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Bright Future Seen by Mayor Economy Sound, Potential Excellent, Study Reveals Construction and development projects now under way or con templated in the near future in southern Oregon have a total value in excess of $70 million, Mayor Snider declared today. The mayor and city council have, in recent weeks, felt con cern over an apparent general belief that "things don't look too good'' for this area. But this simply is not true, - Mayor Snider declared after making a two-week study of fac tors which have a bearing on the over all economic well-being of the area. His study was made for the benefit of the city coun cil, and he made its results pub lic today. Many Factors Not only in general construc tion and development, but in other factors, the present is sound and the future outlook is good, he said, mentioning as ex amples such items as the fact that postal receipts at the Med ford post office were up 14 per cent during the past four-week period over the comparable per iod last year; that carloadings are only slightly down in the Medford area, compared to a de cline of about 8 per cent in Ore gon generally; that steps are be ing taken to make the area more self-sufficient ' In agricultural needs, and that the potential of developing new industries is getting better all the time. Unemployment in Jackson county as of July 31 was esti mated at 800 persons by the lo cal office of. the state employ ment service. This compares to about 450 at the same time last year. But Manager John Patton said the 800 this year is smaller than the number of unem ployed at the end of July in four of the past 10 years. In 1949, 1950, 1953 and 1954, unemploy ment totals were higher, he said. Short Supply Actually, Patton reported, fruit harvest workers are in short supply this year, and the labor office has been unable to fill ali the orders it has received for help. Population trends, which in the next 15 years will make Cal ifornia the most populous state in the nation, will also guarantee continued increase in population in southern Oregon, he pointed out. , Here are some high points from the mayor's report: Talent project More than $2 million in construction under way; $6,125,000 available for use this fiscal ar; in excess of $10 million due in the ensuing four years. The importance of the project, however, lies less in the original outlay, than in its sta bilization of the agricultural in dustry by virtue of an adequate water supply to the irrigation districts, and water for some 2,800 acres of now u&rrigated land. This will perrt small -plot acreages to enable workers in seasonal industries to produce part of their needs. Irrigation District s save $100,000 in rehabilitation work scheduled. U.S. 99 Freeway T h i s new section of four-lane, limited ac cess highway between Ashland and the new highway north of Central Point will cost nearly $19 million, and will be con structed probably in two years. Hew Highway Route Medford-Lake of the Woods Klamath Falls highway Con struction should begin in the near future on development of the present forest road into a high-standard, all-weather, level route highway, which will per mit far faster and more economi cal transportation between the two major southern Oregon mar kets, linking them even more closely than at present. No con struction cost estimates now available. , Crater Lake Highway improve ment One section due for con striction at cost of some $550, 000; further developments to follow. Other road and highway con struction, including $170,000 work on Old Stage rd. Rogue Valley Manor Con struction on $5Vi million retire ment home in southeast Medford tentatively scheduled for early next year. Rogue Valley Memorial hospi tal New $2'2 million building due for completion next spring. Work at College Southern Oregon college $2 million worth of new buildings authorized, some now under con-struction.- Shopping center About $1 million development, including new Sears, Roebuck store. Church construction At least eight churches in the area plan to put up new buildings at a cost estimated in excess of $1 million. Other major new buildings are slated, including those by the Eagles .lodge, Oregon-Nevada-California truck line, Med ford school 'system, 'and others, including medical office build ings and automobile company sales and service buildings. Utility development Califor nia Oregon Power company now at work on new Medford-Klam-ath Falls transmission line at estimated $865,000, mostly for labor costs; Eagle Point power plant and transmission line, about $500,000; new Pacific Telephone and Telegraph com pany microwave relay system linking Medford and Klamath Falls, $1,300,000; other major improvements slated in tele phone company equipment; ex pansion plans by California Pa cific Utilities company, includ ing the possibility of natural gas to the Medford area if major new pipeline extended south to Bay area. New Industry Industrial development New plywood plant planned at White City, with company capitalized a' $100,000; strong possibility of other wood-utilization and elec tronic firms locating here. Crater Lake More than $400,000 scheduled for "Mission 66" improvement and develop ment this year; some work now under way; total cost of physical development over 10-year pe riod, $5,721,200. 