Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 13, 1958, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texten n WW 10) l'T(- 7 comes from:.. Corpcra'ics income Taxes v ln&i!hj3? IncsrHf Taxes , N t 1 52 tag Exram' . i otber o. v Seceipts'.X . 0flX ltest3 ; Protects V : Where It will go, . T" .iirMttt if Civil Benefits" Eics!i OStt J tf Presideat GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION American tax dollar will go Annua! Meeting Planned Friday For Fruit League Main speaker at the 44th annual meeting of the Jack son County Fruit Growers League Friday will be Ray mond Reter, owner manager of the Reter Fruit company In Medford, and president of the International Apple asso ciation. The meeting starts at 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Medford YMCA assembly hall, accord ing to Fred Morlan, secre tary. A report will be given also on league accomplishments for the year, and a report on new developments in horti cultural research. During the businss session six directors and the officers for the com ing year will be elected. Present officers are Martin Luther, Jr., league president; Lyle Kinney, first vice-president; Ron James, second vice president, and Fred Morlan, secretary-treasurer. Members of the 18-man board of direc tors whose terms of office ex pire this year are W. G. Beard, Robert Norris, Orville Hamilton, Cecil Clements, Martin Luther Jr., and Ron James. Directors are elected for three year terms. All fruit growers and their wives have been invited to attend, according to Luther. The fruit growers group was formed at a meeting of farmers and growers held in May, 1914. It was then known as the Farmers and Fruit Growers League of Jackson County. The name was chang ed to the present one in 1916. Articles of incorporation were filed in January, 1932 denoting the purpose of "pro moting and protecting the in terests of fruit growers in Jackson county." Several hundred growers, their wives, 1 extension spec ialists, horticulturists and oth er fruit industry representa tives are expected to attend. ' New Appropriation Passed By Court No opposition was voiced at the public hearing this morning to a 514,500 supple mental budget appropriation for the Jackson county juve nile detention home. The hearing was conducted by the county budget commit tee and the members of the Jackson county court, who immediately ordered transfer of funds from the county emergency fund. The hearing, which lasted approximately seven minutes, was attended by six persons in addition to members of the budget committee and county court. I The expenditure win oe used to finance the purchase of such fixtures as beds, the fence around the maximum security unit, draperies, chairs and window blinds and other inside equipment. The supplemental budget committee hearing was called bv the county court on the written advice of the district attorney when . a question arose as to the legality of paying for these purchases from the county emergency fund. New York W The Daily Worker, mouthpiece of the American Communist party for 34 years, died today in an effusion of self praise. of where the in the fiscal Ikes Proposal To Russia Includes Ban On Space Weapons Washington OPi The Senate disarmament chairman today hailed President Eisen hower's proposal to Russia for c. prompt ban on testing and production of space weapons. The new U.S. proposal was made in the President's letter to Soviet Premier Nikolai Bul ganin Sunday. The President also left the door open for a "summit" meeting with Rus sia if preliminary talks indi cate such a conference might produce results. Sound Proposal Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) told the United Press the Chief Executive's space ban plan represents a "broadened dimension" of pre-1 vious American disarmament proposals "and i sound one, too." Humphrey, chairman of the Senate foreign relations sub committee on disarmament, said he was "not surprised" that Eisenhower's reply to Bulganin was "more positive than expected." Declaring he "always be lieved the President to be a man of peace." the Senator Truman 5neaks Out Againsi Eisenhower New York (IP F ormer President Truman appeared today to have closed the door to his possible participation in a White House conference on foreign policy by making a particularly derogatory at tack on President Eisenhower. Truman who is in New York for a scries of speaking engagements, said Sunday that he would "have to find out what the program is" be fore he would accept an invi tation to join other Demo cratic and Republican leaders in the conference being plan ned under the chairmanship of Eric Johnston. Truman told reporters Sun day he thought Eisenhower was neither "a good policy maker" nor "a good budget maker." He conceded that the President has been "a great militarv commander in Eu rope and in NATO when he had ome one to tell him what to do." 