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o erate Debateraayjheck Federal Speuii "If We're Gonna Have 'Em, We Might As Well Use 'Em" 7 j 3 ' 2,586,865 Balance Reported in County A total cash balance of $2. tS9.S3B.16 was reported by the Jackson county treasurer for the fiscal year ending June 30, ac cording to the annual report submitted to the county court. It was less than the balance a year before whuh was $2,907,- 779.43. Treasurer Karl Janouch's re port snows his office collected $4,906,320.42 in taxes and $69, 352.56 in Interest on short term invested funds. About one-third of the total funds handled by the treasurer is for the county government, and two-thirds for state ariH miscellaneous organ izations and other tax bodies. Other miscellaneous receipts totaled $3,401,741.58, for a total of $3,377,387.56 receipts for, the year. Interest Collections ' The interest collections on in vested funds, derived from a county surplus, was the largest annual interest collected in county history, Janouch said. They included $42,761.20 from county funds and $26,591.36 from others. Disbursements totaled $8,699, 081.33. Cost of operating the county government only, which ac counts for 36.4 per cent of the funds handled by the treasure-, was down from 1955-56. Disbursements Lest Disbursements for the govern ment, totaled $2,525,575.87. The total was $741,911.13 less than the previous year, and resulted from a decrease in disburse ments from the genera! fund in in 1956-57, along with fact that courthouse, farm home and arm ory construction was in the 1955-56 budget. At the same time, tax receipts totaling $55,944.57 going into county government funds de creased $379,167.10 from the previous x'ear. Miscelleneous re ceipts of $2,942,664.32 increased $604,470.72 more than 1955-56, making a total of $2,998,608.89 government receipts for the year. Cash on hand July 1 was Sl. 580.650.12, which was more than the $1,327,598.17 listed for July 1. 1956. Lsrqest Disbursement The largest disbursement in various county funds last year was for roads, totaling $1,417, 107.44, an increase of $74,947. 41 over the previous year. A large part of the county in come was shown in receipts into the O and C fund, which totalled $1,867,393.17 for the year, a good part of which went to the ccunty roads and general coun ty roads funds. Disbursements of state, organ ization and misc?l!aneous mon ies accounting for about 10 per cent of the funds handled by Jrnouch's office, totaled $801, 773.37. The total expenses from those Jasper Woman, Elderly Man State Police Suspect Kidnap, Eugene ilfl State police said today they feared a woman store proprietor and an elderly man who is nearly blind "might be the victims of foul play." Car. Money Missing Mrs. Alda Lorcne Wright. 62. operator of a stor? at Jasper 10 miles southeast of here, and James Thomas Aubrey. 81, botn were reported missing. Also missing were Mrs. Wright's 1953 model car and $500 from the store till. Slate police said an alert had been sounded for three transient bean pickers who had been working near the store. m monies included payments from the non high school tuition and transportation fund totalling $320,631.03, and the ' county school fund, $290,059.90. Funds handled by the treasur er for tax bodies other than the county government totaled $6, 041,144.63. including those for cities, irrigation districts, school district operations, water dist ricts, rural fire protection, and (.thers. Harvest on Small Scale Starts in Medford Area The pear harvest started in the Medford area today on a small scale, but is expected to be in full swing by Mondav, fruit industry officials said today.. Estimated pack-out this season is 2,875,000 boxes compared to the previous season which pro duced in excess of about 3 mil lion boxes. Industry officials also estimat ed that about 5,000 people will be employed during the harvest season which runs from Aug. 5 to Oct. 15. No figures were available at this time as to how many of these will be Mexican Nationals. The estimated 5.000 people also includes those who will be used in the packing plants in the area. Quality Affected Fruit men said quality will be affected somewhat by blight and hail damage, but will be gen erally good throughout the val ley. Both quantity and quality are affected by the blight and frost damage which occurred earlier this year, Fred Morlan, secre-tary-reasurer of the Medford Pear Shippers' association, said. Another factor is that the 1956 season had ideal growing condi tions. Blossom drop, especially among Bartletts. has been heavier than usual this year, C. B. Cordy, county horticulture agent said earlier this year. A large number of Bartlett and Bosc buds were killed by the April 7 frost, particularly in unhealed orchards, he said earlier. A frost the following week resulted in considerable marking, especially among Bart letts. Prospects for a favorable D'Anjou crop appear pretty good, Cordy