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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1958)
Tnnai 1m if 11 mm CoroDimye 53rd MEDFORD 16 Pages Talks Indicate No Great Clamor For Tax Reduction Few Cuts Seen On Excise Taxes ' Washington (IP! Congress returned from its pulse-taking Easter recess today with bat tle lines hardening for com ing warfare over anti-recession and national defense measures. First reports on the law makers' talks with voters at home indicated there still was no great public clamor for tax reduction one of the ma jor issues to be faced during the balance of the 1958 ses sion. Both administration and congressional leaders have held back from tax reduction as an anti-recession weapon They want a later diagnosis of the outlook for business and the federal budget. Some Reduction Likely Even so the betting now is on some kind of tax reduction this year at least a few ex cise (sales) tax cuts on auto biles, freight and other items. If business does not stage a recovery soon, a general re duction in income and excise taxes is likely. The 85th Congress was ready to tackle other anti recession bills. After passage of housing, highway and oth er public works bills with heavy bipartisan support be fore Easter, party lines have been stiffening on economic measures. In the Senate the first or der of business was a bill to provide a billion dollars in loans to communities for pub lic works projects. Senate Re publicans forced a delay on this measure before the re cess. The House Ways and Means Committee goes to work Tues days on differing administra tion and Democratic proposals to provide extra unemploy ment payments to persons who have exhausted their benefits. President Eisenhow er prodded Congress on Sun day to "act as swiftly as pos sible" on the issue. Contests cutting across par ty lines are coming up on other issues, particularly the President's plan to overhaul the organization of the arm ed forces. Despite opposition from powerful figures in Con gress, Eisenhower has prom ised to keep slugging for his plan. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (IP) 30 in dustrials 443.76; up 2.52; 20 Tails 105.56. up 0.61; 15 utilities 75.52, up 0.39; 65 stocks 152.64, up 0.86. Sales today were about 2.180.000 compared with about 2,060.000 Friday. cone Women's Editor Named Winner of Three Prizes Mrs. Olive Starcher, wo man's editor of the Mail Trib une, has been awarded three prizes in competition among women of the press in Ore gon, it was announced today. Her column, "Potpourri," received a first prize in state wide competition, tieing for forst with the column written for the Eugene Register-Guard bmy Mrs. Ann Connell. The award was given by the Oregon Press Women, and was announced at its conven tion last week. Mrs. Starcher also was awarded a second prize for her Sunday society section. First place was won by Mrs. Kay Lundeen, also of the Register Guard. Mrs. Starcher was award ed a third place award for a feature, running in a daily newspaper. Others whose first place winning entries have been sent to thhe national contest include Miss Ianthe Smith, Albany; Mrs. Margie Thomas,- Year MEDFORD, RESS BACH OH JOB I : . . YOUNG ANGLERS One of the most popu lar activities at the Crater Lions Sportsfair at the Medford armory Saturday and Sun day was the trout pond where hundreds of young sportsmen, as well as a few adults, tried their luck. Out of about 500 eight to ten inch trout in the pond 270 were caught. Sportsfair Huge Success Here Crater Lions club members today considered their first annual Southern Oregon Sportsfair a huge success. The fair, held at the Med ford armory Saturday , and Sunday, drew an estimated 15,000 persons. Lions reported paid admissions at 12,500. Demo Dinner Group To Meet Tuesday A meeting of the full Roose velt memorial dinner" com mittee will be held at the of fices of General Chairman Robert A. Boyer, 28 N. Oak dale avenue, tomorrow (Tues day) at 7:30 p.m., according to Democratic County Chairman James A. Redden. Reports from the chairmen of foods, tickets, arrange ments, decorations and recep tion committees will be given at this time, and latest plans for this year's dinner will be discussed. Tomorrow being the last day for voter registration, ar rangements have been made to have a county-wide regis trar at the meeting for the convenience of any commit tee member who may be still unregistered or, who because of a change of residence must re-register, Redden said. Lebanon; Velma Thoenig, Mrs. Elizabeth Ryan, Oswego; Mrs. Ann Connell, Eugene; Glenna Bessey, Portland; Edna Ramp, Mrs. Maryan Howard Roe, Al bany; Mrs. Josephine Barnett, Oregon City and Mrs. Faith McCullough, Ashland. 