Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 28, 1958, Image 1

Historic Oregon Newspapers

Medford mail tribune., May 28, 1958, Image 1

Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR

About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (May 28, 1958)

Page of 22 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (5.2 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Page of 22 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextMEDF0E1)K&, 22 PAGES Increased Costs - listed as Reason for New Rates Bills Would Be 2Vi Cents More Pacific Telephone and Tele graph company today filed new rate schedules with Ore gon Public Utility Commis sioner Howard Morgan that will mean increases in month ly telephone bills averaging about 2V2 cents a day per telephone throughout the state. However, J. H.B Creager, Medford manager for the tele phone company, said that fed eral income and other taxes would take about 114 cents of the increase sought. The company's position was summed up in a statement is sued in Portland by Vice Pres ident and General Manager F. A. Dresslar. Undermine Earnings 8 "Higher state and local taxes, increased wage pay ments as well as rising con struction costs have combined to undermine Pacific Tele phone's earnings on its oper ations in Oregon," Dresslar said. "And the trend is down ward." Under the new schedules tfile with the Commissioner, Meiford, Central Point, Jack sonville and Phoenix-Talent telephone users would pay in creases ranging from 15 to 50 cents a month for residence seivice. Business service rates would go up from 25 cents to Jl a month. 1 The proposed increases for Ashland and Gold Hill range from 30 cents to $1 a month for residence service, and from 50 cents to $2.25 a month for business service. This results because of a re cent modification in the state wide policy of the telephone company for extended service over longer routes. Higher Costs "Our experience shows," Creager said, "substantially higher costs than anticipated where extended service is provided over distances great er than 10 miles. I The extra costs result from the longer distances involved, the greater amounts of plant needed as well as the greater loss to the company in long distance revenues. Q Creager said the schedules also include increases in in o)f Y r II in stallation charges and in some o long distance charges on calls within the state. Creager gave as an exam pie the charge for the first three minutes for a day, station-to-station call from Med ford to Klamath Falls which would go up from 50 cents to 55 cents, not including federal tax. Baccalaureate for MHS Set Sunday Baccalaureate services for the Medford High school graduating class will be held Sunday, June 1, at 8 p.m. in Hedrick Junior High school auditorium. The Rev. Richard M. Jones of Eastwood Baptist church will be the speaker, and the Rev. Clynton Crisman of Friends church will give the invocation and benediction. The high school orchestra, under the direction of John Drysdale, will play "March of Peers," as the processional, and the march from Verdi's "Aida" as the recessional. Under the direction of Lynn Sjolund, the high school choir will sing Morton's arrange- .nt nf "Psalm 150," and as-'J sitted by the girls' chorus, "Laudamus Te," by Meuler. The congregation will join in sin-in- "Faith of Our Fath er," arranged by Walton. WEATHER VOKECAST: Partly cloudy to iht and Thursday with a lav shower in the mountains rrsday afternoon. Low to aukt SO. High Thursday 76. Temp. Sifhest Yesterday " (.west this Morning SI fnm. 10 a.m. Today 23 Our Skies Tonight 4:39 a.m. 7:38 D.m. ka irnnn ,im in the early st KlVtrMon and will be due 91 8:48 p.m. its left appears the planet, itr. and right below Jupi ter is the star, Spica. oBset Thursday .... 2:27 a.m. llU June 1 Sunday) MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1958 Ml Causes Some Damage to Pears A thunderstorm yesterday afternoon caused hail damage to pear orchards south of Medford, started two small forest fires and resulted in few scattered electric power outages in southern Oregon. Hail stones measuring up to one-half inch in diameter caused heavy damage to pear orchards between Medford and west or Phoenix Tuesday afternoon. Anti-hail cloud seeding from the ground which was carries on by stations of the Water Resources Development corporation, failed to fore stall the heavy downpour. Some effect of the cloud seed ing was believed evident, how ever, in the slushy and cloud ed hail stones which fell in some areas. Ashland School District Voters Approve Budget Ashland Voters in Ash land school district 5 narrow ly passed their first million dollar budget Tuesday. The vote was 418 for to 376 against. There were three void ballots. The new school budget total is $1,002,377.83 whicn ex ceeds the 6 per cent limitation by $446,389.99. It is an in crease of $128,859.19 over the current budget. According to school offi cials, the voter turnout was about average." A reported 751 votes were cast in the 1957 election. Two of the main items re sponsible for the increase. are $60,000 for construction of six new classrooms at the Walker school and $50,865 for salary increases for teachers. The second figure also in cludes salaries for four new teachers. Smaller Increases Smaller increases occur in several other budget items to make up the bulk of the pre dicted