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mall NAT Maftioiras Back Big 3 teirod on Summit- Talks Terms Dictated By Russia Said Not Acceptable NATO Ministers Form United Front Copenhagen (IP) The smaller NATO allies swung solidly behind the western Big Three today in refusing to hold a summit meeting on terms dictated by Moscow. The NATO Council of For eign Ministers met for two hours in its third working ses sion at Christiansborg Palace hei to form a united NATO front for a summit confer ence. Stnd Supported A NATO spokesman said afterwards that all the speak ers backed up the stand tak en Monday by the United States, Britain and France. Previously the small powers had wanted summit talk at almost any price. The position was that: The West is willing to - meet the Soviets in a summit conference but only after thorough advance preparation and if the prospects of achiev ing something are good. Must Persevere The West must be sure in advance what the Soviets have in mind before agreeing to the meeting. The spokesman said the speakers agreed , the West must persevere in trying to arrange a conference on this basis and must not weaken its stand on this. ' The supporting speeches came as Secretary of State John Foster Dulles summon ed U.S. Ambassador Llewel lyn M. Thompson from Mos cow to report to the foreign ministers on the latest Soviet move toward a summit con ference). fife in Prison Possible for Girl Broolings W Dorothy QLise Decker, 16, today faced charges which could re sult in life imprisonment upon conviction. ?h California girl, who 1rveled with an ex-convict until he was killed by police U f gun duel at a roadblock noth of here late Saturday, 916 bound over to the grand jurj Monday on charges of 'Jlmed assault and abduction. district Attorney Edward Jlcfcley said the assault charge Mwies a maximum sentence life imprisonment. Menry Thomas Hill, 36, was Uin by police at a roadblock ite Saturday night when he nd the girl tried to get through in a car with four hostages who had been taken from a cabin a short time earlier. The girl, quiet and expres sionless, appeared with her attorney, Samuel Hall of Brookings, before Justice of the Peace H. G. Nelson Mon day and then was returned to her cell in the county jail at Gold Beach. Washington (IP) Secre tary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson today prodded Con gress to act soon on extension of the farm surplus disposal program. Hatfield Declares Unander's Remarks 'Outburst of Abuse' Salem HP) Secretary of State Mark Hatfield today said that charges of State Treasurer Sig Unander con stiftited an "intemperant out burst of personal abuse." Hatfield said Unander's re Facsimiles of Ballots Printed in Mail Tribune Facsimiles of the Republi can, Democratic and non-partisan ballots to be used in the May 16 primary election are printed in today's issue of the Mail Tribune, on Pages 6A and 1A, in the second section. Publication of facsimile, or "sample," ballots in newspa pers was ordered by a new law passed by the 1957 session of the legislature, part of the general revision of election laws. The ballots not only show voters in advance just i what they will see when they enter the voting polls, but also serve as official notifica tion of the election. The non-partisan ballot, which includes candidates for five judgeships, and a county tax base measure, will be dis tributed to all voters May 16. j FoDsum Reported Scheduled To Quit Cabinet IPosition Columbus, Ohio (IP) Dr. Arthur S. Flemming, presi dent of Ohio Wesleyan Uni versity in nearby Delaware, will be named secretary of health and welfare in Presi dent ' Eisenhower's Cabinet Wednesday, a u n i v e r s i t y source told the United Press today. Fleming would succeed Marion B. Folsom who will resign. In Washington, the Health Education and Welfare De partment declined immediate comment. A spokesman said any statement would have to come from the White House. Folsom has been on an ex tended vacation around Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for the past few weeks. He originally planned to vacation there for two weeks but decided to stay on at the advice of his doctors. Folsom has been in a fatigued condition. Folsom has been directing the activities of his depart ment, however, by long dis tance calls daily. A university spokesman told the United Press that an nouncement of Fleming's ap pointment would be made by Deadline lo File For Assessment Review Is May 17 Jackson county property taxpayers have until May 17 to file petitions with the coun ty board of equalization for the review of property assess ments, according to Jackson County Court Judge Rodney Keating, chairman of the local board, and Ray Schumacher, county assessor. The three-man board, com posed of Chairman Keating, Arnold Bohnert and E. H. Singmaster, will meet in the county clerk's office of the courthouse Monday, May 12, to make the annual review of assessments in the county. Oregon law provides that a property owner may appear in person or be represented by an attorney before the board when it considers peti tions for reductions of assess ments. Review Assessment The tax payer planning to appeal to the board of equali zation should first review his assessment with the county assessor at the courthouse. If the assessor feels the assess ment is correct and the tax payer disagrees, he may place his case before the county board on or before May 17. Forms for this purpose may be obtained from the assessor or the county clerk. The county assessor has posted a 28 per cent of true cash value ratio used in assess ing property.