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
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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