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Newspaper Page Text52nd Year 1WLAXT Price 10 Recommended Subscribers To report improper or non-JeHv-rv of the Mail Tnhuna in Med ford phone SP 2-KM1. A?hand MU 3-1021. Yreka P41W before 6: p.m. daily and 10-30 a m. Sunday. If regular delivery arrives hort lv after you call pleane notify of fice thus eliminating ipecial mea senger aervice. TRIB IE -3 w , Leased Wire : A ttnrw ahmit a mt1l rail rn4 w hir h is bing bnilt w in a room at th tran A minitrnn finmiriliary at ramp Whit jppar on pa je 12 nf todart Mail Tribune. United Pr Full lMSd Win 54 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1957 No. 74 Urge Turn-Out Is Expected at Budget Hearing Tomorrow Increases Proposed In Most Departments A larze turn-out is expected at the public hearing on Jackson county's proposed budget for 1957-58 tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the courthouse auditorium. "The propoied budget of $2, 990.446.72 represents an increase of $345. 177.65 compared to the 1356-57 budget, which totaled $2,645,269 07. No tax levy is pro posed in the budget for the com ing year, other than continuing levies for the Jacksonville muse um and juvenile detention home, both of which were approved by the voters. Budget increases are proposed for nearly all county depart ments. At least two major items are expected to come up for discus sion at tomorrow's meeting. One is a proposed job classification and salary increases plan for county employees in key ed ministrative and supervisory po sitions. The plan is based on a comparative survey completed Friday by Mrs. Bereth P. Hop kins, county cleric. Submit Survey Mrs. Hopkins and other county officials submitted the survey tu county commissioners at a meet ing Friday afternoon. Annual sal ary increases ranging from a few dollars to two or three hundred dollars are sought for key per sonnel in most departments. Tht other item is a S104.000 sinking fund for purchase of a new agricultural experiment sta tion at the Hanley ranch near Jacksonville. The county court has proposed to purchase the site, consisting of about 90 acres, for $625 per acre. Payments would extend over about five years and interest would be about 2i per cent. Various Phases The land would be used for various phases of agricultural and horticultural research and would replace the present agron omic research station near Phoe nix. The present site has been dlared inadequate because of high concentrations of lead ar senate in th soil, which agricul tural experts have said cannot be corrected. Although about 25 local fruit growers voiced support of the land purchase at a meeting last week, Roger Rath, a member of the budget committee, refused to sign the proposed budget because of this item. Following the hearing, the budget committee is expected to go into an executive session and complete whatever changes are to be included in the budget. (See Story Page 6) Highway Accident Fetal to Five Bend. Ore. IP A highway collision two miles east of Bend Friday night killed five persons and injured two others critically. The dca. were all occupants of a car driven by John E. Mil son. 37. Halsey. Ore. He was killed instantly along with his wife. Christine, about 32;- Deal Laxton, 22. Broken Bow. Okla., and the two Milson children. Pamela June. 4. and Glenda. Gail. 10. nriver of the other car was Jeffrey Stoddard. 16. Bend. He was taken to St. Charles Mem orial hospital in Bend with crit ical injuries. Also in grave con dition was Robert Jensen, 19. a passenjer in the Stoddard car. Tolice said the collision occur red at the intersection of U.S Highway 20 with a county road. Both cars were demolished and the Milson car was thrown off the highway and bent around a tree. Alricrs. Algeria ill- French paratroops and Foreign Legion naires crasher! with a heavily armed rebel 'init near the Tu nisian border Saturday. Weather rOREl'XST: Fair and warmer f" ifav and tnnichi; inrramr riottdin-vS Monday. FxpectfO hirh torfav s?. TFMPFR TVKF H1rht e(rriT " Lo ? ef rrrtav 4 Our Skies Tonight inr.se 111 " Sun-el - - " 51 P-m- :-nnrie ItVJI P m ! -i t t;'?-ter June - PKVl VINT fl'NSTELi. TION N -orpio in the south at moon-ri-- IMKI.F PLANETS Saturn, low in southeast at SUTrt. -It.i:er huh in smith et it I? p.m. Venn. ts "17 p.