Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 02, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texto West Offers . Inspection Irate With imssSa; ri Trial Wile lisappoiinitiing' ll? 1,1 V.Mir Nv ' , - l -1 AT FESTIVAL OPENING Attending the opening ceremonies and the play, "As You Like It," at the Ashland Shakespearean Thea ter last night were Governor and Mrs. Robert - D. Holmes. Gov. Holmes addressed the thea- 55 Million Value Placed on Building In City in Year Building within the city of Medford during the fiscal year ending June 30; 1957, was valued at $5,213,589, according to the yearly report prepared by HP E. Mackie, building in spector. A total of 751 building per mits were issued. Comparable figures for a 12 month period available from thi department indicated lhat con struction has continued to rise , substantially in the past few during 1955, when records were kept from January to January, was evaluated at 2.751,438.48 for 610 permits. During 1956, 632 permits were issued with a total evaluation of $3,815,728 83. ' j 162 New Dwellings The report just issued includ ed 162 permits for new single family dwellings valued at $1,699,950; 149 single family re model and repair, $193,055; 23 new businesses, $346,000; and 61 business remodel and repair, $362,100. Nine permits were issued for new institutions totaling $1,974, 050; four apartments, $45,500; 19 new minor buildings, $11, 260; four swimming pools, $15, 500; two motels. $32,000; and 95 o e r m i t s to erect signs, $44,861. Other permits included those lor new garages and remodelling and repair, and for removal and demolishing of buildings. The current report by the building department was , th first made' on a fiscal year basis, Mackie said. Sheriff's Deputies Arrest' Escapee Albert Delmar Jones, identi fied by police as an escapee from Chino, Calif., charged with second degree robbery, was ar rested by sheriff's officers in Central Point last night. Officers said they recently re ceived word that he was in a Central Point home. They walk ed in and arrested him while he was eating, Chief Deputy Joe Walsh said. Sheriff's officers here had been notified June 21 from Chino that Jones had escaped and were watching the place where he was arrested. A month ago the officers thought he was in the Ashland area, Walsh said. Several Valley Report Seeing A number of Medford resi dents called the Mail Tribune office early today to inquire about a streak of light which passed over Southern Oregon about 9:30 p.m. Thursday. Local observers described the meteor-like streak as low in the south with a widening spray of light in its tail. It burst and sprayed sparks, one man re ported. - Although the weather bureau and the Medford airport control tower reported nothing unusual 'in last night's skies, the San Francisco Civil Aeronautics Au thority told United Press it was swamped with calls. United Press said airplanes .from the San Francisco Bay area north to Klamath Falls and Med ford called the CAA. Most of the callers said they w a "greenish-white light with the speed of a jet" streak across the sky in a northwesterly direc- Large Crowd Attends Opening Night Play, Dinner of Festival Ashland A' large first-night crowd last night attended the informal and festive opening ceremonies of the 17th annual Oregon Shakespearean Festival'. There were no speeches. Only Gov. Robert Holmes, honorary president of the festival associ ation in brief remarks, paid tribute to the festival and de clared it open. Harry Skerry, Ashland attorney long active in festival work, presided, intro ducing a number of the digni taries in the audience. ' This was done from the stage Transportation Group Appointed Salem HP) A 12-member gov-; ernor s emergency transporta tion committee to help solve Oregon's recurring box-car shortage was appointed Thurs day by Gov. Robert D Holmes. New members are Ralph Sand stede. Round Prairie Lumber Company, Dillard; George Brown, legislative director of the Ore gon State Labor Council, Port land; Earl Hartley, executive secretary of the Western Coun cil of Lumber and. Sawmill Workers, Portland; Russ Fry burg, Timberlane Lumber Com pany, Eugene; Grant Lovgren, general manager Mt. Baldy Lum ber Company, Cottage Grove; T. J. Hcadrick, general manager, Engler-Huson Company, Grants Pass. ' , Earle Bleile, sales manager, Roseburg Lumber Company, Roseburg; Earl Sargent, Sargent and Sons Lumber Company, Norway; Lloyd C. Mason, Ore gon Farm Bureau, Salem; Ben Buisman, editor of the Oregon State Grange Bulletin, Portland; Garland Meador, outgoing presi dent of the Oregon Cattlemen's Association, Prairie City; and Ammon Grice, Salem, past presi dent "of the Oregon Farmers Union. - - Capitol Guest Book Signatures Increase Salem OPi Nearly 1,200 more visitors signed the guest book in the