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52nd Year Unitad Prev Full Leased Wir Pages DRIVER UWIIfJURED George Heath, 24, drisef of this logging truck was reported liftinjurcd. according to state police, when Jl ptatioo wasjon containing Frank James Connell, 30, of 47 Eastwood dr., Medford, Compromise Offered To Third Committee Salem ."J A compromise 1 ranted tax relief, members proposal whkh would reduce the I tne committee said. state's $? million surplus to about $30 million and give about . . . ,. . 22 per cent reduction m income tax rates was presented to the third conference committee this morning. The proposal was worked out in a personal meeting between Sens. Walter J. Pearson, Port land Democrat, and Lee Ohmart Salem Republican. It must meet the approval of caucuses of both House Democrats and Senate Re publicans. Sen. Pearson said the situa tion in the tax reduction contro versy had reached the point where both sides had to give something, "Neither Serf. Ohmart or my self are actually happy with this solution, but unless we can agree somewhat on the lines we have proposed, we had better fold up our tents and go home," Pearson said. Recommendations Listed A tentative conference report, drawn up by the two senators makes the following recommen dations: uring tne personal and cor porate loss carry-forward bills and accelerated depreciation in both personal and corporate in come taxes to the floor for a vote. Double the tax credits for persons over 65 and those who are handicapped. Bring Senate bill I, taking the state out of the property tax field, to the House floor for a vote. The tentative report then states that, taking into consid eration the proposals made to gether with the S712.000 appro priation for the State Emergency Board fund and the five million dollars for basic school increase, the surplus would be reduced to about 30 million dollars. In addition, the proposal would allow .a built-in decelera tion clause which would allow a one per cent tax reduction for each million dollars of revenue over S85 million a year. Quick Caucus Set The two new House conferees, Reps. Robert Duncan, Medford Democrat, and Leon S. Davis, Hillsboro Republican, asked for more figures but agreed to pre sent the proposition to House Democrats in caucus as quickly as possible. The two senators said they would present the proposal to the senators in separate caucus and hope that when the commit tee reconvened an agreement could be reached and a confer ence report signed. There were no long debates in the early morning meeting of the committee. Sen. Pearson said he felt it was important to give some tax relief to business through loss carry-forward and accelerated depreciation as this would in crease employment and actually bng in more tax revenue. Estimates No Loss Members of the Tax Commis sion staff estimated that no loss carry-forward could be claim ed for the present tax year and estimated roughly that the other fringe benefits would cost in the neighborhood of $550,000 for the first year. Carlyle Roberts, chief coun sel for the tax commission, was requested to draft the qualifica O tions for tax relief for the handi capped. It was expected that such qualifications will be made tight enough to prevent any chjgelers from gaining unwar- EDFORD of A second conference commit tee' comPsed of ReP- Clarence Barton, Coquille Democrat, Guy Jonas sm Democrat, and Sens. Ben Musa, The Dalles j Democrat, and Phil Lowry, Med jford Republican, asked to be re lieved of their assignments Wed nesday afternoon after a five day deadlock. An offer of a gross 25 per cent reduction by the Senate group in place of its original 30 per cent stand was turned down by a Democratic caucus. Demo crats were sticking by their of fer of decreasing taxes from 11.6 per ' cent to 10 per cent in the top tax bracket and lower ing all other brackets . 1.5 per cent. " " Guilty Plea Made By Dave Wilkinson . Two men pleaded guilty to charges in circuit court earlier this week. Wednesday Martin Dave Wilkinson, 56, Camp White, pleaded guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous wea pon. His trial was previously scheduled to begin Nov. 13. Wilkinson, who was ordered by the court to be sent to the state hospital for 30 days obser vation prior to sentencing, was arrested July 11 by Medford city police following a stabbing at the Casino tavern, 17 South Front st. Roger Walter Moreland, 56, 520 North Front St., was injured in the incident. Wilkinson was represented by Warren G. Lesseg, local attorney. Billy J. Lessman, 27, Seattle, pleaded guilty before circuit court Judge Edward Kelly Tues day afternoon to charges of un lawful possession of narcotics. Lessman was arrested by state police Aug. 30 after he attempt ed to run away from an officer after he. was stopped for a traf fic violation. Lessman at the time of his ar rest was traveling with another man, Henry A. Foster, 25, also of Seattle, according to police. Attorney Robert Dickey is representing Lessman. Judge Kelly ordered a pre-sentence in vestigation. They Keep NrfV. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 195 and James Ronald Van Winkle, 21, possibly from Cle Elum, Wash., rammed into it last night north of Myrtle Creek. State police said the fatality occurred on the Boomerhill rd. Redden New Head Of County Demos; About 50 Attend James A. Redden, Medford at torney, was unanimously elected chairman of the Jackson County Democratic Central Committee last night, to fill the vacancy left I by the resignation of Larry Shee-1 han of Rogue River. Around 50 j committeemen and women at-1 tended the meeting. Redden has been in Medford two years and has been active in many civic programs. He is a graduate of Boston College, Mass. He is .married and the father of two children. Sheehan, who has served as Democratic county chairman for the past two years, gave pressure of bus iness and fiis recent election as district governor of the Lions club as reasons for his resigna tion. The central committee also went on record endorsing Gov. Robert Holmes' position in the special legislative session for "subsequent tax relief while maintaining a surplus sufficient to meet such contingencies as in creasing unemployment and oth er economic factors affecting tax collection." Other business transacted in cluded resolutions favoring the moving of Democratic state head quarters from Portland to Salem, the inclusion of Democratic chairmen from the 36 counties as auditors at the state executive board meetings, and commending outgoing Chairman Larry Shee han. The Committee unanimously recommended R. B. Thierolf, Medford, for a coming vacancy on the Jackson County Welfare commission, and O. E. Frazier of Phoenix for a place on the coun ty budget committee. John E. Gribble was recom mended as the local chairman for national conservation week for the coming year, and Marvin Madden of Phoenix, president of the .Tarlrsnn Cnuntv Tlpmn- cratic Social club, was appointed Democratic precinct survey chairman for the county central committee. Three precinct vacancies were filled including Mr. and Mrs. Roy Johnston in Precinct 47, Mr. and Mrs. Walter McMahan in Precinct 29 and James A. Redden in Precinct 56A. Disintegrating" v . Hi, I "-'J5ro l"""5 T r Villi If "V. II j ' FATALITY CAR This demolished station wagon marks the double fatality which oc curred last night on the Boomerhill rd., north of Myrtle Creek. An appliance salesman James Connell Pies Near Myrtle Creek Tentative On Water A hearing is tentatively sched uled for Dec. 11 at 9:30 -a.m. between members of the Jack son and Josephine county water resources committee and mem bers of the state board of water resources, it was revealed to day. Don Lane, secretary of the state board of water resources, called Gounty Judge Rodney Keating yesterday to request a hearing date be set Dec. 11, at 9:30 a.m. -if the committees, approve,- ... ' " r1 - - " r Then the reports and recom mendations of the subcommittees of the local organization will be presented. These will be aimed at more adequate development of water resources in the Rogue River basin, it was explained. The Jackson county committee hopes to have a recommended program worked out by that time. This, it is hoped, will be placed by the board before the state legislature interim commit tee for future legislation to aid in developing the water re sources of this area. Such sub-committee reports cover such subjects as domestic arid municipal water users, flood control, fish and wildlife water use, industrial, mining and power use, agriculture users, watershed management, recrea tion resource, and pollution abatement. Chairman of the committee is William (Bill) Jess, Eagle Point. Previous surveys made of the Rogue river basin have been centered on one particular phase such as flood control, irrigation, or industrial use of the water. The state board, which started its survey in August, has review ed surveys made in the . basin previously, including one as far back as 1909. Malcolm Kerr, Salem, is en gineer in charge of the Rogue Murphy Apprehended On Fugitive Charges Rufus Charles Murphy, of Oklahoma City, Okla., was ar rested by local FBI agents assist ed by Members of the Medford police department last night on charges of unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, according