said. A seasonal farm labor office of the Oregon State Employment Service will open Monday at 1665 South Pacific highway for the duration of the harvest sea son, it was reported today. Hours at the temporary loca ion will be from 6 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Friday and from 6 a.m. to 12 noon on Sat urday. Mrs. Wright's son. Richard Wright, called state police to report his mother missing. He said he had stepped out of the store Tuesday afternoon and re turned to find it locked, his limoiher gone and the money missing from the till. No Sign of Struggle Aubrey, who also vanished, usually stopped in at the store in the afternoon, police were told. There was no sign of a strug gle in the store: State police said possible kid-nap-robbery was feared. The FBI was notified of the ii i r a n n thl r td i "?7 No Southern Pacific President Sees No Serious Problem Rep. Porter Informed v Of Summer Outlook By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Southern Pacific railroad anticipates that the frieght car supply, which is usually inadequate to meet late summer shipping demands for lumber and harvested grain in western Oregon, will not pose a serious problem this year. This was the word from D. J. Russell, SP president, to Con gressman Charles O. Porter, Oregon Democrat. "Due to the decline in lumber loading and other traffic experi enced during the first half of this year, receipts of box cars, both loaded and empty, through connections approximately equaled the number of box cars, loaded and empty, delivered to our connections, thus creating generally satisfactory condi tion respecting car supply on our lines," Russell wrote Porter. He pointed out that the rail road has averaged 1368 empty freight cars daily in Oregon dur ing the first quarter of the year This was depleted due to a up trend in lumber shipments be fore July 4, but the cars in storage "is now running in ex cess of 2,000 cars per day." It is our understanding that later than usual maturity and harvest of grain crops in some sections of the country, along with a directly opposite situa tion with respect to harvests in other sections of the country may result in a heavier peak de mand for closed cars to move this grain than would normally be the case," Russell said. "How ever, we are hopeful that with the close attention and coopera tion of all having to do with this problem," the car supply situa tion this year will not be a ser ious one." Russell said SP is continuing its program for buying new equipment but "we have ex perienced reduced volume of loadings this year with result ant effect on earnings. In addi tion, we have been faced with substantial increases in wage and other costs this year which have also reduced earnings be cause of delay in obtaining ICC approval for adjustments in rates to compensate for these increased costs." House Destroyed by Fire in . Ashland i Ashland A house owned by a Medford man was destroyed by fire here early this morning. The Ashland fire department was called to the fire at 554 Carol st. at 1:43 a.m. Firemen said the house was nearly en gulfed by fire when they reached the scene. The owner, Clinton Phelps, 1337 South Peach st., Medford, reported this morning that the house was nearly "all burned." One truck, five volunteers and four regular firemen fought the blaze. Phelps said the house was a three-bedroom wood frame struc ture with cedar siding and a composition roof. It was unoc cupied because it was being re modeled. Tulelake Man Dies After Car Hits Truck Klamath Falls OP Buck Faulkner, 21. of Tulelake, Calif., died today of injuries suffered when his car struck the rear end of a logging truck here Tuesday night. Officers said Faulkner was driving on the wrong side of the road at a speed of about 60 miles an hour. Missing; Robbery case but could not officially step in until 24 hours had elap sed. The search spread to northern California and southern Wash ington and 24 carloads of state police and sheriff's deputies fan ned out over roads and high ways in Lane county. Man Stoop-Shouldefed Mrs. Wright was described as 5 feet 5 inches tall and weigh ing about 160 pounds. She has brown hair. Aubrey was describ ed as stoop-shouldered, about 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing about 145 pounds. He was be lieved wearing striped overalls. 