increased expenditures Some decreases in the budget are relatively small. Also approved by the vot ers was a levy of 19.4 milts for the Ashalnd district. The combined rural and Ashland districts levy is estimated at 43.2 mills or 4.3 mills less than the 'straight levy of the Ashland district last year. School officials point out that the property owner will pay slightly less in actual property taxes although the proposed Ashland budget is the highest in the history of the school system. This is due to more property being placed on the assessment rolls, a larger amount of basic state aid, and the county-wide levy by the rural schol board. Of the total budget $945,- 660.33 is for the general fundi to operate the school district, and $56,717.60 is for bond interest and sinking fund. Bert Peck to Retire From Commission Central Point Bert Peck, Central Point, foreman of the fish screening plant here for the past eight years, will re tire from Oregon State Game commission employment at the end of this month. Peck, who has been . with the commission 17 years, said that he ' plans ' no extended trip when he completes his service this week. He will catch up on work in his gar den and will do some hunt ing, fishing and vacationing. A resident of Central Point since 1917, Peck was an auto mechanic and operated his own garage. He also did car pentry work before starting with the game commission as a conservation aide. His first assignment was at the Gold Ray dam fish, counting sta tion. - Kenneth A. Goebel will succeed Peek as foreman at the screening plant. He trans ferred here recently from John Day, where he was in charge of screening work. Washington (UPI) Sen. John F. Kennedy planned an other attempt today to liber alize the jobless pay extension bill passed by the House. County Horticultural Agent C. B. Cordy said the . heavy damage to pears was mainly in bruising, with some skin- breaking, and would reduce the valley's pear output this fall. Not In Center & Peaches and other fruit were not in the storm's center. A more accurate estimate of damage will not be possible until, later in the season, Cordy said. It was believed that fruit in orchards north and east of Medford suffered some damage also. Two lightning fires on state forestry department protected land were reported. One was near Anderson butte in the Little Applegate area. It spread from a tree into grass and covered 4.7 acres. A crew was sent to the scene. A blaze at King mountain in the Rogue River vicinity was being handled by the Grants Pass unit of the for estry department. No new forest fires have been spotted in the Rogue River National forest, S. T. Moore, fire control officer, said today. Yesterday s storm was general in the high coun try, and lookouts have been posted. Power Outages Power outages were report edly the California Oregon Power company during the storm Tuesday afternoon in the Fern Valley, 401 road, and West Side school areas. Transformers and fuses blown by lightning were re ported to have caused the blackout. No major circuits were reported out, otticiais said. Individual customers were reported without power for varying lengths of time, it was reported. Precipitation at the Med ford office of the weather bu reau totaled .23 inch during the storm. Most of it fell be tween 4:28 and 4:37 p.m., and there was some rain later in the evening, and last night. Four-Cent Stamp Set For August Washington (UPI) The four-cent stamp for local and out-of-town letters definitely goes into effect Aug. 1. ' President Eisenhower signed a bill Tuesday which raises both postal rates , and wages., First class letters will be increased from 3 to 4 cents. Air Mail will be hiked from 6 to 7 cents. It will be the first increase in first-class mail rates since 1932. The President said the bill's "public interest", features out weighed its objectionable pro visions. But he said several provisions caused him "grave concern," including one which wouldassess the Treasury for an "excessive amount of post al services costs" instead of levying them against users of the mails. The penny boost in letter charges is the main item in the r,ate increase package, big gest in history and expected to bring in an extra 550 mil lion dollars annually when all its provisions take effect. The new law also gives pay raises of 265 million dollars a year to 520,000 postal work ers .retroactive to last Jan. 1. Dr. Pianka To Be transferred June 15 Camp White Dr. Wallace Pianka, Veterans administra tion Domiciliary chief medi cal officer for the past 2V4 years, will be transferred June 15 to the VA center in Fargo, N.D., where he will be director of professional serv ices, E. K. Ricker, manager, has announced. Dr. Panka has been at the VA hospital in Reno, Nev., during the past month to be come familiar with his new responsibilities. Dr. Ernest G. Everett is acting chief medical officer. While associated at the Camp White Domiciliary, Dr. Pianka made several adminis trative changes and estab lished liaison with the medi cal profession in Medford for special treatment and diagnosis. Tribune uuu Unknown Soldiers Return to U. S. For High Honors Flags at Half Staff In City to Honor Dead Washington (UPI) The nation's two new "Unknown Soldiers" returned to their native shores today to receive reverent honors seldom equaled in the capital city's long history of pomp and parades. , After