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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 18, 1957)
fEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTJWE Tuesday. ! Canada Quietly Making Switch in Prime .Ministers Ottawa (f The Canadian al.ip r,t slate was becalmed to day between the outgoing Liber al government, still technically b' power but on a caretaker bas is, and the incoming Conserva tive government being organiz ed by Prime Minister desig ;te John Diefenbaker. Prime Minister Louis St. Lau rent, v.ho tendered his resigna tion to Governor-General Vin cent Masey Monday night, pre pared to move his office to the llou.k of Commons Building, where he will remain as a mem ber of Parliament and as lead er of the opposition. Nominee Interviewed Diefenbaker, meanwhile, in terviewed cabinet nominees in hn House of Commons office, preparing to move to the East Black as Prime Minister on Friday, when the first of his ministers are sworn into office. It was expected the Diefen baker government would im mediately plan on putting re forms into effect which would spark the imagination of Can adian voters. A new election bound to come this autumn. rext spring, at which time the new government will try to con solidate its position in Parlia ment. Conservatives won a plu rality but not a majority of seats in the June 10 election. 1 5 0 Am 4- 4 t t1?, HtM 'm i i X , -S i ' 4 g 11 rT meJ iMrif - - ,- DEBUT As former President Harry S. Truman and his wife, Bess, look on, nurse Adele Day holds up their grandson, Clifton Truman Daniel, in this first photo re leased of the infant Picture was taken by the baby's father, newsman Clifton Daniel, at Doctor's Hospital in New York. Bids Are Opened For Street Paving M. C. Lininger and Sons and Rogue River Paving company were the two bidders on paving Joba for parts of five Medford itreets yesterday. Contracts will be awarded eparately for each street. The city council will consider the bids for awarding contracts at tts meeting Thursday. Jobs and bids were: South Front St., 150 feet from the south line of 12th st. to the end of present pavement: engi neer'! estimate S2.352.50; M. C. Lininger S2.597.25; Rogue River Paving S2.757.50. Rose ave., from Pennsylvania ive. to West Fourth St.: engi neers estimate S3. 617: M. C. Lin inger $3.703 50; Rogue River Paving S4 027. South Grape St., from Mell ose ave. to Stewart ave.: engi neers estimate $18,473.50; M. C. Lininger $18,988; Rogue River Paving S19.703.50. JCewtown st., from Bellmont st. to Stewart ave.: engineers esti mate $7,435.25; M. C. Lininger $7,822.50; Rogue River Paving $7,879. Lyman ave. from Hillcrest rd. to Scheffl ave.: engineers esti mate S6.4510; M. C. Lininger S7.59i.25; Rogue River Paving 7,267.75. What Farmers May Yoie on Quotas Eligible jack(on county wheat farmer! mi vote June 20 to determine whether they want to put wrieat marketing quotas into effect for the 1958 crop for the fifth consecutive year. AH farmers who will harvest more than 15 acres of wheat in 198. or farmers whose pianced 1958 wheat harvest acreage plus wheat land put in tie acreage reserve totals more tliao 13 acres, will be eligible to vrtte A. two-thirds or more fa viwable vote is required to put Ilea I marketing quotas in ef fect fnr the 1958 crop. Foi'. will be open from 8 To 7 p.m. at the Jackson county ASC office in the court house in Medford. Oregon Myrllewood Gave Due Governors St'.em if A gavel made of COreg" myrtle ood will be pre rteoie? to e.ich governor attend ing; the annual Governors' Con (ference n Williamsburg, Va., this. wee. The Jve!s were made by Duncan Myrtle Crafters of North Bend. Each will carry a plate with the governors name. The gifts will be present ed by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. 'Out Our Way' Creator Dies Aft9r Relapse Pasabona. Calif. U J. R. Williams. & reator of the panel i cartoon "Out Our Way."' died j Monday night at Huntington Me morial hospital. He was 69. He had suffered a relapse fol-1 lowing a recent operation and ssas returned to the hospital last week. A 0 heart condition' complicated by the potopera- live conditions was assigned as ; cause of deaih. ! mS -inn 'I te SECOND STORY MAN Towenng to an even eight feet, Henry Hite, 41, doesn't need a ladder to wash the second story windows. Wanda R.amey, San Francisco radio and television personality, stretches her 5-feet-4 to welcome Henry to town. Hite, the world's tallest man, is among 10,000 persons attending a building maintenance and engineering convention in San Francisco. Governor Loser in Testimonial Dinner For Bakery Official Washington HP The Senate Rackets Cemmittee said today "Uncle Sam was bearing a large part of the cost" of an $85,000 testimonial dinner for Vice Pres ident Max Kralstein of the Bak ery Workers Union. