Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 30, 1957, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textj3 a n long 14 J '1. T' v . -4 FIRST SECTION The first section of a 57 inch precast concrete siphon was put in place yesterday afiernoon for the new Yankee creek siphon, which will replace a 48-inch wood stave structure, visible at right of pic Condemnation Suit Involving Street Righf-of-Way Set A Condemnation suit will be gin in circuit court before Judge Edward Kelly Thursday against Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Muir- head, 2003 Hillcrest rd. It was brought by the city of Medford, and involves land between Barneburg rd. and Sunrise ave., for street right of way. The city wishes the strip of lard to make Jackson blvd. a through street, from Hillcrest rd. to McAndrews rd. in west Medford. The defendants claim the strip of land would divide their prop erty into two parts, which would require the building and future maintenance of fences, gates and passageways on boundaries of the streets They also state the property desired by the city is partly outside the city of Med ford. Buildings On Property A residence, barn, and other buildings are on the property that would be bisected by the street, the defendants' answer states, and that livestock is kept In the area. Water from the ditch of Medford Irrigation dis trict is used on the property. The defendants also say that In addition to the right of way desired by the city another .2 of an acre of land would be in volved if the land were con demned. City zoning, ordinance requires a 20 foot set back line from any street. If the property is condemned the defendants ask $15,000 plus $3,000 attorney fees. If the land Is not condemned the defend ants ask $3,000 attorney fees. Attorneys for the defendants are George Roberts and G. W. Kellington. Roy Bashaw, city at torney, will present the city's case. Eagle Point Man Hurt in Accident Willie Clarence Ward, 46, of 324 South B st.. Eagle Point, was reported In "very poor" condi tion at Rogue Valley hospital this morning following a logging acci dent near Tiller Tuesday .morn ing. Ward, who was brought to Medford by Medford ambulance, was treated at the scene of the accident by a Medford doctor who accompanied the ambulance on the call. Reports show that Ward is suf fering from fractures of both legs and arms and internal in juries. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP Dow-Jones final slock arerages: 30 indus trials 440.28, up 4.52; 20 rail roads 111.69, up 0.55; 15 utili ties 65.49. up 0.33, and 65 stocks 149.39, up 1.49. Sales today weii about 2.060.000 shares compared with 1,860. 000 shares Tuesday. 'Sure You Got Everything ture. The work program for the Valley Irrigation 1,970 feet long. Hammarskjold Asked To Personally Enter Middle East Crisis United Nations, N. Y. HP) Seven western powers, with the backing of the United States, to day formally asked U. N. Secre tary General Dag Hammarskjold to step into the Turco-Syrian crisis and to go to the Middle East personally, "if necessary. Japan introduced a measure asking action by Hammarskjold after Syria formally proposed ap pointment of a seven-nation fact finding commission to report to Israel President Takes Office Oath Jerusalem HP) President Itzhak Ben-Zvi was sworn in to day for a second five year term. He took the oath of office stand ing within two yards of where Premier David Ben-Gurion and four Cabinet ministers were in jured in a bomb attack Tuesday. Ben-Gurion and the other min isters did not attend the cere monies in the bomb-scarred Knesset (parliament). But the chamber was packed with depu ties and government officials, high service chiefs and members of the diplomatic corps. Minister of Religious Affairs Moshe Shapiro, the most ser iously wounded of the ministers, was reported "slightly im proved" today. The others were reported "resting quietly." Council Committee To Meet Planners The proposed subdivision ordi nance for Medford will be dis cussed at a committee meeting of the city council and the city planning commission in the city hall at 7:30 p.m. today. City Manager Robert Duff said interested residents have been in vited to attend the meeting, but pointed out the discussion will be between the council and plan ning commission. A public hearing- on the pro posed ordinance started at the Oct. 3 city council meeting, and will be continued at the Nov. 7 meeting, he said. Committee Tables Basic School Fund Salem HP) Senate bill No. 3, increasing the basic school fund from $95 to $120. per census school child, was tabled in the Senate Taxation committee to day. The bill was sponsored by Sen. Francis Ziegler, Corvaliis Repub lican. Sen. Walter J. Pearson, chair man of the committee, said