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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1957)
I o O Rezoning Decision Postponed by City Planning Commission A decision on rezoning a city block along Eeast Jackson st. was postponed at a cv planning commission meeting last night. The matter will be reconsidered at the next meting. Philip Lowry, Medford at torney, represented Mr. and Mrs. O. H. Sneed, 229 North Keeneway dr., requesting the zone change. The petition asks that the block be changed from "multi ple family" to "limited com- Improved Weather Awaited To Remove Body of Climber Grindelwald, Switzerland . iw Alpine experts will await "halfway decent weather" be fore attempting to recover the body of Stefano Longhi from the sheer north face of Mt. Eiger, it was announced today. Longhi is one of four climbers who were stranded on the moun tain by sudden snow last. week. His body, dangling head down in a tangle of climbing ropes, is about 1,200 feet below the mountain's peak. Authorities here said they are unwilling to risk the life of an other climber by attempting to recover Longhi's body before the weather improves. Two German climbers who were caught on the peak have vanished. A veteran glacier pilot has been assigned to fly over the crevasses, grooves and gul lies criss-crossing the mountain side for traces of their bodies. Claudio Corti, the only one of the four men who survived the ordeal, was reported "resting comfortably" in a hospital to day. He is expected to recover. Chamonix, France W Two rescue columns left at dawn today to try to save six climbers missing on the ice-clad slopes of Mount Blanc. The first column headed for the 13,530 foot high Aiguille Verte Green Needle (peak of the Mount Blanc massif) where three Polish climbers were re ported missing since Sunday afternoon. , A violent thunderstorm swept the Aiguile Verte at 5 p.m. Sun day when the three Poles were only 900 feet from the mountain top. Three other mountaineers, a Yugoslav and two Poles, have been missing since last Wednes day on Mount Blanc. Their names were not known. Twelve persons already have died and dozens have been in jured in Alpine accidents this year in France, officials reported. Lebanon Woman Killed Near Brothers Bend HPi An elderly Leb anon woman was killed and her husband was injured seriously in a one-car accident on Highway 20 about 11 miles east of Borth ers Monday, state police re ported. The victim was Mrs. Maria Wiens. 69. Injured was Gerhart P. H. Wiens, 70. He was in ser ious condition in a local hospital. The car overturned in a ditch, police said. The couple went to Lebanon about a year ago after living in Idaho and California since 1922 when they fled from the Ukraine part of Russia. KHRUSHCHEV LIKES CORN Berlin ilP Soviet Com munist Leader Nikita Khrush chev recommended corn to East Germans Sunday as "sausage on a stalk." Khrushchev, on a visit to a state-run corn farm near Magdeburg, called corn the "king of the plants." He pointed to nine-foot stalks and said: "That is sausage on the stalk, that is butter, that is beefsteak, that is bacon. Now you under stand why I am such a corn fan." Court Records mercial" zone. Jackson st. forms the eastern boundry of the area, with Genes see st. on the east, Sherman st. on the south, and Hawthorne st. on the west. Public hearings -were called for the next meeting on two requests, one to allow medical clinics to use signs now per mitted apartment houses, the other to rezone property at the corner of Delta Waters rd. and Crater Lake highway. At City Manager Robert Duff's suggestion, the commis sion stipulated that medical clinic signs, if approved later, should be flat against buildings. Another public hearing was called for the next meeting on a equest for change of zone for three lots on Highland dr., one containing the Highland market. Robert Dames, ' attorney, ap peared on behalf of C. A. Par lier., 1628 East Main st. Jackson County Housing au thority's offer to dedicate Columbus ave. extended to Mc- Andrews rd. was recommended for approval to the city council. An appeal hearing was set for the next meeting for Siskiyou Memorial association. The as sociation is appealing a permit denial by the city building in spector on