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1 BOUND OWE cf ""Pj WW. a- . ZU.pm Mt t&4 i LA : 4 ---i i i i "attriitaW H --v I x- , 7 s ' If . T ' . y .. Ji . I J ; :l -.IS" , Rr-r""l,kr 1 CONFERRING ON DEFENSE PROBLEMS are the nation s top leaders in Quantico, Va., in a thrc-day ?r.sion with top level eivilians. Left to riht: General Maxwell U. Taylor, 'mv; Gf-nersI Hantiolpli Ta'r, Marine?; General Nathan Twining, Air Forre; Admiral rlnph A. P.'irkr, Navy, and Genrral Thomas D. White, Air Koree. They will take over August 16. General Twining will be the chairman. (Interrntioml Sounrlphoto) Western Components, Formed for Electronic A iwcl corporation for elcc trnnie re-search and manufacture cf electronic components lias httn formed by Harry and Daid of Bear Crock Orchards, President David H. Holmes an nounced today. The new firm will be known as Western Com piirenti, Inc. It ep'cts to start local opcr 'ion ia a smalr way within the next JO days. Holmes said. nd mill have a "substantial operation" by the first of 1!)53. Holmea did not specify what type eouipment would be manu factured. The former American Fruit Growers building at 10th and South Fir sts. has been pur chased and nt least a portion of the new firm's production will be carried on there. Main gain Offic The main sales office is lo ra'ed in San Francisco. It has ky-CT in operation since April 1. T.ie office, according to Holmes, handle the sales of electronic owrvonent parts in central and n-trtiiero California. Holme aid estimates of the numi er of people to be employ ed locally by Western Compo nent could not be estimated at tbia cimt. Officers of the firm in clude Holmes, president; W. J. Williams, now vice president of Bear Cree Orchards, executive vice president, and G. A. Cot ting.' am, wcretary and treas urer. Wa-dcll L. Shackelford has brtcn named production manager in charge of the Medford plant. He h;t been connected with Fri den industries in San Leanriro, Calif., and expects to move to Medford soon. Custom Listed Western Components, Inc., lis's as customers such firms as International Business Ma chine?; Hewlett-Packard Elec tronics, of Palo Alto, Calif.; Ber keley Scientific company; Am-C-Pcx corporation; Farnsworth Electronics, and Litton Industries. Oflto Ewaldsen Reelected To School Director Post Otto A. Ewaldsen was reelect ed a director to the board of rduitatiim of Sledford school dis trict 49C yesterday. He re ceived o.'tl votes to 234 for Traocw Cheney, the opposing Cnd ta Te ne-year term starts July f. Sth'M'l officials said the turn out 1fa representative of a di 'jCCOrS election, and was com O p"a'ie!y good. " Ta the Phoenix district. Mrs. fjl O. Grove received 108 votes aod Xiwer Faytingcr received 2?. The term is for five years. ("C. IS. Glc;m was elected to a X'teter term in the Talent dis Ctf C. Glcim got 15 voles and his Cpp:&ont, Samuel O. James, re- rccrtd 10. $1:1: Dorland Offenbacher was (Vtec'.Oi to a five-year term in (Ihe B-ksonvi'le district w ith 56 Cvores defeating Warren Davis. rit received 13 votes. I S:i uncontested vote. Archie Jrw Jr., received 84 votes in (jjjB Ashland district. X". W. Anhorn and Wilton A. JVite were elected to five and So year terms, respectively, in 5.o-rict fiC, Central Point. An Hire" received 61 votes.' and 5S6:te got 57 otes. By schools. (JO total were Central Point ihi.rn 4 . White 43: Sams Val ;rv. anhorn 8. While 8: Gold Hill. Anhorn 4. Don Morrow 1. and White 1. Morrow 1. and Odsrn Kellogg 3. Morrow 'and Kellogg were write-in votes. Other Results Other unofficial rlec'ion re u!ls were Griffin Creek. Rob ert C. Mmear. 132, Sam B. ' Holmes said: "We, as resi dents, property owners and em ployers, are deeply interested in j the economic welfare of the Rtgue river valley and are de sirous of assistins in its orderly growth and development. While our primary interests are in agriculture and will always re ;main so, we recognize that a broader and more diversified economy would be a good thing for both the community and our selves. Western Components, Inc. has been organized with the hope that it will afford greater and more continuous employ Resources Defined at The job of the state water re sources board and the help it ex pects from local groups in its study of the Rogue river basin were defined at a meeting here vesterday noon. The meeting was held in the Medford hotel. L. C. Binford, state board chairman, told a re-activated joint Jackson County Chamber of Commerce-county court water resources committee: "How well v.e do is going to depend on you people in the local communi ties." The last state legislature di rected the board to make a study of the Rogue basin and present results to the next legis lature. Don La-it, executive sec retary of the board, and a for mer secretary of the chamber of commerce heie, explained that the board must first find all ex isting water rights along the Rogue, then estimate the total amount of water in the basin. The total resources minus that amount under water rights is the amount the board will be concerned with. The study of the Rogue will guide state water policy. Lane said. Steps taken by the board Harbison. 