that a bill increasing the basic school fund by $10 per census school child was approved by Ways and Means and would be considered by the House. Under Control, Jimmy?" &'4S' 4'LZSSA&i 3 Is part of the rehabilitation Medford and Rogue River districts. The siphon will be the General Assembly and the Security Council within two weeks. The two resolutions injected new impetus to the Middle East debate in the 82-nation General Assembly. The seven-power resolution, sponsored by Japan, Norway, Canada, Spain, Peru, Paraguay, Ghana and Denmark would have the assembly express "confidence that the secretary-general will be available" to discuss the situa- in consultation "with such other representatives as may be useful and that he can proceed, if neces sary, to the countries concerned." Crjsis Diminishes Syrian Ambassador Fraid Zei neddine introduced Syria's reso lution. The seven-power measure was put before the assembly by Japanese Ambassador Koto Mat sudaira. There was a strong possibility that a third resolution, keeping the Turco-Syrian issue on the as sembly's agenda, but asking both countries to refrain from incite ment, would be presented. NATO Conference First for Group Paris IIP! NATO announced today that the heads of state of its 15 members would attend a meeting in Paris in December. Such a meeting would be the first in history of the North At lantic Treaty Organization. President Eisenhower has agreed to attend the meeting. The NATO Council met this morning and a spokesman said it had approved the proposal for the meeting made by NATO Secretary-general Paul-Henri Spaak. The meeting will take place in Parish Dec. 16, 17 and 18. The decision to bring the chiefs of the 15 member nations to Paris grew Out of the Wash ington meeting between Eisen hower and British Prime Minis ter Harold Macmillan. This would be the greatest col lection of top-level diplomats gathered in San Francisco in 1945 to write the United Nations Charter. It would come when western solidarity is needed more than ever before in the face of Rus sian technical advances. The agenda for the meeting would contain a sweeping range of items ranging from the Middle East to the reunification of Ger many. Talent Man Hired By Police Department Glen Stewart Bundy, route 1, box" 470, Talent, has been hired as a "rookie" police officer, ac cording to" Chief Charles P. Champlin. Bundy recently completed six years in the Navy. He is married and has two children. Police Capt. Clyde Fichtner said Bundy recently moved to the Rogue Valley area from Dayton, Wash. Fichtner said Bundy will be assigned to the day shift to start his six months of recruit on-the-job training. Chief Champlin said Bundy brings the force to full strength of 36 men. Crop, Livestock Prices Paid Farmers Declines Washington (IPi Prices farmers received for crops and livestock fell 2 per cent in the month ending Oct. 15, the Agri culture Department reported to day. The cost of production and living supplies farmers pur chased remained unchanged. Salem (IP! Members of the Legislative Interim Committee on Education will travel to Portland Thursday where they will inspect Benson Polytechnic school. President Plans December Trip For NATO Meeting Congressional Conference Due Washington tPi Pi Eisenhower announced tot plans to go to Paris in Dect to join other heads of go ment at the annual meeting the NATO Council. The President said that before going to Paris he will confer with Republican and Democratic congressional leaders. The con gressional conferences, he said, would be designed to keep this country on a single track in its foreign relations. London Visit Undecided While in Europe, the Presi dent said he also would like to visit London, but he did not know whether the London visit could be arranged because of the difficulties involved in his remaining out of the country for any length of time. The President announced his Paris trip at a crowded news conference, his first in three weeks. Other news conference high lights: He said the Little Rock school integration crisis seems to be improving daily and he hopes the situation soon will be such as to permit removal of all federal forces. The President expects to make an announcement soon on the first in a series of speeches designed to build up public con fidence in American scientific and defense programs, foreign policy and the national economy. May Skip Golf Holiday Because of an unusually busy November ahead of him, he thought he might have to cancel plans for his customary autumn golfing holiday at Aug usta, Ga. He said there had been no hitch in the appointment of the Civil Rights Commission pro vided by the last Congress, but that he was moving slowly in an effort to get the best possible men of national stature