their official arrival from the destroyer Blandy, the bodies of the unidentified warrior heroes were sched uled to receive the highest, most solemn tributes of all officialdom and all the peo ple before their reburial Friday in Arlington National cemetery. One was a veteran of World War II. The other died in the Korean fighting. They will flank a World War sol dier in the hallowed Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington, "in honored glory, known but to God." A third "unknown" also from World War II was bur ied at sea off the Virginia Capes with full military hon ors Monday after the final se lection phase of the ceremony was completed. Federal agency U.S. flags arc flying at half-staff to day, tomorrow, and Friday, Memorial day, under pres idential proclamation. President Eisenhower has also requested all other flags to be flown at half staff during the three-day period, in honor of the two additional "Unknown Sol diers" arriving in Washing ton today. . Lt, Col. Frank -Kehoer Army reserve advisor here, has notified federal agen cies of the proclamation, and has requested non-federal agencies to comply. . Orders called for body bearers to slowly bear the caskets, led by the World War II unknown, down the gangway of the ship and place them in two hearses for the ride to the Capitol. As the cortege starts to move, the saluting battery will fire a 21-gun salute. The bodies will lie in state i in the Capitol rotunda until Friday afternoon, when Pres ident Eisenhower will lead the nation in paying tribute at Arlington. Officials estimated that the number of visitors filing through the rotunda during the three-day period might run into the hundreds of thousands, especially during this heavy period of Wash ington's tourist season. Oldtime Firemen Set Annua! Dinner Meeting . Annual dinner meeting of Medford's . oldtime firemen will be held at 6 p.m. Friday at the west side fire station. Gene Amann, who retired as fire chief in 1914, will pre side at the dinner. He arrived in Medford today from Oak land, Calif., where he now makes his home and is a guest at the central fire station. Cordy Receives Superior Srevice Award Clifford B. Cordy, Jackson county extension agent, has been honored with a Superior Service award by the U.S. department of agriculture, it was announced Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Cordy was one of two Ore gon State college extension workers cited for outstanding contributions to agriculture and home economics exten sion teaching. Cordy and Miss Esther A. Taskerud, OSC state extension agent, were among 26 federal, state, and county extension workers throughout the United States to receive the honor this year. Helping Farmers . The Jackson county agent was cited for helping farmers "develop a multi-million dol lar fruit industry, giving guid ance to community better ment,, and building under standing between farm and city." Cordy has been Jackson &ounty extension agent since Price 10 Cents No. 58 Vanguard Fails For Second Time; New Firing Set Appeared Successful In First Observation , Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI) The Navy reported early today that the full-scale satellite launched Tuesday night with the Vanguard rock et shot 2,000 miles into space but at an off-angle which caused it to plunge back to earth and burn. It was the second consecu tive failure of the Vanguard to blast a fully instrumented 20-inch satellite into orbit, the satellite President Eisenhower talked about in 1955 when he first announced this country's space program for the Inter national Geophysical Year. The vanguard was fired at 8:46 p.m. p.d.t. It pierced a puff of clouds and in about two minutes was no longer visible. At first it appeared the launching was successful and that the satellite would join in space the 6.4-inch Vanguard test moon-put. into orbit last March 17, the two Explorers and gigantic Sputnik III, which weighs VA tons. Dr. John P. Hagen, director of the Vanguard Project who came to this launching base to observe the event, said the 72 foot rocket "appeared to Junction well through the' fir ing of all three stages but still did not result in an orbit." In Washington, Dr. Richard W. Porter, chairman of the IGY satellite iprogram, issued an identical statement to newsmen who had kept a vigil with him. Porter said another Van guard would be fired next month. According to initial calcu lations the satellite reached a peak altitude of about 2,000 statute miles at its zenith and fell . back to earth," Hagen said. On April 28 the Vanguard was launched for the JEirst time witna" fully instrument ed satellite in its nose, but it, too, failed to go into orbit be cause of failure of the third stage to ignite. The Vanguard on March 17, however, put a 6.4-inch test satellite into the highest orbit so far achieved by this country or Russia. Hagen said a large quantity of "telemetry data which was received Tuesday night will provide much valuable scien tific information." Discussions on Salaries !o End Discussions between the county court and county de partment heads concerning the proposed salary schedule for county employees are ex pected to end today with talks with the sheriff, health officer and veterans service officer. All department heads have met with the court this week to compare existing salaries with those proposed in the compensation