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TWO LADIES Judy Bradshaw, Lake Creek,
member of the Antelope 4-H club, holds the
large neck of "Royal Linda," one of many
animals, on display at the annual 4H-FFA
Railroad Crossing Problems
Given Thorough Examination
Medford's railroad grade
crossing problems received
thorough consideration by Pub
lic Utilities Commission Exam
iners in a public hearing here
yesterday.
Six witnesses gave testimony
during the nine-hour session,
called at the request of the city
to consider regulation of train
speeds inside city limits.
PUC railroad engineer C. E.
Jaqua gave his speed recommen
dations, and also suggested two
crossing closures And lighting
and signalling improvements.
Jaqua recommended maxi
mum train speeds of 20 miles
per hour at the outermost city
grade crossings, McAndrews rd.
to the north and Stewart ave.
to the south, and 15 miles per
hour at all others.
Present Speeds . .
Present train speeds, set vol
untarily by Southern Pacific
railroad company, are 25 mph
at Stewart ave., McAndrews rd.,
Jackson and Clark sts.; 15 mph.
at Third, Fourth and Elevengi
sts.; and 10 mph at Main and
Sixth sts.
Where Jaqua proposed 15
mph limits instead of 10 mph
already followed, he said he did
not think the different would
"add to the frequency or sever
ity of accidents."
His speed recommendations
conflicted with those given
parlier by both the Medford
Safety Council and tly safety
committee of Jackson County
Medical Society. They favored
a 10 mil$ per hour limit at all
crossings.
The commission engineer list
ed steps he thought should be
taken to provide "the ultimate
and the minimum protection" at
each crossing.
He recommended:
Street Lighting
At McAndrews rd., improve
street lighting, put all tracks on
the electrical circuit that acti
vates the warning signal, re
place the wigwag device with
modern flashing lights warning
system. Now. only the main
track activates the warning sig
nal. At Clark st., close the cross
ing to motor vehicles. If this
cannot be done, improve illumi
nation. Clark st. has never been'
approved as a grade crossing by
the commission, Jaqua noted.
At Jackson st., install more
street lighting, replace the wig
wag signal with flashing lights,
put all tracks on the warning
signal circuit.
At Third St., improve lighting.
At Fourth St., Install flashing
lights warning device, include
all tracks in the signal system,
improve lighting.
At both Sixth and Main sts.,
include all tracks in the signal
system.
Close Crossing ,
At Eleventh st., close the
crossing to motor vehicles. If
this cannot be done, possibly in
clude several side tracks in the
signal system and improve
street lighting.
At Stewart ave., move the
warning device to a less ob
scured position, preferably re
placing the wigwag with flash
ing lights, increase illumination,
consider integration of stop
lights on Stewart ave., and High
way 99 with the grade crossing
signals, and establish right-turn
lane on Stewart ave. going east
between the tracks and the
highway.
Jaqua's suggestions entered
the record and will be con
sidered by the commission. The
public util&es commisisoner has
the power to set train speeds,
but cannot close grade crossings.
Witness Called
To open the afternoon half of
the hearing, the city called to.
t
the witness stand Louis Sinnar,
Eugene, foreman of engineers
for Southern Pacific's Eugene to
Ashland line.
Sinnar estimated stopping dis
tances tfor trains under various
i conditions of speed, loads . and
weather.
Next on the stand was L. R.
Smith, Portland, SP division
superintendent.
Smith offered rebuttals to five
criticisms of railroad practices
presented in the morning by a
Medford Safety Council repre
sentative. He explained "flying switch
ing" where boxcars are "drop
ped" or "kicked."
A "dropped" car is detached
from behind an engine to pro
ceed alone onto a side track. A
"kicked" car is in front of the
engine ..when . detached for - the
same purpose.
Protect Traffic
Train' crew members protect
motor vehicle traffic when cars
are "dropped" or "kicked" across
grade crossings. Smith said.
The superintendent testified
that it would be "extremely un
satisfactory to the railroad and
industries it serves" if dropping
and kicking practices were pro
hibited. Morning testimony at the hear
ing came from the Medford
Safety Council, the safety com
mittee of the medical society,
and Claude C. Haggard, 405 J st.
