation
Modesto. Cailf. in" Vice
Principal Ed Jalli of Huyhion
High school added an unsched
uled bit of color Saturday
night to the senior graduating
exercises.
Jalli'i trousers split as he
bent oyer to pick up a S10 bill
lying in front of the grand
stand, and he spent the re
mainder of the evening seated,
lisieaine; to someoae else
speaV
Thirty County Youths Attending Annual
Beaver Boys State; Nominate Candidate
Thirty Jackson county high
school delgtates will attend the
Feaver Boys State June 9 to 14
at Oregon State college in Cor
vallis. They were to leave Med
ford by chartered bus at 8 a m.
today.
Last week the delegates met j
at the home of Robert Dames.
Medford attorney, to discuss
rielrcaton activities at the cop
vfntion. Dames is one of their
rn'visors. Also speaking to the
delegates 'wre Col. W. H- Paine,
rre of the founders of the Boys
State in Oregon, and Alex Mc
Donald. Medford High school
dean of boys.
At thr convention the dclega
t;cn join other high school
groups from throughout the
s'.ate and hold student govern
ment sessions on f'ne city and
nate levels
Dennis Cairei, Jacksonville
"Coast To Coast Without Seeing A Stop Light
Or Anything Else"
Premier and Cabinet
Quit Posts in Iraq
Baghdad. Iraq V Premier
Nouri El Said and his cabinet
resigned Saturday.
Political observers predicted
that King Fcisal will ask Nouri
to form a new cabinet, including
most of his present ministers.
The only notable change is ex
pected to he the inclusion of
ex-Premier Tewfik EI Sauweidi
in the new regime.
These observers said the re
organization is not expected to
make any important difference
in Iraq's foreign or domestic
policies.
Nouri went to the royal pal
ace to present the cabinet's
formal resignation to the king
after conferring with other mem
bers of the government at a
meeting earlier in the day.
Tewfick was cabled to the
palace for a 30-minute confer
ence with the king after Nouri
h?d left.
Action Delayed by Crisis
Reports circulating here said
Nouri had intended to resign
for some time. These reports
King Saud Appeals
For Israel Pressure
Cairo W King Saud of
Saudi Arabia was reported Sat
urday to have appealed to Pres
ident Eisenhower to put pressure
on Israel to halt its "provoca
tions" in the contested Gulf of
Aaaba.
The report, printed by the In
dependent Egyptian Newspaper
Al Ahram. coincided with a
warning by Syrian Premier Sa
bri Assali that the Arab world
has taken "sufficent" measures
to keep Israeli ships from using
the Suez canal.
Al Ahram said in a Washing
ton dispatch that Saud told Ei
senhowed in a message he was
worried about Israeli "provoca
tions" which he charged threat
ened the security of Moslem pil
grims on their way to the Holy
cities of Mecca and Medina.
The newspaper said Saud
handed the message to the U.S.
ambassador in Saudi Arabia and
forwarded a copy to the Saudi
Arabian ambassador in Washing
ton. The reported move followed a
Saudi Arabian protest in the
United Nations Security Council
Wedneseday that Israeli war
ships have bombarded its coast
and imperiled Moslem pilgrimag
es by land and sea routes in the
Aqaba gulf.
High student body president, was
elected by the delegation to rep
resent them as their nominee for
student governor.
Among those attending the
convention from Medford High
school will be Don Cordier, spon
sored by the Elks lodge: Ken-
neth B. Baker, sponsored by Dr.
Earl Lawson; Henrv Courtnev.
Conger-Morris Funeral home:
Lynn Hales. Mann's department
store; Harold Friend. Neff
Frohnmayer and Lowry law
firm: and Ted Lawson, Rotary
club.
Also on the delegation from
Medford High school are Clar
ence Comstock. Barker's cloth
ing store: Robert Allen. White
law Candy store; Harold Sexton.
Weeks and Orr company; John
L. Connolly. Kiwanians club:
Dale Forsee. sponsored by Col
onel Faine; Stephen Hoag, Elk
Lumber eompany; Clark Barker,
SEid he deferred action because
of the crisis that boi! d up in
the Middle East early this year.
Nouri had been premier con
tinuously since August. 1954.
giving him an unusually long
tenure for the chief of an Arab
government. The cabinet that
resigned with him was set up
in its current form in December,
1955.
State, Federal
Lookouts Manned
Several lookout stations of
both the U.S. and state forestry
departments were named last
week as continued dry weather
created a potential forest fire
danger.
