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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.
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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
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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
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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.