a proposed 40 by 60 galvanized iron building in Sisk iyou Memorial park, 605 High land dr. Final plats were approved for Broadlands and Hillcrest Heights subdivisions. The first includes 12 lots on Ihe south side of Griffin Creek rd. Donald M. and Zavive L. Minear are listed as owners. Hillcrest Heights, also outside city limits, are an extension of Hillcrest rd. Owners are Donald W. and Betty F. Root. Commission members Allen Perry and Hugh Coleman were appointed a committee to con sider a request that an area east of South Riverside ave., from Barnett rd. to Earhart st., be annexed to the city . A request for some action to ward annexation was made by William Schei, owner of Crater Inn Motel, 841 South Riverside ave., and A. E. Eitemiller, 3705 Roberts rd. The commission agreed to meet with the city council to study a proposed city sub-division ordinance. Mayor John Snider asked that a joint meet ing be held before the ordinance cpmes to public hearing before the council Oct. 3. Oregon Man Said Victim of Suicide In Chicago Hotel Indianapolis, Ind. Iff) A verdict of suicide was returned today in the death of Everett B. Sparks, 30, Forest Grove, Ore., who was found dead in his hotel room after a gun battle in which, three persons were wounded. Sparks was killed with a shot in the head in his 12th floor room at the Sheraton-Lincoln hotel, where he fought a 30-min-ute battle of bullets with police last Thursday. Sparks began firing when a detective and hotel executives prepared to unmask him as a check forger posing as a wealthy contractor while living preten tiously in hotels in many cities across the nation. Dr. Roy B. Storms, Marion county coroner, said he based a suicide verdict on results of a police ballistics test of a .32-cal-iber bullet found with blood on it in Spark's hotel room. Sparks clutched a .32 caliber gun in his hand when his body was found. None of the police weapons fired through the doors at Sparks was a .32 caliber gun. Sparks shot two policemen and a 19-year-old girl during a hotel lobby gun battle and a sec ond battle with police who tried to flush him from his room with tear gas and bullets. iffinq Innerfube Brings Death To Girl Warsaw, Ind. (IP) Patricia Jo Nelson, 6, Gas City, Ind., drown ed Monday in Saw Mill lake in Kosciusko county. The victim' was playing in the water with her brother when she suddenly started to go out into water for a drifting inner tube, authorities said. They said her brother called her back, but a short time later her body was found lying face up in three feet of water. Woman's Body Found Along Country Road Jacksonville, 111. (IP) The body of Mrs. Betty McGee, 29, was found along a country road Monday near here. Authorities said Mrs. McGee, Jacksonville, had apparently been slain elsewhere by a blow on the head and her body placed along the road. They said she was last seen shortly after mid night with an unidentified man in a restaurant Seattle (IP) The 11th 64,-000-kilowatt generator went on the line at Chief Joseph Dam Saturday. PARDON MY METER, MR. SECRETARY Defense secre tary designate Neil H. McEIroy has a face full of light meter as this photographer takes no chances on the correct exposure. The room was full of cameras, lights and microphones as Mr. McEIroy held a special press conference in his Cincinnati office for cameramen. MUNICIPAL COl'RT Vivian Eileen Knox, violation of basic rule. S10. Afton C. Nottingham, disobeyed stop ign. S5. Duane Lee Lubbers, disobeyed stop sign. $5. Richard Burl Wfills, violation of basic rule. Sin Norms K. Porter, disseyed stop j sign. S5. " Albert J. Kimbrell, defective tail i lights. $5. Andrew W. Laricks. no operator's ; lecense. $10. r Walter James Savase. defective equipment unuffler 5y5temi 5 Rav J. Cummings. violation of basic rule." Sin Blanche L. Pyle. violation of ba: rule. S10. Ruth Lavonne Fox. no operator's 1 permit. $10. Victor Burdis Brown, disobeyed , traffic signal. 