Two lightning fires have al
ready occurred within the
Rogue River national forest, ac
cording to ranger Vernon Taylor.
Squaw peak, Tallowbox, Cin
nefaar and Robinson butte were
among the U.S. forest service
lookouts already manned. It is
possible others in the lower
altitudes will have to be man
ned this week unless rain falls
in the area, forest service of
ficials said.
Usually only a few of the
lookouts have to be occupied
before fire training, which is
held May 19. 20 and 21. The
U.S. forest service has 17 look
out stations and 32 fire guard
stations in this area.
All 11 of the slate forestry de
partment lookouts will be man
ned by June 11, according to de
partment officials. Those already
manned are Anderson butte,
Battle mountain. Burnt peak,
White point. Fredenburg, Chim
ney rock, Round Table, Soda
mountain and Table mountain.
Buck rock and Mount Isabelle
will be the last to be manned.
All 15 of the state fire guard
stations will be manned by Mon
day. Fire supression crews will be
on duty about June 17. cleaning
trails, roads and camps, accord
ing to state forestry department
officials.
Modesto, Calif. itPi Ralph
W. Kuhl, Modesto, was drowned
in Modesto reservoir Saturday
when he was catapulted from his
motorboat while making a sharp
turn to rescue a fallen water
skier.
Medford Lions; and Dave Hav
lick. Home Appliance company.
Other attending will be Roger
Johnson, sponsored by Nye
Naumes Packing company; Kent
Sherfy. Medford Concrete com
pany; Frank Peterson, Fluhrer
bakery; Bob Pond, sponsored by
Robert Dames: Tom Perkey.
Medford chapter of the Amer
ican legion: Robert L. Steele.
Robinson Brothers clothing
store; and Bill Young, Medford
Mail Tribune.
Students from county hjgh
schools attending will be Ronald
Daugherty, sponsored by the
Phoenix Lions; James Bunker.
Eagle Point Lions: Rodney Col
lins. Shady Cove; Richard Rob
inson. Prospect Lions: Allen
King. Talent Lions; Jerry Kerr.
St. Marys Parent club; Rick
Colver. Knights of Columbus:
and Caird, Jacksonville High
schooL
Anti-Red
Slain in
On Eve of Voting
Beirut, Lebanon, w Red
gunmen Saturday assassinated
an anti-Communist political lead
er on the eve of crucial elec
tions that will decide whether
Lebanon continues its pro-Western
policies or ikies up with
"neutralist" Syria and Egypt.
Police said Toros Tcheftdjian,
leader of the Tashnik anti-Communist
Armenian party, was
shot to death by two Commu
nists when he opened a window
of his apartment here.
Underground Blamed
Authorities blamed an Ar-
Meeting Called To
Air Discrepancies
In CP. Budget
Central Point A special meet
ing of the Central Point budget
committee and city council has
been called for Monday night
to study discrepancies which
occurred in the city budget pub
lished last week in a weekly
paper.
Don Patterson, chairman of
the budget committee, said that
some of the figures listed are not
those which the committee un
derstood were to go in the bud
get. The resulting change in the
tctal estimated expenditures
which appeared in the published
document would have resulted
in a rise in the millage rate from
lfi 9 mills last year to 22.7 mills
for the coming fiscal year.
Patterson said the committee
did not yet know where the
figures originated.- but hoped to
complete the corrected budget
Monday night and prepare it for
publication.
City Attorney Roy Bashaw
and the city auditor. Accountant
Leland Knox, will attend to
morrow's meeting.
The discrepancies, which were
first noticed and brought to the
budget committee's attention by
a Mail Tribune reporter, forced
a postponement of a public bud
get hearing which had been set
for June 28. The budgrt had
originally been prepared and
adopted May 23.
Senate Page Boyf
Swedish Girl Elope
Washington W Love can't
win in the case of a young senate
page boy and the 16-year-old
daughter of a Swedish diplomat
who have been missing for a
week and are believed to have
eloped.
The girl's father, Col. Stig
Wennerstrom, holds the trump
card that is certain to end his
daughter's romance once she is
found her passport.
The girl, Christina, vanished
last Sunday as her parents were
packing to go home to Stock
holm. Also missing was her boby
friend. HUW Williams, 17, a
page in the senate and son of
Mrs. Donna Williams, a senate
clerical employee.
Mrs. Williams said the two
were "madly in love." .