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said Kralstein got S61, 000 cash out of the dinner in his honor, listed the money as a gift, and paid no tax on it. The donors. McClellan said, charged off their contributions as tax-deductible business ex penses. McClellan, reopening public hearings on the pretzel-like in tricacies of the Bakery Workers Union, charged that another of ficial, John D. Nelson, Los An geles, paid no income tax in 1952 and 1953. Nelson, McClel lan said, filed returns for 1954 and 1956 only after he was subpoenaed. Government Loses Tax The chairman called both cases to the attention of the In- j tcrnal Revenue Service "w ith i the hope it will recoup the con siderable revenue the govern ment today is losing by these practices. "If existing law is not ade quate. Congress may look into it and prevent the taxpayers from making such involuntary contributions." McClellan added The government should pre vent such abuses in the future." Kralstein. a union internation al vice president in New York, told the committee June 7 that he paid no income tax on the money he received from the testimonial dinner. His attorneys told reporters at the time that Kralstein did not pay gift tax, either, because he considered the S61.000 as a group of individual contribu tions, each below the limit at which a gift tax is imposed. Possible Perjury Nelson was acting trustee of Local 37 in Los Angeles. His testimony was scut to the Jus tice Department for possible per jury prosecution earlier this month because it conflicted with that of other witnesses. McClellan made his charges before resuming the hearings with other witnesses. Gilbert Mann, former head of the Chicago Local 100, headed the list. He was forced out of his post when the local was placed under trusteeship of a union vice president who since has resigned. Portland lairfry Tells Library Plant Portland l? The University Of Portland today announced plans Jir a S 450.000 library building to hou.-e 150.000 vol umes. Officials said bids would be let in late June with con struction planned for September. Swiss Training Plane Crashes Into Lake Arbon. Switzerland T? A Swiss air training plane with 10 persons aboard crashed into Lake Constance today while car rying out simulated emercencv exercises. Police said all aboard j were feared dead. Local police said the airliner, j a DC3. crashed into the lake ' at a point where the depth ! reaches 60 feet. GEM OF A STORY Seaton. England iTP Pam- eia Thornton. 20. was running her hands idly through the sand ai the beach of this resort todav when he found a diamond ring. It uas the same ring she had lost three weeks ago. i Senate Committee Declared Illegal Salem OP Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton said in an opinion today that the Oregon Senate did not have power to set up an interim investigating com mittee without concurrence of the House. Thornton said the committee had no legal existence. The opinion was requested by State Sen. Monroe Sweetland, Mihvaukie Democrat. Thornton cited decision of State Supreme Courts in Cali fornia, Arkansas, West Virginia, Ohio. Oklahoma and Pennsyl vania. The Senate during the recent Legislature passed resolutions calling tor an investigating com mittee with wide powers. The House twice defeated such pro posals. The Senate finally voted a committee of its own members but no appropriation was pro vided. Thornton said "the over whelming weight of authority is to the effect that neither house of a Legislature may lawfully appoint a committee by single house resolution with power to ril after adjournment sine die Sfassen Declared Trying To Wreck Disarmament Talk London HPi The official So v i e t government newspaper Izvestia today accused Harold E. Stassen of trying to wreck the London disarmament talks although he threw his support Monday to a new Soviet dis armament scheme. The Izvestia blast and reports that France plans to reject any outright ban on nuclear tests be cause it expects to have nuclear weapons of its own within two years raised major new snags in the London talks which resume Thursday. Blast Expected An Izvestia editorial broad cast by Moscow radio said "in trigues" had sprung up around Stassen aimed at wrecking the talks. It said Stassen had been given the talks of trying to dis credit the Soviet proposals by leading the U.N. disarmament subcommittee into an impasse and shifting responsibility for failure ef the talks onto the So viet Union. The Russian blast was un expected because Western dele gates especially the American delegate said they were pre pared to move toward the Soviet nisarmamcnt position. French Stand Discussed The Western allies were meet ing today to discuss the new French stand. Diplomatic sources said France might relax its stand if Russia made major concessions in contrast to Stas sen's apparent willingness to settle for much easier terms. This was one of the bigger disagreements facing U.S. Min ister Julius Holmes on his arri val today to join Stassen as deputy American delegate. A U.S. Defense Department offi cer may arrive later. Legislation Discussed Three men from the League of Oregon Cities gave city offic ials from Jackson and Jose- nhine rnuntips a summarv of ac- liuil ill me Iosl itrgisidiuie ii.ici.l- ling local government at a meet ing here last night. About 100 persons attended the Jackson hotel dinner. Cities represented were Medford. Ash land, Butte Falls. Central Point, Eagle Point, Gold Hill, Grants Pass, Jacksonville, Phoenix and Talent. Herman Kehrli, executive sec retary of the league, briefly de scribed some 20 bills affecting cities and counties acted upon in the "longest legislative session in Oregon" history." Primary Interest Of primary interest was the increase from five per cent to 10 per cent of state liquor tax money allocated to cities. This will mean 45 to 50 cents per capita more available to cities for the fiscal year beginning in July, and about 65 cents there after Kehrli said. Three bills were passed which give property owners paying special