for the commission. The President said all civil ized people deplored Tuesday's bombing attack cn Prime Minist er David Ben-Gurion and four of his ministers in the Israeli parliament. He expressed grati tuoe that the bombing produced no fatalities. Inmates Shoulder Rebellion Blame Medical Lake, Wash. HP) Two inmates shouldered the blame today for a lightning-swift but bloodless rebellion which swept through the maximum se curity ward of the Eastern State Hospital here. "If any blame is to be placed, it should be placed on us," said James Eiland and Ed Thomas. "We just wanted reassurance we would be treated like human beings." Thirty-five hostages were held for seven hours when the revolt flared Tuesday in the mental in stitution about 15 miles from Spokane. Mrs. Carter Assumes Elections Clerk Job Mrs. Afton Carter, formerly supervisor of the recording de partment, Jackson county clerk's office, is now supervisor of the elections department, Mrs. Ber eth P. Hopkins, county clerk, corrected today. She replaces Mrs. Eugene Pe terson whose husband has been transferred to Portland by the bureau of land management. A previous news story nam ing Mrs. Thelma Mclntyre elec tions clerk wras in error "she said. Mrs. Mclntyre, formerly chief photographer in the clerk's of fice, is now supervisor of the recording department. Grace Bohl, formerly assistant photo grapher is now chief photogra pher. Paris ftP) Roberto Rossel lini and his wife, actress Ingrid Bergman, will leave for Italy Thursday after spending 10 days in Paris. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable cloud iness tonight and Thursday with only a slight chance of isolated light showers. Low tonight 40. High Thursday S3. Temp. HlEhent Yesterday S7 Lowest this Morning 38 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise :3 am. Sunset 5:08 p.m. Moonset Thursday 12:05 a.m. Full Moon Nov. 7 PROMINENT STAR Aldeharan. rises 7:2T p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Saturn, sets 6:31 p.m. Venus, low in SW .... 6:30 p.m. Jupiter, rises 5:23 a.m. Mars, rises 6:00 a.m. 52nd Year ETORD mm FIFTY YEARS OF SERVICE More than 50 years of service on the Medford city police force is represented by the above five mem bers of the local police force. The men, with 12 other members of the force, were present ed gold and silver stars Tuesday evening. The stars will be worn above the left sleeve cuff of the uniform and will represent four Medford Police Officers Receive New Service Stars Gold and silver service stars were issued city police officers Tuesday evening in a short pre sentation ceremony before the regular business meeting of po lice officers. Mayor John Snider and City Manager Robert Duff participated in the presentation. The stars are approximately three-quarters of an inch high. Gold stars represent five years of continuous service and silver stars are. for 2V2 years. The stars will be worn above the left cuff on the officers' uniforms. Capt. Clyde Fichtner, the of ficer with longest continuous service, received four gold stars. Chief Charles P. Champlin re ceived three gold and one silver star; Patrolman Robert James, two gold; and Sgt. Raymond Seely and Patrolman Elroy Erickson, one gold and one sil ver star each. Receives .Gold, Stars Lt. . Lyle Perkins, Lt. Jack McMillan, Sgt. Keith Gildesgard and Patrolman Berle Stephens, received one gold star each. Lt. Rollie Pean, Lt. Orlo Mc Gee, Sgt. Leo Mitchell, and Pa trolmen Theodore Whisler, Rob ert Allen, Delaire Tusow, Mil ton Hanson and Jack Sanders each received one silver star. Chief Champlin said the stars were added to the officers' uni forms to give them recognition for length of service on the force. Nelson Given 30-Day Suspended Sentence Richard Loyd Nelson, 28, for mer Grand hotel night clerk, received a 30-day suspended sen tence in municipal court this morning on a charge of disord erly conduct. The charge was brought against Nelson after he told police his report of. an armed holdup Oct. 26 was false. Nelson, who appeared before Judge Noreen Kelly, was told to return to his home in Camas Valley, Ore. The man admitted in a signed statement Tuesday of reporting a holdup at the Grand hotel he faked. Interim Committee To Study Migratory Labor Salem HP) The joint legisla tive interim committee on mi gratory labor will meet here Friday. Rep. Don Willner, Portland Democrat and chairman of the committee, said the group hopes to hear testimony concerning conditions if migratory labor in the Salem agricultural areas. Previous hearings have been held in Hood River, Ontario and Klamath Falls. Dedication Talent The new Talent post office and remodeled community hall here will be dedicated at ceremonies at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31. Officials