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53 Mebford United Press Full 28 Pages Last Minute Preparations tehed! for Pear Festival ROYAL CLUB King and queen of the fifth annual Pear Blossom festival are Bobby McLean and Ladonna Lull, who were crowned at a special ceremony at Lincoln school last night. Bobby, 6, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith McLean and Ladonna, 5, is the daughter of Mr. and Inquest Planned For Boy's Death Tom Reeder Says An inquest will be held into the death of Edmond Cheadle, 16, who was found by a search party in a wooded Applegate area, near his home Wednes day afternoon, District Attor ney Thomas J. Reeder said to day. A party of some 35, includ ing sheriff's deputies, Civil Air Patrol members and Civil Defense volunteers searched the Ruch area yesterday after the boy failed to return from a walk Monday afternoon. He was found lying at the base of a tree with a rope around his neck, with another piece of rope hanging from the tree limb, deputies report ed. The rope appeared to have broken. Reeder said that the au topsy performed immediately after finding the youth indi cated death by strangulation, but that a thorough investiga tion of the death was under way. Young Cheadle was said to have been living with broth ers and sisters and a grand father at the family home near Ruch while his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Cheadle, traveled to Portland to move some furniture. They had moved their fam ily to Ruch recently and the boy was to have enrolled soon in the seventh or eighth grade, according to deputies. An aunt, Mrs. Lois Hatfield, who lived near the Cheadle home, reported Tuesday morning that the boy was missing. Deputies said they understood he had been stay ing at both places. Reeder said the death ap peared to be self-inflicted, but that an inquest will "very likely" follow the investiga tion now underway. West Evans Creek Rd. Gets Road Overhaul Work was begun Tuesday by county road crews on West Evans Creek rd., two tne building on Hawthorne miles above Rogue River, st sai(1 today she has ob where heavy rains washed tained considerable talent to out the road bed, according to County Engineer Paul Ryn- ning. . Workmen also resumed work this week on shoulders Mrs. D. G. "Fran" MacDou and drainage ditches on gall and Mrs. "Sally" Champ Kings highway, which is to lin, wife of Police Chief be paved later in the year. Charles Champlin, a reading Improvement are underway on the Upper Applegate rd. and a county rock crusher is in operation at Military bridge. .1 rd Year Leased Wire BOUTS Mrs. Robert Lull, Medford. In the picture above, taken after last night's program, the royal couple seem to be discussing their job of reigning over the festival activities this week end as they share the fragrance of a big bouquet of pear blossoms. Festive Royalty Get Crowns In Ceremony King and queen of the fifth annual Pear Blossom festival were crowned at a special cor onation ceremony at Lincoln school last night. New king is Bobby Mc Lean, 6, son of Mr. and Mrs. Keith McLean, 2961 Crater Lake ave., and queen is La donna Lull, 5, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lull, Old Military road, Medford. The royal couple was crowned by last year's Pear Blossom king, Hal Ellis, after final judging was completed. Last year's queen, Linda Es tramado, became ill during the program and could not take part in the crowning ceremony. The king and queen were chosen from 18 entries who were introduced by Pear Blos som Festival Association President Fred Beck and in terviewed individually on the stage by Master of Ceremo nies Jimmy Dunlevy prior to the judging. Selection of the festival's new rulers was based on poise, appearance, deportment and personality. Bobby Mc Lean was sponsored by the Flower Mart and Ladonna Outlawing Onion Futures Predicted Ontario (IP) Malheur county farm bureau official Bill Moore said today there was a good chance of getting legislation passed to outlaw onion futures trading. Over 100 Expected for 50 Plus Party Friday Over 100 people are ex pected to attend the party and get-together for older valley residents Friday afternoon, April 11, from 2 to 5 p.m. in the auditorium of the Red Cross buildine. according to Frank Glonning, one of the orfSfeMaX wimmer, pro- gram chairman for the "50 Pius party" to be held in entertain the senior citizen guests of the Rogue Valley council on Aging. it includes vocal solos by by Mrs. J. R. Seiler, an ae cordian solo by Caesar Muz- zoili. Mrs. Harvey Field will accompany Mrs. Champlin and Mrs. Francis Schuhard MEDFORD, Lull by Matlack's Supermar ket. Also Selected Also selected were eight mambers of the king's . and queen's courts. The