000. Southeast Medford De velopment of homes valued at more than $1 million scheduled for next two years. City of Medford construction Arterial streets, more than $593,000 including state partici pation; $144,500 for storm sew ers; $270,000 for Grandview Kenwood water system; $110, 000 fore Berrydale sewer sys tem; $270,000 for other subdiv ision improvements; $65,000 for airport work; $240,000 for other vater department construction; grand total of more than $1,500, 000. In Klamath Area Klamath Falls area work Of less immediate impact, but cX great importance to this area, are projects in the Klamath basin, including $12,500,000 for Copco's Big Bend power plant cn the Klamath river; the $12, 000.000 Johns-Manville hard board plant now under construc tin; $5,000,000 for Air . Force housing at expanded air base, plus $500,000 for base -improvement. . ... . . . . Miscellaneous data Mayor Snider pointed out that the rate of payment to the city for street and sewer work shows fewer delinquencies this year than last; the federal government is actively considering construc tion of a new federal office building . here; some lines of business are definitely up, al though many are slightly down from last year, which itself was a near-record year. The mayor also said that dis cussion with business . in the county had brought out ad ditional fact brealng on the econ omy. He said these included: That price fluctuations affect profits more than they do pay rolls, and that payrolls are basic to the overall health of the economy, and continue as long as production is at a normal level, as, is generally the case here. That local markets, tied di rectly to the . population, are the key to prosperity, and that .during a period of population, increase, small diversified in dustries, both manufacturing and service, are bound to enter the area, followed by larger con cerns. That as transportation facili ties improve, Medford will con tinue to grow as a center for additional service industries and small manufactories. Lumber Prospects That timber cutting is now approximately at a sustained yield level; that new uses of lumber are developing and will bring new job opportunities; that a major outlet for wood waste is planning to locate su iciently near Jackson county that it will provide an eco nomical market or substantial volumes of material. That the tourist potential is "almost unscratched," and that facilities are needed at the right locations to provide recreation other than scenery. That studies are well along for maximum utilization of water resources, and that plans are being developed for flood control, protection and expan sion of the Rogue fishery, great new additions to the irrigation potential, more than doubling it. but that unified support will be necessary before such a plan can be placed in effect. The mayor concluded by stating that these facts add up to the inescapable conclusion that the future is bright, despite the present slump which has af fected a portion of the local economy. Portland n State Rep. Norman Howard, . Portland Democrat, has announced that he is a candidate for. speaker of the 1959 Oregon house of representatives. 52nd Year Med United Prew Pull Leased Wir- 26 Pages Defected Russian Agent Shapes Up As Key Witness Potential Witness Named Co-Conspirator New York IP) A fellow Rus- sion espionage agent who defect ed to the West shaped up today as the key witness against So viet intelligence Col. Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, indicted Wed nesday as the most important Red spy ever seized in the Unit ed States. Ironically, the potential ' wit ness, Reino Hayhanen, was nam ed as a co-conspirator in the in dictment against Abel who posed in this country as a down-and- out artist and photographer for nine years while heading a So viet spy ring. Hayhanen, who spent six years in the United States as a trained spy, was flown here earlier this week and testified Wednesday before the Brooklyn grand jury that indicted Abel on three counts of espionage. Abel, a mild-mannered, nondescript-appearing man. of 55, was pictured in the indictment as the mastermind of a spy net work, that transmitted Ameri can defense secrets to Moscow by radio and courier. Specifi cally, Abel, a Russian national, was charged with conspiring to transmit to Russia documents, maps, photographs and other in formation "relating to the na tional defense" of the United States. Could Be Executed If convicted, he could be exe cuted under the so-called Rosen berg law, which sent Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the electric chair in 1953 for spying for Russia. Neighbors were stunned at Abel's .arrest on espionage charges. They described him as a quiet, meek, "seedy-looking," arty person. Two Firemen Hired By City Department Leonard Dusenbury, 33, of S14 Beatty st., and Elmqr Tomp kins, 29, of 368 Stewart ave., have been employed as firemen by the Medford Fire depart. ment, Chief Gordon Barker an nounced today. Two additional firemen were provided for in the new city budget. This raises to 39 the number of department person nel, Barker said. . Both men have had a "year's experience as volunteer firemen and will work with hoses and ladders while on duty as full time employees. Dusenbury is married and has one child. Mr. and Mrs. Tomp kins have two children. !-'" .& J-120 , V ; 1 EXAMINES PEARS Harold Holmes, manager of Rogue River orchards, examines a box of Bartlett pears on Suncrest orchard. The valley pear harvest,., started late last week, is 'now in full swing with prospects for a pack-out, of 2,875,000 boxes, according to industry sources. Standing with Holmes is Mrs. Joe Canton, Medford, in charge of the crew."Between the two is Velois Grant, Central Point, one of the pickers. Jackson County Approved For In-Residence Training Jackson county is one of the four Oregon counties approved for a two-year in-residence train ing program for physicians plan ning to enter public health. - Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health physician, said today he has received a letter from the council on medical education and hospitals of the American Medical association of the coun ty's selection for the field train ing program. To qualify, a trainee must have had a year of post graduate FORD kzJ n U D Reunification of Germany Vetoed By Khrushchev Declares War Would, Devastate America Berlin (1PI Soviet Com munist party leader Nikita S. policy speech today closed the door on German reunification and said war would bring atomic devastation to the United States. Khrushchev had , only warn ings and reproaches for the West in a two-hour speech to the East German Parliament. He boasted that the U.S. is within range of "present" nu clear rockets and cautioned the London Disarmament Confer ence to ' remember this before rejecting Soviet proposals. He compared West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer to Hitler. , He accused the West of block ing disarmament and plotting to convert all of Germany into an aggressive NATO base. He offered again to pull all Soviet troops out of Eastern Europe if the U.S. withdraws its troops to America. But he said the U.S. would not dare accept this. He flatly rejected "so-called free elections" for German re unification, and endorsed in stead the East German plan call ing for EastrWest German talks and a loose confederation of the two German states. . This' plan has been rejected by the West many times but Khrushchev said it was the "only solution." His speech was considered the harshest since the Kremlin shakeup at the end of June. NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia . 6 12 0 Pittsburgh 3 10 1 Simmons, Miller (9) and Lo pata; Law, King (6), O'Brien (7) and Foilei. . AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston ..' 16 1 Baltimore . 3 5 1 Fornieles, Delock (8) and While. Daley (8): Odell, Zuve rink (8), Lehman (8) and' Tri andos. Washington 6 10 0 , New York 1 7 3 Kemmerer and Courtney; Dilmar, Cicotte (4) and Berra, Howard (7). work in public health at one of the recognized schools. The Uni versity of California is the only such school offering the course on the west coast. Others are University of Minnesota, Pitts burgh University, Johns Hop kins University, Harvard, Yale and the .University of North Carolina. , Trainees will work directly under Dr. Merkel, he explained. Other counties in Oregon ap proved are Multnomah, Lane and Clackamas. Baseball MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 1957 Target, if tp ----- IwMir. f w c kW"" fr nT HI XBUCB MILES ' NEW WATER MILESTONE Medford Mayor John Snider (shown above) assists in laying a