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End Cf Salem (TP) A final hearing in the drawn-out controversy over Southern Pacific's sus pension of passenger service on its Eugene-Ashland run was held here today. Clifford Ferguson, chief of the Public Utility Commis sion's railroad division, said it probably would be August before he could finish" his findings in the case and pre sent them to PUC Commis sioneV Howard Morgan for fi nal decision. Ferguson said the pressure of national rate cases and other matters requiring his at LAST SP Federal Planning Funds Sought for County Program A coordinated planning pro gram has been established by planning commissions in Jack son county to receive full ben efit of federal matching funds provided under the program The federal urban planning project was discussed at meeting of the county court, representatives of incorporat ed cities and the county plan ning commission this week. Under the program, the county would pledge $7,100, all of which could be contrib uted in labor. Representatives of Talent, Ashland and Cen tral Point were informed that their financial responsibility in the program probably would depend on the amount ' of mapping required for the cities. Starts Program Medford already has start ed its planning program. Plan ning Technician Jack Eaton said, and Ashland city offi cials said the city could pledge $1,500 in cash and an other $1,500 in services. Oth er cities have not made com mitments as to the amount of financial aid. The county program would include completion of base maps in a six-mile radius around cities, gathering land use data in areas tending to urban growth, complete land use analysis of urban areas, population studies including school census data and age characteristics, preparation of tentative proposals for exten sion of arterial street plans, and a park and recreation study in areas around Med ford and Ashland. The overall budget for the program would be $27,300, Eaton said. This includes $17,- 950 in salaries and wages, $3,000 for services by munici pal agencies, $5,600 in serv ices by other public agencies, $650 for travel and $100 for reproduction and publica tions. Kiwanis Officials To Meet in Medford Pacific Northwes't district governor of Kiwanis Interna tional and two division lieutenant-governors are expected here this Saturday and Sun day for the spring conference of 18 Kiwanis clubs. The governor is Jack Mur ton, Portland, and the lieu tenant governors are Jack Hudson, Coos Bay, division 15, and Ben Fanning, Bend, division 15 A. A dinner-dance will be held at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Rogue Valley Country club. Confer ence workshop club officers and directors is scheduled for 9 a.m. at the Jackson hotel with a 1 p.m. luncheon to follow. 'Yes, This Is The Department Of Defense" I I ft M -fe-KKSl-0K oreign HEARER tention would make it impos sible to get out findings be fore then. Service on the Eugene-Ashland run was abandoned al most two years ago. Suit was then filed by State Sen. Philip Lowry, Medford, and by two former state sena tors, Gene Brown, ' Grants Pass, and Paul Geddes, Rose fcurg, demanding restoration of service. SP Counsel Oglesby Young contended at the final hearing that there was 'law allowing the railroad to discontinue passenger trains when they were not paying. The SP Under the program, the county would cover fringe area planning and cities would have jurisdiction with in the city limits. Fringe area planning would include such things as highway locations and intersections. Application for matching federal funds for such a pro gram must be filed with the bureau of municipal research at the University of Oregon by May 15. Federal funds will be available only for that part of the program which in cludes urban areas in and near Medford and Ashland. Other projects planned in the county coordinated program would be financed by the cit ies involved and the county. Eaton said the county plan ning commission office would need additional help starting July 1 to help bring mapping up to date since Medford al ready has had aerial mapping done. Appointed Chairman Gerald Latham, Medford, was appointed chairman of a recreation subcommittee. Oth ers members are Ed Bolt and Ed Strother. The subcommit tee was instructed to visit possible recreation sites in the county and -report to the commission. , Eaton said he has been working with Medford, the same commission, Charles Hoover and sons, Eagle Point, and the Izaak Walton league for the possible development of -Hoover lakes in Eagle Point as a recreation area. The lakes woulcl provide fish ing and boating, and a golf course was considered a pos sibility near TouVelle State park. The commission also dis cussed creating a trailer park on 30 acres of land near Hyatt lake. Recreation facili ties planned at Howard Prai rie lake also were discussed. Latham said he understood the bureau of land manage ment would provide funds, hut the county would be re sponsible for establishing and maintaining the park tnere. The county planning com- sion changed its meeting date to the second Wednesday each month. The next meeting will be May 14. Crosswalk Painting Continues in City City crews are painting the yellow cross walk stripes in the central business district this week, according