king's court consists of Craig Flury, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Flury, Eagle Point; Scott Sundby, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Sundby, Medford and Michael Watkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Watkins, Med ford. The queen's court consists of Sherry Linn Giles, daugh ter of JMrs. Berha Giles, Ash land; Kathy Nuich, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Nuich, Medford; Dawn Selby, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Selby, Medford, and Nancy Tomjack, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Tomjack, Medford. Special entertainment dur ing the program, which was attended by an estimated 250 persons, consisted of dance numbers by students of Col leen Hope dance studio and Thurston's school of dance and selections by the Med ford High school string en semble under the direction of John Drysdale. Judges were Donald Faber, mayor of Central Point; O. R Tresham, mayor of Eagle Point; Vincint Claflin, Mayor of Phoenix; Mrs. John Snider, wife of Medford's Mayor, who was in San Francisco; Ray Wilson, who substituted for Jacksonville Major John Kea- veny, and Talent Mayor J. F. Christian. ; will accompany Mrs. Mac Dougall. Community singing will be led by Mrs. James Edge, Eagle Point, accompanied by Mrs. Mabel Wertz. Mrs. Wertz will also lead the group in recreational and get-acquaint ed games. Roscoe Roberts, Pamona Grange deputy will act as master of ceremonies. He will introduce Frank Glonning, chairman of the Council on Aging, who will make the welcome speech to open the program. Following him, Dr. Frank Roberts, recreation chairman in charge of the party, will explain the recreation plans to the group and at the close of the program Roscoe Rob erts will take a poll of those present regarding the forma tion of a weekly recreation club for men and women over 50 years old. OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1958 o)ffo) JUlSlO) E Activity-Crammed Schedule Includes Parade and Show Parade Will Line Up At 9:30 Saturday Last minute preparations are being made by individual organizations and firms for the fifth annual Pear Blossom festival parade which will be the lead-off event in the two day salute to the pear indus try, Saturday and Sunday, April 12 and 13. To be held consurrently with the festival will be the Crater Lions club's first an nual Sportsfair. It is scheduled at the Medford armory from noon until 10 p.m. Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday. The fair will be mainly a boat show but displays and demonstrations will depict a variety of outdoor sports. While the Pear Blossom festi val features the pear indus try, the Sportsfair will call attention to Southern Oregon's recreational assets. Fred Beck, president of the Rogue Valley Pear Blossom festival association, announced the deadline for entering the parade has been extended un til! midnight tonight to allow j for last minute entrants. Assembly Point Given Those planning to partici pate in the parade are to as semble at library park start ing at 9:30 a.m. Saturady. Members of the Junior Chamb er of Commerce will assist in the parade formation in order to. have all entrants in posi tion by 10:15 a.m. for the judging. Judging will be con ducted at library park from 10:15 until 11: a.m. by a panel of valley art instructors. The parade, lead by an of ficial car with the grand marshal of the event, Ray Reter, president of the In ternational Apple association, wil Iproceed east on Main st. at 11a.m. and end at Haw thorne park. Valley bands which are scheduled to add music and color to the parade are Med ford high school, McLoughlin junior high school, Hedrick junior high scholo and Eagles drum majorettes from Grants Pass,' Phoenix high school, and Crater high school. In addition the Central Point Junior high school band will provide entertainment prior to and during the awards ceremonies at Hawthorne park. Presentation of parade prizes will be made by Reter and Beck at noon. Other Saturday events scheduled to complement the festival program include the drill team exhibit of the Job's Daughters state conven tion. The exhibition will be held at Hedrick junior high school Saturday at 1 p.m. and is open to the public. Queen Ladonna Lull and King Bobby McLean, king and queen of the 1958 Festival, will be featured on various radio and television programs during the week end and will ride in the official float in the parade. They will also ap pear on the reviewing stand at the Wheel Chair parade to De held as a part of special cere monies scheduled Sunday at Camp White starting at 1 p.m. At the Sportsfair commer cial enterprises and clubs will have displays and activities in some 60 spaces