52nd Yea- nUGUE Ike Expresses Opposition To Rights Change Appropriations Block Said Serious Situation Washington (in President Eisenhower today expressed firm opposition to any change in the civil rights bill which would provide jury trials in contempt of court cases. The chief executive at his news conference said he did not believe there should be any amendment to Section Four, the voting rights section, of the bill pending in the Senate. This would authorize the federal government to seek court in junctions to protect Negroes' voting rights. Violations of such injunctions would become con tempt of court cases. The chief executive also said he regarded as a very serious situation the block on appropri ations bills caused by the civil rights fight in the Senate. He pointed out that thousands of government workers would have no assurance of continuing pay unless the log jam was broken immediately. Defends Appointment Other news highlights at his meeting with 221 reporters: He stoutly defended his nomination of Maxwell Gluck as ambassador to Ceylon, say ing he knew Gluck was not familiar with Ceylon but that a man of his record and intelli gence certainly . could learn. This comment arose from the fact that at a recent Senate hearing on his nomination. Cluck did not know the name of the prime minister of the country to which he is being sent. Amid uproarious laughter, he rejected a current report that he was worth one million dol lars, saying that if the man printing these reports offered to buy him out for that amount, there would be a quick sale. Another School Bill Due He threw down assertions by House Democrats that he did not plug sufficiently for his school construction bill that was killed in the House last week. Eisenhower said he had put forth his school program on a number of occasions and de spite the House action, would have another school bill ready for Congress next year. He urged again speedy con gressional action on the for eign aid authorization bill, say ing it was absolutely essential to the continued national secur ity. The President even came up, by request, with his formula for how to stop smoking suc cessfully: Get busy at some thing else, think of something else and avoid self pity. Baseball NATIONAL LEAGUE (1st game) Brooklyn 3 9 0 Chicago 2 9 0 Drysdale. Roebuck (7) and Campanella; Rush, Lown (9) and Neeman. AMERICAN LEAGUE (1st game) Kansas City 0 5 0 New York 2 5 0 Trucks, Burnette (7) and Thompson; Turley and Berra. Weather FORECAST: Fair throujrh Thursday. littlr chant in temperature. Low tonight 54, high Thursday 88. Temp. Hichest yestrrday 85 Lowest this morning .. 51 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . Sunset ... . 5:I a.m. 7:3 J p.m. 10:04 p.m. Ami. z Moonset First Quarter PROMINENT STAR Spiea. followst he moon. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, due south 7:59 p.m. Venus, low in west S:2 P-m. Jupiter, low in west 9:1! p.m. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 31, 1957 BILL TO b&Mtf if i thiii ifTnimlri i iiiei ifiriiniiierf ' 'W'l I ft. CAGEY This wild, half-grown raccoon, who found himself on the "wanted" list Saturday, evaded capture by Medford firemen for several hours by skittering around in the branches of a large maple tree on East 12th st. The animal was finally captured by Fire Chief Gordon Barker after the department's aerial ladder truck was sent to the scene. Barker gave the raccoon to 10-year-old Trudy Poling, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Poling of 401 Arcadia ct., who said she would like the animal for a pet, but Mr. Raccoon is back in the "wilds" again after the Polings decided he was better off on his own. Firemen figured he came up Bear creek Friday night to see the "sights" in the city." 17th Annual Festival Opens Thursday Night Ashland The 17th annual Orego.i Shakespearean Festival opens its month-long season in Ashland Thursday night. Festivities begin at 6 p.m. when dignitaries, honored guests and the public will be feted in the Elizabethan manner at "The Feasting of the Tribe of Will." The traditional Lithia park ban quet precedes the first play. Formal opening ceremonies will take place in the Festival outdoor theater at 8:30 p.m., fol lowed by Shakespeare's comedy, "As You Like it." Honored Guests Gov. and Mrs. Robert D. Holmes will be honored guests at both events, with their hosts Lt. Col. and Mrs. G. D. A. Fletcher. The governor's party is to remain in Ashland for the first full round of plays. "Othello," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," and 'Henry VIII" will be offered on successive nights, with the foursdme ro tating with nightly performances throughout August. Two special performances of 'Pericles" will be seen Aug. 23 and 29. Life magazine is expected to cover both the banquet and the Shots Heard in KF Lead To Arrest of Lakeview Man Lakexiew (IB A shot heard 'round southeastern Oregon brought police reinforcements to an isolated canyon and led to the capture of the man who had fired it. Lloyd Johnson, about 62, was taken into custody last night on a warrant charging child steal ing and an additional charge of assault with intent to kill. State police received informa tion that Johnson was hiding out with a teen-age girl and a teen age boy in an old school bus in the canyon. Officers Nick Barry and Don Woodruff drove up the canyon and parked their car with the lights off some distance from the bus. They left the po lice radio on. Johnson spotted them and fired two shots, police said, one of which pierced the police car