But W'ennerstrom, military at
tache at the Swedish embassy,
took a cold view of the suspect
ed elopment. At his request po
lice in 13 states were alerted to
be on the lookout for the cou
ple. Bridges Exhausted;
Resting in Hospital
Washington W Sen. Styles
Bridges (R-N.H.), 58. chairman
of the Senate Republican policy
committee, is suffering from
"complete exhaustion" and is in
a local hospital to rest "for about
a week," it was revealed Satur
day. "The Senator is all run-down,"
a member of his staff said. "He
just ran out of gas because he
has been working too hard all
year."
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PRECIPITATION
Son.
Sunrite 4 1 a m.
Sunset T :i p m.
The Moon rises well before
unset, sets .Monday at 3:18 a.m.
and widl he full on June 12.
Venus, the first "star" visihle
atler sunset, is now in the rnn
stellatirnn. Gemini. 1 S 3 million
miles from the Earth tonight, it
sets at S:27 p.m.
r
f
on
menian Communist underground
for the slaying.
The shooting occurred as U.S.
Ambassador Donald Heath for
mally turned over the first ship
ment of U.S. military aid asked
for by the Lebanese govern
ment. The shipment was ferried
here aboard four American Air
Forr-e planes. It included 37
jeeps and 12 recoillcss 106 rifles
capable of being mounted on
jeeps.
(A Moscow radio broadcast
monitored in London described
the arms shipment as an Ameri
can attempt to interfere with to
day's elections.)
The developments highlighted
a day in which the Lebanese
prepared to vote today in the
first of four Sunday elections
expected to have a decisive ef
fect on the nation's foreign
policy.
Regarded as Plebescile
Aging pro-American Prime
Minister Semi Bey Solh, who
recently recovered from a bron
chial pneumonia attack, is
putting his government on the
line in what observers regard
as a plebescite between West and
East.
Opposition forces led by for
mer Prime Minister Abdullah
El Yafi want to line up Lebanon
witii the neutralist Arab policies
of Egypt and neighboring Syria.
Mining Executive
Stabbed to Death
Sault St. Marie, Ont. npi
Wealthy mining executive John
G. McCombe was stabbed to
death while on a prospecting
trip in a remote area of Ontario,
an autopsy disclosed Saturday.
He was earlier reported to have
died from a heart attack.
McCombe, president of Fun
day Bay Copper mines and Mc
Combe Mining and Exploration
Ltd., died earlier this week while
on an exploratory trip with his
nephew, Robert McCombe, and
Robert Harris. Both men were
questioned by police Saturday.
Police said McCombe appar
ently was stabbed in a tent while
his nephew was clearing up
camp some 100 yards away and
Harris was out prospecting. Thv
said his body was covered with
wounds, apparently inflicted
with a razor.
Russia Requested To
Free German Civilians
Bonn. Germany iffl The
West German government ap
pealed to Russia Saturday to
release an estimated 80,000 to
100.000 German civilians still
held in the Soviet Union. I
The appeal was marie in a
note delivered to the Kremlin
by Dr. Wilhelm Haas. West
German ambassador to Moscow.
In the three-page note, Can
cellor Konrad Adenauer's gov
ernment called on the Soviets to
conclude a full-scale repatria
tion agreement similar to that
signed by Russia and Poland.
West German and Soviet of
ficials are scheduled to open
trade talks in Moscow soon. The
German note urged that the
repatriation issue be discussed
at the same time with the aim
of reaching an accord on condi
tions for the release of German
civilians.
Chronic Disease Said
Nation's Top Problem
Chicago W Rep. James
Roosevelt of California Saturday
night warned that victims of
chronic diseases who require
prolonged hospital care repre
sent the nation's "No. 1 Medical
problem."
"As medical science lengthens
our life span and finds new ways
to prevent deaths from tuber
culosis and other diseases, the
problem of patients with pro
longed illness grows," he said.
Roosevelt addressed some
1,200 midwest supporters of the
American Medical center at Den
ver at its 53rd anniversary din
ner here.
New York npi EvanEelist
Billy Graham told an overflow
audience in Madison Square Gar
den Saturday night that psychi
atrists will have to convert peo
ple if tne church fails to do so.
Santa Cruz. Calif.. OP
Marilyn Fox, 21, of Bakersfield,
Calif., was killed Saturday night
and her companion seriously in
jured when their sports car fail
ed to make a curve south of here.