to Ver non Thorpe, city, engineer. The stripes, formerly paint ed eight inches wide, are now 12 inches in width, he report ed, to conform to the Oregon manual on uniform traffic control devices for streets and highways. Trade Would Cost Oregon AAany Jobs, Report Shows abandoned service because it was losing money and felt there was no public demand for service. Young said he would file a brief with the PUC concern ing both U.S. and Oregon land grant laws , of 1866 under which predecessors of South ern Pacific in Oregon and California were granted land for their tracks on the condi tion that they provide ade quate service. The law was brought out at a previous hearing by Low ry who said it obligated the SP - to provide service to southern Oregon. D'Autremont to Appear in Federal Court Tomorrow Federal Indictment Pending Since 1923 Hugh D'Autremont, 54 youngest of three brothers serving life sentences for mur der in one of Oregon's most notorious crimes, will make another bid for possible event ual freedom in P o r 1 1 an d Thursday morning. D'Autremont, sentenced to the state penitentiary for two life terms plus 20 years for the killing of train crew members during the attempt ed robbery of a Southern Pa cific mail car near Ashland in 1923, will be arraigned on a charge of assault with the in tent to rob a mail train. The action will take place in U.S. District court in Portland be fore Federal Judge Gus Solo mon on the 1923 federal in dictment. With this arraignment, all outstanding indictments against D'Autremont will be either dismissed or acted on by the courts in which they were made. Appeared In County In February D'Autremont appeared in Jackson county circuit court before Circuit Court Judge H. K. Hanna and pleaded guilty to one count of second degree murder, and to stopping a railroad train with the intent of robbery. Three pending first degree Murder indictments against him were dismissed by the court on the recommendation of District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder, D Autremont win appear Thursday pursuant to a writ of "habeas corpus ad' prose quendum," which was issued out of Judge Solomon's court Monday, April 28, at which time George W. Friede, Port land attorney for D'Autre mont, and U.S. District Attor ney C. W. Luckey, Portland, appeared. In criminal cases when a single crime is committed against both the state and fed eral governments, it was ex plained that both have juris diction in the prosecution of the crime. In the majority of such cases the person is tried by either the state or federal government and immediately following the first trial is tried by the other. It was re ported that .in cases where there is a lapse of time be tween the two trials and the person is confined to prison a "habeas corpus ad prose quendum" must be requested. Found in File - According to information received, the pending federal indictment against D'Autre mont was located in a secret, sealed file in the Portland U.S. district court. Judge Solomon ordered the file opened last month. Records show that a motion to dismiss the federal indict ment against D'Autremont was overruled by Judge Solo mon in 1956. The request was made at that time by Attorney Philip J. Roth, Portland, then candidate for congress. Director H. M. Randall of the state board of parole and probation has said that dispo sition of the pending indict ments against D'Autremont would have no effect on his chances for parole and that the case would be considered on its merits. AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 10 14 0 New York 17 0 Lary and Wilson; Ford, Diimar (8), Grm (9) and Berra. Kansas Cily 11 11 o Boston 4 8 3 Garver and House, Chili (3); Brewerf Schroll (5). Porterfield (6). Susce (9) and white. NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee 2 5 1 Chicago 8 7 2 Buhl. Jay (5). Wiley (7). Robinson (8) and Rice; Brosnan and S. Taylor. aseball By A. ROBERT SMITH Washington If Oregon were cut off from trade with foreign countries, hundreds of workers in southwest Oregon would lose their jobs and the area's mills and farms would lose millions of dollars in bus iness, according to the De partment of Commerce. In a report prepared at the request of Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) the Commerce Department outlined in detail the impact of world trade on the economy of Porter's con stituency, the 4th congression 53rd Year Medford 28 Pages MEDFORD, Local Ambulances To Move Patients To New Hospital No Visiting Hours Tomorrow Afternoon Equipment and patients from the old Rogue Valley Memorial hospital on East Main st. will be moved to the new $2,800,000 building- on Barnett rd. tomorrow. Miss B. J. Larsen, hospital administrators, said there would be no visiting hours to morrow afternoon, but there will be regular visiting hours at the new hospital tomorrow night. She said it will take several hours to make pa tients comfortable in the new building. Miss Larsen also asked that no freight or 'flowers be de livered to either hospital to morrow, but deliveries will resume at the new building Friday. To Move Patients Medford Ambulance service will start moving patients to the new nospital at about 11 a.m. tomorrow, and at least three trucks will start moving equipment into the new build ing at 8 