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Offers
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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.