in the armory In addition there will be four special attraction areas with 10 outside displays piannea Water Activities Water activities will occupy the four special areas. On one armory balcony will be a live trout fishing pond and a cast ing pool. Tanks on the main floor will feature skin diving and swimming activities. Among the many attractions will be archery, rifle, pistol and mosquito trapshooting, water and snow skiing movies, 1 bullet making, saddle tooling, Tribune "What Kind of Beeps Assessor Explains Property Assessment Property in Jackson county will be assessed at 28 per cent of the true cash value for tax purposes during the 1958-59 fiscal year, according to County Assessor Ray J. Schumacher. ProDertv is not taxed on its full value in Oregon. The amount of the assessed valu ation is determined by two factors, it was explained the "true cash value," which the State Tax commission has set ""this 'year "at 90 per cent of "market value," and the county "ratio," in this case 28 per cent of true cash value. In other words, property Job's Daughters Set Ceremonies ODenine ceremonies for the 34th annual session of the Oreeon erand euardian coun cil. International Order of Job's Daughters, will be held at 8 o'clock tonight at Hed rick Junior high school. About 1500 council and beth el members and guests from all parts of Oregon and neigh boring states are expected for the session, which will con tinue through Saturday. Mrs. Curtis Christy, Port land, a past supreme guard ian of the order, and Mr. Christy, will open the cere mony. Addresses of welcome will be given by Mrs. C. D. Elhart, Medford, Oregon past grand guardian; Mayor John Snider, who will extend of ficial greetings from the city, and Miss Carol Curran, Ore gon City, grand bethel queen. Mrs. J. Wesley McGill, Portland, and Dr. L. A. Maulding, Nyssa, retiring grand and associate grand guardians, head the list of convention officials. " Drive Against Hoodlums Opened Washington ; (IB The Justice Department opened a nationwide drive against top racketeers and hoodlums. Attornev General William P. Rogers said "highest priority" in the crime crackdown will be given to the nation's 100 top racketeers. He did not name them. Rogers said the long-range program calls for a concen trated combined effort by the department, the FBI, the Narcotics Bureau and the Immigration service. animal mounting, pony rid ing and golfing. To prevent congestion, attention will De focused on two to five booths at a time. They will be spot lighted and a public address system will announce the dem onstarations and activities which will be repeated from time to time during each day. This week end will find many residents and visitors making automobile tours of pears which are near their various sections of the Pear Blossom route to view the more than 10,000 acres of peak of bloom. Price United Press 17 Are You Picking Up?' iNtfnt, Mir. will be taxed next year on the basis of an assessed value which is 28 per cent of 90 per cent of the market value. These values are deter mined by studies of the real estate market, adjusted to normal conditions, Schumach er said. Posted Ratio Explained The posted ratio of 28 per cent was determined by the assessor through a study ' of sales and assessed values of the preceding tax year: It compares with 30 per cent of true cash value for the 1957 58 tax year. The assessed valuation of properties, he explained, will in effect remain approximate ly the same, inasmuch as the tax commission last year set 80 per cent of the . market value as the true cash value. The increase in the true cash value is offset by the decrease in the county ratio. Statistical methods, based on sales and assessments of properties, are used to deter mine the ratio, Schumacher explained. He said, "After consideration of the studies, and arriving at the average percentage of sales to assessed value, to ratio to be posted for the current year is found." Assignment of the county ratio for the year must be approved by the board of equalization and the State Tax commission. Reservoir Work Set For Bidding Specifications for work re quired to complete clearing of the Howard Prairie reservoir site will be available Friday, April 11, according to J. A. Callan, project construction engineer. Bids for the work will be received by Callan at the Camp White office of the Bu reau of Reclamation- until 10 a.m. May 8. The specifications may be obtained from Callan, box 386, Camp White, or at the bureau's office in Boise, Idaho. No deposit is required. The areas to be cleared rep resented a gross area of ap proximately 990 acres, part of which is open land. The reser voir area from buildings and fences are to be removed is approximately 1800 acres. Merchantable timber and sal- vable materials will be come the property of the con tractor upon removal from government-owned land. Completion time is 180 days. Specification number is 100C-328. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy through Friday. Mild tempera tures. Low tonight 38. High Friday 65. Temp. Highest Yesterday 6 Lowest this Morning 48 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset The Moon, at Last 5:40 a.m. 6:47 p.m. 3:50 p.m.. Quarter rises Friday 1:42 a.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, rises 7:35 p.m. and sets in the morning twi light. Saturn, low in south east 1:23 a.m. Mars, rises 3:47 a.m. Venus, rises 4:13 a.m. 10 Cents Full Leased Wire No. 17 General Strike Halted in Tracks By Havana Police Officers Prowl City During Night Havana (IPV Police stopped a rebel-called general strike in its tracks today and car ried out a bloody house-to-house purge of known Com munists and rebel sympa thizers throughout greater Ha vana. Police Prowl City Unofficial estimates placed at 50 to 60 the number killed so far by police who prowled the city through the night in cars carrying groups of three to live men each searching out the hiding places of all suspects. Outwardly, the citv bar! al most returned to normal after Wednesday's initial onthrpat in which a fire bomb explod- ea across tne street from the Prime Minister's bullets, splattered the walls! pf buildings along the Prado, ! Havana's main street. Power Failure A portion of the olr? rifv still was without light. The hotel Sevilla Biltmorp the United Press offices are located, also was without wa ter presumably because the power failure also had affect ed pumping stations. Along the Prado, traffic was rerouted to one side to permit workmen to repair gas mains and electric conduits damaged by a fire bomb Wednesday. Traffic was lisht but shons were open and public trans portation was about normal. Business firms reported only scattered absenteeism. 14 Bodies in Morgue Fourteen bodies lay in the city morgue as result of Wed nesday's gun fights. Twelve rebels or their sym pathizers were reported killed in the village of Arroyo Apol lo outside Havana during Wednesday night's purge. Po lice carrying the names of all known sympathizers were or dered to shoot first and make no arrests. Two-Day Old Girl Flown To Bay Area The two-day-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Keldon Adams, Grants Pass, was flown to San Francisco early this jnorning for emergency treatament for an Rh blood factor condition. The baby, as yet unnamed, was born two days ago in a Grants Pass hospital, and failed to respond to treatment of the condition. She was brought to Medford by car, and she and the attending physician left at about 1:30 a.m. in a Mercy Flights, Inc., air ambulance plane. Various tests and transfusions are planned at the San Francisco hospital. Results may not be known for some time, it was reported. The plane returned to the Medford airport at about 7:15 a.m. The Grants Pass doctor returned with it. The baby was the 792nd patient carried by planes of the non-profit air ambulance corporation. DOW JONES AVERAGES New York lift Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 441.06, off 0.82, 20 rails' 102.99, up 0.92; 15 utilities 74.83, up 0.13; 65 stocks 151.09, up 0.14. Sales today were about 2.000,000 compared with about 2.040,000 Wednesday. NLRB Hearing Expected For Area On Foundation of Bakers Union A National Labor Relations hoard hearing will probably be held here in the near fu ture of formation of a new bakers union,, according to Fred Morlan of the Industry Council of Southern Oregon. The pre - election hearing will be held as a result of a petition sent the NLRB area office in Portland, Morlan ex plained. The Bakery Oper ators Association of Southern Oregon petitioned the NLRB to conduct a representation election so bakery workers of the area may vote on joining Truman ioviet-tifest mm International Group Would Operate Plan By HARRY S. TRUMAN North American Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Copyright, I9SS, by Harry S. Truman (Reproduction of this article in whole or in part ii forbidden ' without written authorization.) I think it is time we attempt a fresh start to meet the grave human issues posed by further and unrestricted nuclear experiments. I would suggest that we might approach it in this way: The United States and Great Britain should invite Soviet Russia to join with them to pool scientific and technical resources m a pro gram to provide for continued nuclear experiments, develop ments and tests but under the control of the United Na tions organization. Since such an arrangement would operate within the framework