Engineer Jaqua, besides giv
ing recommendations for grade
crossing improvements, present
ed and explained a study of
grade crossings and accidents at
crossings in 12 Oregon cities
from 1938 to 1956.
Town and Country Opens
At County Fair Grounds
Kiwanis "Town and Country
Holiday" opens at the fair
grounds tomorrow and will run
through Sunday. Displays and
entertainment are designed for
people of all ages, according to
Ray Johnson, entertainment
chairman.
Youngsters can take pony and
mule rides, see shows starring
G.I. Joe, and watch an "edu
cated" pony and three clowns.
Eddie Peabody, "King of the
Banjo," will strum in nightly
stage shows, headlining a pro
gram that features local semi-
Hegotiatibos Settled
By Local Teamsters
Negotiations between Team
sters Local 962 here and beer
distributors have been com
pleted, it was reported recently.
A one-year contract has been
approved by both parties which
will run from June 1, 1957, to
May 31, 1958. The contract gives
the teamsters a retroactive 1214
cent an hour increase and an ad
ditional 2 cent an hour in
crease as of Jan. 1, 1958.
Baseball
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Cincinnati . .. 0 5 1
Brooklyn 8 11 0
Jeffcoat, Nuxhall (7), Fowl
er (8) and Bailey; Newcombe
and Roseboro. Home run: Ci
molo. Brooklyn.
St. Louis ...
New York
L. McDaniel,
. 6 10 3
.13 13 2
Merritt (3).
Schmidt (5) and Landriih: Mil--ler.
McCormick (5) and Thom
as. Home runs: Moon. St. Lou
is: Musial. St. Louis; Mays.
New York; Sauer, N. Y.; .Mik
lis, SL Louis.
Fair held at the Jackson county fairgrounds.
The fair is scheduled to last through Saturday.
The study showed Medford
had 8.7 accidents per grade
crossing, the highest ratio among
the 12 cities. Yet only 4.6 per
sons per 100 accidents were
killed or injured at Medford
crossings, compared with a state
average of more than 15.
Grade Crossing Crashes
A section of the report con
centrated . on Medford grade
crossing accidents involving
trains and motor vehicles from
1947 to 1957.
Included were figures show
ing accident and casualty fre
quency in relation to train
speeds, time of day, days of the
week, and months.
The report also computed the
average delay of motor vehicles
caused at each Medford crossing
when a hypothetical 80 car train
passes at various speeds. - "
Finally, the report analyzed
conditions and diagramed all
accidents at each city grade
crossing.
Under Advisement.
Evidence and testimony pre
sented at yesterday's hearing
were recorded and will be taken
under advisement by the com
mission. Representing the commission
at the hearing were David Don,
chief engineer; W. A. Straw, as
sistant railroad engineer; Irving
Allen, assistant attorney general,
and Jaqua.
City Attorney E. R. Bashaw
represented Medford. City Man
ager Robert Duff and Public
Works Director Vernon Thorpe
attended the proceedings.
Southern Pacific company was
represented by Edwin L. Gra
ham, Portland attorney.
professional entertainers com
peting for a chance to represent
this area at the Oregon State
Fair.
Medford Fire department will
demonstrate equipment Satur
day and Sunday afternoons.
Foreign and domestic automo
biles will be on display, with sev
eral custom vehicles owned by
members of the Southern Oregon
Timing association.
Several other groups will
sponsor displays. Included are
the Pomona Grange agricultural
exhibit; the 4-H "Town and
Country" exhibit; an array of
deadly weapons confiscated by
the Medford police department;
Indian artifacts, paintings, handi
work, rocks, gems and jewelry
from the Roxy Ann Gem and
Mineral club; and hobbies and
crafts from the Veterans Ad
ministration domiciliary at Camp
White.
Local service and fraternal or
ganizations will sponsor conces
sions and games.
Another Group of Officers Purged
By WALTER LOGAN
United Press Correspondent
Pro-Soviet elements in Syria
have purged another group of
Army officers and replaced them
with active Communists to con
solidate further their bloodless
revolution, Israeli dispatches re
ported today.
Reports also reached Jerusa
lem. Israel and Beirut, Lebanon,
that Syrian President Shukri El
Kuwalty had resigned. But Da
mascus Radio and Cairo press in
sisted he would return home in
a few days from an Egyptian
hospital.