radiator. Dispatchers in Klamath Falls heard the shots over the radio and notified Lakeview authorities who quick ly dispatched reinforcements to the canyon. Swimmer's Body Found In Old Gravel Pit Salem 0H State police today recovered the body of a 26-year-old Seattle man who drowned Tuesday night while swimming in an abandoned gravel pit about six miles north of here. Virgil Leon Brown jurt "dived in and never came up," his widow said. BE INTRODUCED opening night play. Other Officials Officials, who are to attend with their wives, include State Treasurer Sig Unahder, Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton, Su preme Court Justices Hall S. Lusk and James T. Brand, Dr. John R. Richards, chancellor, Oregon state system of higher education, and Dr. Elmo Steven son, president, Southern Oregon college. James McDonald, British con sul at Portland, who was to have represented the British ambassa dor, will be unable to attend due to illness. Membership Sales Deadline for sale of member ships in the festival is midnight tonight and orders for sustaining memberships must be post marked no later than midnight. William W. Patton, festival general manager, indicated that the increase in ticket sales which occurred early in the summer has continued, with sales 23.5 per cent over this time last year. Telephone reservations are being accepted at the box office, MUrdock 9-5111, from 9:30 a.m. until 9 p.m. weekdays and on Sundays from 3 to 9 pjn. Johnson was -surrounded and surrendered. The warrant charging child stealing had been issued after Howard Beachler, Lakeview, signed a complaint charging that Johnson took his daughter Mar va, 16, and son Albert, 17, June 29. At jail in Lakeview, John son showed officers a marriage certificate and claimed he and the girl had been married. Offi cers said he had a previous con viction of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Assessed Valuation of Utility Holdings Rises The assessed valuation of util ity company holdings in Jackson county increased 14.2 per cent during the past year, according to the Oregon State Tax com mission. The assessed valuation in 1957 is listed as S12,021,966.78 for Jackson county. The true cash value, which also increased 14.2 per cent over last year, is listed as $33,394,352.18 by the com mission. According to the report, larg est increase in assessed valuation over the previous year was in Clatsop county with 29.9 per cent, for an assessed valuation of S2,739.696.66. Gilliam county showed a 15.7 per cent drop Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leased Wire No. 113 $66 Million Would Be Authorized for Completion of Job Introduction Planned By Porter Tomorrow Congressman Charles O. Port er tomorrow will introduce legislation to authorize some $66,500,000 for completion, of the Rogue Basin irrigation, re clamation and power ' project, Washington sources said today. Rep. Porter has explained he will not press for immedate pass age of the measure, but that he is introducing it now to permit greater speed in completing pre liminary studies designed to pro vide changes necessary to make the final measure acceptable to all interests. The Mail Tribune's Washing ton correspondent, A. Robert Smith, said the measure will be placed in the "hopper" in the House of Representatives at noon (Washington time) tomor row. Announces Plan Rep. Porter first announced his plan to introduce such a bill last March, but delayed doing so until he could gather further information about the needs of the area. On a recent visit, he said the bill as changed before introduction would include more Edequate provision for conserva tion facilities. Among the bill's provisions is a dam across the Rogue at Lewis creek, with reservoir and power plant and a Ruch dam and reservoir, to be built by the Army engineers. Construction ot the Cascade Gorge dam and power plant, the Trial diversion and a power plant, the Deer creek dam and reservoir, and other works, would be built by the department of the interior. The bill provides that struct ures designed primarily for flood control would be the func tion of tho Army engineers while primarily irrigation struc tures would' be interior depart ment projects. . x Include Consecration The bill calls for $1 million "to promote," for the benefit of the people of the United States. the readjustment and develop ment of areas in the Rogue River basin directly affected by the projects authorized." This Rogue River development fund would include facilities lor con servation and re-establishment nf the fish and wildlife re sources of the basin, public rec reational facilities, fish hatcher ies, wildlife refuges," and simi lar developments. Rep. Porter has repeatedly stated that he would not seek final enactment of basin legis lation which does not have the overwhelming support of Rogue valley residents, but that he feels unified support for such a proposal will be obtained when studies are completed