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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.
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armed rebel 'init near the Tu
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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.
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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.
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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.