of neighboring cities, the county, and post office de partment plan to attend, accord ing to Mayor Frank Christian. Among them will be Donald H. Acton, assistant district postal operations manager of the Port land region, according to Roger C. Smoot, Talent postmaster. In Leasing Program . The new post office is located at 107 South I st., Talent, and was built as part of the depart ment's commercial leasing pro gram, under which private; fin ancing is used to obtain needed facilities. The lessor is W. R. ased Wire MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1957 - Porter Claims S.P. Ignores Responsibility To Provide Service Eugene Rep. Charles O. Porter today declared that the Southern Pacific Co. "is ignoring its local responsibility to provide passenger service south of Eu gene to Ashland and Dunsmuir." Porter said the company's politely-worded refusal on Oct. 14 to restore passenger service on the southern Oregon Siskiyou line was wrong. The company started service elimination in 1950 when it discontinued pass enger service from Dunsmuir, Calif., to the Oregon-California Traffic Count Is Taken on Biddle Traffic counts for a study of road use in the planned shop ping center area on Biddle rd. have been completed, Jack Eaton, staff technician of the Jackson county planning com mission office, told the commis sion Monday. A map illustrating road use in the area and showing needed widening of thoroughfares is not yet completed, he added. In addition to the shopping center, Oregon, Nevada, Cali fornia Fast Freight, Inc., is building a depot on Biddle rd., north of the Copco substation. Eaton said there will be 20 truck schedules a day using Bid dle rd. in addition to shopping center traffic. This traffic, he pointed out, will require widen ing of Biddle rd. The new Rogue Valley hos pital on Barnett rd. will be in operation in June, 1958, he said hospital officials told him. Bar nett rd. also will have to be widened to accomodate the cars of the patients, visitors, and hos pital staff, he explained. Ike Sees Reason For Soviet Changes Washington (IP! President Eisenhower said today he does not know whether Soviet Mar shal Georgi Zhukov, has been downgraded, but there is some reason for the extraordinary frequency of changes in the Sov iet government. The Pesident noted at a news conference that Soviet leaders had compared Zhukov's "relief" with the recent resignation of U. S. Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson. Eisenhower said he hopes Zhu kov's resignation was as com pletely voluntary and personal as Wilson's. of Hew Facilities Set Winkler, Jacksonville. Since the post office build ing remains under private own ership while leased to the fed eral government, the govern ment pays local taxes to the community. The program elimi nates large outlays of money from the federal treasury for construction purposes, Smoot explained. The new post office has 1.537 square feet of interior space in addition to 63 square feet of platform space and parking facilities for postal vehicles and the public. Open House Scheduled Open house is scheduled in the enlarged and remodeled community hall at the city hall, which, includes a section for the United years of continuous service for each gold star and 2 V2 years for the silver stars. Left to right are Sgt. Raymond Seely, and Patrolman Elroy Erickson, one gold and one silver each; Capt. Clyde Fichtner, four gold; Chief Charles P. Champlin, 'three gold and one silver, and Patrolman Robert James, two gold. border, he observed. "I am asking several of my California colleagues to request that the California Public Util ities Commissioner commence an investigation into the termina- ton of the service," Porter said. He added that records of the 1950 hearing brought by the State of California showed that the then Oregon PUC commis' sioner "entered no evidence whatsoever regarding the term ination of service in the southern Oregon area." "In effect Southern Pacific started cutting this service off in 1950 and completed the job in August of 1955," Porter said. He added that it was only a short time after the first cut that the railroad discontinued service south from Ashland to the California-Oregon border. Within five years the Rogue River train running between Portland and Ashland also was abolished, Por ter said. ' The fourth " district congress man asked the SP to inaugurate passenger service on the Siski you line several weeks ago. On Sept. 26 he was informed by Vice President C. E. Peterson that "we are preparing the two studies which you requested and will send them along to you at the earliest possible date." Study Shows Deficit Porter had received no addi tional word until Oct. 14, when Peterson informed him in a second letter