-1- Mara. :5 p.m. REV. RAYMOND BALCOMB Moves To Corvallii Medford Ministers Transferred to Other Conferences Several transfers of local Methodist ministers were an nounced in Corvallis Friday at the close of the four-day session of the Oregon Conference of the Methodist church. Dr. Raymond E. Balcomb, pas tor of First Methodist church Medford. for the past three years will leave later this month to assume duties as pastor of the First Methodist church in Cor vallis. He will preach June 23 at the local church for his last sermon hire as pastor. He will replace the Rev. Daniel D Walker who will leave for the Methodist church in Oakland, Calif. Arriving this month as new pastor will be Dr. George Rose berry, superintendent of the Sa lem district of the Methodist church for the past six years He is expected to assume his pastoral duties here June 30. Assistant Pastor The Rev. George Trobough, assistant pastor at First church for the past year, also will leave to become assistant pastor of th-r Methodist church in Springfield. Ore. The new assistant pastor for the Medford church has no! been announced. New pastor at St. Luke's Methodist church is the Rev. Melvin Dixon of Shedd, Ore. He replaces the Rev. John Albert Taylor who was recently trans ferred to the California-Nevada-Utah conference of the church St. Luke's, sponsored by the First Methodist church here last year, now holds services in Big ham hall at the county fair grounds. Other appointments announc ed by Bishop A. Raymond Grant included the assignment of the Rev. William O. Walker to the Methodist church of Winston Dillard. The Walkers will make their home in Winston, Ore. Mr. Walker, a son of Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Walker, Mqdford. was graduated last month from the Boston University School of Theology in Boston, Mass. The appointment of the Rev. G. Wesley Turner of Lebanon, Ore., to the Methodist church at Grants Pass, also was an nounced. The Rev. Ross Knotts of Ashland and the Rev. Mrs. Alice May Woollcy of Talent will continue as pastors in thei1 present churches. Catfish Derby Set Today ai TouVelle The 21st annual National Cat fish Derby will get under way at 1:30 p.m. today at TouVelle State park on Table Rock rd. north of Medford. The all-afternoon event will include various types of enter tainment, including a talent con test open to everyone. Several contests have been scheduled in addition to catfish judging which will start at 3 p m. Nancy Picard will reign over the event with Vickie Palmer. Sharon Blickenstaff. Caron Leff ler and Sylvia Baker serving as princesses. John Watkir.s. Don Wells and Burt Rostell are cochairmen of the event, which is sponsored annuallv bv the 20-30 club of Medford. j Grants Pass Man Hurt I In Motorcylcle Mishap Joseph Minor. Grants Pass, was slightly injured when the motorcycle he was operating was involved in an accident on High way 99 north of Medford near the Richfield truck" stop about 5:10 p.m. Saturday. Minor's motorcycle collided with a car driven by Lee Roy Wallace, box 366. Central Point. Minor was taken to Sacred Heart hospital by city police and was treated and released. Witness in Girard Case Beats Soldier With Club in Brawl Incident Has Nothing To Do With Girard Maebashi, Japan W Japan's main witness in its manslaughter case against Army Specialist 3c William S. Girard got drunk and beat another American solider with a club in a brawl last Saturday night, it was dis closed yesterday. Japanese and American of ficials agreed that the incident apparently had nothing to do with Girard. But Japanese legal experts said the actions of Hid etsugu Onozeki, a 29-year-old farmer, may have injured his credibility as a witness should Girard be brought to trail in a Japanese court. Injuries Not Serious Onozeki attacked Pfc Wilbur R. Smith, 23, of a 1st cavalry division tank detachment, with a heavy two-foot length of wood and pummeled him to the ground with it. Officials said Smith's injuries were not serious. Smith's two companions turn ed on Onozseki and beat him. Police said they all apparently had been drinking. Onozeki, not badly hurt, fled and was arrested the next day He was permitted to go home while police investigated. The incident occurred outside a U. S. Army camp near Mae bashi, 60 miles north of Tokyo. No Effect en Demands The brawl had no effect on Japanese demands that Girard be turned over to Japan for trial on charges that he killed Mrs. Naka Sakai with an empty cartridge casing fired from a rifle grenade launcher Jan. 30 while Mrs. Sakai was scaveng ing scrap metal from the Camp Weir firing range near Maebashi. Onozeki said he was with Mrs. Sakai. He has stated that Girard, of Ottawa, 111., tried to lure the woman close to him. Girard has denied this. In Tokyo, the opposition Soc ialist party staged a rally to demand that the "criminal Gir ard'' be immediately surrender ed by U. S. military authorities. After the meeting, some 200 demonstrators tried to break in to the Japanese defense depart ment building in government row. They scuffled briefly with police and then dispersed. U.S. May Refuse To Compromise Washington IP American officials said Saturday the Unit ed States will refuse to compro mise on its demand that any sus pension of atomic bomb tests be part of an over-all "first step" disarmament package including a halt in production of nuclear explosives. The administration officials were commenting on the Soviet