84; Ruch, Ravid B Winningham. 9, E. H. Fossen, 2. Milton Houston, 2; Eagle Point, Jack Caldwell, 30: Lone Pine William E. Edwards. 33, R. J. Ritchey. 14. and Rose Cook, 16: Applcgate. Francis Krouse. 30, (non-high board. Francis Krouse, 46), Elk-Trail, James C. Wilson, 50, Roy A. Anderson, 25; Pros pect, Clarence G. Hcdgepeth, 18, Helen Hubbard. 1; Evans Val ley, J. B. Wilson, 75, George Johnston, 62, Marcclla McCul lough. 1: Shady Cove, Ed Learn ing. 24 (four-year term). Frank Fagalde. 22. Ray Briggs. 2; Pine hurst, Clyde Leard, 10 (five year term), Robert A. Cooper. 10 (four-year term1; and How ard, George C. Flanagan, 12, John E. Chitwood. 11 (non-high board). School officials said H. F. Nor wood was elected to the Rogue River board, but total count of votes was not complete this morning. In the Butte Falls election. Mrs. Hannah H. Dalton and Elga Abott each received 20 votes for the single vacancy on the board. Mrs. Dalton won the position in casting of lots, which is the legal procedure in a school district election tic-vote. For the non-high school board zone 4. Edmud Ramsey received 131 votes and Francis Krouse 101 votes. For the rural board member in zone 2, Mrs. Leo Hoag received 56 votes and Francis Poole 1 vote: William A. Starzinger was elected rural board member for zone 1. but complete count of vo'es had not been made this morning. $ 1 f MS'- II Inc., Is Research ment than is presently avail able to people of this area." He added, "We oeneve tins new organization will contribute materially to better and more stable economy in this area and we hope will set a pattern and a forerunner of expanding and di versified industry in the Rogue river valley." The corporation president pointed out that this type of in dustry will create no air or water Dollution and. by being rcnrrallv morlprntp in size, will , j jnot upset established business and industry in the area. Board Job Meeting in making a sludv are: 1) Study existing resources, 2) find means and methods of con serving and augmenting resourc es, 3) estimate present and fu ture needs and uses, 4) formu late an integrated, coordinated program for use end control of all water resources, 5) issue a statement of '.his program, 6) devise plans and programs for development for t'"c most bene ficial uses of the water re sources. The statement (step five)) is submitted to the legislature for approval, then becomes state policy. Only uses of Rogue wa- Salem IP The next meeting of the State Water Resources Board will be held in Medford July 1 at the Jack son county courthouse. L. C. Binford. chairman, said today. ter specified in tiie statement can be made, with two excep tions. The statement cannot conflict with existing .vater rights; and it cannot interfe e with rights given previously by the legisla ture for special uses of the Rogue. The board, although it has the most comprehensive powers of any similar stat organization in the nation does not decide water policy arbitrarily, Bin ford said. It must work under the state law which designates the 10 "beneficial vses" to which water resources may be allo cated. These "beneficial uses" are: domestic, municipal, irrigation, power, industrial, mining, rec reation, wiH life, fish life, and pollution. The law is broadened by including "other related sub jects." Binford said the state board wants representatives from each of these uses in the basin area to cooperate in furnishing in formation and opinions. The chamber commerce-county court committee was re-activated for this purpose. Hearings will be held in Med ford by the state board in No vember, Binford said. At this time, information gathered by the local groups should be pre sented to the board. 247 Enrol! for Swimming Classes A total of 247 beginning and intermediate swimmers are en rolled in the swim classes at j Hawthorne park pool, according ; to City Treasurer Darrell Husnn. Classes began yesterday. The ! total number is divided into sec I tions. each getting a half-hour's : instruction between 9 and 12 ! a.m. daily. Instructors are Rob Lert Sutherland and Doreen I Bradshaw. j Total attendance at the pool 'yesterday was 716. A new series iof classes will begin July 8, iHuson reported. 52nd Year United P 18 Pages Civil Rigi um Approved by House Vote of 286-126 Southern Move for Amendment Defeated Washington 'ID The House today finally passed the admin istration's four-point civil rights bill after defeating a last-gasp southern move to tack on the disputed jury trial amendment. Passage came on a roll call vole of 286 to 126. The bill went immediately to the Senate, where backers were maneuvering to speed action on it by by-passing the Senate Ju diciary Committee. Passage Anti-Climax House passage was an anti climax to the long and futile southern fight for an amend ment guaranteeing a jury trial in civil rights contempt cases that might arise under the new legislation. Southerners based their main fight against the bill on the jury trial issue. Passage came after the House rejected on a roll call vote of 251 to 158 a final southern at tempt to