plan prepared for Jackson county by the State Civil Service commis sion. Further discussions are ex pected with some of the de partment heads before all problems are ironed out. Members of the court said they hope to set up the sched ule according to recommenda tions of the civil service com mission and will encourage the county budget committee to accept the schedule when it meets next week. 1935. He was graduated from Oregon State college in 1930 with a degree in horticulture, received his M.S. degree at Michigan State college in 1934, and has taken advance study at the Universities of Florida and California. , Prior to his present assign ment, Cordy was USDA jun ior plant pathologist in Ore gon; superintendent of the USDA experiment station at Sitka, Alaska; and research assistant, Michigan's branch experiment station at Grand Rapids. Advances of Crop The county agent is credit ed with leadership in scientif ic advances of the Rogue Riv er valley's $15 to $18 million pear industry. He has helped guide community ' beautifica tion programs through land scape projects for homes and municipal lands, and was cit ed as a "stabilizing force in building understanding be tween farm and city people BE GAULLE CHOSEN FRENCH 'PREMIER' House Beats Down Attempts To Kill Statehood Bill Now Goes To Senate; Outlook Said Good Washington (UPI) The House today passed a bill to admit Alaska to the union as the 49th state. It approved the hotly con tested measure after defeat ing two attempts to send it back to committee. The bill now goes to the Senate where it was expected to have a good chance of pas sage. The House roll call vote was 208 to 166. Two members voted "present." The House acted over the opposition of' Republican leaders and southern Demo crats. Top GOP members had voted previously to recom mit the measure to the House Interior committee despite President Eisenhower's per sonal pleas on behalf of the bill. .' Tuesday, the coalition of GOP leaders and southern Democrats succeeded in get ting the House to tentatively kill the measure by striking out its enacting clause. But today this action was revers ed. Opponents then concentrat ed on trying to send it back to committee. Just before the bill won approval, the House on a roll call, vote defeated the final effort to recommit it to com mittee a move that almost certainly would have meant the bill's death at this session of Congress. The voteagainst this mo tion, made by Rep. John R. Pillion (R-N.Y.), was 201 to 172. Before final passage,' the House approved 91 to 8 an amendment to reduce from 182 million acres to 102,550, 000 the amount of unreserved public lands in Alaska the federal government would turn over to the new state. Cattish Derby Set At TouVelle Park The 22nd annual National Catfish Derby will be held at TouVelle State park along Rogue river Sunday, June 22, Medford 20-30 club members have announced. A queen and her court, picked from the sophomore class at Medford High school, will be announced later, and various activities are planned for all age groups, sponsors said. Loren Soderlund is chairman of the queen selec tion committee. ,, The Catfish Derby started in 1936 because of an argu ment between Frank Perl and the late Delroy Getchell over fishing abilities. Frank De Souza and Kenneth Anthony also were associated with the original Derby. The 20-30 club took over sponsorship in 1941. The first Derby was held at Savage Rapids dam. H. J. Veal is chairman of this year's Derby. and within segments of agri culture." Cordy has ' made notable contributions to the area's fruit industry in campaigns to prevent crop loss from pests and plant diseases. A copper spray program in which Jackson county led other commercial pear-producing areas of the nation, plus an annual "preventive" program of cutting out fire-blight-infected wood, have av erted outbreaks that plague other districts. Codling moth was once the .scourge of the valley's pear industry causing 10 per cent of the pear crop to be wormy with an estimated loss of $lxi million annually even though growers spray ed five to eight times a year with arsenate of leed. Practice Use of DDT . , Cordy led the way in mak ing this the first commercial fruit area to practice wide spread use of DDT for cod BILL' 'You Fellows Go Right On Talking I'll Let You Know When I Reach A Decision" Six New Citizens Are Naturalized Six new United States citi zens were administered the Oath - of Allegiance to the United States at a naturaliza tion hearing this morning in circuit court before Judge H. K. Hanna. They were Mrs. Marie Christine Gass, 805 Pine st., Medford, who was born in Canada; William Duncan Keddie, 161 Fourth st.,. Ash land; Scotland; Salvador Cas tro Esquivel, route 2, dox 247A, Medford, Mexico; Mrs. 193 to Receive Degrees at SOC Ashland More than 190 degrees will be conferred at the 32nd annual Southern Oregon college commence ment exercises in Lithia park, Ashland, Sunday afternoon. Gov. Robert D. Holmes will speak. Exercises will start at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Butler Memorial Band shell in Lithia park. An alumni breakfast is scheduled at 8 a.m. Sunday in Susanne Homes hall, and Baccalaureate services will be held in Churchill hall at 9:30 a.m. In addition to Governor Holmes' address, the Rev. J. Ross Knotts, pastor of the First Methodist church, Ash land, will give the