55 t Walter R. Webb, violation of basic : rule. S10. j Morris L: Frink. disobeyed traffic signal. So. D. W. Warrelman, no operator's license. S10- Teddie Lee Surplock. four in front , seat. S2.50. j Mae Josephine Earl, disobeyed . traftic signal. So. I Joan Easther Walden. violation of basic rule. S10 Allison T Eastgate. violation of basic rule. $10. J For Over 25 Years A Dependable Place to Buy Safe - Satisfying OIL HEAT QUAKER HEATERS JOHNSON BURNERS Standard Heating Oils Expert Oil Burner Service Valley Fuel Co. 26 W. Main Phone SP 3-1576 111! sf iky ji&im WHEEL YOUR PARTNER Although he has been con: fined to a wheelchair since he was wounded in action during the Korean war, Joe Johnson doesn't let that stop him from having a ball on the dance floor. Here Joe is doing some fancy free wheeling jitterbugging at Co lumbia, S. C. with Sandra Williams. Nation Gets Varied Weather; Screaming Winds Lash N. Dakota By UNITED PRESS A crazy-quilt assorted weather blanketed the nation today, part of the continuing pattern which saw hammering thunderstorms and screaming winds side-by-side with clear evening skies in which a comet flashed. The U. S. Weather Bureau said that winds estimated at 70 to 80 miles per hour buckled a barn and an elevator near Jamestown, N. D., while more than an inch Of rain fell in the area. A thunderstorm belt stretched across the Dakotas and Minnesota, dropping 2.53 inches of rain at Grand Forks, N. D. Comet Seen In parts of Wisconsin, as well as in New England and the Texas coast, night time observers were able to see Markos a third or der comet. Good visibility ac companied a movement of cool Canadian air which extended from eastern Wisconsin to Mew England. Elsewhere, a string of thunder storms rattled along a broad path down the Rockies and across the lower Mississippi Valley, becom ing less frequent in the south At lantic coastal area. It was mostly fair along the Pacific Coast. Cooling Expected Fair skies will prevail again today west of the Rockies and over most of the area east of the Great Lakes and nofth of the Mason-Dixon Line, where cool ing also is expected. Scattered showers and thunderstorms will continue over most of the warm, humid southern half of the coun try, halting their westward sweep at the Rockies. Warmer temperatures are pre dicted for the Pacific Northwest as well as the upper Mississippi Valley, with cooler readings in the Dakotas. Tuesday, August 13, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Mid-East Said To Be Test Center London HP) Diplomatic offi-: cials warned today that Soviet Russia is fast turning the strate- i gic Middle East into a new "testing center" in the great power conflict.- This conclusion stemmed from the disquieting Red arms build- i up in the area, which is current-! ly being stepped up anew by Moscow under agreements with Arab nations. Coinciding with the arms buildup is a stepped-up anti Israel campaign in which mem bers of the Supreme Soviet now are reported to have joined. Latest reports reaching Lon don claim that Red arms thus far delivered to Egypt and Syria by far exceed the present needs of their respective armies. Moreover, Russia has begun to increase the flow of naval units to Arab nations, including torpedo boat flotillas and long range submarines which experts feared would adversely affect tha naval balance in the Eastern Mediterranean. PILFER TIP Newark, England (IT) Thieves who looted a cigarette shop left word of advice for the proprietor. They wrote a note saying: "Look after the place better." Crossing Gate Fails; Three Youths Killed Grafton, Ohio OP) Safety officials today began in vestigating the failure of a rail road crossing gate that caused the death of three teen-ageTs when their car was struck by a speeding passenger train. Logan County's sheriff's depu ties said the gates, operated from a control tower at the site, did not come to a complete rest in a horizontal position. The car bearing the trio was hit broadside by a New York Central train traveling at about 75 miles per hour. The auto was carried ' along the track for a half mile before the engine came to a stop. FLUID DRIVE Halifax, N.S. (IPi Terry Kidd is a young man of a few words. He had only one com ment after causing his father's auto to roll into the harbor. Said 2-year-old Terry: "Dad's car drowned." If you have an old, too small refrigerator REPLACE NOW AND SAVE ON THIS NEW 1957 AUTOMATIC DEFROSTING .KWW7 -Stan Easy, Sm tas 9mA Easy (smmsm 17.1 Sq. Ft. Stotf Scxm. Giant Twin Cstspen. 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