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Price 10e United Press Full Leased Wire United Press Full Leased Wlr 18 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON Y, NOVEMBER 18, 1957 No. 179 52nd Year A TT MedfgrdTribune llu DtfrCOGaFER: P 1 lift ti WINNING FLOAT Not only did the float entered by the Veterans' Administration Domiciliary win first prize in the Christmas parade Saturday, but it was by far the most ' popular with the children, who scrambled for candy being thrown into the crowd by Santa and his helper. In the picture above, one boy, IS F '1 f 4 if I Jf - dEti l H CsSh?5 WATCH PAtlADESanta Claus was the. main attraction for children in the Christmas parade sponsored by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce Saturday afternoon and the little girl in the picture above smiles and holds tightly to her bag of popcorn as Santa waves back at her. The annual parade was held in conjunction with the Retail Merchants association's for mal opening of the Christmas shopping season. Awards for win ning floats will be presented at ceremonies broadcast over KBES-TV at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, according toAl Carpenter, parade chairman. Attendance Hits 3500 At Safety Fair Here The Southern Oregon Safety Fair exceeded all expectations whenoit closed its doors Satur day night. Total attendance was estimated at 3.500 people, ac cording to the fair officials. "This proves that the safety fair concept is a valuable tool in talking public safety," Myron Terpening, Grants Pass, chair man, said. "It probably will be inaugurated in other areas of the state and nation." Officials of the State Indus trial Accident commission also were enthusiastic in their praise of the displays of participating organizations. They included William Callahan chairman, and Commissioner L. O. Arens. Those attending the show said the more than 60 exhibits showed "amSzing ingenuity." Among the most popular was the 4-H club's display of farm safety. This included a demon stration of flour explosions anf other farm safety hazards. Donkey Has Sign Another display which attract ed considerable attention was a donkey with a sign which read, "I don't pay any attention to safety rules, but look who I am." A live - skunk in 0the Bate Lumber company booth seemed to fascinate both the children and adults. However, all pre cautions had ben taken and no accidents resulted, it was re- New' York (TP Dow-Jone final stock averages: 30 in dustrials 434.S6, off 4.39; 20 railroads 102.92. off 3.75; 15 utilities 65.48, off 0.41. and 65 stocks 145.90. off 2.09. Sales today were about 2,110,000 shares compared with 3,510, 000 shares Friday. ed!frd Stores Wo piece of their exhibit. A large weather balloon was one of the articles exhibited by the weath er bureau Saturday, ported. The pole-top resuscitation put on by personnel of the Califor nia Oregon Power company was a crowd pleaser, also. The smoke jumpers from the forest service featured a huge parachute suspended from the armory ceiling as the center DeMarrs Gefs Fine In License, Case Ray DeMarrs, owner of Ray's Barber Shop, 139 North Central ave., was fined $13.50, the am ount of his city business license fee, this morning in municipal court by Judge Noreen Kelly after he was found guilty of con ducting a business without a license. The fine was suspended on the condition DeMarrs purchase his license, which he did," im mediately, according to Darrell Huson, city treasurer. Two other Medford businessmen, charged with conducting a business with out a license, also paid their fees under protest. Richard G. Shafer, owner of the Shafer Electric shop, 142 North Front St., and M. J. Olsen, owner of the Tic-Toe Time shop, 34 North Bartlett st.,.had their fines suspended when they pur chased licenses for S13.50 and $10. . DeMarrs presented a new pet ition to the court this morning which Judge Kelly said con tains additional facts. She said she would rule on the new evi dence at the Municipal court session Wednesday morning. Tower right, dives headlong onto the pave ment after a piece of candy. The weather for the parade was bright and sunny and several thousand spectators, mostly children, were on hand to watch. Last year the parade was ' held at night in a "pea-soup" fog. Eight Persons Are Killed on Oregon Roads on Week End Car-Truck Accidents Are Fatal to Three By UNITED PRESS Eight persons died on Oregon highways over the week end, three of them in car-truck col lisions. Robert Clifford Nesholm, 26, Eugene, was killed early Sunday when his car collided with a freight truck on the Pacific high way six miles south of Cottage Grove. Police said Nesholm had apparently gone to sleep at the wheel. In two other Sunday deaths, Maynard Henry McCormack, 46-year-old Roseburg resident, was killed when his car struck a telephone pole after it careen ed off a rural road near Rose burg, and Rutherford Beer, 50, Portland, died when his car went off the Lower Columbia river highway and over a road bank. Fisherman Killed --. . f-sr,.