proposal, presented at the Lon don disarmament talks Friday, for a two to three year ban on atomic weapons tests enforced by international inspection. They called the Soviet offer a "milestone" of progress toward relieving the threat of atomic war. But they warned against ex pecting an early agreement on halting the tests unless Russia is willing to accept at least one other feature of the American plane the diversion of atomic materials production to peaceful uses. Invitation To Flash Floods Strike Area, Force 4,000 District 549C to Vole for Director In Election Monday Ewaldsen, Cheney are Candidates in Medford Voters in Medford school dis trict 549C may vote tomorrow for a director to the board of education. Candidates are Otto A. Ewaldsen and Francis I. Cheney. A poll will be in the girls gym of Medford High school between 2 and 8 p.m. Ewaldsen, 37. of 20 Ross Court, is finishing a five-year term on the board and has been board chairman the past year. Mr. and Mrs. Ewaldsen have three chil dren, Eric, 13, attending Mc Loughlin Junior high: Hans. 10, and Karen, 7, both in Jackson school. Ewaldsen first came to Med ford while in the Army in 1942. and has lived here since. During his term on the school board, the district built Hedrick Junior high and Jefferson schools, and put additions on sev eral other schools. Since he has been chairman, the board has started a special program of one extra meeting per month to fa miliarize itself with specific ma terial being taught in each course at each grade level. The Jackson County Junior Chamber of Commerce picked Ewaldsen as Medford's citizen of the year in 1954. He has been a board member of the county chamber of commerce for about eight years, and was chamber president last year. He is a mem ber of the Medford Rotary club. Ewaldsen is a member of the board of the Jackson County Housing authority and the board of the county chapter of Ameri can Red Cross. He is past presi dent of the Toastmasters club and past chairman of the Med ford Merchants association. He was one of the founders of the Medford Plan which eventually amalgamated with the Commu nity Chest to become the United Medford Crusade. , Cheney is 47. and lives at route 2. box 413, Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Cheney have two children, Bonnie, 13, and Mary, 10, both attending West Side school. Cheney has lived in the Med ford area since 1942. He and members of his family started the Cheney lumber interests, which have mills in Oregon, Washington and California. One is located in Central Point. A native of Washingon, Chen ey graduated from the law school at the University of Oregon and is a member of the Oregon State bar. The candidate was formerly treasurer of the Southern Ore gon Child Guidance clinic asso ciation, and was active in its founding. He also has been in Red Cross work, and is appeal agent for Jackson County Selec tive Service Board 17. He is a member of the Rogue Valley Country club. Elections for board members for all county school districts and the two non-high and two rural boards are being held tomorrow. Polling places and candidates are listed on page 6 of today's Mail Tribune. The Dance A. M. WESTLING Planning Consultant League Officials to Discuss Legislation Officials from the League Cities will report to city officials from Jack son and Josephine counties on legislation affecting municipal government in the last session of the state legislature here Monday. A no-host dinner will begin the meeting at the Jackson hotel at 6:30 p.m. The gathering is one of 19 being con ducted throughout the state, and is sponsored jointly by the league and the city of Med ford. In addition to an open forum discussion, the meeting will feature short reports on budget and finance problems, annexation and city service to fringe areas, cities and the federal highway program, and the federal planning assistance program. Representatives of the league executive Evergreen Seeks Schedule Changes Evergreen Bus Lines officials have filed an application with the Public Utilities Commission er for several schedule changes in this area effective June 27. If the application is approved, minor schedule changes will be in effect on runs between Med ford and Ashland; Medford and Central Point; Medford and Jacksonville; Medford and Camp White; and Camp White and Central Point. Only change between Med ford and Ashland would be an alteration in departure time from Medford on one run. The time would be changed from 6:10 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. daily. The Medford-Central Point runs would be reduced from five' to four daily. Departure times from Medford would be 8:25 a.m., 9:30 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. Departure times from Central Point would be 8:40 a.m., 9:45 a.m., 2:45 p.m. and 6 p.m. Medford - Jacksonville runs would be reduced from six to