- Taxpayers can test the assessment of their property by converting assess ed to true cash value by using the posted ratio. True cash value is 90 per cent of market value, it was reported. ' To verify their assessment, tax payers may obtain a certifi cate of assessment from the assessor. marks were "the reaction of a candidate who is apparently on edge and he certainly should be forgiven." Hatfield said his statements warning voters to beware of empty promises and high The party nominating ballots will go to voters registered in the two major parties. Vot ers registered as independent or "miscellaneous" will re ceive only the non-partisan ballots. In addition, the city of Med ford will provide ballots to voters inside the incorporated limits, so they may decide on two annexation proposals. The facsimile ballots may be clipped - and retained by voters, who may mark them and take them in to the voting polls with them, under the provisions of the new law. Only other papers which may be taken in to the polls are the. official sample ballots, which are now available at the courthouse, and will be provided at voting places May 16. MARION B. FOLSOM Successor To Be Named , Eisenhower Wednesday. Flemming was in Washing ton during the week end. Flemming has held a num ber of top government jobs, the most recent being direc tor of defense mobilization. He resigned Feb. 6, 1956. Eisenhower appointed Flem ming as a director of the Of fice of Defense Mobilization in June, 1953. As chief of the ODM, Flem ming was co-ordinator of all aspects of defense mobiliza tion, including productivity, procurement, manpower, and transportation. ' Flemming also was a mem ber of the National Security Council and attended meet ings of the Cabinet by invita tion of Eisenhower. Fire Foreman's Course Tomorrow A one-day advanced train ing session for forest fire fighting foremen will be held near Medford tomorrow. Stu dents will report to the state department of , forestry head quarters on Table Rock rd. at 8 a.m., and transportation will be furnished to the field. The school is being spon sored by the Southern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm association in cooperation with the state department of forestry, the forest service and the bureau of land man agement. Instruction will be given in fire behavior, line location, hand line construction, cat line construction, use of water and dry mop up. The SOCTFA committee in charge felt that most basic classroom courses were well covered during the past two years, and decided on only an advanced course this year. An identical school will be held in Grants Pass tomor row. The fire foremen's training school originated in southern Oregon two years ago to train men from logging crews and mills for supervisory positions along fire lines during forest fires. The lack of adequate foremen was noticeable dur ing the series of fires in Jack son county and northern Cal ifornia in the fall of 1955, SOCTFA oficials said. sounding proposals during the last days of the campaign was not directed at Unander. "The association was of his own making," Hatfield said. Unander charged following the statement that Hatfield, in effect, had no program of his own so was attacking the mo tives of other candidates. Both men are candidates for the Republican nomination for governor. Unander accused ' Hatfield of taking pot shots at his pro posed 150 million self-liquidating forest access roads pro gram. " Hatfield replied: "All Ore gon would agree the lumber industry must be revitalized but this can be done through sales and not alone through more harvest when inventory is so high." (See Story on Page 3) Ike, Cabinet Advisers United Against Tax Cut Washington (IP) President Eisenhower and his chief cabinet advisers were reported authoritatively 1 today to be tightly united in a belief that economic conditions now do not warrant an income tax cut. 52nd Year Medford 18 PAGES Ex-City Recorder Suspended; Fund Shortages Told Miss Samuels Admits Taking Small Sums Miss Neva Samuels, 57, of 123 Tripp st., longtime city employee and former record er for the city of Medford, has been suspended from office, City Manager Robert Duff said today. He said an investigation of the records in her office in dicates there is a shortage of funds totaling more than S50. Duff stated that Miss Samuels has verbally admit ted to him and other city of ficials that she has been tak ing small sums over a period of several months. Charges Pending No formal charges have as yet been filed against Miss Samuels, Duff said, pending the outcome of the city's in vestigation, and notification of the firm which had bonded Miss Samuels. She has been employed by the city for 25 years, and after the death of the late Ralph Woodford, she was