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Newspaper Page Texto o o o o Ta iovernor pud Assessor Slioivo Tax Levy Mills Total tax levy on most real, property in Medford for the I 1957-58 fiscal year hag been set at 69.3 mills, according to Coun ty Assessor Ray Schumacher. The levy is 6.5 mills more than 1956-57. Schumacher reported that there is no levy for county government this year. The small continuing levies for Jackson County Historical Society and the county juvenile detention home have been absorbed by funds on hand. For the taxpayer,' a tax levy in mills means the number of dollars he will be taxed per $1,000 assessed value of his property. This can also be re ferred to as a "millage rate." A "mill" is one-tenth of a cent. j The 69.3 mill figure combines city government and school dis trict levies. Levy for city govern ment services alone is 25 mills, and taxes paid at this rate, plus revenues received from other than property tx sources, will support the estimated city ex penditures of $810,912 during the fiscal year. Medford school district 549 has a total levy of 44.3. an in crease of .6 mills over 1956-57. Money collected a! this rate sup ports the school district budget of $1,530,818.76. Highest combined levy of any city in the county is 10X9 mills for Jacksonville, an increase of 17.3 mills over 1956-57. Other rity levies are: Talent, 98 mills; Phoenix, 82.2 mills; Eagle Point, 73.5 mills; Gold Hill, 72.1 mills Rogue River, 70.9 mills; Butte Falls, 70.9 mills; Ashland, 62.5 mills; and Central Point, 61.7 mills. Levies have been set for school districts within the county. A school district levy can be any one or a combination of rural school levy, special school levy, cr school bond levy. School district levies for 1957 58 are: Jacksonville, district 1, 73.1 mills; Griffin Creek, dis trict 2, 74.7 mills; Ruch, district 3, 64.7 mills?-Phoenix district 4, 54.5 mills; Ashland, district 5, 47.9 mills; Central Point orig inal, district 6, 46.9 mills; Cen tral Point consolidated, district 6, 46 mills: Eagle Point original, district 9, 52.8 mills; Eagle Point consolidated, district 9, 51 mills; Lone Pine, district 10, 69.7 mills; Talent, district 22. 77.1 mills; Rogue River, district 35, 61.6 mills; Applegate, district 40, 61.6 mills; Trail, district 45, 62.9 mills; Prospect, district 59, 79.6 mills; Wimer, district 62, 61.6 mills; Shady Cove, district 89, 80.3 mills; Butte Falls, dis trict 91, 61.6 mills; Pinehurst, district 94, 61.6 mills; Howard, district 100, 67.7 mills. Schumacher said that 80.5 per cent of all monies collected by taxing in the county will be used to support schools this fiscal year. Levies have been computed for all taxing "code areas" out side cities. Code areas are sec tions of land within any special taxing unit (such as a city, or Edwards Bound Over, Waives Pre-Hearing James W. Edwards, Portland, was bound over to the grand jury and bail was set at $1,500 in district court Thursday on charges of obtaining money by false pretenses. Edwards waived preliminary hearing and was lodged in county jail. L. R. Phillips, 355 Charlotte Anne rd., Medford, also appear ed in district court Thursday be fore Judge James M. Main. Phil lips, who pleaded innocent of obtaining property by false pre tenses, waived preliminary hear ing and was bound over to the ffrar.d iury. Bail was set at $1,500. - Jacksonville Citizen Hurt In Woods Area Hester Knutzen, 50, Jackson ville, was injured in a logging accident in the Beaver Creek area this morning, it was report ed. Medford Ambulance Service took him to Sacred Heart hos pital in Medford where he was reDorted suffering from a leg tninrv. Knutzen is employed by Ober Logging Company. Portland Fire Trucks Called to Large Hotel Portland W All available downtown fire equipment sped to the Multnomah hotel at 8 am. today after guests report ed they smelled smoke on the seventh floor. ' No fire was found. Firemen said the smoke apparently drift ed in open windows from some where outside. - school or fire district) or a com bination of districts. Residents llVlUg W1UJ111 ajJCHCtl lAlll uia- tricts must pay the tax levies of those districts. Special taxing districts also include those such as water, sani tary, and other districts Levies for code areas may be for a combination of rural school, special school, school bond, water districts, sanitary districts, or rural fire protection districts, 9s well as the county and city. A list of tax levies in mills for all taxing districts (code areas) in the county outside of incorporated cities appears on Page 12. o - o Rackets Committee Stops Questioning Teamster Official Washington (W The Sen ate Rackets committee abrupt ly broke off its questioning of Teamsters Vice President James R. Hoffa today on grounds that further questioning was use less." It did so afte accusing Hoffa of buying miniature wire re corders to spy on union, political and grand jury proceedings and hearing him plead, "I can't re call." Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said putting more ques tions to Hoffa would be a "waste" of time." The hearing, he said, "has pro ceeded to the point where the witness has no memory." McClellan did not announce when Hoffa would be recalled. List of Conflicts In dismissing Hoffa from the witness stand, the committee made public a 48-count list of "conflicts of interest and ques tionable actions", by the team sters heir apparent, Hoffa - admitted he bought about four minifons-miniature recorders but could not re call if they were ever used. Earlier Hoffa promised to clean up New York's racket-ridden phony locals if he is elected president of the Teamsters Un ion. Hoffa, now teamsters vice president and front running can didate for the top post, told the Senate Rackets committee that retiring President Dave Beck made the decision to charter the bogus, memberless union locals in New York. Conspired With Dio The committee has charged that Hoffa conspired with rack eteer Johnny Dio to set up the locals in a move to give Hoffa control of all teamsters in the big city. Hoffa was then and still is czar of teamsters in the Mid west. . Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy shouted at Hoffa early in today's session, "You were the one" who recommended that the phony locals be chartered. But Hoffa insisted "the decision was made by President Beck." Hoffa, almost certain choice to succeed Beck next month at the union's convention, then told Senate investigators that he would "absolutely" run a good union if he is elected. Questioned about his dealings with Dio and others with long criminal records, Hoffa assert ed that as president he would "deal with individuals who will not bring any harm to the labor movement." City Planners Meet, Announce A Hearing The city planning commission met briefly last night -to call a hearing Tuesday, Sept. 3 at 5 p.m. in the council chambers. At that time a petition will be discussed on permitting con struction of a filling station in Rogue Valley heights. Six Senators Propose Washington (IPI Six Pa cific Northwest senators today proposed a sweeping revision of the federal power act torevent government licensing of "in-j ferior" private dam projects without congressional approval. The move was a new slap at the Federal Power commission's authorization of the controver sial Idaho Power company dams ir. the Hells Canyon reach of the Snake river on the Idaho-Oregon border. Democratic Sens. Warren G. Magnuson (Wash.'. Henry M. Jackson (Wash.), Frank Church (Idaho), Mike Mansfield (Mont.), James E. Murray (Mont.) and Richard L. Neuberger (Ore.) joined in the proposal, the latest move in the public vs. private power controversy. The senators all are strong 33nd Year M EDF0RD United Press Pull Leased Wire 22 Pages Syrian President Says Statement by Ike 'Regrettable' Kuwatly in Egypt For Talks on Future By WALTER LOGAN United Press Correspondent President Shukr? El Kuwatly of Syria said today President Eisenhower's statement on Syria was "regrettable" and that the West, particularly the United States "should leave us alone." Kuwatly made the statement in an interview in the inde pendent Cairo newspaper Al Ahram as he prepared to join Egyptian president Gamal Ab del Nasser in talkes today in Alexandria, Egypt, on Syria's future. Kuwatly joined acting Syrian Defense Minister Khalid El Azm in denying that Syria was Communist-dominated and renewed charges, of an "American plot" to overthrow the Syrian govern ment. Kuwatly's statement blasting Eisenhower's contention that the Soviet Union's ultimate aim was to control Syria highlighted a series of Middle East develop ments in cludiflg: Report From Cairo Reports in Cairo that Saudi Arabian Ambassador Sheikh Ibrahim Suleiman Ibn Okeil might Join Nasser and Kuwatly for talks on the Syrian crisis. A meeting in Istanbul today of King Hussein of