EXPECTS TO GET A FAIR TRIAL Army Specialist William S. Girard (center), who
is to be handed over to the Japanese authorities for trial on a manslaughter charge,
holds his first conference in Camp Whittington, Japan, with his chief defense council,
Itsuro Hayashi (left). At right is Major Stanley F. Levin, Girard's Army legal advisor.
Girard said he likes the Japanese people and expects to get a fair trial.
Girard's Attorneys Open New
Attack on Decision for Trial
Washington TP Attorneys
for Army Specialist William S.
Girard Saturday opened a new
front in their attack on Presi
dent Eisenhower's decision to
turn the young so'.dier over to a
Japanese court for manslaugh
ter trial.
Joseph S. Robinson, a member
of Girard's defense panel, an
nounced in New York that he
is preparing subpoenas to call
former Secretary of State Dean
Acheson and Sens. Alexander
Wiley (R-Wis.) and Styles Brid
ges (R-N.H.) into federal court
in Washington on the case.
These three co-signers of the
U.S.-Japan security treaty will
be asked whether they agree
that the U.S. government had
the right to turn Girard over to
Japan for trial on a crime "com
mitted on an American military
reservation."
Robinson also said he would
ask that former ambassador to
Japan John M. Allison be sub
poenaed for questioning on his
"authorization" of the Status of
Forces agreement governing
rights of American troops based
in Japan. This agreement was
signed Sept. 29, 1953 while Al
lison was in Tokyo. He is now
ambassador to Indonesia.
The subpoenas will be turned
over to the US. marshal in
Washington Monday. -
The new move foreshadowed
a major legal challenge to the
agreement's clause permitting
U.S. officials to waive jurisdic
tion over servicemen when there
is a dispute over whether a
court martial or local courts
should try an overseas service
man. '
Subpoenas already have been
issued to Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles. Defense Secretary
Charles S. Wilson and Army
Secretary Wilbur M. Brucker to
appear in federal district court
Foreign Aid Critics
Mapping Trim Efforts
Washington 0PI Critics of
President Eisenhower's Foreign I
Aid program Saturday mapped
new efforts to trim the $3,637,
000.000 authorization measure
further when it comes up for
Senate debate.
Sen. Wayne L. Morse (D-Ore.),
one of three senators who voted
against approving the bill in the
Senate Foreign relations commit
tee Friday night, was drafting
a critical minority report which
he said would be ready Wednes
day. Morse was also expected to
present a series of amendments
mainly aimed at restricting the
long-range aspects of military
aid and economic loan programs
written into the bill by the com
mittee. Sports Bulletins
Camp White Camp White
whipped Glendale 11 to 3
here last night in a Rogue
Valley league baseball game.
Vancouver 'IP Five un
earned runs in the ninth in
ning stood up for the Port
land Beavers as they defeated
ihe Vancouver Mouniies 8-4
Saturday night at Capilano
stadium.
Sacramento, Calif. TO
Rudy Regalado hit a home
run in the ninth inning Sat
urday night to give the San
Diego Padre a 7-6 victory
over the Sacramento Solons
in a Pacific Coast league game
before 1,764 fans.
Seattle Jim Fridley's
run-scoring single in the ninth
inning and the seven-hit pitch
ing of Tom Lasorda gave Los
Angeles a 1-0 victory over
Seattle her Saturday night in
a Pacific Coast league contest.
Tuesday and explain their waiv
er of jurisdiction in the Girard
case.
Dulles said he would send his
legal counsel. The others were
expected to do likewise.
A Washington attorney for
Girard predicted that the Otta
wa, 111., soldier would be
brought home by court order
and never would stand trial in
a Japanese court.
Government attorneys dis
agreed. They avoided public
statements but said they ex
pected the federal court here to
follow precedent and uphold
the administration's decision to
turn Girard over to a Japanese
court for trial.
Dayton M. Harrington, one of
U.S. Judge Offers
To Defend Girard
Los Angeles W A Los
Angeles municipal judge of Jap
anese ancestry volunteered to
defend Army Specialist 1-C Wil
liam S. Girard at his Japanese
trial on manslaughter charges in
volving the death of a Japanese
woman on an Army firing range.
Judge John F. Aiso, who is a
U. S. Army Reserve Lieutenant
Colonel, made the offer in a let
ter to President Eisenhower.