appointed recorder and was then elected to that position, holding it until the new city manager form of government was adopted, making the office appointive. Since that time she has worked under the direction of City Treasurer and Recorder Darell Huson, who first no ticed the discrepancy in the city's records. Retail Promotion Shows Increase In Sales Activity The first three days of the retail promotion program, "You Auto Buy Now," . have increased traffic and general sales activity in the Medford area, according to Paul Lea, president of the Medford Au tomobile Dealers' association, which is spearheading the lo cal program. One dealer reported a 200 per cent increase in sales vol ume compared with the same time last year, Russ Jamison, publicity man for the cam paign, said. Report Increases Two of the larger clothing stores reported sizeable in creases in sales volume but added that it is difficult to pin it to the campaign. One department store manager said his store has cashed a large number cf. 'the $50 cashier's checks given by au to dealers with the stipula tion they must be spent in Medford within -15 days on anything outside of automo biles. Lea Motors reported a 60 per cent increase in sales vol ume compared with the same period the previous year. Lea added that all dealers "are tremendously pleased" with campaign results so far. Hugh Coleman, owner of Crater Lake Motors, reported sale of six new cars and six used ones Saturday, plus the sale of two new and two used cars on Monday. "Dealers and other retail ers report buyers are more receptive to salesmanship and apparently some of the state ments on the economic out look for this area have rub bed off, since the consumer is letting down the bars," Lea said. Other retailers besides those selling cars are tieing into the program. They in clude appliance dealers, ap parel stores and a grocery store. One butcher shop ad vertised "chickens,, you oughta fry now." Salesmen Winners Salesmen winners of the mystery shopper contest so far are for May 1, Mark A. Graham, Medford Motors; May 2, Leonard F. Carlson, Dick Knight company; May 3, Harvey Wyatt, Darrell Mil ler company. The salesmen were check ed on greeting, presentation of product, demonstration, enthusiasm, validity of offer, selling themselves and the product, and all things that make up a good sales presentation. STRIKE -STOP m raw on last rid Hedberg Elected Member-at-Large Of Rural Board Hockersmith Wins In Medford District The Jackson county rural district levy passed yesterday by 1,639 yes votes to 738 no votes, according to unofficial returns received in the Jack son county school superinten dent's office this morning. C. Elwood Hedberg, Med ford, was elected as rural board member at large. Ger ald Latham was elected as Zone 2 rural member for a three-year term in the Med ford district only. Edith Hoag was elected rural board mem ber for Zone 3, which includes Eagle Point, Lone Pine, Elk Trail, Prospect, Shady Cove and Butte Falls. Clarence Holdridge was elected as ru ral board member for Zone 5 representing Ashland, Talent and Pinehurst. All candidates were unopposed. Elementary Levy Passes The levy of $212,650 for nine elementary districts was approved by a total vote of 338 yes' Votes' and " 193 -no votes.. The levy is to cover the cost of tuition and some transportation for high school pupils in the non-high school districts. They are Griffin Creek, Ruch, Lone Pine, Ap nWnte. Eix-Trail. Evans Val ley, Shady Cove, Pinehurst and Howard. Incomplete returns on dis trict levies in excess of 6 per cent limitation show 272 yes to 60 no votes for District 6C s Ipvv T.one Pine district, 60 yes, 'l8 no; and Butte Falls, 53 yes, 23 no. Howard scnooi held its district levy election nn Anril 25 and Elk-Trail on May 1. Both levies passed. Other school districts win i ia Viir lew elections later. I1U1U ""-" - according to Alf B. Mekvold, county school superintendent. The Medford school budget will be presented Tuesday, June 3, according to Elliott Becken, assistant superinten dent for Medford schools. Board Members Elected Board members elected lor the various school districts and the terms of offices are: Jacksonville, William D. Turnbull, 5 years; Griilm Creek, Floyd Eastwood, 1 year.'and Lance Pitts, 5 years; Ruch, Rex Davis, 5 years; Phnonix. Curtis Barnes, 5 years; Ashland, M. Dale Wil liams, 5 years; District oo, J. W. Fitzgerald, a years; watrio. Point. Jack Reid, 5 years, and Elmer Harnish, 3 years; Lone Pine, wiiDur Fish, 5 years; Talent, Mrs. Joyce Goodrich, o years, Rogue River, Ed Martin, o years; Applegate, LeRoy Of fenbacher, 5 years. Others include: Elk-Trail, Wayne Ash, 5 'years; Medford, Keith Hockersmith, 5 years; Prospect, Marjorie Biden, 5 years; Evans Valley, Eugene Mars, 3 years, and George Johnston, 5 years; Shady Cove, Virginia House, 5, and Edgar Vanderlip, 4 years; Butte Falls, Francis E. Poole, 5 years; Pinehurst, Andrew Bostwick, 5 years, and Art Struvel, 3 years; and Howard M. H. Hurt, 5 years. In the Medford school board election Hockersmith defeated Mrs. Dorothy Mon roe 488 to 103. WEATHER FORECAST: Clear tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight 38. High Wednesday 