- An Astoria fisherman, John Kustura, was killed Saturday when his auto plunged off the end of a fishing dock at the foot of 37th street in Astoria. A trip to gather bottles along the Mt. Hood loop highway Sat urday afternoon was fatal to five-year-old Stephen Ivey, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Ivey of Brightwood. The boy was struck and killed when he apparently ran in front of a car driven by Jules A. Vuulsteke, 39, of Corne lius. A third Saturday victim was an 18-year-old Butte Falls boy. William J. Dunlap, who died in a car-truck crash on highway 238 near Jacksonville. Other week end victims were Mrs. Erma Wickersham, 46, and James H. Burkhard, 48, both of Portland. They were killed when the Wickersham- car, a 1956 Cadillac, collided with a truck Friday night nine miles west of The Dalles on highway 30. Burk hard had been a pasesnger in the truck. New 4-H Agent Here To Take Over Job Miss Marilou Garner, Osborn, Mo., arrived in Medford this weekend to assume duties as Jackson County 4-H agent for girls. She replaces Mrs. Don Nichols, the . former Miss Mar jorie Hattan, who resigned in October. Miss Garner arrived here from Indianola, Iowa, where she was county extension home econo mist for Warren county, Iowa, for two years. Philippine Sea Returns to Port With Bodies of 19 Crash Victims, Wreckage Long Beach, Calif. (IP) The aircraft carrier Philippine Sea returned to its Sock today with a grisly cargo of charred wreckage and 19 bodies, all that was found after a proud luxury airliner crashed into the sea Nov. 8. Civil Aeronautics Board ex aminers hoped that the 14 car tons of debris, a bag of mail and the remains of the 19 persons would give them some clue as to what happened aboard the Pan American Stratocruiser. Aboard the San Francisco to Honolulu bound plane were 36 passengers and a crew of eight. Rear Adm. Thomas Ahroon, commander of Carrier Division 17," told newsmen who met the carrier: "I any don't believe there are j survivors. We searched j New Tax Reduction Law Retroactive to First of the Year Taxpayers to Feel Decreases in April Salem OP) The new tax re ductions put into effect by the special legislative session that ended here Friday are on 1957 income. While the law embodying the tax reduction does not go into effect until 90 days after the end of the special session, it is retoractive to the first of the year. That means most taxpayers will feel decreases ranging from 25 per cent in the lowest bracket to about 17 per cent in the top bracket on returns filed in April 1958. Dick Eymann, executive secre tary of the State Tax commis sion, said work had already be gun on changing of forms, rate tables and instructions to tax payers. Withholding Schedules New withholding schedules will go into effect Jan. 1, 1958, Eymann said. The loss carry-forward provi sion of the new tax law will be for any loss incurred after Jan. 1, 1957. But the first benefits" from this will not show up until 1958 that is on returns filed in April, 1959. Accelerated depreciation will be applicable to any equipment purchased after Jan. 1, 1957. So it can be used on returns filed next April. Eymann said the taxpayers will be able to make a choice be tween using accelerated depreci ation or other federal provision written into the law. The double tax credit of S12 per persons over 65 is effective as of Jan. 1, 1957. Preliminary Work Preliminary work on new tax forms will take "about 10 days, Eymann said. The forms will then have to be printed and dis tributed. ' c New tax rates run from 3-per cenfr on the first $500 of taxable income to 9.5 per cent on all in come over $8,000. Current rates are 4 per cent on the first $500 and 11.6 per cent on all income over $8,000. Loss carry-forward and accel erated depreciation are applic able both to individuals and cor porations. Session Adjourns The special session adjourned at 7:14 p.m. Friday after 19 days. The income tax reduction will halt collection of about $37,000, 000. The session was called when officials estimated there would be a $74,000,000 general fund surplus by June, 1959. Under the tax schedule passed by the legislature, there will be about a $31,000,1)00 surplus. The bill was a compromise measure between Democrats and Rep ublicans. . Republicans wanted a 30 per cent tax reduction, halting col lection of $57,000,000, and leav ing a $13,000,000 surplus. Demo crats were seeking a reduction of 10 per cent, saving taxpayers $20,000,000 in two years, and leaving a surplus of $50,000,000 for the 1959 legislature. EARTHQUAKE IN PORTLAND Portland KB A slight earthquake, but the strongest to hit Oregon in four years, rumb led through the Willamette val ley Saturday night and seismo graph readings at Oregon State college and the University of Wsahington indicated the tremor had a Mercalli scale intensity of 4 or 5. ' No damage and no Injuries were reported. about 108,000 square miles of the Pacific and had - very con structive results in bringing back evidence.' Ahroon said the search, which the carrier entered Nov. 9, was concentrated on finding sur vivors first and wreckage later. CAB officer Dr. William Kloepfer said it was the hope of his agency that the evidence returned "will solve the ques tion of the mystery of what hap pened to send the 'Romance of the Skies' pluning to her watery grave. The CAB investigation was started Sunday when William S. McNamara and a group of agents flew to the carrier from San Francisco to begin their examination of - the wreckage and bodies pulled from the sea by personnel of the big ship. Foreign Minister, Secretary of State To Confer Tuesday Says Arms Did Not Head Off Red Supply New York rtPl French For eign Minister Christian Pineau said today that Anglo-American shipments of arms to Tunisia did not head off possible arms deliveries from Moscow to that North African country. Instead, he