add a jury trial amend ment. The House previously had re jected four different versions of the jury trial amendment on non-record votes. Clerk Had Bill Ready The last unsuccessful soul hern maneuver was a move to send the bill back to the House Judi ciary Committee with instruc tions to attach the controversial amendment. The House clerk had the bill ready for immediate transmis sion to the Senate. This process could have been stretched out had there been any effort to de lay this step. But Speaker Sam Rayburn, in response to an inquiry by Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (R-N.Y.) just prior to the final vote, em phasized that there was no dis position on the part of the lead ership to hold up the bill. Powerplant Bids Opened Here Today Camp While Wismer, Becker and Lord Construction company of Sacramento. Calif., submitted a low bid of SI. 802. 367.45 for construction of the Green Springs powerplant, pen stock and switchyard. Four bids, ranging up to $2, 174,880, were opened by the bureau of reclamation this morning. The work is part of the Talent project. Bids were sched uled to be opened at 2 p.m. to day on clearing Howard Prairie reservoir in the Cascades. J. A. Callan, project engineer, said bids will be forwarded to the Denver office. Engineers estimate for the Green Springs work was Sl.582.482. The powerplant will supply 16.000 kilowatts of electricity, and the penstock will provide a 1,755-foot drop into the plant, which will be built on a site southeast of Ashland along Emi grant creek near Highway 66. 134 Deaths Blamed On Record Heal Wave By UNITED PRESS A record heat wave blanketed most of the nation for the third day today, broken only by scat tered storms that touched off damaging flash floods in the Great Plains and Ohio River Valley. The intense heat also caused power shortages in New York and Chicago, buckled streets and highways and disrupted work in offices and plants. The United Press counted at least 134 persons dead in dis asters blamed on the heat and a succession of floods since the week end. Weather FORFCAST: Partly rlourtr to night and Wednpsday. Chanre of xhowrrs nvfr th moun tains Wednpsday afternoon. 1. n w tonight 5S. High Wednesday 88-90. Temp. H'Ehet Yesterdav 90 Lowest this Morning 5S Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4. a m. Sunset 7:51 p.m. The Moon, in Apojee. rises 11:?T p.m. Last Quarter . June 20 PROMl.VFVT STAR Altair, high in south east ....12:15 a.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets . S:1 p.m. Mar, se's .... 9:22 p.m. Saturn. rju south ..10:SS p m. tuplter. low in west 11:42 p.m. TVLA XT Tight Money Policy Upheld As Best Guard on Inflation Washington W Treas ury Secretary George M. Hum phrey today defended the admin istration's so-called tight money policy as the only practical way to block "a new round of in flation." But he conceded that, despite j this policy, "the threat of renew ed inflation ... is perhaps our most serious domestic economic problem." Price increases, par ticularly in the past year, have hern "more than I like to see," he said. Humphrey war the first wit ness at the opening of a broad investigation of the Eisenhower administration's economic and n:oncy policies by the Senate Fi nance Committee. He testified before a commit tee including some Democratic members who have charged that the tight money policy, with ac companying spiraling interest rates, has retarded economic ex pansion. Small Business Hurt These Democrats also con tend that consumers and small businesses have been hurt with the major benefits going to big money interests. Humphrey listed six alterna tives to the tight money policy: Credit controls, compulsory sav ings, price and wage controls, higher taxes, voluntary re straints and a return to federal reserve support of the govern ment bond market. "The use of any of the first three alternatives in peacetime would have been inequitable, impractical and inconsistent with our traditions of freedom," Humphrey said. 12 Shots Fired in Arrest of Medford Man for Assault Lowell A. Bish. 32, of 945 Brooksdale rd., Medford was lodged in the county jail on a j charge of assault with a deadly j weapon after slate police andj sheriff's deputies fired 12 shots j at the tires of Bish's car about j 3:10 p.m. Monday. j Bish's 61 -year -old father, Louis, was wounded in the leg by a bullet which apparently ricocheted from a car wheel, deputies reported. He was taken to Rogue Valley hospital for treatment. Four deputies and one state police officer went to Bish's par ents house to arrest him on a warrant charging assault with a deadly weapon. The warrant was issued three weeks ago on a complaint by a state police officer. The officer accused Bish of pointing a gun at him when he stopped Bish's car on a pub lic highway. Driving From Garage Deputies said Bish was driv ing his car out of the garage when they arrived at the resi dence. As the officers approach ed him, Bish reportedly backed the car into the garage and clos ed the doors. They said Bish's father then came out of the house and attempted to per suade his son to come out of