The Syrian-American crisis
was heightened Tuesday night
when Syria renewed its charges
of an "American plot" to over
52nd Year
Medford
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Committee Says
$150,000 Estate
Bought by Hoffa
Country Home Was
Owned by Paul Ricca
Washington HP) The Sen
ate Rackets committee said to
day two of James R. Hoffa's
Teamsters Union locals paid
$150,000 for the country estate
of Capone mobster Paul (The
Waiter) Ricca.
Hoffa, accused of being an
ally of the New York under
world, told the committee he
never met the Chicago hoodlum
and could find no trace of his
name in the deal for the man
sion. Committee counsel Robert F.
Kennedy said one of the union
checks for the property bore
the endorsement of Paul De Lu
cia. He said this is another name
for Ricca. '
"I say we did not purchase
from Paul Ricca," Hoffa snap
ped. The fast-talking Hoffa,
probably next president of the
Teamsters Union and presently
its Midwest boss, said the estate
near Chicago was bought by the
union as a school in which to
teach union officials how to
handle welfare and pension
funds. Hoffa said the estate was
bought by Local 337 and his
home Local 299, in Detroit, and
turned over to the union's Joint
Council 43.
He said after the purchase
was first publicized, he had the
abstract company check the rec
ords and could not find Ricca's
name. He said he did not know
Ricca and De Lucia were the
same or why someone named
De Lucia got the union's check.
He said the property was pur
chased from a trust company.
This was Hoffa's second day
on . ihe-witness stand.1 Tuesday
the committee went over his
personal finances and brought
out that he had borrowed about
$120,000 from his Local 299 in
Detroit, other teamsters officials
and businessmen having deal
ings with the local.
Most of the loans were obtain
ed without paying interest,
signing notes or putting up co
lateral. He still owes "around
about $70,000" of this, he said.
At today's session, Kennedy
said Ricca is "a notorious hood
lum" who was recently ordered
deported and was "part of the
Capone mob."
The alleged link with Ricca
bobbed up as the committee
worked up to the main charge
of its 15-day hearings: That
Hoffa enlisted labor racketeers
Johnny Dio and Anthony (Tony
Ducks) Corallo to help him grab
control of the teamsters in New
York.
'Limp Body1 Found
By Excited Driver
On City Thoroughfare
After narrowly missing a
"limp body" lying in the mid
dle of Park st between Cath
erine and Belmont sts., a pass
ing motorist ran to report the
"injury" to city police last
night.
Arriving on the scene po
lice saw three juveniles run
ning into the shadows. The
three were quickly rounded
up. The "body" was found to
be a well dressed dummy,
complete to eyebrows and
glasses.
The three boys admitted
they had placed the dummy in
ihe street in the hope of scar
ing passersby. They were re
leased to their fathers after a
stern lecture by the police.
As for the dummy he was
stripped of all good clothes
and his glasses and then pack
ed off to the police property
room where he wouldn't have
to be fingerprinted, according
to police.
throw the government and said
"made in America gangsters"
were to have assassinated Syria's
leaders.
Anti-American Broadcasts
Moscow Radio increased its
anti-American broadcasts to the
Middle East and accused Amer
ica of "unprecedented interfer
ence . . in the internal affairs
of Near and Middle Eastern
countries."
Reports reached Jerusalem,
Israel, from Damascus that the
leftist military clique in Syria
arrested five brigade command
ers and Brig. Omar Kabani, for
mer deputy chief of staff and
recent military attache to Jor
dan. The reports said the arrest of
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1957
4
PRESENTS CHECK E. K. Peterson (lower
right) district forester of the bureau of land
management, hands a check" for $1,537,
528.15 to Karl Janouch, Jackson county treas- '
urer. Making sure that everything is okay is
Subdivision Talk
Slated For Monday
By County Planners
The Jackson county planning
commission will discuss the pro
posed subdivision ordinance at
their monthly meeting Monday,
Aug. 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the of
fice of the-planning commission
in the county courthouse.
The ordinance, which was ap
proved and referred to the county
court at the July meeting, would
make it unlawful for anyone to
sell or contract to sell any sub
division until all the . require
ments listed in the ordinance
are complied with.
