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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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