to a warrant issued by Oklahoma for second degree burglary, city po lice said. City police said they were alerted by FBI agents for Mur phy, who was believed to be in the Medford area, Wednesday. They said a check of local hotel registars was started and Mur phy was located at the Imperial rooms, 30 North Front st., about 4:24 a.m. Heart Condition Cause Of Ashland Man's Death Ashland (IP) Word was re ceived here today that the Siski you county, Calif., coroner has found that a "coronary occlu sion" was responsible for the death- of Dewey D. Bruihl, Ash land realtor, near Hornbrook on Nov. 2. At first it was thought that Bruihl drowned when his car plunged from the highway into the river, but an autopsy show ed the heart condition to be the cause of death. Hearing Set Resources Basin study, which will include reports from Jackson, Josephine and Curry counties. Initial study for the surveys to develop a program use of the unappropriated and surplus wa ter in the Rogue river basin was submitted by the subcommittees on Aug. 20. Progress reports were made is September and October. The 16 subcommittees were to hold public hearings and develop programs for their particdlar in terest. "" " ' Sixteen Nominated For Chamber Jobs Sixteen members of the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce have been nominated for the eight directorships which fall vacant at the end of the year, the chamber board was told this morning. Voting to select the eight new directors will be completed by next Wednesday, the elections committee stated. In the cham ber's unique method of election, all members can vote for 16 nominees, then vote for eight of the 16 in the final balloting. The nominees are William C. Abbott, Robert J. Balk, Frank Bash, B. Kent Blackhurst, H. D. Christensen, K. W. Cook, Otto' Ewaldsen, Everett A. Faber, Dwight Houghton, Chester A. Hubbard, Gerald T. Latham, S. V. McQueen, Larry Schade Jr., Paul J. Selby, Robert Voegt ly and D. H. Young. Ballots are due not later than 5 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, at the chamber office on South Central ave. Board members also were in vited to attend the opening cere monies at the Southern Oregon Safety Fair at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Medford armory. The Safety Fair is the first of its kind in the nation, members were told, and is being closely watched by safety officials all over the country to see how suc cessful a departure it is from the safety conference type of meeting previously held. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York IIP Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 427.94, off 2.13; 20 railroads 103.77, off 1.56; 15 utilities 64.84, off 0.07. and 65 stocks 144.39, off 0.90. Sales today were about 2,450.000 shares compared with 2,120, 000 shares Wednesday. WEATHER FORECAST: Clearing this eve ning. Valley fos or low rlouds formine tonight and continuing until about noon Friday. Increasing cloudiness Friday afternoon. Rain likely Friday evening. Cooler to night. Low tonight 34. High Friday 48. Temp. Highest Yesterday 51 Lowest this Morning 38 free, to 10 a.m. Today 71 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:01 a.m. Sunset 4:51 p.m. The Moon, at Last Quar ter 1:59 p.m. rises Friday 12:04 a.m. The star near it tonight is Regulus. , VISIBLE PLANETS ' Venus, low in south west 6:44 p.m. Jupiter, rises 4:40 a.m. Mars, rises 5:55 a.m. Price 10e IBUNE United Press Full Leased Wire No. 176 from Medford and a man believed to be from Cle Elum, Wash., were riding in it when it collided with a logging truck. (Photos by Warren Studio, Myrtle Creek) On Crash Last Night Two Men Killed As Their Auto Hits Log Truck Frank James Connell, 30, of 47 Eastwood dr., Medford, an appliance salesman for the Lou Johnson company of Portland, was one of two men killed in an auto accident last night about three miles north of Myrtle Creek, according to state police. Connell and James Ronald Van Winkle, 21, believed to be from Cle JSlum,' -Wash,, were killed when the station wagon in which they were riding went out of control and collided with a .logging truck on the Boomer hill rd., north of Myrtle Creek, state police said. The accident occurred about 5:45 p.m. Assistant Douglas County Cor oner Robert Ganz of Myrtle Creek said the driver of the truck, George Heath, 24, was un injured. Rainfall Tofais 1.04 Inches Here Rainfall totalling 1.04 inches yesterday and .19 of an inch up to 10 a.m. brought precipitation for the season and for the month to well above normal in the Medford vicinity. The storm, which coated sur rounding hills with snow, was expected to taper