Jordan with King Feisal of Iraq and Turk ish Premier Aelnan Menderes. Hussein flew in Istanbul Thurs day for the conference on Syria. -A charge today by Moscow ffadicr that -the United States used "Machiavellian methods" in Syria in an effort to over throw the government and that Syria's only fault was rejecting the Eisenhower Doctrine. A new flareup in border fighting between Israel and Jordan. A Jordan military spokesman said three Isaraelis fwere killed in a day-long skir mish Thursday when an Israeli patrol penetrated Jordanian ter ritory. Report in the London Daily Express from Damascus that "Russian volunteers are now coming into Syria by sea and air in the thousands" and disap pearing into military training camp and secret jet air bases. Wheat Men Told Of Bank Program Wheat farmers in Jackson county were notified this week of the acreage reserve program of the soil bank program for the 1958 crop year, according to Harry E. Martin of the Med ford office of the commodity stabilization service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. County wheat growers plan ning to take advantage of the program should fill out the crop information requested in the application sent from the local office. The application, will be ac cepted at the local office be tween Aug. 26 and October 4. New to the soil bank program this year is the "bast." This is the average of the amount of land from which soil bank base crops were harvested on the farm in the two years 1956 and 1957. The base for a farm will be established by the county ASC committee. advocates of a "high" federal Hells Canyon dam which was turgied down recently by the House Interior" committee. The senators introduced a bill which would amend the federal power act to Drovide a "new yardstick" to direct the FPC in licensing dams. Under the measure, the FPC would have to obtain "speciffc congressional authorization to license inferior projects." "This provision would have required the FPC to submit the Hells Canyon question to Con gres and to have obtained con gressional authorization to li cense the three Idaho Power low dams," said Magnuson, principal sponsor of the bill. He said a revision of the act is necessary because "the FPC in reality is an arm of Congress MEDFORD, U. Sv Kussiq Test Devices Reds Resume Tests On Rejecting New Suspension Offer Detonation Was of 'Substantial Size' Washington HP) Russia re sumed testing of big nuclear weaons at its Siberian proving ground Thursday just as Moscow Radio was rejecting a compro mise western offer to suspend the tests for two years. A brief bulletin this morning from the Atomic Energy com mission hinted that Russia is testing H-Bombs or megaton- size weapons. It said the explos ion was "of substantial size." Rejects Offer A Moscow Radio broadcast Thursday night rejected the new western offer to suspend the iests for two years, as Russia has insisted. Moscow's official voice repeated Russia's demand that the suspension of tests not be linked to over-all disarma ment terms. Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the AEC said in the announce ment: "The Soviet Union has re sumed testing of nuclear weap ons at its Siberian proving ground. A detonation of sub stantial size . took place Aug. 22." A spokesman for the commis sion said he could give no further details. ' ' It was the 24th in a series of U.S. government announcements on the , detection of Soviet' test explosions. President . Truman made the first on Sept. 3, 1949. The latest was made by Strauss last April 16, reporting wha proved to be the final of a series of five detected explosions in the spring testing schedule at Russia's mid-Siberian proving grounds. . The tests are understood to be conducted in a desolate area north of Pakistan and Afghanis tan and west of China. , The western powers have made clear that they also intend to continue tests in their de- velopment of nuclear weapons until an international agreement is reached and put into effect to ban testing as part of a broader first step disarmament pact. The speed with which the U.S. detected and reported the new Soviet explosion makes it clear that the test 'device was radio activity "dirty." A "clean" H-bomb would not have shot enough radioactive debris into the high atmosphere to make detection as speedy and certain as it appears to have been. Police Launch Check On Unconscious Man Police are investigating pos sible in jury of