silver-colored water main which brought to 100 miles the total length of distribution system mains of the city water department. Shown at ceremonies Wednesday on Crater Lake avef commemorating the milestone are Three Appearances Made in Circuit Court Yesterday Three persons appeared in cir cuit court yesterday. One was re sentenced to the penitentiary, an other was arraigned and the case against the third was continued. Robert Merrill was resentenced to 12 years and 125 days to the penitentiary on charges of as- Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly gave Merrill credit for the 12 years he has already served plus any time off for good behavior to which he may be entitled. The latter is decided by the warden. Merrill was returned to Jack son county for resentencing. Originally Sentenced Merrill was originally sen tenced to 20 years in the peni tentiary in 1945. The old statute under which he was originally sentenced has since proved to be unconstitutional, the district attorney's office said. Merrill could legally only be sentenced to a maximum term of 15 years under the old statute, it. was explained. -- Robert Gale Corbett, 18, Med ford, was arraigned on charges of grand larceny. O. H. Bengtson was appointed his attorney. He and a group of juveniles were arrested in connection with tak ing $176 from the safe in the Medford Bowling lanes July 29. Two of the youths, one 17 and the other 16 years old, are sched uled to appear in juvenile court in the near future and are being held in county jail. Two other minors have been placed on pro bation, released to their parents and are under supervision of the county juvenile officer. A fifth youth has been, questioned, by the juvenile officer and released. Merchants to Stay Open Monday Nights : Downtown retail stores in Medford will remain open until 9 p.m. Mondays beginning Aug. 12, following plans made by the Retail Merchants association. The night opening is expected to be a year-round practice, an association spokesman said. Firms joining in the Monday service, he said, will include Montgomery Ward and com pany, which, has remained open Wednesday nights for the past 12 years, and Robinson Broth ers, which has opened Wednes day nights for the past four years. ' J. J. Materie, Wards manager, said his firm had decided to make the change from Wednes day to Monday night "in order to cooperate with all other merchants." Bulletin Hilo, Hawaii (W A Mili tary Air Transport service plans with 67 persons aboard landed here safely today at' 1:26 p.m. (p-s-t.) after strug gling more than 1.000 miles at low altitudes with two of its engines dead. I4th Annual Round-Up To Start Tomorrow First show in the 14th annual Rogue River Round-up will begin at 8 p.m. tomorrow at the posse grounds on Sage rd. The round-up will last through Saturday, sponsored by the Jack son County Sheriff's Mounted posse. The Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce Is in charge of the program. . Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. Queen Glenda Forman and her court will' Tide in "the round-up parade in downtown Medford. Princesses this year are Tessie Fisher, Barbara Lickess, Jean fistremado, and Shirley Oswald. Final show will be held at the posse grounds at 8 p.m. Sat urday. , In Charge of Program Captain Glen D. (Red) Martin is in charge of the round-up, "Buck" Lambert, Prineville, will announce the shows, Gary Gust affson will manage the grand stand and ticket sales, and Harry Firch will handle parking. Stock has been . contracted through Don Miller, French Gulch. Miller contracts for only Concern Expressed Over Appointments Red Cross officials' expressed concern today over a lack of ap pointments to donate blood at the regular visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile in Medford Tuesday, Aug. 13. Only 20 persons had . tele phoned headquarters since work ers began taking appointments Tuesday, they reported. A total of 350 prospective uonors are needed to fill the Medford quota of 280 pints. The Bloodmobile will be at the JSlks temple from 1 to 6 p.m. next Tuesday. The much-needed appoint ments may be made by calling headquarters, SPring 3-3813. Do nors need only to take a few min utes from their afternoon ' to make the contribution, officials stressed. Attendance Declines At Crater Lake Park - Attendance at Crater Lake Na tional park during July showed a 7.91 per cent decrease .from the number of people visiting the park in July last year, ac cording to the national park of fice here. A total of 162,327 persons visited the park last month, com pared to 176,279 in July last year, officials said. ' Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy to nisht. clearing early Friday, becomlnr partly cloudy by . mid-morninK. Low tonight SZ, high tomorrow 82. Temp. 1 S4 Richest Yeiterday Lowest this Morning Our Skies Tonight Sunrise S:11 " Sunset 7:2 J p.m. Moonrise p.m. Moonset Friday 4:J2 ajn. PROMINENT STARS Arctnrus, in the west 9:42 p.m. Antares, low in south west I 10:5J p m. Altalr, high in south 10:49 p.m. Deneb. high overhead 11:40 p.m. Tribune (left to right) LeRoy McCartney and Thurl Moore, city employees; Robert Lee, water de partment superintendent; Mayor Snider; Paul B. Rynning, chairman of the city water com mission and Jackson county engineer (at pipe); Robert Duff, city manager; and Harry C. Skyrman, water commissioner three or four shows a year, and his stock, rounded up by air plane,' is "plenty wild," accord ing to Martin. Total purse of $600 will be ready for contest winners, plus entry fees in the various events. The program includes five major events, a wild horse race, ' two saddle Taces, kids' calf riding, and two drills. Events are open, and-anyone: may' ride Who has entry fee.. . ' , Both the sheriff posse and the Trail Riders organization will present drills on horseback dur ing the round-up. Trail Riders will do a square dance on horses. Ray Refer Named Apple Group Head Raymond Reter, prominent Medford orchardist and fruit packer, this week was elected president . of the International Apple association at its annual convention in Cincinnati. The organization is composed of members from 42 states, Can ada, South America, Europe, Africa and the Far East. It fur nishes promotion, representa tion, and other services for all fruits and many vegetables for growers, shippers, wholesale and retail distributors and allied in dustries. ' Reter heads the Reter Fruit company, is past president of the Northwest Horticulture council, a founder of the Oregon-Wash ington-California Pear bureau and a member of the Jackson County Fruitgrowers league. Washington (If) Four Fed eral Reserve banks today took a major step to head off infla tionary tendencies in the econ omy and raised the discount rates they charge on loans to commercial banks from 3 to 3V4 per cent. "Tie 'em With the Usual Red-White-and-BIue Ribbon" 5 '&1 YA CAPPING Price 10 United Press Full Leased Wire No. 120 Inadequacy of Service Charged By State Shippers Hearings Scheduled At Roseburg, Eugene' Salem Complaints charging inadequacy of service provided by the Southern Pacific Railroad have been filed with the State Public Utility Commissioner by shippers in the Eugene and Rose- burg areas, and a general investi gation now in progress will lead to public hearings in the two cities next month. , Howard Morgan, PUC Com missioner, announced today that the Eugene hearings have been scheduled in the Council Cham bers of the City Hall on Sept. 9 and 10 at 10 a.m. The Rose burg hearings will be. held in the Douglas county court house, room 216, . on 'Sept. 11 and 12 tit 10 a.m. Two Main Charges The complaints center about two main charges which allege that the railroad has reduced its switching limits along the line to the point that some ship pers now are excluded from service although previously their properties had been within the switching limits, and second, that the railroad has ceased the practice of cleaning freight car equipment prior to delivery tj certain shippers. , Both the Eugene and Rcseburg areas' are located on the rail road's Portland division lines and are 'wholly within state boundaries, thus giving Oregon PUC complete jurisdiction in ordering the ' general investiga tion and the public hearings. Approve Contract . Gold Hill A contract be tween the Ideal Cement com pany and Local 136, United Ce ment, Lime and Gypsum Work- ers International union wi signed this week.- It affect 100 to 115 employees at the comp any's Gold Hill plant. Local 136 held a special meet ing in Gold Hill to approve the contract. The union local also voted on a basic agreement which covers 13 of the 14 plants owned by the Ideal Cement company. Re sults of the Gold Hill vote wiil be sent to the union's office in Chicago where they will be added to those of the other 13 plants. The remaining Ideal plant is represented by a dif ferent union. The basic agreement includes an employees pension plan in addition to social security, wor king hours, overtime pay and seniority provisions. Wage increases included in the agreement average 16.48 cents per. hour at all the com pany's plants. Gold Hill workers will get about .7 of a cent per hour more than the average, officials reported. . Salem RB New admini strator of Oregon's outdoor ad vertising law will be Harry L. Baker, Salem. ants 1