a.m. All patients will be moved by ambulance, Miss Larsen said. Emergency patients will be admitted to the new hospital, at the corner of Barnett and a.m. tomorrow, Miss Larsen Murphy rds., starting at 11 pointed out. She said there were 27 pa tients in the old hospital this morning. Dedication ceremonies wsre held at the new hospital last Saturday, and about 6,000 residents were . conducted through' the three-story' struc ture Saturday and Sunday aft ernoons. The new hospital is said to be one of the finest hospitals on the west coast Hospital authorities said several inquiries have been made as ,to rates in the new hospital. They pointed out rates for private and semi- private rooms will remain the same. Mrs.Slaten Pleads Guilty to Charge Mrs. Rosemary Slaten, 33, of Gold Hill, pleaded guilty before Circuit Judge Herbert K. Hanna yesterday afternoon to charges of embezzlement and was sentenced to two years in the' state peniten tiary. Mrs. Slaten had been sched uled to enter he plea earlier but originally due to sickness and later on request of her attorney, A. E. Piazza, to in vestigate the case further, her appearance was delayed. Mrs. Slaten was originally charged with embezzling $12, 000 from the Rogue Valley Physicians service. She was treated at Sacred Heart hos pital after deputies found her collapsed on the floor of the living room of her Gold Hill home April 2. Mrs. Slaten's employment with the Rogue Valley Physi cians' service terminated March 4. An audit of the books revealed a shortage, sheriff's officers said. She had worked for the firm about three years. Court Requested to Open Road to Lake The Jackson count;.' road department has been request ed to have the Lake of the Woods road open by May 15, County Judge Rodney Keat ing said today. Keating said he has contact ed the Klamath county engi neer's office and learned that they hope to have the Klam ath county roads open to the lake prior to May 15. Ike Penonainceg Hissia's $imi ; i - al district. The district goes as far north as Linn county and includes all counties west of the Cascades southward to the state line. The Commerce report declared: "The evidence shows that foreign trade contributes very greatly to the welfare of the people of Oregon. They pros per as trade expands and are hurt as trade contracts." Commerce officials are pre paring such reports for mem bers of Congress who want supporting evidence for the upcoming debate over legis OREGON, WEDNESDAY, ore oted- Unanimous Vote Authorizes Work Speed-Up Washington (IB The Sen ate Interior Committee has voted unanimously to ap prove 'a resolution authoriz ing an accelerated reclama tion program for the coming fiscal year including in creases for two Oregon proj ects, Sen. Richard L. Neu berger (D-Ore.) said today. The Oregon projects are the Talent division of the Rogue River project and the Crooked river project. Additional $2,500,000 The increases would ' pro vide an -additional $2,500,000 for -the Talent division, rais ing the total available for it to $T2 ' rrriHiorn" They -would provide another $1 million for the Crooked River proj ect, raising the total of it to $1,800,000, Neuberger said. . Neuberger testified at a re cent hearing on behalf of these additions over the presi dent's budget to advance proj ect completion and provide more employment. The Committee also pro vided $5 million more for general investigation s of po tential irrigation projects which Oregon would share with other Western states, Neuberger said. The Oregon senator said he would urge the House and Senate Appropriations Com mittee to approve the in creases. Charges Against Youth Are Dropped Charges against Charles Darrow DeLorme, 19, of 1800 Stratford ave., Medford, have been dropped by the district attorney's office. He was charged with falsi fying his age to obtain liquor. DeLorme was scheduled to appear today in district court on the charges. A spokesman for the dis trict attorney's office said De Lorme had been subpoenaed to appear before the board of state " liquor control so was immune from prosecution for any matter concerning that transaction. DeLorme had ap peared before the board when it held hearings here recently on possible liquor law viola tions by taverns and bars of the Jackson county area in selling liquor to minors. FUMIGATING ALARM Firemen were dispatched about 7:45 p.m. yesterday when smoke was reported coming from Rogue Valley greenhouse, 625 Franquette st. The owners were fumigat ing the interior of the green house and there was no fire, firemen said. : Washington OP) President Eisenhower played golf at the Burning Tree club today. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair and mild through Thursday. Low tonight 40 High Thursday 78. , Temp. Highest yesterday .: . 77 Lowest this Morning 39 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise . 5:09 a.m. Sunset 7:10 p.m. Moonset Thursday 3:54 a.m. Full Moon Saturday PROMINENT STAR Sirius, sets 8:45 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, due south ....11:12 p.m. Saturn, low in south east 12:02 a-m. Mars, rises 3:08 a.m.