state capitol rotunda i during July of this year than last, becretary.ol State Mark Hatfield reported today. A total of 4,161 signatures ap peared in the guest book for July. Many more visitors tour the capitol without signing the book, Hatfield said. . Residents Big Metor tion, and then explode. The time was about 9:30 p.m. (PDT). Airplane pilots over Sacramen to. Calif., and Lovelock, Nev., and Klamath Falls. Ore., said the light "exploded, directly over my cockpit. ' Some San Francisco residents reported a "plane crashed" into San Francisco bay, near Alca traz Island. . In Santa Rosa, Calif., about 60 miles north of San Francisco, a resident excitedly phoned police and said something "exploded just behind my back fence. Police found nothing. Other Santa Rosa residents thought the object in the sky was only 200 to 300 feet above the ground. The fiery meteor split the skies high over five western states leaving a trail so bright that many residents thought it was only a few 'hundred feet above the earth. ter audience prior to the presentation of the play. The? couple, who are enthusiastic Shake 1 speare fans, were served coffee by a costumed waitress in the Tudor Guild booth after the two-and-one-half hour performance. of the festival's Elizabethan theater, the converted shell of the old Chautauqua building at the edge of Lithia park, which each festival year since the first in 1935 has been somewhat modified, brightened and better adapted to the world-famed ShakespearPunder the stars. Overflow Crowd Earlier, .an estimated 400 per sons overflowed the prered seating at the pre-opening al fresco banquet, the "Feasting of the Tribe of Will," in a nearby park meadow. The diners re entertained from K to 8 ti.m. hv eailv cos tumed Elizabethan dancers an& singers, and members of the Ashland Elks club and Kiltie bagpipe band, who performed on- a cleared section - of land among the dinner tables. Photographers were every where during the dinner, includ ing Nat Farbman. San Francis co, who covered the opening for Life magazine, and who "shot" the group and the entertainers from-jnany angles, some of them from atop a stepladder. Costumed waitresses served the diners their cafeteria-style meals, and the park area was lit with glowing oil torches. Curtain Time Before curtain time,- the crowd drifted up the hill to the theater, there to inspect the freshly-painted stage, the gar dens, the lawns, the banners, and the booths selling souvenirs, food and drink at the tcQ: of the theater shell. The first-night crowd of some 1,000 people was seated by 8:30 p.m., an applauded the visiting officials as they were intro duced. Amoi them were The wife of the sovernor. State Treasurer and Mrs.4 Sig Unand er. Attorney General and Mrs. Rogqrt Y. Thornton, Supreme Court Justices James Brand, a longtime festival enthusiast, and Hall S. Lusk and their wives, John Richards, chancellor of the state system of higher educa tion, and Mrs. Richards, Dr. El mo Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college, 50 stu dents from Crater High school, Central Point, attending in a group, and Mrs. John Cotton, festival association president, who was on'-stage in Elizabethan costume. Cther Officials Throughout the audience were other well-known state, county and local officials and festival supporters, including Dr. Fred erick M. Hunter, former chan cellor of higher education, Phil Hitchcock, former State senator and 1956 candidate for the U.S. senate, and a number of mem bers of the legislature. Tonight's play will be "Othel lo." and others in the repertory will be given in rotation throughout the .month of Au gust. Paper Plates, Cups Burn in Lithia Park, Ashland Paper plates and cups piled on the groundurned into a trash fire in Lithia park here last night. , The fire depart-ynt extin guished tne tire aoout a:du p.m. The plates and cups were, left Lfrom an outdoor dinner, "The t easting ot x.fj f noe ot wm, held before the opening play of the 1957 Shakespearean festival season, firemen said. Some smoke from the fire drifted into the Shakespearean theater nearby before firemen ' extinguished it. President Terms Amendment Threat To Judicial System Senate Gives Approval To Disputed Section Washington (IB President Eisenhower today called the Senate's jury trial amendment to his civil rights bill "bitterly disappointing" and a threat to the entire federal judicial sys tem. In one of the strongest state ments to come from the White House in this administration, Eisenhower said that" rarely in the legislative history of the United States 'had so many .ex traneous issues been introduced in Senate debate "in order to contuse both legislators and the public." The Senate late Thursday night passed by a vote of 51 to 42 an amendment guaranteeing, jury trial in cases of criminal contempt