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( M MAM v TOW l W":""-S3r -r TIMBER SALE At public timber auctions in the federal court room of the Medford post office Monday, several- southern Ore gon logging firms and individuals were on hand to bid on three tracts of Rogue River National forest timber in the Fish lake area. Conducting the first sale, above, is County Men to File For Commissioner .-- Two Jackson county men last night announced their intentions of filing for the Democratic nomination for county commissioner, a post now held by Republican Ches ter Wendt. . They are Franklin (Jere) Girard, a long-time state offi cial and forester in Idaho and a resident cf Jackson county for nine years, and Frank Christian, mayor of Talent. Wendt, a resident of Jack sonville, will be a candidate for reelection. Ranger for 12 Year .. Girard, 65, lives at 1070 Emma st., Ashland. A native of Ashland, Tenn., he attend ed high school and took spe cial studies in forestry at the University of Montana, later joining the U.S. forest service Man Bruised When Caught in Garage Miles Stuart, 1029 Queen Anne ave., escaped with bruises . Tuesday evening e ve n i n g when he was caught and pressed between tne door and the door jam of his car, neighborhood doc tors who rescued him report ed. Firemen, who were called about 6:40 p.m. to release him, said that Stuart had gotten out of his car to open his garage door. The auto's transmission had been left in drive position and the veh icle started to move forward. Stuart was caught when he attempted to stop the car. The door of the auto was forced shut by a retaining wall, pin ning him. Drs. Florian Shasky and Thomas Rutter, neighbors of Stuart, attracted by horn honking and shouts for help, had released him by the time firemen arrived. ', Retirement Announced, Principals Named in 6C Central Point The forth coming retirement of H. P. Jewett, long-time , superinten dent of school district 6C, was announced, and three - year contracts with four, princi pals in the district were ap proved by the board of di rectors at a meeting here this -week. Contracts were approved w.ith Arthur L. Strauss, Cra ter High school, Central Point; Gilbert A. Mack, Gold Hill schools; William Brew sier, Sams Valley school; and George A. Johns, Jewett. El ementary school, Central Point. Three-Year Contract C. A. Meyer, principal of Central Point Junior High school, was given a three-year contract to continue for the 1958-59 year as junior high school principal. He will vrork with Superintendent Jewett and the school board during the coming year pre paratory to taking over the stiperintendency upon Jew ett's retirement in 1959. Meyer's contract for 1959 to 1961 is for superintendent of the district. He has been principal of the Central Point Elementary and Junior High school since 1946. Before moving to Central Point he was teacher and coach in Co quille Junior High school. A graduate of Oregon College ! in THahn whprp h& wac a ranger for 12 years on the Clearwater and St. Joe Na tional forests. In 1933 he was elected sec retary of state of Idaho on the Democratic ticket, and was reelected in 1935 for a second two-year term. Later he served for seven years with the state forestry department in Idaho. As secretary of state, Gr rard also served as a member of the Idaho boards of equali zation, examiners (similar to Oregon's board of control) land commissioners, and was member and secretary of the state board of prisons, par dons and paroles. Chief of Recreation He is a veteran of World War I. In 1949. due to ill healtfi.Tie was employed Ihere until 1956 as chief of recrea tion in the office of special services. Since his retirement two years ago, he has been selling real estate in Ashland. Girard is married. A grown daughter by , an earlier mar riage lives in Idaho. Christian, Talent, mayor and retired building contrac tor, has lived in Talent , since 1950. Shortly before tnai n had moved to Myrtle Creek from Washington. At Myrtle Creek he was one of the ong inal stockholders in a saw- mill and plywood plant there and acted as purchasing agent for the company at that time Christian owns several busines properties in Talent He lives with his wife at 314 West Main st., Talent. He has two sons and two step sons. One is now working for Crown Zellerbach company in San Francisco, Calif., after receiving a master's degree at the University of Idaho. Two other sons are in the Navy, Another is now a senior at Oregon State college and is studying mechanical engi neering. of Education and Oregon State college, he served ZVz years in the Navy during World War II He has been active in pro fessional teacher groups -in the county and state. Willamette Graduate Jewett, a graduate of Wil lamette university, . Salem, has been superintendent of district 6C since 1922. The board also approved extra' secretarial help in the superintendent's office and extra help in music for the Sams Valley school. Inspec tion of grounds and buildings by the budget committee will be Feb. 17 and the first meet ing of the