off this eve ning but more rain is foreseen by tomorrow night. Figures from the weather bu reau station showed 1.53 inches of precipitation so far this month which :s .44 over normal. Rainfall since the agricultural year began on Sept. 1 amounts to 3.97 inches. That is .32 more than normal. Other weather bureau figures listed 2.43 inches of precipita tion in 24 hours at Crater lake and 1.53 over a similar period for Klamath Falls. Crater Lake National park reported 19 inches of new snow over the last 24 hours and a total depth of 33 inches. Weather forecast is for clear ing this evening but with in creasing cloudiness Friday afternoon and with rain likely Friday evening. Parade, Free For Christmas A parade, free candy for youngsters and community carol singing Saturday afternoon will herald the opening of the Christ mas shopping period in Medford stores. ; According to . Al - Carpenter, Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce parade chairman, 17 floats have been registered for the parade so far and six bands are scheduled. Prize money donated by the Retail Merchants association will total S320 for float prizes. Grand sweepstake prize for the youth and adult .division will be $100. First prize in each division is $50, second $30, third $20 and fourth $10. The Red Cross building near Hawthorne park will be used for distribution of cider and dough nuts to the marching units, Car penter said. Themes of the pa rade are "Biblical Christmas" and "Fantasy." Ike Stresses More Federal Spending On U.S. Security Oklahoma City (IP President Eisenhower put America or notice today to prepare for considerably higher federal spending if this country is to keep abreast of the space age and Russia. Whether the substantially higher price tag on national security would mean higher taxes was the billion dollar question before the nation. The President, in his nationall broadcast and televised speech Wednesday night in the Municipal auditorium here, did not once mention the possibility of higher taxes. But at seven different points in his speech he stressed that substantial costs would be involved in bringing America's arsenal up to scientific date with Russia, raising military pay, increasing the educational production of scientists and keeping foreign aid at about it present levels. Immediately after his speech in the auditorium to an audience of more than 6.000 persons, the President raced back to Wash ington during the night by air to preside this morning at his second meeting of the National Security Council this week. Pledged Economy The President, while forecast ing markedly higher spending for defense in his Oklahoma City speech, pledged his administra tion to every possible economy in current federal costs in areas less important than security and scientific achievement. He said, however, that he had come to the "clear conclusion" that some civilian programs of the government, "while desir able, are not absolutely essen tial" and probably would have to go, under the weight of satel lites, missiles, dispersing the Strategic Air Command to ad ditional bases and other mount ing security costs. The President refrained from telling Congress where to cut domestically, but he was specific on where cuts should not be made. He said the answer to econ omies needed to meet mounting defense demands did not lie in cutting his mutual security pro gram of economic and military foreign aid. Against Cost Cuts Eisenhower said it also would be a mistake to cut costs by "any misguided attempt" to eliminate convertional military forces and rely solely on retalia tion." 'This course would be com pletely self-defeating," he said. The Chief Executive expressed the hope that Russia ultimately would cooperate with the West in seeking "peace with justice." Until there is concrete evidence of such cooperation and a ces sation of threats from the Com munist orbit, he said this coun try would have to maintain a mighty nuclear retaliatory pow er "as a primary deterrent to war." . The President announced a four-part plan for increasing the retaliatory power of the Strateg ic Air Command: A speedup in dispersal of SAC to other bases. A speedup in improving warning systems protecting the nation, because "with missiles and faster bombers, warning times will grow shorter." Development of an active missile defense against missiles through "intensive research and development." Should Add Missiles The addition of long-range missiles to American forces on land and sea. He said additional sums will be provided for the plan "where needed. Moreover, it is clear that production, deployment and installation of missiles over the period