'Twenty-four Oregon news paper and advertising women received awards during the Saturday night meeting for jlacing in the annual Oregon Press Women's contest. Eighteen of the women won 39 first places and their en tries were sent to the National Federation of Press Women's contest with winners to be announced in Jackson, Miss., May 7-12. Miss Genevieve Morgan of Salem won top honors in the Oregon contest with six first places. She was followed by Mrs. Doris Gunderson of Le banon with four, and Mrs. Kay Lundeen of Eugene, Miss Claire Elaine Lyon of Port land and Mrs. Ila S. Grant of Bend with, three each. . Testes, TwnmiDirD OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1958 Strange surroundings, bright lights, and the milling crowd caused the trout to be even more wary than usual, but the fact that they weren't biting. readily didn't deter the youngsters and many fished patiently for hours at a time. The pond and trout were furnished by the Talent Trout farm. Reported Other fair - goers included many children six years of age and under, who were ad mitted free. The live fish pond and the skin diving tank were among the most popular Sportsfair features. Youngsters waited up to two hours at the fish pond to try their luck for live trout. Among attractions which drew attention were the fly tying and taxidermists booths, the helicopter, B u r e 1 s o n's store style shows, the bow and rifle shooting ranges and the fly-casting pool. Mrs. Ivra Ellis, 820 Crater Lake ave., won the five day fishing vacation at Fish lake and Mrs. C. J. Farnsworth, 1724 West 11th st., won a similar vacation at Willow lake. They were offered by Lloyd Morris, proprietor at the lake resorts. Zoning Changes Topic for Session Five proposed changes in present zoning will be con sidered at tonight's planning commission meeting in the Medford city council chamb ers, it was announced this morning. The first will be reconsid eration of a change of zone request from class IA, single family, to class VI, heavy in dustrial, for a section on south Grape st. A hearing for a change of zone for lot one of block two in the Cottage Home addition will be held at the meeting. The commission will also con sider a change of zone from class IA, single family, to class V, light industrial, for a six acre tract at 1059 Morrow rdr for a proposed trailer court. A request for a zone change will be reconsidered at 2248 Barnett rd. for construction of a convalescent home. Sev eral proposed zone changes in the Berrydale area will also be discussed at the meeting. Eisenhower Returns To White House Desk Washington (IP) President Eisenhower returned to his White House desk today to grapple with the problems of economic recession at home and new Soviet proposals for pre-summit diplomatic meet ings abroad. The President flew back late Sunday from a "golf and work" weekend at Augusta, Ga. V Tribune Rosemary Slaten To Leave Hospital Mrs. Rosemary Slaten, 33, Gold Hill, is scheduled to be released from Sacred Heart hospital today, according to Jackson county sheriff's depu ties. Mrs. Slaten, who has been confined to the hospital since April 2, is under indictment for embezzling $12,000 from the Rogue Valley Physicians service. Mrs. Slaten will be ques tioned by sheriff's deputies, and arraigned in district court as soon as she is released frond the hospital, qfficials said. District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder reported that the ar raignment should take place later this afternoon. Sheriff's deputies found Mrs. Slaten collapsed on the floor of the living room at her home when they attempted to serve a warrant for her ar rest. She was taken to Sacred Heart hospital and samples from the coffee cup and the contents of her stomach were sent to the state crime labora tory for analysis. Reports showed that the coffee contained traces of bar bital and aspirin. Mrs. Slaten was unconscious for five days, it was reported. Reservations Coming For Crime Conference Reservations number more than 50 for the annual West ern States Crime conference which will be held in Med ford during mid-May, accord ing to Lyle Perkins, Medford police lieutenant in charge of the event. ' He said about 225 law en forcement officers from the 11 western states will take part. Main topic of the confer ence will be on crime detec tion of safe" burglaries. Main speaker will be James H. Chenoweth, chief deputy marshal in Alaska. . . ' WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight. Vari able cloudiness Tuesday with chance of a few light showers. Low tonight 40. High Tuesday 68. TEMP. Highest Yesterday ' 66 Lowest This Morning 39 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5:33 