budget committee was set for Feb. 27. Lester James, chairman of the board, noted that 16 con tractors have taken out plans for the addition to Crater High school. Bids will be opened Feb. 18. The board also approved a request from the Rural school board that funds be included in its budget to underwrite the expense of the special ed ucation school now being held at Talent. The rural board will receive reimburse ment for the funds from the state and from districts hav ing pupils in the school. Robert Sutherland, biology teacher at Crater, was grant ed a year's leave of absence for graduate study. Timber Management Officer Howard G. Hopkins, while Clerk Mrs. George Sprague tabluates bids. The last two sales were con ducted by Timber Sale Officer Douglas B. Shaw, Ashland. The total bid value of the three sales amounted to more than $38,000. (See story on page 11) Solid Gains for Agriculture Made, R. J. Steward Says The "forceful leadership" of Gov. Robert D. Holmes, backed by a majority of the 1957 legislature, accounted for the first solid gains for Oregon agriculture and the consumer public in this gen eration state director of agri culture and former legisla tor, Robert J. Steward, said last night. He spoke at a meet ing of the Democratic party of Jackson county at the Ash land Civic clubhouse. About 100 persons attended. Steward cited 23 agricul ture laws passed during the regular .-1957 session provid ing protection to producers and consumers. He said all were desperately-needed-legislation by-passed by nine previous legislative sessions. He praised the governor and present legislature for "legis lative responsibility," and cited Jackson county's Robert B. Duncan as an example. Meat Inspections Among the 23 laws noted, Steward mentioned the one proyiding compulsory meat in spection; one providing state wide recognation and elimina-; tion of Bangs disease, which causes Undulant fever; milk usage control act; the ware house bonding and licensing act; the livestock districts act; ragweed control act and others. Two Jackson county Demo crats announced their inten tions of seeking the office of commissioner. They are Franklin Girard of Ashland and Krank Christian of Tal ent. ' Brief talks were made by announced candidates, Larry Sheehan, who seeks the of fice of sheriff, and by Mrs. Nita Zumwalt, who lias filed for county clerk. At the meeting, the qualifi cations of another Democratic candidate, Raymond , Koch, Central Point, who has filed for sheriff, were questioned by Democratic party chair man James Redden. State Representative Dun can reviewed the accomplish ments of the regular and spe cial sessions of the legislature. He praised Governor Holmes for courage in calling the special session, which "cost the taxpayer only, about five cents per capita and yet pro vided a substantial measure of tax relief" and also for "bringing state government close to the people." Antidote , for Poison Donated City Police . Several packets of a uni versalantidote . for accident al poisoning . have been don ated to the Medford, city po lice for. use in first aid kits in the station and emergency vehicles, according to Police Chief. Charles A. Champlin. The new antidote, donated by Wainscott's Pharmacy, will be used in common acci dental poisonings except in the case of corrosive sub stances, the chief reported. He explained that all police officers are holders of ad vance first aid cards and the antidote would be used prior to taking the victim to the hospital or physician. Portland HP) An" uniden tified man was killed today when he was struck by a train at a small bridge in the Mock's bottom area of tnorth Portland. ' . Opportunity for Jobs To Increase, President Thinks 'Pump-Priming' Project Announced Washington (in Presi dent Eisenhower predicted to day that the recession will start to end next month and employment will pick up. In a special, written state ment, the chief executive ack nowledged that unemploy ment currently is bringing hardship to many Americans, but he said he is convinced that better days are in sight. The President issued his "chins up" statement in the wake of estimates by the Labor and Commerce depart ments that unemployment went to 4,494,000 in mid-Janu ary, the highest since 1950. Official Alarm The one-month increase of 1,100,000 in the number of jobless caused official and public alarm. The President also obvious ly was concerned about de mands in Congress that the ad ministration .take drastic steps promptly to prevent a depres sion. He said that from the best advice he could get he be lieved "that we have had most of our bad news on the unem ployment front." "I am convinced that we are not facing a prolonged down-swing in activity," he said. "Every indication is that March will commence to see the start of a -pickup in job opportunities. That should mark the beginning of the end of the down-turn in our econ omy, provided we apply our selves with' confidence to the job ahead." Post Office Program Tuesday he announced a $2 billion program for modern ization of post office buildings