ahead will be costly." The President said his scien tists advised him "above all im mediate tasks" is increasing the production of scientists. The problem will be in its most critical "phase for the next 10 years, he said. He said the federal govern ment cannot take on the full load of stepping up education of scientists and engineers, but must cooperate with state and local governments. The President discounted Sov iet claims of an accurate inter continental ballistics missile. He said it will be "some time" be fore either the United States or Russia has long-range missile to equal "even a small fraction of the total destructive power of our present oomoer iorce. i Candy and Carolling Set Shopping Opener Saturday Carpenter said this morning that he has definite commit ments on three Medford bands senior high school, Hedrick and McLoughlin junior high schools as well as Crater, Eagle Point, and tentatively Phoenix, high school bands. Lead float in the parade will be a blue gondola sponsored by the Veterans Administration do miciliary at Camp White. It will feature little elfs watching San ta Claus decorate a Christmas tree. Four children will toss candy as the floats pass in re view, it was reported. The engineering division at Camp White designed and con structed the float, mounted on a government truck. C. P. Ice, labor foreman, will be Santa. The parade route starts at Hawthorne park and proceeds west on Main st. to Riverside ave., north on Riverside ave. to Navy Pilot Sights Bodies, Wreckage In Pacific Ocean Honolulu (in A Navy pilot today sighted the bodies of nine persons in the Pacific, 128 miles west-northwest of the last posi tion reported by a Pan. Ameri can World Airways Stratocruiser that vanished last Friday night with 44 persons aboard. The pilot, from the carrifr Philippine Sea, radioed at 9 a.m. (PST) "highly probable wreck age sighted." A few minutes later he sent word that nine bodies were sighted, one of them strapped in an airplane seat. Proceed to Area The Coast Guard announced that the Philippine Sea and the . destroyer Renshaw were pro ceeding to the area to attempt to recover the bodies. The car rier was 75 miles from the bodies and was due at the scene about noon. The Navy pinpointed the loca tion of the wreckage as 135 miles west-northwest of the last reported position of the Pan-Am plane, which was about 88 miles off the aircraft's planned course of flight and about 830 miles northwest of Oahu, Hawaii. The sighting was due west of a track being taken by the Phil ippine Sea en route to Honolulu as part of a "vacuum cleaner" search effort between, the point of no return arid Hawaii.' "" Vanished Without Word The big luxury Stratocruiser vanished without a word of warning Friday night while en route from San Francisco to Honolulu with 36 passengers and a crew of eight. The plane's commander, Capt. Gordon H. Brown, Los Altos, Calif., a 15-year veteran of Pan American, last reported his posi tion as fewer than 100 miles past the midway point on the 2,400 mile flight. No further word came from the plane and a massive air-sea search was launched Friday night. Some 20 ships and 65 aircraft led by the hunter-killer carrier Philippine Sea scanned a 275,-000-square mile area. Several sightings were made but all were checked out and discount ed until today's report by the carrier plane. Toth Bound Over On Burglary Charges Jozef Toth, 20, Medford, was bound over to the grand jury Tuesday in ' district court on charges of burglary not in a dwelling. He was released oh his own recognizance. Toth was arrested last month by Medford city police in connec tion with several burglaries in the area. Attorney for Toth is Gene Piazza. Charles Moldovan, Med ford, served as interpreter dur ing the arraignment. Toth is a Hungarian refugee. q The state's case was presenter! by Deputy District Attorneys Jim Anicker and Allan Franzke. Sixth st., west on Sixth st. to Holly st., south on Holly st. to Main st., and east on Main st. to Hawthorne park. Judges of the parade will be Jack Teeter of McLoughlin jun ior high school, Robert Toomey, Sacred Heart Parents associa tion, and Mrs. Evelyn Polas of Phoenix high school.. The parade is sponsored' by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce in coperation with the Medford merchants. - Preceding the parade from 1:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. gie mu sic group and general members of the Medford branch of Amer ican Association of University Women will lead a community sing from in front of the judges' stand on East Main st. Director will be Mrs. Norman Carothers with Mrs. R. A. Schu chard accompanying on the piano.