a .pi. ... ; 6:52 p.m. Sunset Moonrise Tuesday 3:48 ajn. New Moon April 18 PROMINENT STARS Arcturus. in the east 8:23 p.m. "Regulus. high in south 8:44 p.m. The crowded group of many faint stars between Arcturus and Regulus is in the constella tion. Coma Berenices. ' Price 10 Cents No. 20 24 Auto Plants Close To Reduce Slocks of Cars Chevrolet, Ford Among Chief: Firms Detroit (IP) Twenty-four auto plants employing about 60,000 workers were closed this week and one was work ing an overtime, six-day schedule, auto companies re ported today. Chevrolet, Ford, Mercury, Chrysler and De Soto were the chief firms reporting shut downs to trim car stocks to meet market demands. Others on Part-Time Chevrolet manufactur ing plants at Bay City, Mich., Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Flint, Mich., and Tonawanda, N.Y. were also shut down this week. Most of the Chevrolet plants shut down or working fewer, than five days this week are manufacturing plants. Chevrolet will decide by Wednesday how many as sembly plants may shut down next week. Nine More To Close - At this time, Chevrolet and Fisher Body divisions of Gen eral Motors, which have ten adjacent body and assembly plants, expect to close nine of these next week, all but the Norwood, Ohio plant. Ford had six assembly plants closed today and ex pected to - remain - closed the rest of the week Chicago, Dearborn, Mich., Kansas City, Long Beach, Calif., Memphis and Norfolk, Va. It's Mahwah, N.J. passenger car line will also shut down. The encouraging report came from the Lincoln-Ford Thunderbird plant at Wixom, Mich., which continued" its six-day overtime operations and from American Motors Corp. AMC will add 400 men at its Kenosha-Milwaukee Ramb ler plants next week and boost current production 10 per cent. Voters Sign-Up ' To End Tuesday Voter registration deadline for Jackson county residents desiring to vote in the May 9 primary election is ? 8 p.m. Tuesday, according to Mrs. Bereth P. Hopkins, county clerk. The elections department will remain open, she report ed, for convenience of persons who work or who have been unable to register prior to that time. Entrance to the county court house after the 5 p.m. regular closing hour, is the east door to the court house annex.' Portland OPl Official opening of the new Morrison street bridge spanning the Willamette river here will be at 10 a.m. on May 24. Laughter From Olymput Urges Disastrous Soviet Accident Believed i Cause ot Decision Kefauver Urges Matching Proposal Washington (IP) Gen. Nathan F. Twining, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said today that further U.S. tests are 1'very decidedly" necessary to improve the American nuclear arsenal. He added his voice to the broilng argument amid these developments: Russian Accident Seen Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) reported that there is a "great deal of evidence" to back up reports that Russia called off its own tests after a "disastrous accident" spewed large quantities of deadly radioactivity into the atmo sphere. Humphrey also reported that Russia set off a nine-kilo-ton bomb equal to 9,000 tons of t.n.t. in an underground ex plosion in Red China. Sen. Estes Kefauver (D- Tenn.) urged President Eisen hower to match Russia's offer to suspend tests by "offering to end our , own testing of bombs following conclusion of the next series ... in the Pa cific." The crew of Quakers aboard the yacht Golden Rule told supporters by ship-to-shore telephone that they in tend to defy the Atomic Energy Commission and sail into the Pacific test area to protest the new series of U.S. nuclear experiments, sched uled to begin soon. Protesting peace groups also planned to picket three diplomatic missions in New York and the Cape Canaveral, Fla., missile launching site. Twining said in an inter view with U.S. News & World Report that further U.S. tests are essential both to make progres stoward developing a "clean" nuclear bomb and to increase the "versatility" of the U.S. atomic arsenal of weapons. Kefauver, speaking at an Israel bond rally in Chicago, said he was not prepared to debate the "dfferences-in mo rality between a clean bomb and a dirty bomb.". ... But he said he could see no "military advantage" to . the United States if, in a war, Russians used "dirty bombs" and the United States used "clean ones." For this reason, he said, the President should match Russia's test suspension bid by "offering to end our own testing of bombs" onc the Pacific operatons are con cluded. Eisenhower Opens Baseball Season Washington (IP) Presi dent Eisenhower gave them two for the money today, throwing out a pair of cere monial first balls