and equipment during the next three to five years as one major "pum-priming" ef fort to speed an economic up turn. Today he said the adminis tration is engaged ,in "sys tematic and - comprehensive planning for expansion and modernization of public works and buildings, all of these use ful public projects to be taken off the shelf when they could most appropriately be under taken." WEATHER FORECAST: Partial clearing with valley fog tonight and early Thursday morning. Increasing cloudiness dur ing day Thursday. Rain by afternoon or evening. Cool er tonight with low 35. High Thursday 50. Temp. Highest Yesterday 54 Lowest this Morning 42 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today $4 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:13 a.m. Sunset '5:39 p.m. The Moon rises Thurs day 3:3J a.m. and rides low. New Moon Feb.-1 Saturn appears near the Moon tonight, but a spice traveler, after making the 238.009 miles to the Moon, would have to go another 970.000.000 miles to arrive on Saturn. Unemployment Continues In County in January The high- unemployment I level which was reached the last week in December con tinued, in January, but most employers believe the em ployment picture should show considerable i m p r o v ement during the spring months, ac cording to John J. Patton, manager of the Medford of fice, state employment serv ice. Lack of employment activ ity in the area was due as much to bad weather as to economic factors, Patton said. He noted that there was "a good deal of 'off and on' oper ations on the part of several sawmills - and some logging firms." v General Feeling In general," he said, "the feeling among most employ ers seemed to be that the low point had been reached, and that the employment picture should show considerable in fflilU I W ! fife VERN SMITH Seeks GOP Nomination Ashlander Seeks GOP Nomination As County Sheriff Vern Smith, 51, of 1221 Park st., Ashland, ' today, an nounced he would seek the Republican nomination for Jackson county sheriff in the May 16 primary election. He will oppose Joe Walsh, at present chief deputy sher iff. Smith has been a law en forcement officer in Jackson county for more than 20 years, and was chief of crim inal investigations in the sher iff's office yndjef" tehnriff Syd Brown for nix years. - 1 ' In Forest Service ; . ; Prior to his duty under Brown, Smith was public re lations and enforcement of ficer for the forest service in Ashland, and was a member of the Ashland police depart ment for two years. Later he became chief county weigh master, after which he accept ed a job as police chief in Ash land. He served in the latter office six years. He became county weigh- master again, and has served in that office three years. Smith said he has studied law three years, and has stu, died business administration and police science, basic safety and traffic control at the University of California, and has taken 23 police sci ence training school courses. Affiliated Listed He is . affiliated with the Methodist church, an original organizing director of Mercy Flights, a member of Hillah Shrine, Royal Arch Mason, Commandery, AF&AM 23, Ashland lodges, and affiliated with Elks lodge 944. He is on the executive committee of the Jackson County Employees association, and is an explo sive ordance disposal agent with the Civil Defense. 1 Smith was born in Oregon City in 1907. He and his wife have three children and two grandchildren. 1 He attended schools in Oregon, and the Naval school of marine en gineering and special courses at the University of Calif ornia. provement during the spring months." Low market prices contin ued to trouble the lumber in dustry, and wet weather stopped construction and oth er outside work in January, Patton . said. The feeling of gloom which pervaded the area last fall, he added, seemed to be absent or great ly reduced. As of Janf 31, unemploy ment in tLe county was esti mated at 3,070, which in cludes all persons in the coun ty who are ordinarily- in the labor market, and are at pres ent out of work. At the end of January, Pat ton said, 18.5 of each 100 workers having waee credits. which would entitle them to an unemployment compensa tion claim, were unemployed and filine. This is 24 npr rnt more than December and 15 per cent above the same time a year ago. iV.t .-.war i- ' rh- ... v. tail Medford 18 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1958 No. 252 Gas Bill Defeat Seen as Result Of Fund for GOP Texas Contribution Stirs Congressmen Washington (IP) A $100, 000 Republican fund raised by Texas oil men today appeared to have killed for a second time their politically explo sive natural gas bill. Some congressional figures who called the bill as good as dead compared, the fund with a $2,500 campaign contribu tion offered Sen. Francis Case (R-S.D.) by an oil company in 1956 when a similar bill was before Congress. Case publicly rejected the con tribution, causing a sensation. The measure, which would sharply relax federal controls over producer prices for na tural gas, passed then but was vetoed by President Eisen hower because of what he called "arrogant 'lobbying tactics" in the Case affair. He said the principles of the bill were desirable nevertheless. Summing up today's senti ment of several congressmen, Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-Vt.) said: "The oil and gas people are using oil 'and" gas to "-' cook their own goose." 