Objectives of the uniform
regulations as stated in the ordi
nance were to create better liv
ing conditions within the new
subdivision, areas which can be
economically serviced and main
tained will be developed, land
descriptions will be simplified
and made more certain, neces
sary city streets, utilities and
public areas may be extended
without expensive labor pur
chases, property values will be
enhanced and secured in the
subdivision and adjacent lands,
and purchasers will be protected
from unexpected assessments.
The Planning commission has
sent a letter to the county court
asking for their comments.
Members of the court were not
certain today if they would at
tend the Monday meeting.
If the ordinance is approved
by the court they would set a
public hearing date.
Juveniles Arrested
During House Entry
Three juvenile girls, aged 8,
10 and 11 years, were caught by
city police last night attempting
to break into an empty residence
at 1018 South Grape st., accord
ing to police. .
The activity of the girls was
first noted by a neighbor when
they took a strip of molding off
a screened window. The police
were called and when they ar
rived they found the screen had
been removed and the girls were
attempting to hide on the south
side of the house. . .
The juveniles were released to
their parents by police after a
lecture. No serious damage was
done to the window.
Kabani occasioned surprise
throughout Syria and showed the
thoroughness of the Communist
coup. He was among the signers
of the arms acccrd with the So
viet Union.
Maj. Gen. Afif Bizri Army
chief of staff, told a news confer
ence in Damascus Tuesday night
the United States planned to
send "made in America gang
sters" to assassinate him and
other top officers.
There were reports. Syria
might take the alleged American
"plot" to the- U.N. Security
Council, but U. N. officials said
no complaint had been filed with
Secretary General Dag Ham
marskjold. Bizri did not men
tion it.
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Two Performances
Set For Pericles
A fifth play ."Pericles, Prince
of Tyre,"-will be performed this
Friday and Thursday, Aug. 29,
by the Shakespearean festival
cast. . ' .
Friday and Thursday nights
are the only two performances
of this "bonus" ' play, festival
manager Bill Patton emphasiz
ed. A fifth play will not be pre
sented1 in the "immediate fu
ture," he added.
"The strain and exhaustion to
the cast due to the extra rehear
sals involved is prohibitive,"
Patton explained. "To produce
the extra play the cast is now
working 19 hours a day seven
days a week."
Clouds Threaten
Hail, Lightning
Thick cumulus cloud forma
tions, building into thunder
heads, threatened to produce
thunderstorms with heavy light
ning east of the valley along
the Cascade mountains this
afternoon.
The weather bureau alerted
U.S. forest service and state for
estry department district offices
of fire danger from lightning.
Thunderstorms were expected
along the Cascades, possibly
building back to the Siskiyou
mountains southward by eve
ning, the bureau reported.
Sixteen silver-iodide genera
tors were started by the Water
Resources Development corpor
ation to break up the clouds this
morning. Generators are situat
ed at the Klamath river and the
Illinois river valley southwest of
Medford.
Woman Dies When
Rural Home Burns
Grants Pass (If) Mrs. Grace
Bagley, about 40, died and her
husband escaped with serious
burns Tuesday night when their
rural route home here burned to
the ground.
Troy Bagley, about 42, the
husband, was taken to-Josephine
General hospital.
Bagley told neighbors he and
his wife had retired early. He
said he was awakened by the
flames, and that the room was
filled with smoke. He escaped
through a bathroom window, and
suffering severe burns, drove
one-quarter mile to the home of
Mrs. E. T. Radcliffe, a neighbor,
for help.
Weather
FORECAST: Pirtly cloudy to
night and Thursday with
probable afternoon and eve
ning Thunderxtorms both
days. Low tonight it. High
Thursday S.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday SO
Lowest this Morning 54
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise 5:24 a.m.
' Sunset 7:04 p.m.
Moonrise Thursday 2:10 a.m.
New Moon.... Aug. 25
Venus, which began the week
to the right of Jupiter, is now
appearing quite - close to the
latter. Both are low in the west
in the evening twilight. In a
few days. Venus the brighter
planet, will be on the left.
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No. 131
(standing, left to right) County Commissioner
Chester Wendt, Judge Rodney Keating and
Commissioner Ralph James. The check was
the county's share of the sale of lands and
timber during the past year.