of court, a provision opposed flatly by the President and Senate GOP Leader William F. Knowland. After discussing the Senate action with his Cabinet this morning, the President said the interposition of a jury trial be tween a federal judge and his legal orders would "weaken our whole judicial system and par ticularly the prestige of the fed eral judiciary ." House May Balk "In this case it will also make largely ineffective the basic pur pose of the' bill that of pro tecting promptly and effectively every American in his right to vote,' he said. HousefiRepublican leaders said Sqgate " amendments probably have killed the chances for en actment of any crvil rights law this year. They said the House will not accept the jury trial amend ment, especially when coupled witn earlier Senate action to confine the bill to voting rights only. Some Republican congressmen predicted that the House would refuse to go alon with the SenaR-'s changes in conference comnftttee. Roll Call Vote The roll call vote by which the Senate adopted the jury trial amendmigt to the civil rights bill: . For the amendment (51). Democrats for--39--Anderson, Bible, Byrd, Chavez, Church, Eastland, Ellender, Ervin, Frear, Fulbright, Gore, Green, Hayden, Hill, Holland, Jackson, Johnson, (Tex.), Johnston (S.C.), Kefau- ver, Kennedy, Kerr, Lausche, Long, Magnuson, Mansfield, Mc Clellan, Monroney; Murray, O'Mahoney, Pastore, Robertson, Russell, Scott, Smathers, Spark- mah, Stennis, Tahnadge, Thur mond. Yarborough. Republicans for 1 Butler; Capehart, Case . (S.D.), Curtis, Goldwater, Malone, Mundt, Rev- ercomb, Schoeppel, Smiti (Mine), Williams, Young. Against the amendment (42). Democrats against 9 Car roll, Clark, Douglas," Hennings, Humphrey, McNamara, Morsa, Neuberger and Symington. Republicans against 33 Aiken, Allott, Barrett, Beall, Bennett, Bricker, Bush, Carle son, Case (N.J.),- Cooper. Cotton, Dirksen, Dworshak, . Flanders, Hickenlooper, Hruska, Ives, Jav- its, Jenner, Knowland, KuclI Langer, Martin (Iowa), Martin (Pa.), Morton, Payne, Potter, Purtell, Saltonstall, Smith (N.J.), Thye, Watkins and Wiley. Juveniles Questioned For Removing Mail Four Medford juveniles were referred to the juvenile officer Thursday after they were ques tioned concerning the removal and damaging of mail at Bessie and Saling sts., city . police re ported. -i i The four, aged 9, 8, and 5 years, told officers- they took mail front other boxes after they found none in their own. The torn correspondence was returned to the postmaster, po lice said. Weather FORECAST: Ipjrreasinjc 0 jfh clouijtaess tQifht. and Sat orda" Little change in tem perature. Low tonight 51, high Saturday 90. O Temp. Richest yesterday 8fi Co west this morning 47. Our Skied Tonight Sun rises 5:04 a.m. Sun sets 7:31 Din. The unseen stars in its back ground are now those of Can ,cer. The moon, at First Quarter. 10:55 a.m.. sets at 11:19 pan. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus low in west 8:21 p.m. Jupiter, low in west 9:05 p.m. Saturn, low in south west -10:5 p.m. I - m t i Medford 20 Pages MEDFORD, D'AUTREMONT SENTENCE MY BE UP FOR REVIEW Salem (in The stale parole board indicated today that it would review the life sentence of Hugh D'Autremont, one of three brothers who dynamited a Southern Pacific train in 1923. The cases of the older twin brothers, Ray and Roy, are not Gold Hill Couple Killed When Car Strikes' Big Truck Gold Hill A Gold Hi cou ple was killed early today when their car hit a parked truck on old Highway 99 in Gold Hill, state police reported. . Melvin Carl Hancock, 63, and Ethel A. Hancock,- 58, of route 1, box 544, Gold Hill, suffered the fatal injuries when the sedan he was driving struck a lumber truck and trailer parked on the east shoulder of the highway, soon after midnight, accordfflg to investigating officers. The impact knocked the un loaded truck and trailer six feet forward, they said. 16 Fatalities Their deaths brought to 16 the number of fatalities resulting from traffic Mishaps in Jackson countv this year." Gary Dean Holman, ?7, Ash land, was" the 14th traffic victim yesterday when he was killed as a jeep overturned at the inter- section' !of-HillcTB'st "and' North Phoenix rds. The driver of the truck, Harry Frank KeJJy, 39, route 1, box 892, Grants Pass, told police ne was on the fender of the truck checking the carburetor, but escaped injury in the impact. The truck. was parked directly under a sj-eet light with its lights on, Kelley said. Box of Dynamite A box of dynamite in the back of the Hancock car remained intact. : Tie couple had traveled with their son, Bill, to 'Gazelle, Calif., where they had a mining claim, Thursday afternoon after Mr. Hancock got off work at he Gold Hill cement plant, police said they were told. Mr. and Mrs. Hancock- apparently were returning home at the time of the accident. They were pronounced dead on arrival at a Medford hospital. Agreement Near in Union Negotiations Negotiations between Team sters Local 962 here and beer distributors should be completed some time this week, it was reported today.