'The Last Straw Flanders, who voted for the measure in 1956, said he would be in the negative if it came up again because "now the merits (of the bill) are obscured by the people push ing it." Rep. Morgan M. Mouider (D-Mo.), who - also endorsed the bill earlier, said he was likewise switching to the op position after the Washington Post and Times Hearld re ported the Texas fund was raised to muster GOP House support for the bill Moulder said that was the "last straw." Unander Willing . To Debate Issues Salem (IP) State Treasurer Sig Unander said today that Secretary of State Mark Hat field's suggestion of a state wide tour for the two Repub lican gubernatorial candidates is a good idea if a schedule can be arranged. Hatfield suggested in Port land Tuesday that the two candidates make joint appear ances before statewide groups, possibly one section of the state at a time. "That sounds like a good idea," Unander said. "I would be glad to do it if we can ar range our campaign schedules to permit it. However, my schedule already is rather full." . City Budget Group To Tour Facilities Members of . the citizen's budget committee, several members -of the city council, and City Manager Robert A. Duff will tour city facilities Thursday starting at 10 a.m. The tour will include a two hour tour of the city hall establishments with lunch served to the group at noon at the Central fire station. During the afternoon the group will view the fire sta tions, city shops, airport and sewerage plant. Colt Rescued from Military Rd. Well Central Point - A colt, owned by" John Gates Was rescued from a dry well on his ranch on : Military rd. Tuesday, according to the Central Point rural fire de partment. They said the colt appar ently fell into the well Mon day evening. He was not dis covered . until early yester day, they sAid. A wrecker was called for use of a hoist to rescue the animal, accord ing to firemen. The colt was not injured. . - r r 11 r F DDI 'What I Really Want Is a Few Jars of Instant Science" i Mrs. Nye Resigns School Board Post Mrs. Stephen Nye resigned as a member and chairman of the Medford school board last night, and Keith Hockersmith, former member of the Oak Grove school board, was ap pointed to fill her unexpired term. . . : Mrs. Nye resigned because she is moving into a new home in the Phoenix district. She has been , a member . of the Medford board for almost 10 years, and this was her second term, as chairman -She was chairman during the school year 1952-53. Hockersmith currently is a member of the County School Reorganization board. Principals Appointed. The board also appointed principals for the district. They are Lester Harris, Med ford High; Glenn L. Linn, Mc Laughlin Junior High; Vincent Bevins, Hedrick Junior High; Kenneth' Hulburt, Jefferson; John Childers, Roosevelt; Robert Sage, Washington; Ron ald Weatherf ord, West Side; Bruce-Metzger, Jackson; Jack Holmes, Lincoln; and Robert Phillips, Oak Grove. Roy Gilbertson was ap pointed principal of Hoover Elementary school on Siski you blvd., and Robert Baccus was named principal for Wil son school on Corona ave. Phillips has served in the Medford district six years, moving here from Southern Oregon college as coach at Washington school. He also taught in Jefferson school. Teachers will be elected at the board meeting March 11. Bids are expected to be called for the new Wilson school prior to Feb. 17, and will be opened at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 5 in the school administration build ing, Mrs. Nye said. Final plans and specifications have been approved by the board. Plans for the new Hoover Lincoln Wasn't Opposed Politics and Washington (IPi The Li brary of Congress toasted Lin coln on his birthday today by releasing an unpublished draft of a letter he wrote on blend ing politics and whiskey. Abe allowed he wasn't against it. The library released the let ter in announcing its receipt as a gift along with two others and a Lincoln family Bible. Gift To Collection David Mearns, library man uscript division chief and Lin coln expert, said the letters and Bible were a gift to the library's Lincoln papers col lection largest in the world by' Lincoln's great grand Mart Tribune i" school are progressing' satis factorily, the board said. Bids are expected to be called in the near future. The two schools are part of a two-year building pro gram costing more than $1 700,000 approved by the vot ers last fall. A site for a proposed dis trict warehouse and school bus shop hear the Jackson County Housing authority was discussed, but no action was taken by the board. Possible other sites also were dis cussed. June 3 was set as the ten tative date for an election on the 1958-59 budget. Prelim inary work on the budget is under way, and the budget will be submitted to the com mittee in the near future. Eisenhowers Slate Georgia Vacation , Washington (IP) President and Mrs. Eisenhower fly to Thomasville, Ga., Thursday for about 10 days of rest and relaxation. They will stay on the Mile stone plantation of former Treasury Secretary and Mrs. George M. Humphrey, just outside the city of Thomas ville, which is located in the southwest corner of Georgia. It wilL be the1 President's fifth winter trip to Thomas ville, where he particularly enjoys the quail shooting and golf. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP) Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 441.21, off 1.14; 20 railroads 105.38. off 1.05; 15 utilities 71.64, off 0.48; and 65 stocks 150. 44, off 0.73. Sales today were about 2,030,000 shares compared with 2.110.000 shares Tuesday. Liquor, Letter Shows son, Lincoln Isham of Dorset, Vt. - Lincoln wrote the politics-and-liquor letter in 1854 to Richard James Oglesby, an Illinois politician, in support of Rep. Richard Yates who lived in Oglesby's district. Apparently Misunderstanding "I understand his enemies are getting up a charge against him that while he passes for a temperate man he is in the habit of drinking secretly and that they calculate on proving an instance of the charge by you," Lincoln wrote. He said there appar ently was a misunderstand ing. - Oregonian To Propose Separate Senate Inquiry 'Payment of Money Evidence Claimed Washington (m The strife torn House investigation of alleged "misconduct" in fed eral agencies swung dramatic ally today on the decision of Sen. Wayne Morse. Morse found himself in physical possession of disput ed files handed him by ousted staff chief Bernard Schwartx of a House Commerce Sub committee investigating six regulatory agencies. The Oregon Democrat as sured the subcommittee today that he will not help its ousted chief counsel, Bernard Schwartz, keep any secret records of his politically ex plosive role. ' Morse advised the new subcommittee chairman; Rep. Oren Harris (D-Ark.) that he can have the controversial documents today. But Morse said after read ing the documents that he will propose a separate Senate in quiry into the same field that the trouble-ridden House group has been exploring the affairs of six federal regu latory agencies. Schwartz, in a statement late Tuesday, asserted he had uncovered evidence of "the payment of money" to a fed eral communications commis sioner in a disputed TV chan nel case. He did not name the person or case. White House Clique :r He declared he had planned to bring to light the machina. tions of the White House clique in controlling deci sions" of federal regulatory agencies. He ticked off as members of the "clique" the names of presidential assist ant Sherman Adams, White House counsel Gerald Morgan, Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, Col. George Gordon. Moore, M r s. Eisenhower's brother-in-law, and former Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York. He said " his ' investigators had planned to leave for Bos ton Tuesday "to delve into the notorious grant of a multi- million dollar television chan nel to. a leading Republican newspaper." He said they also were, going "to find out the facts concerning the relations between Weeks and a leading director and stockholder o Pan American World Air ways. Claims, Counter-Claims Schwartz claimed the files were his own "working" docu ments and papers. New sub committee Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark.) said they be longed to the subcommittee and included "original," not copied, documents without which his group's investiga tion would be "thwarted." ' Harris said he assumed Morse would return the docu ments to the subcommittee. Angered by Schwartz action, Harris said the subcommittee had not considered what means could be taken to 'force" Morse to return the papers if the senator refused to give them up. We're going to make every effort to get the files back," Harris said. . Schwartz said the papers he delivered to Morse contained 'some" of his data. But Rep. John E, Bennett (R-Mich.), a subcommittee member, said Schwartz handed the senator the "complete results" of Schwartz' investigation. Bennett added that Morse had no more right to the files than any ordinary citizen who was given something by somer one who did not own it. Hollywood OP) Actor Richard Egan, 35, plans to marry actress Patricia Nardy, 24, in June. To Mixing Thousands and thousands of us . . . have known Yates for many years," he said. "I have never seen him drink liquor, nor act, or speak as if he, had been drinking nor smelled it on his breath." : Anyway, Lincoln said his vote didn't "depend absolute ly upon the question of wheth er a candidate does or does not taste liquor." Lost Election - A library spokesman noted Yates lost the elections But he said records show Yates went on to become govr ernor of Illinois a few years later and was tipsy when he took the oath of office. -