Murlie F. Brown, 46, who was found un conscious in the alley behind the Owl club this morning. Medford Ambulance service was called and he was taken to the Rogue Valley hospital where his condition is described ' as fair. According to hospital re ports he had recovered con sciousness by noon but still had "lapse of memory spells." He suffered minor bead lacerations, police said. Brown lives at 1027 North Central ave. Power Act Revision and was intended to function as such." The senators also said their amendment would require' the FPC to consider flood control, water storage, irrigation, recrea tion, navigation and other bene fits in issuing a license. They claimed this was not done in the Idaho Power case. Jackson said "not enough emphasis is provided in the pre sent law for consideration of a dam's contribution to over-all river basin development." He added, "neither has the FPC given sufficient consideration to studies by administrative agencies such as the Bureau of Reclamation and the Corps of Army Engineers." . Magnuson said water storage is a "vital factor" to consider in granting FPC licenses because OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST "Congress Just Isn't Giving Us Much Leadership" V iVV i ni r l-,iljaT-i f ,- . ' Defense Witness on Stand in Libel Trial Hollywood (IF) Confidential magazine's defense counsel called a surprise witness to court today to attempt to pin down the date that the magazine contends Irish - born Maureen O'Kaja, jcomaoce.d. aJiyLatjrvlovr. er" in a Hollywood theater. Michael Patrick Casey, 28, former assistant manager of the theater, came to court under subpoena and told reporters he recalled that Miss O'Hara "or her identical twin" was in the theater with a boy friend some time between Feb. 8 and April 14, 1954. Previous testimony by defense witness James Craig, a former usher, had put the red-haired ac tress in the arms of a Latin in Heroism Evidence Seen at Crash Site Bend (IPI Search parties reaching here Thursday from the Cascades where wreckage of a plane that crashed in M56 was found Sunday reported grim evidence of heroism at the site, of the crash which cost the lives of two Oregon men. -A skeleton ' identified as that of Dr. Ralph Johnston of Leba non was found not far from the spot where his light plane lay crumpled among fir trees. No trace of the other man, Hartwick Hanson, Salem, has been found. Searchers said it was evident that Hanson must have' stayed by his companion's side until death came. Johnston, it ap peared, suffered severe injuries in the. plane crash and Han;,on apparently stayed beside his side to comfort the man until death came. : - It is now presumed that Han son met death himself wander ing around in the dense Cascade wilderness searching for a way to get out. . .. The two men were en route to Minneapolis to join their, wives who were visiting relatives. "storage can firm up power pro duction at downstream dams." The senator said the FPC "failed completely" to take storage into account' when it' granted the Idaho Power licenses. ; Magnuson said ' storage po tential "throws an egtirely dif ferent. light on any project under study by the FPC." The senators also proposed that the federal power act be re- vised so the FPC would be re quired to use federal interest rates in estimating costs of fed eral projects and private fi nancing rates in projecting costs of private dams. "By . assuming identical fi nancial costs; as in the Hells Canyon case, the" FPC distorts cost comparisons between pri vate . and federal dams," : they said. TRIBUNE 23, 1957 a back row seat some time in November, 1953. Testimony Challenged That testimony promptly was challenged out of court by Miss O'Hara who, produced her pass port -to-prove- she-was in -Europe making a move until January, 1954. Casey told reporters "I don't remember the exact date, but it was some time between those two dates' during which I was employed at the theater." ; Casey now is a Hollywood di rector of television commercials and Craig is a free lance TV pro ducer in London. The first witness to take the stand in the criminal libel trial of- Confidential this morning was novelist William Bradford Huie, author of "The Revolt of Mamie Stover." He was called by the defense in an attempt to pin down what is and is not ob scenity. Besides criminal libel, Confi dential and its sister publica tion, Whisper, and their agents are charged with conspiracy