the garage. When Bish refused to come out, officers said they urged the father to go back into the house where he would be safe during the shooting. Deputies said the father refus ed to leave the scene but stood behind a bush away from direct firing range when the son sud denly drove through the garage doors. Police said they fired at the tires of the car and hit three of them. They said Bish finally got out of the car and surren dered. According to police, a 20 gauge shotgun, 30-30 carbine, .32 caliber automatic, .22 caliber re volver and a pellet gun, all load ed, were lying on the front seat of the car along with a sizable supply of ammunition, eight Oregon car license plates and parts of other license plates. Numbert Altered Police said numbers or dates on most of the license plates had been visably altered. Bish appeared for arraign ment on the charge before Judge James Main in district court this morning and was given un til 3 p.m. today to obtain coun sel. Bail was set at S2.000. Louis Bish s condition was re ported "all right" by hospital attendants. ,JN, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1957 Higher taxes "would not have teen acceptable," he said. Voluntary restraints on price and wage increases, he said, "can help immeasurably but can be achieved only if other pol icies are effective." "Thus, as a practical matter, the real choice is between the anti-inflationary course which v.e have pursued and a new round of inflation," Humphrey said. Committee Chairman Harry E. Eyrd (D-Va.) opened the inves tigation with a statement that Tempers High When Budget Hearing Ends Tempers were high when the public hearing on the 1957-58 Jackson county budget came to a close about 3 p.m. yesterday. The budget committee went into "executive session" imme diately after the hearing but did not complete work on the bud get. The three members of the county court, who are also members of the budget commit tee, were attending a county welfare commission meeting this morning. They were expect ed to resume work on the budget either late this afternoon or tomorrow. Yesterday's session was de scribed by one long-time county official as the stormiest budget hearing in the county's history. Most of the controversy cen tered around whether or not sal aries of the county's key em ployes should be increased for the coming year. Small "Flare-up" Several small "flare-ups" oc curred during the morning ses sion as county officials and tax payers, particularly farmers, voiced disagreement on salaries and other aspects of the budget. But the major argument oc curred soon after Assessor Ray Schumacher presented to the budget committee a resolution signed by nine county officials urging adoption of salary in creases they recommended prior to the hearing. John Nicdermeyer, Jackson ville farmer, commended the budget committee for efforts to hold down expenses and urged the committee to have a job survey conducted in each county department by an outside group of efficiency experts in the com ing year. He said county officials had done "a good deal of election eering" while promoting their individual department budgets. Nicdermeyer suggested that in the future department heads try to work out their problems with the county court and budg et committee in advance of the public hearing. If they are un able to resolve their problems then, he suggested the officials present their cases at the hear ing in brief statements. Denies Electioneering Mrs. Bereth P. Hopkins, county clerk, angrily denied there had been any electioneer ing by department heads and claimed they have a right at budget hearings to take as long as they feel necessary to explain their requests. She also claimed local farmers are making "war time profits" and indicated they were not justified in discourag ing the proposed salary in creases. Henry Niedermeyer, another Jackson county farmer, aaid to the committee, "I hope you have guts enough to throw away that resolution." ,He referred to the resolution submitted by county officials in favor of salary in creases for key employees. "I hope you have guts enough to consider it," said Mrs. Hopkins, who prepared the survey In which the salary recommenda tions were included. Most county officials were present during the hearing to explain their budgets, and many of them claimed the committee had cut essential items in the budgets they originally submit ted. Most of these items were proposed salary increases and equipment purchases. Raises Bond Premium Treasurer Karl Janouch pouit ed out the committee had raised his bond premium from $250 to 51,350 and stated he regarded the increase s unnecessary, Tom Wray, chairman of the budget committee, said the bond had been increased at the suggestion of the auditor. Janouch, stating he felt Wray'g remark was per Price 10c TRIBUNE United Press Full Leased Wir No. 76 world confidence in the Ameri can dollar is the chief restraint on Russian aggression. Humphrey struck back at Democratic critic:, with a charge that they are, "whether unwit tingly or by intention, inflation ists." "Their proposals for further credit