said, they only succeeded in greatly angering French public opinion. Pineau made his statement shortly after arriving" here by plane from Paris on his way to Washington and talks with Sec retary of State John Foster Dul les. . . .! . " The United 'States and Britain decided last week to supply small arms and ammunition to Tun isia, a former French protector ate. " ' Pineau in effect denied a state ment made by Sen. Henry Jack son (D-Wash.) who said the Anglo-American arms move was ncecessary to counteract a poten tial Soviet supply of arms. Assurances From Moscow Pineau said he had been as sured by Moscow that it did not plan to send weapons to Tunisia. He also asserted that Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba does not desire arms from the Soviets. Pineau will see Dulles in Wash ington Tuesday afternoon. He will prepare for the meeting by talking in New York today with United Nations Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold and French Ambassador "--nerve - -At phand. Won't Soothe French Before leaving Paris Pineau admitted that no matter how well, his talks with Dulles turn out they will not soothe the anger of the French people over U.S. and British arms shipments to Tunisia. Feeling ran so high in France that riot squads guarded the U.S. and British embassies over the week end. Rightwingers had threatened to demonstrate but there were no incidents. Pineau was geared to ask the United States for full support for Frances's position in North Af rica, particularly in Algeria. The French view was that if the United States fully backed France in the forthcoming Un ited Nations debate on Algeria, much of the furor stirred up by. the Tunisian arms shipments would be" quieted. Motorists Confused Over Traffic Light Medford police reported Mon day morning that motorists were confused over, the new traffic signal installed at Main st. and Keeneway dr.. as a school cross ing site. The signal is of the push-button type and is in operation 24 hours per day, according to Ver non Thorpe, director of public works. Thorpe said, under nor mal operation, the light facing Main st. is a flashing amber and should be treated by motorists like any other caution light. He said there was indication of burning but no way of tell ing whether this ocurred while the aircraft was in the air or in the water and that there was no explanation of why tha radio went out without warning only 24 minutes after a routine radio report. Pilots and seamen pulled the bodies of 11 men, six women, a boy and a girl from the ocean. All the victims were shoeless and some wore life jackets in dicating that the captain of the plane had ordered-ditching pro cedures, f Fighter planes and helicopters of the 35.000-ton Philippine Sea helped other search units until the operation was abandoned last Friday when all hope was gone that any one could have survived the crash. 'peon Until 9 'clock TmiD DVU l& E Q 'Whatsamatter You Ail Interested Groups Asked To Basin Meet Any interested individuals or organizations are invited to at tend the public hearing to be held here Dec. 11 on the Rogue River basin development, ac cording to Bill Jess, Eagle Point, chairman of the Jackson county water resources committee. The hearing, scheduled for 9 a.m. in the Jackson county court house, may run into a night ses sion, Jess said. -. Members, of -the Jackson and Josephine counties' water resources committees are expected to present plans to the state water resources board for development of the Rogue River basin's water resources at that time, he said. - . . A second such hearing is scheduled for the Curry county courthouse in Gold Beach on Dec. 13, at 9 a.m. Those expected to attend from the state water resources board Truck Rips Into Ashland Residence Ashland An entire corner of a house in Ashland was torn off this morning when a brake less logging truck driven by Ja son Ward, 456 Euclid st., Ash land, rammed into it. No one was reported injured. Ashland . police estimated the damage to both house and truck as considerable. One room of the residence of Mrs. Elsie Doyle, 647 Siskiyou blvd., was "completely torn up," city police said. A wheel of the empty diesel truck had to be replaced before it could be pulled out by anoth er logging truck, they added. Fortunately, Mrs. Doyle had just stepped out of the room be fore the truck smashed into the house, police said. Her children had gone to school. Ward told police his brakes went out as the truck started down Harrison st. The truck careened down Harrison st. and crossed Iowa st., then down to Siskiyou blvd. Ward told officr ers he was unable to turn the truck. He had to chose between the Doyle house and a school- bus filled with children parked on the boulevard, police said. A wrecker failed to pull the truck o.ut of the house and soft ground. A passing logging truck driver hitched his truck to the damaged truck and pulled it out, police said. WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy with oc casional light rain through Tuesday. Poor visibility due - to smoke and fog. Low to night 38. High Tuesday 50. Temp.. Highest Yesterday 40 Lowest This Morning 38 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today .35 Our Skies Tonight Sunris 7:06 a.m. Sunset x. 4:47 p.m. The Moon rises ' Tuesday ... ; 4:48 a.m. Above it are the planet. Jupiter, and the star. Spica. Jupiter, on the left, is now nearly ten tiroes as bright as Spica and is slowly . growing brighter. Retiring From Practice?' are L. C. Binford, Portland, chairman; - Vincent A. Ostrom, Eugene, vice chairman; LaSelle Coles, Prineville; John B. Davis, Staytonf Robert H. Foley, Bend: Ben R. Little, Corvallis, and Robert W. Root, Medford, all board members. "The hearings will be held to hear local views as to the future uses of the unappropriat ed ..waters f JheRogue .river and to assist the board in its recommendations to the state legislature,'' Binford. stated in a news release. "At the present time the lawt restricts appropria tions in the Rogue river below a point six miles south of Trail, to domestic stock, municipal and irrigation uses." The chairman stated also that the -hearing will be helpful to the board in arriving at methods of conserving and augmenting the water resources of the Rogue River basin. It also will assist the board in determining exist ing and future needs and uses of water for all beneficial pur poses. Following the hearing the board will formulate the water use program for recom mendation to the legislature, he said. Further information regard ing the hearings can be secured from Don Lane, secretary of the state water resources board, 270 Finance building, Salem. Flood Of Returns Hits Tax Offices County tax department re ported today a flood of last minute mailed tax returns are being received - by the depart ment. All returns mailed before the 5 p.m. Nov. 15 deadline en title the property owner to the 3 per cent discount, officials said. These returns -will be pro cessed throughout the week, it was reported, and receipts will be. in the mail as soon as possi ble. ' - Tornadoes Sweep Through South Killing Jasper, . Ala. W) Tornadoes swept through several commun ities in Alabama, and Mississip pi Sunday, killing at least five persons and demolishing a num ber of buildings. The storm line along which the twisters were spawned mov ed early, today into sections of north Georgia and lower Ten nessee, carrying heavy thunder storms and danger of flash flood ing. - The Meirfphis weather bureau also warned of "possibilities of tornadoes and severe thunder storms in extreme northwest Texas, extreme northwest Lou isiana, and Arkansas except for northeast and' southeast por tions" early today. The bureau at Knoxville, Tenn. said small rivers in the east part of Tennessee could Stevenson Called For Consultation In Bipartisan Plan Refuses to Say If He Has Proposals Washington (W Secretary of State John Foster Dulles laid before Adlai E. Stevenson today the administration's ideas for strengthening the West's de fenses in the face of Russia's missile advances. Dulles called in the two-time Democratic presidential candi date for consultation as part of a biprartisan approach to the question of how to bolster the North Atlantic Treaty Organi-: zation. Stevenson told newsmen as he entered the State department that he will try to be "helpful to the extent that I can agree" with Dulles' plans. Refuses to Say He refused to say whether he had any specific proposals of his own. But he said on his arrival in Washington Sunday that "simply a great effort in scien tific and research and missile development is not a sufficient response to the challenge which is now apparent." He said he would like to help bring about not only a closer military alliance but a "clos er political association through NATO" and to help "rebuild mu tual confidence between the United( States and our allies." While 'House Conference President Eisenhower also has invited Stevenson to confer with him before the mid-December NATO "summit" meeting. The former Illinois governor said he had no idea just when that White House conference will take place. The administration was under stood to 'be considering several moves to convert West Europe's defenses fo the age of nuclear rockets. Among them were: A possible bid by Eisenhow er at the Paris meeting for per mission to base U.S. 1,500-mile range missiles at NATO bases ringing Russia. Defense Secre- -tary Neil H." McElroy said last week that the U.S., recognizing Russia's lead in 5,000-mile inter continental missiles, would place emphasis on the shorter-range intermediate missiles, utilizing bases closer to Russia. Providing more information on atomic weapons development techniques to the NATO allies, and working toward a general pooling of all types of scientific information among the allies. An agreement with NATO nations for storing atomic war heads and bombs under U.S. control in western Europe and their quick release to the allies in event of war. Road Conditions Highway 230 (Diamond Lake highway) Chains re quired; 3 inches new snow, eight inches of roadside. Highway 66 Hayden Mountain, 5 inches of snow, carry chains. Siskiyous 6 inches pack ed snow; carry chains. Five Sunday rise abruptly because of torren tial rain. Three persons were killed in a rural community four miles northeast of Jasper Sunday af ternoon and five others were hospitalized. Officials said sev eral homes and barns were de molished by the twister. Another tornado struck in a rural settlement six miles north west of Macon, Miss., killing an elderly couple and destroying their home. State Rep. C. T. Crabtree told of escaping in an automobile, along with his brother, minutes before the same twister ripped into his home, about IVz miles away. The storm near Jasper was one of at least five reported in north Alabama and the highway patrol reported one other injury. gh4