to print obscenity. Fatality Driver Appears In Court Mrs. ' Eunice Fisher, 73, of Stockton, Calif., appeared in dis trict court Thursday afternoon on a charge of negligent homi cide. Attorney H. B. Collins was appointed by the court to repre sent her and bail was set at $1, 500. Mrs. Fisher, driver of a car that struck and fatally injured James Alfred McKitrick, 84, of 819 North Central ave.; apart ment 3, was released on her own recognizance and was scheduled to be arraigned in district court today at 1:30 p.m. ' McKitrick was killed about 8:50 a.m. Thursday while walk ing east on Main st. across the south intersection of Fir st. Mrs. Fisher has been staying at the home of Edward Zander, Central Point. Teen-Agers Own-Up To Break-In Series Two Butte Falls boys, ages 13 and 15, admitted to sheriff's dep uties Thursday a series of break ins during the last month. The admitted break-ins includ ing several reported at Medford Corporation property in ' Butte Falls, and Scotties cafe, also ad mitted were the Iheft of a bi cycle from Medferd High school grounds, the breaking of win dows in cabins, damaging of spark plugs in a tractor, cutting of two small fruit trees and the knocking of fruit from .several trees all at Bear Creek orchards, taking a speaker from Starlite Drive-in theatre, and the theft of gasoline from various Butte Falls businesses during the past year. The youths were released to their parents pending investiga tion by juvenile department. Price 10 United Press Full Leased Win No. 133 'Doppler' Fired 1,500 Feet Above Ground in Nevada AEC Says Shot Will Have Little Fallout o Angel's Peak, Nev. (IB Sci entists won their battle against the weather and unexpected me chanical problems today by fir ing the 13th nuclear device of the 1957 test series from a plas tic balloon 1,500 feet above the Nevada Proving Grounds. The device, .given the code name "Doppler," was set off by a mechanical timer at 5:30 a.m. (p.d.t.). It unleashed a loud "boom" and power equal to about 10,000 tons of TNT. Thunderstorms and a leaky balloon had forced postponement of the shot since Monday. But perfect weather conditions pre vailed durfhg the last 24 hours and the Atomic Energy commis sion ordered the launching in the pre-dawn hours of its now "leak proof" balloon designed to carry "Doppler." Eight experiments were re corded on the sequence time. About 30 military planes took part in support missions minutes after the familiar mushroom cloud resulting from the earth quaking blast zoomed skyward. An orange glow appeared for nearly 40 seconds following the blast. The mushroom cloud rose to 20,000 feet but its long fin gered stem . didn't reach . the ground. Some 500 troops witnessed the blast 'fi'orn "trenches "3,500 "yards from ground zero. The test was closed for observation by the press at Newsnob. No fires were started from the explosion. The flash was seen in Los Angeles and appeared as "bright white" in Salt Lake City. Early risers in Las Vegas and Reno also got a good glimpse of the flash. The AEC predicted that there would be "little or no", fallout from the shot. The drif ing mush room cloud seemed to partly dis appear in a cloud formation. , Scientists breathed a sigh of relief with the detonation of the device. Two days ago the bal loon developed a leak and its en tire supply of helium escaped. The AEC fixed the leak but had to wait another 24 hours for an other shipment of helium. An AEC spokesman said he believed there would be no fall out because the fireball didn't touch the ground. The atomic caused cloud was 10 miles east of ground zero 15 minutes after the detonation. 1 Scientists feared earlier in the week that the weather would give them trouble with shot No. 13. More than two inches of rain fell over the test site in two days. BLM Reports Major Range Fires Out Portland (IPI The bureau of land management office here today reported all major range and forest fires in the state under control. But it warned that fire hazards remained at critical ly high levels. John Hunt, fire control officer for the BLM, said lack of rain fall and dangerously low humid ity readings combined to create an explosive condition in near ly all the state's forest lands and the dusty rangelands of eastern Oregon. The hot spell spread also to the normally cool Oregon coast where curjents of warm water made surf bathing ideal and fishermen were making tuna catches close to shore. Water temperatures along the entire west- coast were reported . the warmest in years. Weather FORECAST: Fair throurh Siturdav and Sunday except for possibility of afternoon thunder tnrmc over higher mountains. Low tonifht Hirh Saturday ss. Hirh Sunday near 90. ' TEMPERATURE Highest Yesterdav - 5 Lowest this Mornlnf M Our Skies Tonight sunrise 5:27 a.m. Sunset 7:01 p.m. Tbe moon risinr Saturday. 