four daily. Departure times from Medford would be 8:20 a.m., 10 a.m., 3 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. Departure times from Jack sonville would be 8:40 a.m., 10:15 a.m., 3:15 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The Sunday scedule for the Medford to Camp White run would have one change. A 9:45 a.m. bus from Medford would be substituted for the present 10 p.m. bus. An 8:15 a.m. bus from Camp White to Central Point would be added to the Monday through Saturday sche dule. There would be no chan ges in the Eagle Point bus sche dule. No rate changes are being requested, company officials said. Light Drizzle Aids Alaska Fire Fighters Anchorage, Alaska M A iight drizzle aided the fight against forest fires in the Mc Grath, Alaska, area Friday but at the same time new blazes were reported breaking out near Fairbanks, about 250 miles north of here. A bureau of land management official here said the drizzle did not actually put the fires out but prevented their spreading over even larger areas. At last reports, the McGrath fires were burning over more than 100,000 acres. At least six new fires were re ported near Fairbanks and large thunderclouds moving into the Big Delta area caused officials to fear an even larger outbreak. It is believed that mose of the fires now burning were caused by lightning. f.v'va' ft I gh J. W. BARNEY President of League at Meeting of Oregon committee and Rooster Owned by Boy Of Five Wins Contest Rogue River A loud voiced rooster and a serious-faced little boy took home 250 silver dollars here Saturday afternoon in the fourth annual National Rooster Crowiiig contest. "Goldie" was the rooster and five-year-old David Dick, Rogue River, the boy. "Goldie" crowed 66 times in the allotted half hour to take first place in a rec ord field of 274 birds. David calmly accepted his prize on the announcing stand in the city park, a sack of coin he couldn't quite lift. His moth er said he would get a new bi cycle out of the money, but the rest would go into savings for his college education. The Dicks have entered roost ers in every crow since the con test started, Mrs. Dick said. "David had faith in 'Goldie.'" she explained. "We tamed him (the rooster; and that probably helped ... he wasn't flustered." Other prizes in the Rogue River Boosters sponsored affair were: Second and third, tie between "Big Joe" entered by Rhonda Rosencranz, Gold Hill, and "George," entered by Maude Parcel, Rogue River; fourth, "Big Mike." Jim Bottroff, Rogue River: fifth, "Stool Pigeon," Mrs Ed Burkett, Rogue River; sixth, "Jim," Norma Brooks, Gold Hill; seventh, "Silent Joe," Joe Ralzat, Rogue River; eighth, Newspaper Editor Is Killed in Colombia Ibague, Columbia M The assassination of a prominent newspaper editor here Friday night touched of a general strike and wild street demonstrations Saturday. Liberal party supporter Hec tor Echeverry Cardenas.-director of the newspaper "Tribuna" was shot Friday night just outside the ofice of his newspaper. Hiss assailants fired six bullets into his head from behind and then fled in a Jeep. Within 20 minutes aften the murder, residents in this city of 120,000 began streaming into the streets to demonstrate be fore the governor's palace. Sports Bulletins Seattle HP) The Seattle Rainiers notched their fourth straight Pacific Coast league victory last night by holding on in the late innings to de feat Portland, 4-3. Sacramento San Fran cisco Seals rapped out three home runs last night to de feat the Sacramento Soloni 7-3 and take a 4-1 lead in their Pacifie Coast league series. Louis ir.om Homes I .1 w,,,. ...Mv.., .,.. ' ,rv - - V J j j 'V; v J K4 K "f ? J -ww J HERMAN KEHRLI Executiv Secretary Here staff and a representative of the state highway department will attend the meeting. City officials who have a special problem they would like to discuss with any member of the group may schedule a con ference during the late afternoon. Confer ences should be requested through the league office. Attending the Jackson hotel dinner will be League President J. W. Barney, city man ager of Hillsboro; Herman Kehrli, executive secretary. League of Oregon Cities and di rector, bureau of municipal research and service, University of Oregon; and A. M. Westling. planning and public works con sultant, bureau of municipal research and service. "Louie," Kathy -Simer, Foots Creek: ninth. "Mr. Briggs," Mrs. and Mrs. Grant Clyde. Grants Pass and tenth, "Mickey," Fred Warner, Williams. First prize for best decorated cage went to "Jailbird" owned by Dennis, Beverly and Jean Al lison, Rogue River. Shirley Brooks. Gold Hill, won second prize mone of $10 for baby buggy cages of "Tim and Jim." Storm Threatens Thick clouds threatend a storm but left only a sprinkle of rain during the afternoon. Roost ers, cages, and people completly filled the pari: contest area. The national