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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.
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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,-
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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.