1:35 a.m.. travels on an orbit iround the Earth at an average distance of 238,857 miles. At V'tw Moon (Aug. 25) It will oe on that part of Its path that lies between the Earth and he Sun. Legislature Will Consider Relief Because of Surplus Estimate $70 Million Left Next June Salem (in Gov. Robert 'D. Holmes will call a special ses sion of the Legislature Oct. 28 to provide 17 million dollars of property tax and income relief during 1957 and 1958, and 22 million dollars per biennium of tax relief thereafter. The governor said he was basing his call for a special ses sion on an estimate of the State Corrallix IIP Stale Rap. Wayne Giesy (R - Monroa) charged today that Gov. Rob ert Holmes' proposed tax cut plan for ihe special satsion of tha Legislature was "another premeditated political man euver." Giesy, a memberi of tha Legislative Tax Interim com mittee and House Tax commit tee, blamed tha governor for "unrealistic" lax surplus asi mate that was presented to ihe Legislature while it was in session this spring. Ha alleged that the Govern or "compelled" ihe Slate Tax commission to issue a low asiimata as' part of tha so called political maneuver. Tax commission that Oregon will have a 70 million dollar sur plus by June 30, 1958. Last previous estimate of state surplus was 48.6 million dollars at the end of the biennium. "It is now apparent that such a surplus win be much Digger than heretofore has been anti cipated,", the governor said. He said his information, was based on a detailed study by the Tax commission and the department of finance. First Since 1935 The last special session of the Legislature was in 1935. Two special sessions were ' held in 1933 to deal with prohibition and the economic problems of the de pression. There have- been a total of nine special sessions, the first in ' 1865. . . .... The governor said he had talk ed with various state leaders be fore making his special session call. . ' . The governor said the leaders had agreed the state could safely provide five million dollars an nual property tax relief through an increase in basic school sup port by $10 per census child and that six million dollars - annual income tax relief also could be provided. The governor said that inac curate estimates by the previous Tax commisison were respon sible for the income tax rates adopted by the last Legislature. False Estimate ' Cited "On the basic of this false esti mate on the economy, the Legis lature prepared its tax pro gram," the governor said. "Upon adjournment in May, the Legis lature concluded that an esti mated 37 million dollar surplus and the revenue anticipated would meet a budget of 272 mil lion dollars and leave a surplus on June 30, 1959, of some nine million . dollars," the governor continued. Gov. Holmes said he asked the reorganized Tax commission under Chairman , S. W. John Horn, and Director of Finance John Richardson to find the true" picture. "Apparently, the new analysis of Oregon's economy indicates no lessening of the surplus by the end of the biennium. Such situation indicates that sub stantial relief to Oregon prop erty and income taxpayers should be provided immediate ly," the governor stated. . Plans for the special meeting ' were apparently okayed here Thursday by Senate President Boyd Overhulse, House Speaker Pat Dooley, Ways and Means Chairman Alfred Corbett, for mer representative Robert Stew ard, House Tax Committee Chairman Clarence Barton, Sen ate Tax Committee Chairman , Horn of the Tax commission, and Walter Pearson. Chairman S. W Finance Department Director Richardson. Automobile Accident Injures Local Youth9 A 17-year-old youth was in jured during a one-car accident last night on the Foothills' rd. when a car rolled over, state police reported. John Harvey, 17, 1917 Ore gon ave. was taken to . the Sacred Heart hospital where he was reported In good condition this morning. The driver, Dale Cuwley, 18, 517 Bessie st, was reported un injured. State police cited him for violation of the basic rule. The car was reported, dam aged beyond repair.