to open the 1958 Major League baseball season. Both of the President's honorary pitches were high hard ones ; vigorous over hand tosses into the cluster of Washington Senators and Bos ton Red Sox players in front of the presidential box be tween home plate and first base. GREETS VFW COMMANDER Richard L. Roudebush, commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars about yesterday noon at the Medford air port. Roudebush was here to attend day-long ceremonies for Southern Oregon which included an installation and banquet at Hendrick junior high school. Commander in Chief Roude bush also visited Camp White the facilities there. An estimated 250 attended the banquet nere yesterday evening. Over 250 At VFW Ceremonies For National Head Smothering of the "Econo Misers" and the killing of their philosophy before it takes root constitutes the Vet erans of Foreign Wars' imme diate objective, Commander-in-Chief Richard L. Roude bush told a meeting of over 250 at a banquet in the Hed rick junior high school here Sunday evening. "It may se our number one objective for some time to come, it would appear from the weight of the forces eft trenched against the veterans and those dependent upon him," Commander - in - Chief Roudebush told his audience. "For the veteran particu larly , the . disabled, the sick, and the distressed, this is a time of real emergency!" he emphaszed. Asked To Join Ranks . . To help . beat down this challenge every eligible vet eran is asked to join the ranks of VFW to provide the ."not- to-be-denied strength" which is more vital now than ever before in the organization's 59-year history," the national commander-in-chief said. . "We will preserve all we have gained over the years, or we will lose these things bit by bit, until ultimately, all is lost," Roudebush insisted. Routing Communism from America is among some of the other important tasks of the VFW, he added. . . "Never in our national his tory has it been more import ant we remain . constantly alert that we take with the proverbial grain of salt all the gestures and utterances of Stalin's successors," he de clared. "We of the . Veterans of Foreign Wars will do all we can to alert this country to the dangers of complacency and the threat of Communist aggression," the commander-in-chief said. - Since no Democracy can be come greater than the heights attained by its indvidual mem bers, the VFW members be lieve there is much to do in the vital areas of American ism and community service, he pointed out. "Any VFW post that can not say this is a better com munity because of the Vet erans of Foreign Wars cannot justify its very exstence," the commander-i n-chief con cluded. Welcomed by Mayor The commander-in-chief of the VFW was welcomed at the airport by Mayor John Snider, plus a delegation of local VFW officials. Following a Sputnik Apparently Down, Moscow Says Moscow (IP) A Moscow Platearium spokesman said to night that "evidently Sputnik has already fallen." But the spokesman added that "the Planetarium had not yet received confirmation" of the baby moon's death. The Planetarium has re ceived no further information on the earth satellite since it was. sighted over Potsdam in East Germany last night, the spokesman said. The spokesman said that for the first time since Sputnik II was launched Nov. 3, the Planetarium did not receive the usual daily time table of the satellite's movements to day. ' Mayor John Snider ' greets yesterday afternoon to inspect Present short rest, he made a tour of Camp White domiciliary and made a short speech there. Later in the afternoon in the Hedrick junior high school gymnasium the commander-in-chief installed the post officers of District 5 and 7 with de partment auxiliary president Harriet Shoemaker, Portland, installing the auxiliary of ficers. Department Com mander Harry T. Birch pre sided. Precedng the banquet at Hedrick junior high school, Commander - in - Chief Roude bush 'was inducted into the Order of the Cavemen of Grants Pass during a colorful ceremony which included the feast of the dinosaur steak and drinking of the saber- tooth tiger blood. 70 Will Attend Foresters' Meet . Ahnnt 7n to 80 members of the Medford area Society of American Foresters are plan ning to attend the annual meeting of the Columbia Riv er section of the group on April 19 and 20 in Bend. About 300 to 400 Oregon members of the group are ex pected to attend. A full two days of events are planned with most taking place in the Capitol Theater in Bend. Bob Hostetter, Medford dis trict Bureau of Land Man agement, is a vice chairman of the group; S. T. "Tenny" Moore, Medford office of the Rogue River National Fbrest, is in charge of local arrange ments; and Calvin L. Smith, district forester with the In dustrial Forestry association in Medford is in charge of publicity. Topics to be discussed in clude a sectional report, "Ec onomics of Interested For estry," "Soil, Basic Resource," "Profession of Forestry and Future' and "Forest Manage ment." Other events include a trip through a Bend sawmill, a production of the play "Okla homa" by Central Oregon col lege students.