- Venus, rises 3:05 a.m. V-" -" ' lation to extend the reciprocal trade act. Hearings on the bill have been completed by the House Ways and Means Com mittee, which is now meeting behind closed doors to draft the bill and determine what, if any, restrictive amend ments might be tacked on be fore it goes to the House floor. The Commerce Department calculated the 4th district's share in the export market at over $22 million out of a state total of $114 million. Lumber and wood products was the leading commodity for xhe Price 10 Cents Tribune APRIL 30, 1958 No. 34 fa by "AUTO BUY" KICKOFF John I. Sell (at rostrum) of the First National Bank of Portland, was the kickoff speaker last night for the Medford Automobile Dealers "You Auto Buy Now" program, featuring the slogan, "Keep Medford's Economy Rolling." More than 130 civic and business leaders, and auto dealers and salesmen, attended. At the head table were, left to right, Paul Bids Are Called For Crater Lake Park Paying Work Bids will be opened at 3 p.m. May 22 in Crater Lake National park headquarters in Medford for grading and pav ing the utility area at park headquarters, and reconstruct ing and paving the road in tersection at Annie Spring, Park Superintendent Tom Williams has announced. The two jobs will be in one contract, he said, and will in clude about 4,700 cubic yards of excavation, drainage instal lation, hauling and placing 5,400 cubic yards of crushed rock from existing stockpiles, furnishing 50 tons of asphalt, mixing, laying and rolling surface material, and con struction of 1,100 feet of curb ing. Plans and specifications are available at the park, and in the Medford office in the post office building. Area Cleared Williams said that although there is more than 13 feet of snow at park headquarters, the two job locations have been plowed clear and inter ested contractors may exam ine the sites at their conven ience. The project is the first of several contracts which will be advertised this spring as part of the planned improve ments under the park ser vice's Mission 66 program, Williams said. Later, bids will be called for residence construction, a covered entrance to the ad ministration building, two comfort stations and an en trance station. Mission 66 is a 10-year de velopment program designed to restore deteriorated park facilities and to expand and improve services and facilit ies to meet the increasing de mand, Williams pointed out. 4th district, with exports val ued at nearly $8 million. The leading single commodity for the state as a whole is wheat, valued at S28.4 million. Lum ber exports for the state as a whole run around $15.5 mil lion, Commerce said. For the 4th district, the re port said food and kindred products were exported worth $989,000; pulp and paper pro ducts, $438,000; pears, $512, 000; dairy products, $764,000; livestock; $635,000; vege tables, $552,000; and wheat, $484,000. , . Jobwise, the report said the lumber exports represented 750 man-years of work, the food exports 50 man- years and the pulp and paper ex ports, 38 man-years. It didn't estimate the number of agri cultural jobs affected by trade but it noted that 24,000 per- ct 130 Attend Dinner To Start Auto Buy ow Program Here More than 130 business and civic leaders, automobile deal ers and salesmen, met for din ner last night to kick off the 10-day "You Auto Buy Now" program sponsored by the Medford Automobile Dealers association. Speaker at the meeting, held at the Rogue Valley Country club, was John I. Sell, Portland, assistant vice presi dent of the First National bank, who talked on Oregon's economy, and described en couraging trends noted in va rious .parts of the state. "It's all over," Sell said, re ferring to the economic re cession which has hit the state, largely through the slump in the lumber market and the slow-down in automo-. bile sales. Pitching his talk in an opti mistic vein, Sell repeated over and over that Oregon's econ omy is basically sound, that the future is bright, that sav ings are high, and that what is needed now is active, down-to-earth salesmanship to cre ate a climate of confidence in which consumers will buy what they need. Citing facts and figures to back up his theme, Sell de clared that the recession, now nation-wide, hit Oregon first, because of a slowdown in housing, and that Oregon is coming out of it first. But this will not happen as rapidly as it could if potential consumers are not "sold" on Oregon's future, Sell said. Sell reviewed various por tions of the state through which he has travelled recent ly, and said that only in Grants Pass, Roseburg and Eu gene is the "bloom off the rose." But in these areas, he said, wise retrenchment pro grams by merchants have pre vented too much economic dis tress He urged the dealers and sons in the 4th district work on farms. Supporting services for farms create employment for thousands more, the re port said. Congressmen as a rule only hear about companies who are hard hit by import comp etition. The Commerce report shows that many plants in the 4th district are helped by trade. Among them the report notes Weyehaeuser Timber Co., which benefits from ex ports of wooden containers; Stokely-Van Camp, Inc. which exports canned fruits and vegetables. The government report puts the trade proposition like this: "Without our nation's ex ports our sales to foreign ers we would have to shut down many of our plants. In 1956, the amount of sales Funds mmittee Lea, president of the dealers association, Russ Jamison, who is