contest began with a 10 a.m. parade. Colors carried by members of the arm ed services led, followed by an official car carrying Rogue Riv er Mayor Phil Engle, Central Point Mayor Donald E. Faber, and Medford Mayor John Snider. The crow itself started at noon. A horse show was scheduled to follow the contest at the Rogue River High school athletic field. West Coast Airlines Cited for Record West Coast Airlines, which serves Medford. has been cited by the National Safety Council along with 35 other scheduled airlines "in recognition of their contribution to safe air transpor tation in 1956." The 1956 passenger death rate of .62 deaths per 100 million passenger-miles for domestic oper ations marked the fifth consecu tive year that the rate has been below 1. West Coast, with headquar ters in Seattle, has 10 years of safe operation and ranks with two other firms to head a list of 10 of the local service carriers which have had perfect records since their operation began. 'Ready' Reservists Are Freed from Draft by Ike Washington W President Eisenhower by executive order Saturday formally freed from the draft young men who par ticipate in the military's "ready resserve" program. Such reserve service has. in practice, long been regardpd as an alternative to the draft. Tech nically, however, those without two year's active duty under the draft were still subject to call even though they participate in the reserve. Yesterday's order made the regulations confo-m to the prac tice. The defense department had no immediate estimate of how many men now in the reserve At Least 70 Dead In Wake of Storm System in Mid-West Record-Breaking o Rains Swell Streams St. Louis, Mo. W New flash floods hit St. Louis area towns last night in a major dis aster that swept motorists to their deaths and forced more than 4,000 persons to flee their homes. Rampaging crock waters. powered by record-breaking rains, killed at least 17 persons, seven of them members of a farm family whose car was caught by a 15-foot wall of wa ter near Beaufort, Mo. At least four persons were missing. The two - day storm system also sent tornadoes and wild storms across Illinois late Friday killing at least three persons and raising the United Press 24 hour death count to 20. Two persons were dead in St Louis county, a motorist whose car was carried off a road and a man who died trying to un stop a sewer. Across River Across the Mississippi river In Illinois, a man was found drown ed in his flooded basement at Albers and the St. Clair county sheriff's office reported five deaths. In addition, four persons were reported missing and feared dead at Smithton, 111., near Belleville. The floods, triggered by up to 13.75-inch rainfalls in Illin ois and Missouri, came smash ing through dry creek beds late Friday night and early yester day. National guardsmen. Coast guardsmen, Red Cross workers and police and volunteers ap peared to be winning their bat tle to get residents of about a dozen towns and cities to safe ty in time. New Flood Crest Then, a new flood crest came rolling down the Merramec riv er in St. Louis county. 13 feet above flood stage and aimed at the St. Louis suburbs of Valley Park and Times Beach. Coast guardsmen set out in boats and rescued at least 75 persons from flooded homes at Valley Park. Most residents, however, re fused to leave their homes last night despite picas from the Coast guardsmen. Many of their homes were built on stilts for just such emergencies and they believed they would remain safe. Driven From Homes At least 1,000 persons In the . south and west sections of St. Louis had been driven from their homes following the worst 12-hour rainfall in city history. About 500 persons were ev acuated at Belleville and half the town was under water. For a time it was completely isolat ed and persons could not get from one side of the city to the other without crossing a rail road trestle over a creek. All 400 residents of Hillview. 111., were evacuated. About 700 fled Caseyvillc, 111., homes when a wall of water poured through a private dam on a lake. Addi tional evacuations in Illinois in clude 400 from a Collinsville, 111., suburb; 200 from Alton, 111.; 175 from Wooodriver;- and 100 from an east St. Louis sub urb which was being guarded by men from the Scott Air Force base. would be affected. Many ready reservists have had prior active duty under the draft. But there is building up in the reserves now, under a fairly new program, a large number of so-called "six-month trainees" who have never been called by selective service. These are youths, 17 to 26, who volunteer for six months of active duty, serve three years in the ready reserve and then spend 4-1 i years in the standby reserve. Originally, this pro gram covered only youths be tween 17 and 18-Vi but the Army in April extended the special training program to youths 18-V4 to 28 years old.