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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.
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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. !
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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.
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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.
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