coordinating the proj ect for the dealers, Sell, Mayor John Snider, Otto Frohnmayer, president of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce and Gene Malecki, Portland, Heart association repre sentative who entertained with impersona tions during the evening. (Kenn Knackstedt photo) other businessmen attending to take the "long view," that there will be dips in the econ omy, but that the trend is steadily up; that there is rea son for confidence in the fu ture xf Oregon, and that the answer to present difficulties is to "Get out and sell." Jerry Poulus was master of ceremonies, and introduced a number of guests, including Mayor John Snider, who promised the cooperation of the city in the "You Auto Buy" program starting tomor row. Otto Frohnmayer, president of the Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce, pledged that organization's cooperation. Entertainment was furnish ed by. high school musicians, dancers from the Colleen Hope studio, and a group of St. Mary's school boys, who put on a "fashion show" of sack (burlap) dresses. Operating Budget for Howard School Passes The operating budget for Howard school district passed Monday by a margin of 96 to 30, according to Mrs. Margaret Cox, school board clerk. The $150,018.40 budget for the school year starting July 1, 1958, received the largest vote in the history of the school district, Mrs. Cox said. The new budget compares with $138,317.93 for the cur rent school year, an increase of $11,700.47. Main reason for the budget increase was the raise in teach- s' salaries. Raises for 17 teachers and superintendent ranged from $300 to $500 a year, the clerk explained. She said this is the first year that the school board has had to raise salaries on a local abroad was $19 billion one dollar's worth sent abroad for every $10 worth of movable goods produced and sold in the United States. "Without our nation'! im ports we would have a sub stantially lower standard of living. In 1956 we bought $13 billion worth of goods from foreign countries for use in our production processes or for consumption to meet the needs of the American peo ple. Most of these jmports met demands which could not be supplied from United States sources, or only to a limited extent at increased prices. . "Too, without imports our purchase of, goods from abroad foreign buyers would not have sufficient dol lars to purchase our exported products in return." Attitude Toward Arctic Inspection 'Almost Silly' Acceptance Appeal Renewed Washington OP) Presi dent Eisenhower today called Russia's denunciation of the U.S. Arctic war-prevention plan almost silly. He appeal ed again to Russia to accept it. The President said the plan was put forward seriously and honestly in the UN Secur ity Council to allay Russian fears about U.S. H-bomber alert flights over the Arctic. He said the U. S. hoped Russia would accept the pro posal as sensible and there fore perhaps a first step to ward broader disarmament agreements. The President said his re action to Soviet Foreign Min ister Andre Gromyko's at tack on the U. S. proposal was one of sadness. On other foreign policy points Eisenhower told his news conference: , ... Forty per cent of forth coming U.S. nuclear tests in the Central Pacific will be al most exclusively devoted to trying to develop radio-activity-free, clean weapons. . He said he knew of no mili tary officer who has ever of ficially suggested stockpiling dirtier nuclear weapons. Sen. Clinton Anderson (D-N.M.), said Tuesday that the new test series will try out radio logical weapons. Russia Threatens Veto There has been no change in the U.S. disarma ment policy since it was laid out with NATO approval at the London Disarmament con ference last August. The P r e s i d e n t's com ment on the current UN de bate came as Russia raised threats of a veto of the" U.S. Arctic inspection plan and warned that it may send its bombers across the Arctic on flights similar to those made by the U. S. Strategic Air Command. Gromyko called the propos al for Arctic aerial inspection "sheer publicity" and said it was designed to collect intel ligence from the Soviet Union. Eisenhower comment ed that his reaction to the Russian foreign minister this time was not one of irrita taton or resentment. Rather, he said, it was one of sadness. Serious Proposal The President said the U.S. had put forward the proposal honestly and seriously.. He said it came about as a result of the Soviet charge that the U.S. was running grave risks with world peace by conduct ing H-bomber alert practices. To allay this fear, the Pres ident said, the U.S. put for ward its proposal for an Arc tic aerial inspection plan. (See Story on Page 6) basis. The district's budget has come under the rural school board before. However, a law passed by the current legisla ture released the second and third class school districts from the rural board budget ary control, she explained. Most of the other items in the new school year budget are pretty much the same, she said. Operating budget for the new school year provides for 32 mills in taxes plus the carry-over of 5.1 mills in bonded indebtedness. The district will also have a non-high and ru ral levy pending on the out come of the May 5 election. The total levy could run to an estimated 68 to 73 mills, she added.