expansion are proposals to further reduce the purchasing power of the dollar, to rob every housewife, every farmer, every pensioner, every wage earner, and every family with savings," he said. sonal, said the auditor had found I no errors during his term of of fice. Commissioner Ralph James said the auditor's reason for sug gesting the bond increase was based on the fact that Janouch 'a wife serves as his chief deputy. Janouch said he felt that re mark, too. was personal and pointed out the treasurer is in structed to obtain a deputy he trusts and who is capable of handling the job. Although some argument had been expected in connection with the S104.000 sinking fund for purchase of a new agricul tural experiment station site near Jacksonville, no opposition was voiced at the hearing. County Commissioner Chester Wendt announced that the Han ley sisters, owners of the prop erty, had accepted the county's bid of S14.000 down payment, S625 per acre and 2'i per cent interest on the unpaid balance. He pointed out the balance would be placed in time deposit where the money would earn the the 2'2 per cent, which thus would not come from county funds The site consists of about 90 acres and the purchase would be completed in five years. Jerry Latham presented sev eral resolu'.ions on behalf of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce govermental opera tions committee. One was in sup port of the court's proposal to purchase the new experiment station site. Another was in fa vor of publishing any surplus of county funds instead of the cur rent policy of showing only enough receipts to balance the budget. Among new items in the 1957 58 budget is one providing for a second circuit court which was established here during the last legislative session. A total of S18.540.40 was proposed for op eration of the new court. Rev. George Trobough Reappointed to Church The Rev. George A. Trobough was notified Monday that he has been reappointed assistant pas tor of First Methodist church, Medford. He was notified in a telegram from Bishop A. Ray mond Grant of Portland. Mr. Trobough had been as signed assistant pastor of the First Methodist church in Springfield, Ore., during the four-day conforence of the Methodist church in Corvallis last week. "I'm Strictly A Budget Cutter, Mister" (ZL Jiff f y , Federal Judge Rules Against U. S. Government Move Would Violate Rights, Decision Says Washington OP Federal Judge Joseph C. McGarraghy to day barred the government from turning William S. Girard over to the Japanese government for a manslaughter trial. McGarraghy said "the propos ed delivery" of the soldier to the Japanese government "would vi olate rights . . . guaranteed by the Constitution of the United States and will be enjoined." Government To Appeal The government has indicated that it will appeal the case. Un der this type of ruling it has a right to take it directly to he U.S. Supreme Court. McGarraghy delivered his rul ing just one week from the day the case was argued in his court. Dayton Harrington, Girard's Washington attorney, was jubi lant at McGarraghy's decision. "This is exactly what we hop ed for." Harrington told report ers. "This turns him over to the Army for trial by court mar tial." McGarraghy detailed the cir cumstances of the incident in which Girard allegedly killed a Japanese woman on a firing range, and discussed the agree ments with Japan under which the government proposed to turn him over to Japan for trial. He said the question was not whether Girard would receive a fair trial by the Japanese. Legal Question He said the legal question could be decided on the conced ed fact that the incident "arose out of an act or omission done by Girard as a member of the American armed forces in the performance of offical duty." "Since Girard's act was com mitted in the performance of of ficial duty . . . Girard is account able only to U.S. federal Juris diction for any act or omission," the opinion said. Secretary of Slate John Fost er Dulles had urged the court to hand down an opinion promptly. (See Story on Page 5) Man Killed Trying To Slop Log truck Reed Shackelford, 26, was killed at 6:15 p.m. yesterday while attempting to stop a run away log truck, according to Jackson County Coroner Carlos W. Morris. Shackelford and his cousin were loading a truck when an air hose on the trailer apparent ly broke and the truck began to roll forward. Shackclfeird tried to stop it but fell under the wheels. The deceased came to Med ford from Walled Lake. Mich., Wednesday to work for his cou sin, Wendell McGuire, Murphy Stage rd., who is logging on Cougar Creek about three miles west of Copper. Conger Morris is in charge of funeral arrange ments. Fourth Atomic Blast Of Series Detonated Atop Angels' Peak, Nev. W The Atomic Energy Commission detonated the fourth atomic blast of the spring-summer test series today a pie-dawn explo sion designed in part V study the effects of the blinding atomic flash on the eyes. The secret test device was fired at 3:45 a m'. (P. ST.) from a platform suspended beneath a captive balloon floating 500 feet above the Nevada desert