that the company could not give "favorable con sideration" to the proposal that the SP inaugurate passenger service. In the letter Peterson said the company had made a study of the cost of operating a service between Eugene and Ash land with a Budd car and ob served that daily service would create a $200,000 deficit yearly and half the amount on an every-other-day operation. Copy of the SP study prom ised to Porter, has not been re ceived by the congressman. A case against the SP is pend ing before the Oregon PUC com missioner. The complaint against the railroad company was brought by three southern Ore gon residents. Hearings in the case have disclosed that the SP avoids the issues responsibility and their franchise to furnish passenger service, Porter ob served. "Mr. : Peterson tells me the passenger service elimination has speeded freight service," Porter said this week, "Yet I am re liably informed that is not true. I shall continue to seek the facts and hope that the Southern Paci fic company will give me the data promised by its officials." Talent branch of the Jackson county library. New arrangements in the com munity hall include a downstairs club-room for use by all youth organizations, . and an upstairs clubroom and auditorium for adult activities. The upstairs room has been doubled in size, repainted, and the floor has been covered with asphalt tile. A smaller clubroom is also avail able for group use, Mayor Chris tian said. Added to the original build ing is a wing containing a coun cil chamber and police office. The new library room, which has its own entrance, has facili ties for readers, and the books will have more attractive and convenient shelves. Jackson Price 10 Cents Tribune Press Full Leased Wire No. 163 Holmes' Package On Tax Reduction Delayed in House Democrats Fail To Get Necessary Votes Salem (IP With but one dissenting vote, the Senate to day approved Senate bill No. 1. removing the state from the real property tax field. The first full dress debate of the special legislative session preceded the vote. Sen. Mon roe Sweetland, Milwaukie Democrat, was the only one to vote against the measure. Salem OPl Gov. Robert D. Holmes' tax reduction package got delayed one day in the Ore gon House today when Demo crats failed to get the necessary two-thirds vote to suspend their rules and allow consideration of the bills. House bill No. 1 cutting per sonal income taxes 10 per cent and House bill No. 2 raising basic school support from $95 to $105 per census school child will come up for consideration and a vote in the House Thursday. Two Measures Delayed The House also delayed vote on two other measures when Rep. Wayne Giesy, Monroe Re publican, protested that bills were not being printed fast enough for members to consider them before a vote. Giesy moved that ail bills be printed upon introduction in stead of after their second read ing as is now provided for in the special session rules. He said only 4 of 17 bills on the House calendar today were on his desk in printed form. A vote on Giesy's motion will be taken Thursday. Move By Barton The move to get the gover nor's bills considered today was made by Rep. Clarence Barton, chairman of the House Taxation Committee, and Rep. R. E. Sche deen, chairman of the Joint Ways and Means Committee. Vote on Barton's motion to get House bill 1 considered was 31-23, and Schedeen's basic school motion 33-23. There are 36 Democrats and 24 Republi cans in the House. The basic school bill was re ported out favorably by the Ways and Means Committee to day. Medford Woman's Death Said Cause by Polio , , Portland (IP) One death from polio and three other cases of the disease were reported to day by the State Board of Health. The board said a 32-year-old Medford woman died of polio. She was stricken while visiting in Portland and died Oct. 22 in a hospital. Of the four cases, two occur red in Jackson county, one in Marion county and the other in Portland. GUATEMALA president of military junta, Col. Oscar Mendoza Azurdia, reads proclamation after seizing government and ousting op position. (International) at Talent county library officials plan to provide a desk for Talent Libra rian Mrs. Alta Estes. The remodeling project was orignated by ihe Talent Lions club, which has furnished fin ancial backing. Other organiza tions and individuals responded with generous offers of assist ance in furnishing rooms, ac cording to Mrs. Christian. Actual construction work was directed by, and much of it done by, Mayor Christian, with assist ance of volunteer labor. Bill Young, fire marshal and police chief, contributed much of his time in painting. ' Open house ceremonies will start at 7 p.m. for children, and at 8 p.m. for adults. Refresh- 1 meats will be served.