-. ' Both Fred Moreland of the In dustry Council of Southern Ore gon and Bob Shaw, secretary- treasurer of Local 962,. agreed that the two parties should reach an agreement jy the middle of next weex. Shaw said he has been wait ing for a counter-proposal other than that previously mentioned. Shaw also said he will have to meet, first with members of the local to see how they fe once another counter-proposal is made. Negotiations are being held concerning wage increases. Both the - beer distributors and the Teamsters' officials are tentativelv scheduled to meet in the industry council office Monday. Man Returned Here For Resentencing ' Robert Merrill, formerly sen tenced to the state penitentiary on charges of robbery, has been returned to Jackson gptnty tq be sentenced?sheriffs olficers' said today. Resentencing was sched uled in circuit court some time today; it was reported. He " originally was sentenced to 20 years in the penitentiary in .1945' on charges of assault with intent to rob. The district attorney's office said Merrill was sentenced under an old statute which has sinK been proven unconstitutional and revised. Under Tsie old statute Merrill could only be sentenced to a maximum term of 15 years. OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST up for consideration. Warden Clarence T. Gladden informed the parole board that Hugh has made an "execellent" adjustment, and rated him as one of the best behaved inmates in Oregon state prison. When the train was wrecked "Very Good Put That Man At The Head Of The Class" j Ordinance Revising Business License Fees Passes Council The revised business license schedule -was approved by the city council last night. However, many of councilmen present qualified their vote. The ordinance authorizing revision of the tax schedule be comes , effective immediately through the emergency clause, but all persons obligated by its terms have until Sept. 1 to file an application and pay the license fee. : Anumber of the councilmen who voted against the revised schedule at first followed the lead of Councilman James Dun levy, who said he would vote for the ordinance as long as it is understood that revenues re ceived are not to be used for an off-street parking fund. Fees Revised He said the fees were revised to make the license .fee more equitable. It should not be used except to promote better city services for the expanded busi ness area he said. The money goes into the general fund. Mrs. Betti Boyle resident man ager of the Jackson hotel, and Harry ' Watson, manager of the Medford hotel both thought the revised schedule unfair to hotels. Watson said they are taxed for the number of rooms in their establishments regard less of whether they are oc cupied. . Another objector stated from the audience that the revised fee schedule is unfair and too afcitrary and discriminatory The text of the authorizing ord inance will not stand up in any court, he added. He also offered to submit another plan. . Mayor John W. Snider answered that an alternate plan would be considered if the pres ent proposal failed to pass. I Under the revised business schedulO minimum fees range from 518 to S33. No fee would exceed $175 a year. . The present license fee is a flat $20 per year. For the fiscal year starting Charles Porter To Be On 'Meet the Press' b : Congressman Charles O." Por ter of Oregon's fourth congres sional district will be guest on "Meet the Press," a national radio and television program, Sunday. "Meet the Press" will be broadcast over radio station KMZD at 2:35 p.m. Sunday. Tribune 2, 1957 No. 115. In a Siskiyou line tunnel, Hugh was 19 years old and apparently dominated by his older brothers. Four rail workers were shot to death as the brothers made an unsuccessful attempt to blow open a mail car and take the money inside. July 1, 1957, and ending June 30, 1958, the business license term will start Aug. 15, 1957, and end June 30, 1958. For sub sequent . yeS-s, the business license term shall be a 12 month period starting July 1 and end ing June 30 of the next-calendar year. Those businesses starting In the city after July 1 will be re quired to pay a pro-rated fee as of the beginning date of the quarter in which the business started. . t . Under the ordinance the city is divided into two zones. Zone A extends roughly' over the downtown business section; zone B covers the area outside that but inside the city limits. Business in zone A will pay basic fees from $22 , to $33. Those in the outer zone will pay a basic fee from $18 to $27. Difference in