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MEDFORD, OREGON
Y, NOVEMBER 18, 1957
No. 179
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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,
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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.
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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
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'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.
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