of an internation al organization, it would, of course, provide for the in clusion of such other nations that have a contribution to make now or in the future. In this way we could hope to create a practical basis for realistic control of nuclear weapons without risking the security of any nation. At the same time we would achieve a truly international working approach to deal with the hazards of nuclear fallout. Further Gain by Working Together There would be a further important gain as a result of this working together. We could free our talents and resources to the fuller develop ment of nuclear energy for the use of mankind as other sources of energy become depleted and exhausted. We cannot stop in the middle of the greatest scientific develop? ment in mankind's history. I would suggest to the Russians that they give serious consideration to the advantages of working together for peace by pooling efforts with the West. The world needs to be released from the burden of fear that we might all be plunged into the maelstrom of a new war. Propaganda and unilateral declarations of intent will allay no one's fears and serve no purpose but to create further mistrust. We and the free world must continue to build our strength whilewe hope that Russia will one day give up her plan to sovietize the world. Believes in Truth, Forthright Talk Here at home I think certain people of both political parties who are so ready to agree that the United States has suffered a major propaganda defeat at the hands of the Russians on the nuclear issue, ought to be set straight. I don't believe in propaganda. I believe in truth. I believe in action. I believe in a straightforward pro gram and forthright talk. And I think it easy to see through propaganda. Propaganda that is eased on mere talk without action resolves no historic differences and has no enduring in fluence on international issues. The Russian declaration that the Soviet Union is unilat erally suspending nuclear weapons is just talk and nothing but propaganda. Unless there is proof of performance, this declaration of intent by. the Russians will accomplish nothing to allay world fears now or in the future. (Continued os page 14) South Korean Plane Hijack Try Foiled Seoul, Korea ff! The four-man crew of a South Ko rean Air Force C46 transport plane today fought off the at tempt of an armed and rebel lious ROK Air Force captain to hijack the plane to Com munist North Korea. The ROK Air Force said Martin Sentenced On Petit Larceny Jimmv Glenn Martin. 20, of 847 Stewart ave., was sen tenced to 3ft davs iail and fined $25 and court costs in district court this morning on a charge of petit larceny. Attorney A. E. Piazza, serv ing as judge in the absence of Judge James Main, also re served the right to suspend any portion of the sentence. Martin was arrested by sheriff's deputies about 10:30 p.m., Wednesday, a few hours after he allegedly took a .22 calibre revolver from the dwelling of Royal Powers Wolfe, 415 G. St., Phoenix. the new organization. Next step will be to send informa tion to the NLRB office as to what bakery employees such a unit would include. . The operators association in cludes Klamath Falls, Med ford and Roseburg. It affects five wholesale bakeries and negotiations probably will not affect retail bakery operators at this time, Morlan said. Bakery workers of the three-city area served notice Feb. 19 to the bakery oper ators that the agreement be Iirges .Pool HARRY S. TRUMAN Suggests Approach one crew member was shot to death in the airborne gun fight and two others were wounded. The rebellious North Korea -born officer, identified only as Capt. Choi, was armed with a .45 caliber service pistol. The crew beat the rebel captain into, unconsciousness after taking the .45 away from him. The abortive hijacking at tempt came less than two months after Communist agents successfully hijacked a Korean National Airlines plane with 34 persons aboard on Feb. IS. Air Force officials said the incident occurred shortly be fore 9 a.m. today over Pyong taek, about 40 miles south of Seoul. The plane was on a regular flight from Taegu to Seoul. Pendleton M Ed Hoeft, 47-year-old Pilot Rock area wheat rancher, has been named Umatilhi county's Con-servati-n Man of 1958. tween the two groups ends on April 30. The Industry Coun cil received notice April 3 . from Bakers Local 404 that it is no longer affiliated with Bakery and Confectionary Workers Local 404. The AFL CIO expelled the latter union on corruption charges. Eugene Bakery employers are also filing a petition with the NLRB requesting election procedures, Morlan said. Members of the Eugene local also decided to quit the Bale ery and Confectionery Work ers union. K ' f - i V Ml