74. Temp. Highest Yesterday 72 Lowest this Morning 41 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunset Moonrise 5.01 a.m. 7:16 p.m. ..10.52 p.m. Last Quarter May 10 Jupiter now dominates in the southeast in the early evening. It is the largest planet with a diameter of 86.900 miles and is now about 417 million miles from the Earth. MEDFORD, OREGON, levy "Is That The Height Action to Camp White Needed - Action for developing a re creational area in the Camp White vicinity is needed at once, it was stressed at a meet ing of the recreation commit tee of the county planning commission and the city's re creation subcommittee Mon day noon. The group stressed the need for a joint city-county com mittee on plans for construc tion of a lake up to seven acres in 'size. It was decided to contact city and county engineers to cooperate . in a survey of the area to deter mine how high a dam would be required for the lake. Once the dam height is de cided, preliminary estimates cf cost would be possible, ac cording to Jack Eaton, county planning technician. Members of the city subcommittee said they would contact the city manager and the committee about city engineers, with the help of the county, to make a survey. Tentative Approval The county recreation com mittee members indicated they had already received tentative approval from the county court for such a proj ect. Results of the city recre ation committee request will be given at the county plan ning commission meeting May 14. ' The proposed lake would be about 4,000 feet long and about 1,500 feet wide, accord ing to Eaton. He said present plans call for restricting the lake to sail boats. Both groups stressed the need for complete development of the area with other facilities such as a golf course. Construction of the lake would make the neces sary water available for wa tering 'the course, the group indicated. A small section of pasture land might be needed for the $1,000 in Tools Taken from Store The-theft of $750 to $1,000 worth of smair tools from the Hydraulic Jack Service store, 1315 North Riverside ave., was reported by city police this morning. They said the theft occur red early this morning. En trance to the building was gained by removing a cover over a broken window in the rear, police said. The theft was discovered this morning by employees. Several suspects are being questioned by police. TUESDAY, MAY 6, 158 1MM Passes Of Our Ambition?" Develop at lake,, but Eaton said he could not be sure until' the survey results are complete. He also told the group several addi tional smaller lakes on Whet stone creek would be possible with the larger dam. The group said the develop ment, when completed, would be for all age groups. Bass and catfish would be stocked in the lake, according to plans. The group said plan ning work on the project should start as soon as possi ble if it is to be completed within the next year or two. Fire District to Hold Hearing Central Point A public hearing will be heM at 8 o'clock tonight on the pro posed budget for the Central Point Rural Fire Protection district at the main firehall on Highway 99, south of Cen tral Point. The budget board recently approved a $58,888.82 budget for the fiscal year 1958-59, an increase of $24,112.02 more than last year. The board proposed increas ing the budget to pay off all indebtedness on equipment in four years which. would con stitute a savings of $4,000 in interest for the four years, it was pointed out. County Civil Functioning Jackson county's part of the two-day nation-wide civil de fense alert today is function ing smoothly,' according to Maj. Gen. J. H. Hicks, county civil defense director. Hicks said he was informed simulated bombs were dropped on Portland at 9:45 a.m. and Klamath Falls was knocked out when a bomb fell on the airport there. Two simulated bombs were drop ped near Salem and Redmond, he added. Evacuation started from Portland at 7:56 a.m. and the Klamath Falls evacuation started at 7:15 a.m., both! simulated, he said. Both evac- uation groups are supposedly headed in this direction. Registration Center The county civil defense organization simulated open ing a registration center in the Southern Oregon college gymnasium and was to open a center at Craver high school Price 10 Cents Tribune rnnn n n rm n it; project asebaDD NATIONAL LEAGUE Cincinnati 14 1 Chicago 4 5 1 2 Nuxhall, Freeman (2). Schmidt (7), Wight (8) and Burgess; Bobbie and Tappe. AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 5 10 2 Boston 7 11 0 . Pierce, Moore 2, Fischer 4, Qualters 6, Stale? 