'Who told him what to do? Truman was asked. 'The commander in chief," he replied. "You were the commander in chief, weren't you?" he was asked. "Yes." Truman said. Morse Says Budget Against Northwest Washington w Sen.1 Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) told the Senate today the new budget "continues the administra tion's vendetta against com prehensive resource develop ment in the Pacific North west." He said the amount re quested for the John Day dam was "a fraction of what' is re quired." . Morse promised to make the administration's national re sources policy an issue in the 1958 and 1960 campaigns. He said the administraiton has "sold out the heritage of fu ture generations of Americans." The BUDGET DOLLAR FiscaHear 1359 Estimate. year 1959, starting July 1 this year, based on President Eisenhower's message. (International) said he hoped "the same spirit will permeate the State De partment and the secretary (Secretary of State John Fost er Dulles)." The President, in a surprise offer in his letter to Bulganin, proposed "that we agree that outer space should be used only for peaceful purposes." Noting that both Russia and this country now are using space to test military missiles, he said: "The time to stop is now." Recalling this country's fruit less offer 10 years ago to in ternationalize all atomic arms, the President told Bulganin the world now faces "another choice perhaps even more mo mentous . . ." Will Increase Capacity "There are about to be per fected and produced powerful new weapons which, availing of outer space, will greatly in crease the capacity of the nu man race to destroy itself," the President said. ". . . Can we not stop the production of such weapons which would use or, more ac curately, misuse, outer space, now for the first time opening up as a field for man's ex ploration? Should not outer sDace be dedicated to the peaceful uses of mankind and denied to the purposes of war? "That is my proposal." Informed sources said the President envisages a ban on both production and testing of long-range ballistic missiles and future space weapons, but only if guaranteed inspection procedures are agreed on to prevent violations. Justice Kester Files For Election Salem (IP Justice Ran dall B. Kester today filed for election to the Oregon Su preme Court. Kester, 41, was appointed to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the death of the late Justice Wal ter L. Tooze. He has served on the high court since Jan. 3, 1957. 'Why, No I Haven't Been Sitting On That Report" 52nd M EDFORD 14 Pages Auto Workers To Demand Share f - Company Profits General Increase In Wages Included Detroit OP) The United Auto Workers International Executive board announced today ft will demand a share of profits instead of a shorter work week from auto com panies this year. The board said its profit sharing program would split up profits above 10 per cent on net capital among com pany executives, stockholders, salaried and hourly workers and consumers. General Wage Boost In addition, the bargaining program the board will recommend to the union's special 1958 contract conven tion here Jan. 22-24 will in clude a general wage increase and a demand that the supple mental unemployment bene fit plan be extended to a full year. The board said its previ ously announced goal of a four-day work week was dropped in favor of the profit sharing plan because of the general economic recession and the "need for increased consumer buying power." Under the profit sharing plan, executives and stock holders would get one-half of the profits in excess of 10 per cent on investments, salaried and hourly rated workers would get one-fourth and con sumers would get one-fourth in the form of a rebate on pur chases. Based On Productivity The general wage increase which the board recommend ed will be based on increased productivity and will be high er than the present productiv ity increase formula of 2V2 per cent or 6 cents an hour, whichever is higher. The board also recommend ed that the 19 cents an hour cost of living allowance cur rently paid to most auto work ers be written into the basic wage rate. Here's how the profit shar ing plan would work in a hypothetical case: 10 Per Cent Deduction If a company's net capital investment is $200 million dollars and its profits before taxes are $50 million, the company would deduct 10 per cent of the investment, or $20 million from the profits to leave $30 million in excess profits. Half of the $30 million would go to the company for executive bonuses and stock holders; one fourth would go to wage and salaried em ployees, excluding executives eligible to participate in the executive bonus plan, and the remaining one fourth would go to consumers as rebates on cars they bought during the year. Hollywood (IP Actress Debra Padget, 24, announced she will marry singer-actor David Street Tuesday at her mother's home. Year By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington The new fed eral budget presented to Con gress today by President Ei senhower, while pared down for many civilian functions, contained increased amounts for continuing construction on the Talent division of the Rogue River basin irrigation project. It called for $9,500,000, compared with $6,189,510 in the current year's budget. Work Itemized The $9,500,000 is to provide for completion of the Howard Praisie dam and its reservoir and access roads, the Keene Creek dam and reservoir, Howard Prairie delivery canal, Green Springs power plant and its related conduit, surge tank, penstock and pow er switchyard. Work will also go forward Two Districts Hold Elections For Water Users Elections are s c h e d u led from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. tomor row for the Medford Irriga- tion district and the Rogue River Valley Irrigation dis trict, voters were reminded today.' - '. WaterTusers'in- the Medford irrigation district and those in the ROgue River Valley Irrigation district will vote on contracts with the bureau of reclamation. Under the proposed con tract for the MID, the district will receive 8,000 acre feet of storage space in the new and enlarged reservoirs in the Talent project and obtain two-thirds of the increase in return flow to Bear creek. The contract would provide repayment of $603,000, the cost of the additional water and the amount, not to ex ceed $361,000, which would be used in rehabilitation. The contract, if approved, for the RRVID will be for 3,000 acre feet of additional water annually, and $580,000 of rehabilitation work. Three precincts polling places will be open for MID precinct 1 at Hillcrest Or chard house, precinct 2 at the district office, 1310 Barnett rd., precinct three, at the Oak Grove school. Polling place for the RRVID will be at the district's office on Merriman rd. just north of the Howard school. Council Meeting Held On Crossing A special Medford city council meeting was called at 3 p.m. today in which coun cil members were to take ac tion on the proposed Eighth st. crossing, according to Ver non Thorpe, acting city man ager. The council was expected to authorize the mayor and city recorder to enter into an agreement with the Southern Pacific for construction of the crossing. The agreement would cover the Eighth st area from Front to Fir sts. Eugene HP Burglars who stole the safe in the Nu-Way market on Highway 99 just north of Eugene early today made off with $2,500 in cash and checks, police said. WEATHER FORECAST Local low cloudiness or fog in val leys tonight. Otherwise increasing cloudiness, be coming cloudy with oc casional light rain Tuesdav. Low tonight 33. High Tuesday 48. Temp. Highest Yesterday SI Lowest This Morning 31 Prec. to 4 a.m. Today 64 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:39 a.m. Sunset 5:02 p.m. Moonrise Tuesday 2:42 a.m. New Moon Jan. 19 Mercury, the smallest planet, may he seen shortly before sunrise for the next ten days. The stars in its background will be of the constellation, Sagittarius. V' 'jv-j. ,ON, MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1958 000 ToDemit in Emigrant dam, and a lim ited amount of work will con tinue on collection canals in the storage area and on the sublaterals in the irrigation area, according to the Bureau of Reclamation. Additional funds are ex pected to be transferred to the National Park Service for providing recreational facil ities at Howard Prairie reser voir. To Award Contracts The Bureau anticipated that field data for future work will continue to be collected. Con tracts will be awarded for construction of the Ashland division dam, first section of Ashland lateral, and for oper ator's facilities at Howard Prairie dam. Next year's program on the Talent division will also allow for construction of dikes and relocation of existing im provements in Emigrant reser r l PWS iw Ml -mf ! Erf PLANT TREES Wielding shovels and braving a noon-day rain, about 30 resi dents of a two-block section of O'Gara st., Medford, planted 17 flowering cherry trees as their part in the city-wide tree planting program now underway. In the picture above, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Cum mings tamp dirt around the