assessments more relief. One allows churches , schools and similar organizations to bond assessments and pay them by installments. Another allows cities to bond water main assess ments. A third permits property owners to bond special assess ments up to double the assessed value of their property at a 60 per cent ratio. Previously they coirld bond only equal to the as sessed value. For smaller cities, a bill was accepted allowing city govern jments to impose sewrage charges jon water users prior to installa tion of sewer service. This creates a means to get funds for building a sewer system before actual construction begins. Cash Working Funds Senate bill 142 authorizes lo cal governmental units to, create cash working funds between the beginning of the fiscal year and the first tax turnover. These are to be creataed from unexpended cash balances. Other bills: Allow cities to create off- street parking assessment dis- Affecting Cities by League Officials tricts to raise revenue for setting up off-street parking. These dis tricts would presumably be the downtown business areas, Kehr li said. Require assessors to furnish city officials the assessed value of any property annexed to a city within 20 days of a request to do so. Authorize county courts to send notices of tax foreclosure sales to cities. This protects cities against possible sales of property on which they have a lien. Transitional Period Provide a transitional period of 10 years during which taxes and city services to areas an nexed to cities would not be at full height. Cities can make more attractive annexation pro posals to outlying areas under this system than if they were forced to charge full tax rates immediately. Allow an area which has been in a special district prior to an nexation by a city to continue to receive services from that dis trict until the city council offic ially takes it out of the district Add a representative from Oregon cities to the state speed control board. Missing Lakeview Man Being Sought Lakeview OP A 35-man search party plus the Norman Wilson bloodhounds from Dal las today redoubled their efforts to find Melvin Groth, 27, Lake view, who vanished Sunday night after his car overturned on a remote logging road 10 miles northwest of here. State police said that Groth. his wife and two-month-old baby were returning to Lake view Sunday night from a fish ing trip on Thomas creek. With them were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Green, also of Lakeview, and following in a station wagon were Mr. and Mrs. Earl Beebe and a passenger. The Groth car overturned on loose gravel and the Beebe car stopped to take the Groths and the Greens to a Lakeview hospital. They did not notice until they arrived at the hospital that Groth was not with them. Searchers were dispatched immediately by state police and the Lake county sheriff's office. Monday the Lakeview Jeep Posse joined the search and the Wilson bloodhounds were sum moned. No one could account for Groth s disappearance. Mrs. Green and Mrs. Groth remained hospitalized today but their in juries were not considered serious. Milwaukie Voters OK Bond Issue for Schools Milwaukie, Ore. W A 5785,000 bond issue for com pleting Clackamas high school and for work at Milwaukie high school was approved by voters Monday. 1293 to 948. 17 Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks. Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Ph. 8P 2-4107 Extend the state teletype sys tem used by law enforcement agencies to eastern Oregon. Conciliation Service Establish a state conciliation service to cover labor disputes in private and public employ ment. This means local govern mental units or their employees can call in the state service to help settle labor disputes in gov ernmental offices. Provide state unemployment compensation to state employ ees, and on an optional basis to city employees. Make available to Oregon communities more of the serv ices offered under the provisions of the Federal Urban Renewal act. This offers public and pri vate cooperation in preventing deterioration of municipal areas. Revise Oregon election laws. But this bill does not affect city election procedures noticeably, Kehrli said. Existing Problems After Kehrli's report, repre sentatives from each city gave short reports on recent accom plishments and existing prob lems in their communities. State Representatives Robert Duncan and Al Littrell, present at the meeting, spotlighted a few Bishop Comments om California Heat Wave Redlands, Calif. to Bishop Gerald H. Kennedy at commenting on Southern Calt fornia"s current heat wave at Monday's opening session of the Methodist Church conference said: "It's hotter than hades." The temperature vas ST de grees in the shade. measures brought up by the last legislature. Mayor John SniaeT of Medford acted as moderator. Attending with Kehrli were James Barney, president at tha league and city manager of Hillsboro, and A. M. Westlinu;, planning and public works col sultant, bureau of municipal re search and service. University of Oregon. .X- Hi, Champ! You deserve Champion Bourbon! 8-YEAR-OLD smzif BOURBON whiskey $A95 53 44 qt. 20 pint CHAMPION BOURBON by As chenleq OUIGHT I0UU0K WHISKEY. U HOOF. SCHtKLET ISTIUItS CO, If FUTURE? is It's up to you! You want your : children to have a good start to wards success, whether you live or die. 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