In World "War II, Judge Aiso
was executive assistant to Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's top mili'
tary aide. Aiso was educated at
Brown University, Harvard Law
school and a Japanese univer
sity, speaks Japanese and is fa
miliar with Japanese law. He
has practiced law here and in
New York and Manchuria. The
offer was made before Girard
"fired" his Japanese attorney in
Japan.
Aiso said he could take a leave
of absence from his post here if
he was assigned to temporary
active duly for the trial.
In another development here,
the Constitution party of Cali
fornia said it had demanded the
'immediate return" of Girard
"to the protection of the Consti
tution." Loss of Technicians
!s Growing Problem
Washington HP The exodus
of skilled technicians from the
Armed Forces has become so
serious that it will receive pri
ority attention at a top-level
meeting of high defense officials
Thursday, the Army-Navy-Air
Force journal said Saturday.
The publication said "alarm
ing" reports on manpower losses
particularly in the Air Force
will be aired at a conference
of Defense Secretary Charles E.
Wilson, the Secretaries of the
Army, Navy and Air Force and
military chieftains of each of the
services. The meeting, an annual
affair, will be held at the Mar
ine Base at Quantico, Va.
Bee Colonies
For Bacterial
Seventy-eight colonies of bees
in Jackson county have been
quarantined by the state depart
ment of agriculture following
discovery of the disease Ameri
can foul brood. The bacterial in
fection kills immature bees.
A. Burr Black, apiary super
visor with the departments aid
that 35 of 17 colonies in the
quarantined yard are diseased
and that a number of hives are
dead. He did not report where
the colonies are located in the
county.
All movement wi'iin the yard
must be done under direct sup
ervision of a department deputy
inspector in an effort to' eradi-
Girard's five lawyers, told th
United Press his hope was based
on the fact that the soldier was
on duty at the time he shot a
Japanese woman on a firing
range. In the past, he said. U.S.
courts refused to intervene to
block foreign trials of service
men because their offenses were
committed off duty.
Girard, acting on advice of hi
brother and his chief defenfc
counsel, Earl J. Carroll, fir
his famous Japanese defense it
torney Friday.
Harrington said this was done
to avoid any possibility that
Girard would be surrendered to
the jurisdiction of the Maebashi,
Japan, court before action in
U.S. courts was completed.
Tokyo (IP A Japanese at
torney said Saturday SP3 Wil
liam S. Girard. U.S. soldier fac
ing trial by a Japanese court in
a controversial manslaughter
case, cannot arbitrarily dismiss
horn from the defense staff.
"Such things are just not done
in Japan," said Itsuro Hayashi,
"it is a matter of moral prin
ciple. I am officially still Gi
rard's lawyer until I resign or
he files the proper papers with
the Maebashi district court."
Maj. Stanley Lpvin, Girard's
mililary legal adviser, said the
necessary papers will be filed
Monday.
Mayflower II Sailing
Closer to America
Plymouth, Mass. Oil The
Mayflower II reported at mid
rfternoon Saturday . she was
about 300 miles south of Pro
vincetown, Mass., and "all's
well."
The square-rigged replica of
the Pilgrim ship increased her
speed during the day to 5 knots
(about 6Vi MPH). She is due to
arrive here Tuesday, but the
possibility was advanced that it
might be Wednesday or later if
the winds dropped off.
Members of the reception com
mittee here, who had figured the
ship's arrival for the end of
the month, were speeding up
preparations to receive her.
During the day it was disclos
ed that the entire crew of 32
had been forbidden to discuss
the six-week voyage with news
men because the story of the
crossing had been sold as ell
as the Mayflower lis log.
Helmet Radio Use
Sunlight for Power
Fort Monmouth, N.J.
The army is developing a hlmet
radio needing only exposure to
sunlight for its electrical power,
it was announced Saturday.
Experiments at the Army 5i.
n a 1 Engineering laboratoritst
here have proved solar battiris,
which convert sunlight te elec
tricity, can power the vorlflat
smallest transmitter-rsctivic,
army officials said.
Quarantined
Infection
cate the disease. Black mi4.
In 30 days the colonies eji!
be inspected and following a m
ond 30-day period another in
spection will be made. If at thtt
time the colonies are found ip
parently free of the disease, th
department will lift the quaren
tine. If not, they will be hi4
under quarantine until inspec
tion shows the disease to be eratv
icated.
This is the first time the rto
partment has imposed a qua
tine for American foul broo.
Officials said they felt the mo
was necessary if the bee indu'.ry
is to be protected.
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