roots of their tree while Mrs. Bernard Deffley and Mrs. Homer Young, who organized the mass- March of Full Swing The March of Dimes cam paign to raise funds to fight polio are now in full swing in Jackson county, according to Curt Butterfield, county chairman. Butterfield said several projects are either being plan ned or under way in various Hearing Slated On Changing Zone A hearing for a change of zone in the property located south of the intersection ' of Crater Lake highway and east of Biddle rd., will be contin ued at the Medford planning commission meeting today, starting at 7:30 p.m. in the city council chambers. The proposed zone change would be from class 1A, single family, to class V, light in dustrial. Also on the planning commission's agenda is a pro posal for widening Elk st. A planning consultant from the bureau of Municipal Re search and Service, Eugene, will be at the meeting accord ing to officials. Third Launching Base For Missiles Disclosed Washington iipi Defence Secretary Neil H. McElroy to day disclosed plans to build a third Dase for launching 5,000 mile intercontinental missiles. He said funds for the pro ject are in President's Eisen hower's new budget and work on it will start in the 1959 fiscal year. Tribune Dim Budget voir .area to proceed concur rently with construction of the dam. Work will also pro ceed on the Daley Creek and South Fork collection canals. Rogue Project Work Due The Bureau of Reclamation also expects this coming fiscal year- to complete its general investigation of the Merlin di vision of the Rogue basin pro ject. The budget contains $528,200 for general investi gations of this and other irri gation projects proposed to be constructed in Oregon. Un der this program it will in itiate its investigation of the Evans Valley division of the Rogue basin project. The budget also contains funds for planned improve ments in Crater Lake Nation al park estimated to cost $148, 500. . The separate improvements for roads and trails were itemized as follows: Dimes Campaign in Through sections of the county. He also said the Teens-Against-Polio committees, composed of high school students in schools of the county, "are doing a fine job" with a num ber of projects being carried out. The following community chairmen have been appointed by Butterfield: Wendell Stalk er, Shady Cove; Wendell Pan ter, Central Point; Mrs. John Crabb, Jacksonville; Don Ger en. Central Point; John Hart- Weafher'Company Gets State License The Water Resources De velopment corporation of Denver, Colo., has announced it holds a state license to reg ulate weather between April 1, and Oct. 15, 1958, in the Rogue Valley area. The corporation has con tracted with the Medford Pear Shippers association to prevent loss or damage by hail to horticulural and agri culture crops in the Rogue valley. The corporation operates ground - based silver iodide generators located in Jack son, Josephine, Curry, Doug las, Klamath' and Coos coun ties in Oregon and in Siski you and Del Norte counties in California. When first established in 1956, the program was one of the first in Oregon. Simi lar programs are now in operation in California. Price 10 Cents No. 226 Construct parking area and reconstruct intersection in Annie Spring area, $15,000; restore walks and walls in Rim area, $18,000; reconstruct trail from Rim to Lake shore, $30,000; pave utility area at headquarters, $25,900. Improvements Listed Improvements in buildings and utilities were listed as follows: Mazama campground de velopment at Annie Spring, $19,000; reconstruct camp ground in Rim area, $19,900; Munson Spring development, headquarters, $13,200; picnic site development in the park generally, $7,500. The budget listed a slight reduction in funds for O&C timber access roads, but this was due to reduced timber receipts in past months. The amount budgeted is $4,435, 000, compared with $5,480, 000 this year. planting project in the area, look on. The trees, chosen for the particular neighbor hood because of their size and shape, were planted between the curb and sidewalk line according to specifications laid out by city engineers. A city ordinance adopted last February set up . the formal tree planting program, which is being carried on under supervision of the city planning commission. County sook, Phoenix; Mrs. Joe Fen- ton, Talent; Ralph Schulte, Ashland; George Hubbard, Prospect, and R. L. Palmer, Medford. Persons desiring to help in the polio fund cam paign are asked to get in touch with the chairmen in their communities. In pointing out the contin ued need for money, Butter field said the National Foun dation for Infantile Paralysis, organized 20 years ago to "lead, direct and unify the fight" against polio, has as sisted 325,000 polio patients during the past two years and has administered 123, 000,000 Salk vaccine inocu lations. The foundation has carried ! its battle against the crippling effects of the disease with weapons developed with March of Dimes funds, which led to production of the Salk vaccine and to techniques for combatting other serious vi rus diseases. Assistance to professional schools and 1 associations and training of professional work ers also has been a vital part of the March of Dimes pro gram, Butterfield'pointed out. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 439.71, up 1.03; 20 railroads 100.87, up 0.71; IS utilities 70.35. up 0.41, and 65 stocks 148.36, up 0.58. Sales today were about 1,860,000 shares com pared with 2,010,000 shares Friday. $73,900,000,000 : Would Be Spent In Fiscal 1959 Mixed Reaction Shown In Congress Washington (W Presi dent Eisenhower laid before Congress today the biggest peacetime spending budget itt the nation's history. The President proposed spending $73,90,000,000 in fis cal 1959, including funds to meet the nation's needs in "the dawning age "of space conquest." He estimated that this could be done without putting the government in the red or raising taxes. Congress received the budg et with mixed reaction. Republicans and Democrats alike agreed that Congress will support whatever defense expenditures are necessary to meet Russia's space-age chal lenge. But many were frank ly skeptical that a balanced budget could be achieved, much less the $500 million surplus predicted by the Presi dent for the fiscal year which starts July 1. Some members expressed relief that the spending figure was not bigger. Others, nota bly Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D-Va.) expressed disappointment that the President had trimmed only $600 million from non defense spending. Byrd called it a "reckless" budget. The congressional mood ap peared to be: Billions for de fense but economy elsewhere. Some congressmen frankly predicted, however, that Cort gress, with an eye to the No vember elections, is not likely to come up with any substan tial economies. Postal Rate Increase While the President ruled out a general tax cut or in crease he asked Congress to continue present e"xcise and corporate tax rates for an other year. And he proposed a postal rate increase, includ ing a hike to five cents for out of town regular letters. The President alloted $47, 100,000.000 or 64 per cent of the budget, for "protection" national security and for eign aid. The President said that the "growing danger" of Russian progress in missiles, coupled with Soviet rejection of work able disarmament, demanded the big spending. The United States must show determina tion to remain "sturdy ... in the many strengths that keep the peace," he said. Stepped-up Spending He put "priority of nation al security over lesser needs'? in both civilian and military programs. He proposed sharp ly stepped up spending for longer-range missiles, nuclear armed or powered ships, edu cation and science. He advocated curtailment, revision or elimination of civ ilian programs, such as flood control; farm aid, housing and financial aid to states. But he conceded such savings would amount to only $600 million in fiscal 1959 everyf Congress went along. He refused to put any mon ey in the budget for starting any new reclamation, flood control or navigation projects. Small Surplus Seen Counting on early reversal of t h e downward economic trend, the President estimat ed federal budget receipts in fiscal 1959 at $74.4 billion. This would give a precarious surplus of $500 million. An originally estimated surplus of $1.8 billion for this fiscal year was revised to a $400 million deficit because of increased defense spend ing and because the recent slowdown in business reduc ed tax revenues. He said he will ask Con gress for another temporary increase in the debt ceiling of S275 billion. In some re cent years Congress has grant ed a temporary increase of as much as $6 billion. The debt now exceeds $274 billion. A total of $47.1 billion, 64 per cent of the budget, was allotted for "protection" -national security and foreign aid. This was an increase 'of $800 million over 1958. Of this "protection" money, the U. S. armed forces would get $38.9 billion an increase of S900 million over this year. This increase in defense spending was much smaller than some military, congres sional civilian and scientific leaders have been clamoring for. The special Rockefeller panel last week urged an in crease of $3 billion this year; to be followed by additional similar increases in the next several years. (Sea Stories on Page 5)