and all pertinent facts known. The Rogue basin project nas had a long and stormy history. Plans for the multiple purpose development of the area orig inated in the last century, out it was in the 1940s when pro posals for a major, all-inclusive project were developed. These culminated in a public reading in 1948 when advocates of the compared to the previous year or a total assessed valuation of $2,554,050.91. This decrease is due primarily to reduction; in county assigned ratio, it was ex plained. The gas company category heads the list of increases, show ing a rise of about 47 per cent over last year due to the invest ment in natural gas pipeline and facilities, according to S. W. Horn, commission chairman. Other classes showing substan tial gains include air transpor tation companies, up 14.4 per cent; telephone companies, up 17.3 per cent; water transporta tion companies, up 14.6 per cent, and electric companies, up 13.1 per cent. i Neuberger Wants Postal Pay Hike Listed in Business Morse Wants Specific Time for Tria! Vote Washington (ID It was a toss-up whether the Senate would act today to keep much of the government from going broke at midnight. Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), Tuesday blocked the unanimous consent necessary for the Sen ate to sidetrack the civil rights debate long enough to author ize spending after today by sev eral big agencies including the military. Attitude Softened . Today he softened his atti tude a bit, but his colleague. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D Ore.), said he would block un animous content to put other business ahead of civil rights unless the other business in cluded pay boosts for postal employees. The administration and the GOP legislative leader ship oppose the increase. . , Morse pointed out that no un animous consent agreement is needed to call up the Defense and Agriculture appropriations bls for final action by. the Senate. As for other business, he said he would agree to its con sideration only if a specific time is set for voting on the civil rights jury trial amendment Hopes for Vote This Week Senate Republican Leader William F. Knowland said he hoped agreement could be reach ed for the vote this week. Several government agencies have been operating since the start of the fiscal year July X on a congressional resolution allowing them to go on spend ing up to midnight tonight. So far the Senate has been unable to set aside the civil rights bill long enough to re new the resolution or vote on the money bills ready for ac tion. Morse Denies Vote Delays Pear Aid Washington Ofl Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), today branded as a falsehood a statement that his civil rights vote would cause an indefinite delay in enactment of legislation to provide relief for Oregon pear orchardists. He said that "any objection to a unanimous consent agree ment to lay aside the rights bill would not delay consideration of the legislation to provide re lief for Oregon pear orchard ists." He said the legislation "in which the pear growers are in terested is now in the form of a conference report. Under Rule XXVII of the Senate, a confer ence report is a privileged mat- ter and can be called up Im mediately." "l made this precise point on the floor of the Senate this morning and indicated tiat I would, as always, abide by the rules of the Senate. I suggested to the leadership of the Senate that they, bring up all of the conference bills now pending and awaiting action by both houses. This would result in im mediate action on S. 1314, the Agricultural Trade , Develop ment bill, which is of interest to the orchardists of my state." - power, flood control and irriga tion aspects clashed with fish and wildlife and recreational interests. Compromise' Development 4 Later in a "comnrnmiw" de velopment, one portion of the Rogue project as originally drawn, the Talent project, re ceived virtually unanimous sup port, was authorized and start ed. Construction on the $22,000,- 000 project is now under way, with more than $8,000,000 al ready allocated. Other portions of the Rogue bosin project remained dormant until after the disasterous Rogue River floods in December, 1955, and early in 1956. when senti ment again built up for control of the river. A series of studies are now under way by the Army engi neers, by the reclamation bur eau and other interior depart ment agencies, and by the Ore gon water resources board as sisted by a local committee, to determine the best methods cf development which wou.d satisfy all interests. The results of these studies will be considered by Rep Port er as possible amendments to his bill when it is brought up for final action, 'possibly next year. He believes the introduction of the bill will serve to speed com pletion of the studies. Wenatchee, Wash. UK Fire fed by tons of rubber "bubbling like a volcano" destroyed the Sugg's Tire Cor recapping plant here Tuesday night