7 and Lollar; Fornieles, Wall 4, and While. Gandl Reelected Head of Pioneer Sites Founadtion Albert W. Gandt was re elected president of the Siski you Pioneer Sites Foundation at the first annual meeting of the organization last night at Medford High school. Other officers reelected were Dr. Elmo Stevenson, vice president; Mrs. Dwight Houghton, secretary; and Archie Fries, treasurer. Other board of trustees members reelected were Clar ence Bell, Seth M. Bullis, Vir ginia Cook, Henry Galey, R. H. Gandee, Dr. Frank Haines, Elwood Hedberg, T. J. Hight, R. J. Keeney, Jeffrey L. Shute and Frank J. Van Dyke. Gandt told of how a master plan is being drafted to in clude certain procedures such as a topographical map, show ing location of historic sites; general development plan, outlining the sequence proce dure of projects; a historic base map, principally for mar ker locations; measured draw ings and floor plans, and fur nishing plans for completed restored buildings. Relate History v Relating the history of the organization, Gandt said sev eral people became interested in such an organization in July, 1956. They became in terested in restoring and pre serving histor : sites in south ern Oregon. The group met during a se ries of early morning break-j fasts the first year. Then, it was decided in May, 1956, to incorporate the group into a non-profit organization. j Following Gandt's talk, Dr. Stevenson, president of South ern Oregon college, told of how the organization attempts to interest people in the pio neer sites by marking them by special plates, or markers and indicating them on a tourist map. The foundation, he said, hopes to preserve all such historical sites either through acquisition or by encouraging others to do the same thing." The local organization is as sociated with the Society of Architectural Historians and the National Trust for His toric Preservation, he added. Salem (1PV- Oregon high ways were generally clear. Defense Alert Reported Smoothly by this afternoon, General Hicks said. Actual registration op erations will start tomorrow afternoon when traffic con trols will be set up on high ways and motorists are asked to volunteer participation; in an evacuee registration exer cise, General Hicks said. Radiological teams were sent out at 9 a.m. today cover ing the areas of Roxy Ann, Jacksonville, summit of Siski you, Greensprings, Union creek, Trail and Rogue River. All radioed in that report on "fallout" is negative. Hicks added that the ama teur radio network is func tioning good with all commu nications received from Sa lem, civil defense headquar ters, and Klamath Falls. The 1958 "Operation Alert" exercise opened nationally with a mock H-bomb attack that is expected to help deter mine the need for under ground Civil Defense shelters, No. 39 Workers Idle on Tunnels, Canal, Dam in Cascades 100 Construction Men in Walkout More than $5,800,000 worth of construction on various phases of the Talent project have been halted as a result of a strike of construction workers against Associated o General Contractors. Bureau of reclamation offi cials at Camp White said work has stopped on the Green Springs and Cascade Springs and Cascade tunnels, Keene Creek dam and the Howard Prairie delivery canal. About 100 construction workers were reported off work. Workers in the Green Springs powerplant and pen stock continued on their jobs, and bureau of reclamation of ficials did not know if they would be affected by the strike. The walkout began Monday over demands for a 30-cent hourly package wage increase by the Oregon Dis trict Council of Laborers. The contract for the Green Springs and Cascade tunnel, Keene creek dam and power conduit is for $2,894,000, bu reau of reclamation officials said. The first section of the Howard Prairie delivery canal was contracted for $1,637,000 and the second section was for $1,285,000, officials said. Work was progressing on both sections prior to the strike. No immediate settlement was in sight, according to United Press in Portland. AGC contractors were to meet in Portland Wednesday and George Walker, federal mediator, said he did not ex pect negotiations to resume until after Wednesday. Contractors offered a 50 cent package increase spread over a three-year period. Work on millions of dollars on construction throughout Oregon was halted because of the strike. It spread to the big Lloyd center in Portland, and work was halted on the Morrison bridge and Haw thorne bridge approaches there. Also affected were a $24 million power project on the Clackamas river and the Baldock freeway. Transportation to Polls Set by GOP Republican voters who will be unable to vote on May 16 because of lack of transporta tion will be offered free trans portation, according to Donr aid L. Stathos,- chairman of the Jackson County Republi can Central committee. He said the plan is sponsor ed by the Jackson County Re publican Central committee, the Jackson County Republi can Women's club and the Jackson County Young Repub lican club. Gen. Hicks according to the United Press. - Officials at 300 critical tar get areas across the nation received warning messages at mid-morning. The simulated attack was scheduled to come within four hours after the warning, but at least another four hours- were needed to determine the full affects of the attack, officials said. Oregon Participates Thirty-five Oregon counties all except Hood River parti cipated in the drill. At 9 a.m. state workers all along the Capital Mall were evacuated for a fire drill. Gov. Robert D. Holmes ex plained that upon declaration of a real state of emergency he would assume personal command and direction of all physical and human resources in the state. Col. Arthur M. Sheets, state civil defense director, would work immediately under the governor.