- a hobbv and handicraft show and a Satur day evening banquet. BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 2 5 3 Washington 5 8 2 F. Sullivan, Wal (7) and Daley, White (7); Ramos and Courtney. Portland Ball Hurt in Fatal Klamath Falls, Ore. IW A California man was killed and five persons including two Pacific Coast League baseball players were in iured Sunday in an auto ac cident 16 miles north of here; Dead Identified The dead man was identi fied as Edward Boyals, about 85, of San Bernardino. The iniured ball players were catcher Nini Tornay, 28, and outfielder Luis Marquez, both of the Portland Beavers. Their injuries were not believed serious. Also injured were Thomas M. Bean, his wife, and one child, about 8. Two other Middle, Lower Income Families Would Benefit Social Security Increase Requested Washington (IP) Former President Harry Truman urged Congress today to fight the recession by giving mid dle and low income families a $5 billion tax cut and ap proving multi-billion dollar increases in defense, foreign aid and public works spend ing. He also called for increas ed social security benefits as "one of the most desirable methods of expanding pur chasing power." Truman, testifying before the House Banking Commit tee, jibed at administration "go slow" anti-recession pol icies and in turn was chal lenged by Republican commit tee members on some points of his economic philosophy. "I don't think we ought to stand still and let the country go to hell," he said at one point. The former President denied that his sweeping anti recession program would lead to renewed inflation or run the government into a huge deficit. Tax cuts, he said, would stimulate the economy and in the long run mean more revenue for the treas- ury. Truman testified before a standing room only audience. About 500 persons crowded into the hearing room that normally holds about 300. "I see no need for periodic (economic) downturns when people are put through the wringer," he said. "I see no reason why our plans and policies ought not to be direct ed toward a constantly ex panding economy and toward prevention of recessions alto gether." When Republicans chal lenged the Democratic "elder statesman," Truman, obvi ously enjoyed himself to the fullest, countered with fast answers and then sat back in his chair smiling happily. He bluntly denied, under questioning by Rep. Henry O. Talle (R-Iowa), that he said in 1950 that unemployment of 3 to 5 million persons would not be too bad a thing. He was asked by Rep. Clar ence E. Kilburn (R-N.Y.), if the fact that unemployment continued in 1939 despite a huge government public works program didn't prove such programs were futile as an anti-recission measure. He countered: "There probably would have been a revolution if we hadn't had that program of public works." Meet Candidates Slated For May 1 A "Meet Your Candidate" night presenting all county candidates whose names will appear on the primary elec tion ballot has been planned for Thursday, May 1, by the Medford League of Women Voters. The public is invited to the event, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Hedrick jun ior high school, according to Mrs. Thomas Rutter, chairman of the League's voters serv ice committee. Meet Your Candidates" is planned as an opportunity for voters to become acquainted with candidates and to dis cuss particular issues with them, Mrs. Rutter said. The League, a non-partisan group, has invited those seek ing county, judicial and state legislative offices and each will have an opportunity to present his stand on an issue or political policy, she added. An informal coffee hour will follow the introductions. Players Collision Bean children escaped with out injuries. They were all from San Bernardino. Polcie said the accident oc curred on rain-slick Highway 97 when the baseball players' auto skidded and was hit broadside by the car carrying Boyals and the Bean family. Lacerations, Bruises Attendants at Klamath Val ley hospital said Marquez suf fered lacerations near an eye and Tornay had lacerations on his chin and a bruised leg. They were expected to be re leased from the hospital today but it was not known if they would start in Tuesday's day night PCL openers with Sac ramento in Portland.