"Pericles" is one of the rare
ly produced Shakespeare plays
Patton said. The? cast refers to
it as "Around the world in 80
days with Shakespeare." Ac
cording to Patton it is not con
sidered one of Shakespeare's
best plays being very difficult
to produce and requiring a
large cast and extensive costum
ing.
Advanced" ticket sales for
both performances have been
"quite heavy," Patton comment
ed. However, there are still a
number of good seats available,
especially for Friday night's
performance, he added.
Robert B. Loper, Menlo Park,
Calif., is director of the "Per
icles" production. This is his
second season of directing at
Ashland. He is an assistant pro
fessor in the department of
speech and drama and a staff
director at Stanford University.
George Vafiadis, West Co
lumbia, Tex., portrays Pericles.
He also has the role as "Orlan
do" in the play "As You Like
It," which has a sellout perfor
mance tonight. (A few good
seats are still available). He has
studied acting and directing un
der B. Iden Payne at the Uni
versity of Texas. While there he
was Fortinbras and the Player
King in Hamlet, Longaville in
"Love's Labour's Lost" and
took the title role in a special
television adaptation of "Othel
lo." Jean Cartwright of Corona,
Calif., is playing the role of
Marina, daughter to Pericles
and Thaisa. She is a senior dra
ma and art major at the Univer
sity of California at Riverside.
There she has played Denise in
Stein's "Yes Is For A Very
Young Man" and as Prossy in
"Candida." With the Riverside
Community Players she has ap
peared as Kassandra in Eurip-
edes' "The Trojan Women," and
earned their award as Best Ac-
tres of 1957.
"Sire, There Seems To
Evaluation of Job
Done By Congress
Made at Conference
Takes Cautious Stand
On Syrian Situation
Washington (IP) President
Eisenhower said today he is tre
mendously disappointed in the
record to date of this session of
Congress.
At his weekly news confer
ence, Eisenhower also took a cau
tious stand on the Communist
seizure of power in Syria. He
said the situation is not an in
stance at present that justifies
any action under the Eisenhower
Middle East doctrine.
He charged that Russia :1s try
ing to take over Syria.
On domestic matters. Eisen
hower indicated a willingness to
accept a compromise version of
the jury trial amendment to the
civil rights bill somewhere be
tween the Senate version, which
he still opposes, and his original
position. The compromise nro-
posal will be announced later
today or Thursday by House Re
publican leaders.
Wants Aid Funds .
The President also told renort-
ers he earnestly hopes that con
gressional leaders of both parties
will get together and finish ac
tion on the civil rights bill at
this session of Congress rather
than letting is go into an election
year. He did not think it would
be proper to have the emotions
of the people torn over such an
issue next year daring congres
sional and state elections.
Other highlights of Eisenhow
er's meeting with reporters:
He expressed again his hope
that the Senate would restore
every cent of the reduced foreign
aid appropriation to the level of
the original authorization bill,
then make the best possible deal
out of a House-Senate confer
ence. Spftial Session of Congress
He said he sees no useful
ness in contemplating a special
session of Congress on civil
rights. He reiterated that the
world situation would - have to
dictate the necessity of a special
session on foreign aid should
Congress end up voting what he
regards as insufficient funds.
Eisenhower was asked to ap
praise the congressional treat
ment of the administration pro
gram this year and to evaluate
the job done by Congress. The
President said that he had looked
over the long list of recommend
ations he submitted to Congress
last January and was tremend
ously disappointed that to date
so many bills had not been acted
on and in some cases not even
accorded committee hearings.
Civil Rights Views
He declined to divide the
blame between the Democrats
and Republicans. He said those
who voted against his program
which he believed was best for
the welfare of the nation had to
share the blame.
On civil rights, he was asked
whether he would accept the
Senate jury trial amendment If
necessary to break the House
deadlock.
He said that he would like to
see the amendment made strong
er, but that the Republican lead
ers had reached a conclusion on
a proposal between his original
stand and the Senate version and
would make this proposal public
today or Thursday.
AEC's Budget Requests
Cut by Committee
"Washington (IP) T h e House
Appropriations committee, tak
ing its final whack of the year
at President Eisenhower's budget
requests, chopped almost 216
million dollars today from
Atomic Energy commission
funds.
Be Some Opposition Here