the basic fees is based on the classification of the individual business. There are additional charges of from $1 to $2 for each em ployee more than two, charges of $12.50 for each licensed or registered -professional associate or partner more than: one and varying charges for . living or space-rental units of more than four. , The ordinance separates busi nesses by type Into 10 classifi cations, Five are for service rendering and five for product selling firms. Steward to Arrive Sunday Morning for State Director of Agriculture Robert J. Steward, guest speaker for the annual Jackson County Dernocratic picnic which will be held at TouVelle State park Sun day,, will arrive by plane from Salem Sunday at 10:29 ajn. He will be met heye by other state and party officials attending the picnic. Ward Spatz, Medford, recently appointed by Governor Robert D. Holmes to one of the five places on the state agricultural board, will escort the Stewards to the picnic. Steward, who served in three sessions of the state legislature and was house chairman of the ways and means committee, re signed his legislative post May 21 to give full time to his new post. William V. Deatherage, attor All of Europe, North America Would Be Opened West Must Be Admitted To Russia London W The western powers offered today to open all of Europe and North America to Soviet air and ground inspectors if Russia will admit the West to all Soviet territory. The sweeping plan, presented to the five-power U. N. Disarm ament Conference by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, was the broadest challenge yet issued by the West in 11 years of stale mated arms cut talks. The western plan included a flexible clause offering smaller. compressed zones in Europe and North America if Russia balks at throwing open all its vast territory. Dulles presented the plan on behalf of the United States, Brit ain, Canada and France with a plea that experts begin ' "at once" to draw up detailed blue- ' prints. , He said Soviet acceptance of these sweeping safeguards against surprise attack would help create the kind of East-West confidence needed for further arms cuts and settlement of ma jor international disputes. Big Concession To Soviet The Dulles plan went much further than the original open skies plan first proposed by Pres ident Eisenhower at the Geneva summit conference July 21, 1955. It includes all of Canada in stead of just the U.S. and the Soviet Union, a big concession, It also might' include all of Europe from Ireland on the west to Russia's Ural Mountains in the east. This means the whole of Western Europe, about 1,400, 000 square -miles, in return for all of Eastern Europe and Euro pean Russia, about 2,800,000 square miles. It accepts Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's demand for ground inspection. International inspection posts would be set up at ports, railway centers, road junctions and air fields in all the zones covered by open skies. ' Bids Called for Storm Sewer Work Bids for the west-side inter ceptor storm sewer will be op ened Aug. 26 by the city council. The project is part of an over all capital improvement program approved by the voters last No vember. Plans and specifications for the project were adopted by the council last night. The sewer will extend from the alley be tween Lincoln and Hamilton sts. on Eighth st., along Eighth st. to Laurel, and south on to 10th st. and east to Bear creek. City Manager Robert A. Duff said the.,storm sever will inter cept and divert a large portion of storm waters that have plagued the west side of the town for many years. The new sewer will be approx imately 5,800 feet long and will , be constructed of 30-inch and 42 inch concrete pipe. Seattle Man Killed In Klamath Auto Wreck Klamath Falls OPI Omer K. Jacobson, 32, Seattle, was killed shortly before midnight Thurs day when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel of his 1950 Cadillac and crashed into an em bankment at the junction of Highways 97 and 66 at the edge of Klamath Falls. Police said the car rolled over and pinned Jacobson underneath it, killing him instantly. Demo Picnic ney, Is general chairman for the picnic and. Bbert B. Duncan, member of the house of repre sentatives and attorney, will be master of ceremonies. Clyde Fichtner and Marcus Norton, are in charge of games and prizes. Mrs. Robert B. Dun can and Mrs. James Redden are cochairmen of foods, assisted by women of the Democratic Social club. William Frohnmayer will -handle tickets; Larry Sheehan, program Mrs. Moore Hamilton and Marvin Madden, table and seating arrangements. ' , The picnic is open to the pub lic and those attending are ajked to bring one of the following pot luck dishes: fried chicken, salad, pies or cakes. Service and cof fee will be furnished by the committee.