invocation and benediction. Allan Hart, a member of the board of higher education, will greet graduates, and Dr. Elmo Ste venson, college president, will confer degrees. Master's Degrees Master's degrees will be conferred upon 12 students,' and bachelor's degrees will go to 181 students. Of the bachelor's degrees, 141 will be in elementary education, 24 in secondary and 15 in gen eral studies. The Rev. John L. Thomp son of the Ashland Episcopal church will deliver the Bac calaureate address. ling moth that is now reduced to the roll of a minor pest. Other "firsts" he has help ed the county develop include use of hormone sprays on pears to reduce fruit drop; a new pruning method for pear trees that has greatly in creased yields; and this year, the first commercial scale testing of controlled atmos phere storage of pears. He is currently helping develop a drainage program for the county's shallow, heavy soils. During the past 12 years, Cordy has helped organize and promote the annual land scape clinic for home owners of Jackson county that per mits individual consultations for about 60 home owners during the two-day tlinic. Working with the Medford Garden club and a special civic committee, the county agent has been keenly inter ested in a civic beautification program q tree plantings. PA Rosa Marie Palmquist, 627 Pierce rd., Medford, Sweden; Lawrence Earl Sands, 1092 Scenic ave., Central Point, Canada; and Mrs. Marie Claire F. Buford, 811 Beach st., Ashland, Canada. Mallory C. Walker, natur alization examiner from Port land, requested that their naturalization petitions be granted. Citizenship Class The six earlier attended a citizenship class conducted by Mrs. G. Q. D'Albini,Tmaking approximately 600 prospec tive United States . citizens who have attended her classes. - . Following the oath, Mrs. D'Albini, representing the Crater Lake chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, presented each new citizen with a flag do nated by the Medford Elks lodge. Paul Hornbeck greet ed them on behalf of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. David Frohnmayer,' Med ford High school student, who spoke to the group, de scribed naturalized citizens as among the best in the country because "they show they want to be citizens." He declared that history shows empires have fallen not be cause of invading armies, but because the people did not care enough about their gov ernment. Walker said that about 900 persons become naturalized citizens in Oregon annually. Two ; f i n a 1 naturalization hearings are held in Medford each year. Italian Red Bid For Popular Front Rome (UPI) The Italian Communist party made a new bid for a "popular front" with Socialists today aimed at crip pling any government set up by the Christian Democrats. Communist Party Boss Pal- miro Togliatti, playing on the fears of the left-wing PSI so cialists stemming from the Christian Democratic election gams, said the Communists were ready to "reach an un derstanding with all those who move in the same direc tion with us." : ISaselbaDD AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore .0 6 0 Cleveland 5 9 1 Harshman and Triandos; McLish and Brown. Washington 3 3 1 Chicago 13 12.. 1 Stobbs, Clevenger (1), Griggs (2), Lumenti (8), Byerly (8) and Courtney; Wilson (5-3) and Lollar. Boston .......1... 2 10 1 Detroit 4 8 0 Nixon (1-5) and Berber!; Lary (5-4) and Wilson. De Gaulle Called To Paris Talk With President Resignation Tendered By Premier Pflimlin Paris (UPI) President Rene Coty has decided to designate Gen. Charles De Gaulle as France's next premier, a reliable ' source at the Elysee palace said tonight. Paris (UPI) President Rene Coty will announce the name of France's new premiere-designate at 10 p.m., (7 p.m. PDT), an Elysee Palace Spokesman said today. President Coty today sum moned Gen. Charles de Gaulle to Paris possibly to take over leadership of France. Informed sources said Coty had won agreement from the Catholic Popular Republicans andIndependent conservatives for De Gaulle to become pre mier. Together, the two parties control 175 votes in the 595-member National As sembly. Premier Pierre Pflimlin Wednesday tendered his resig nation to pave the way for the return of Gen. Charles de Gaulle. President Rene Coty appeared to be preparing to rail the general to form a new government in a matter of hours. Coty asked Pflimlin to carry on as caretaker until a new government is formed, and Pflimlin, pale and. tired after a two-week battle to pre serve the Fourth Republic and keep . De Gaulle out, agreed.. General De Gaulle headed at once for Paris from his home at Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, 150 miles away. ! De Gaulle's apparent mo ment of destiny arrived just is an psrimnipn iiiij.ijiiii ipti- istsand moderates marched across Paris protesting his rise toward power. Roads Are. Blocked - It would take De Gaulle's chauffeur about two hours to make the trip. It would prob ably be several hours after that before an anxious France would know if De Gaulle's time had arrived. Police took elaborate pre cautions at Colombey for , keeping newsmen from trail- 1 ing De Gaulle. Roads were blocked for 15 minutes. For the first time, an escort car from France's FBI, the Surgete General, accompanied De Gaulle. At that very moment tens of thousands of anti-De Gaulle demonstrators surged into the Place de la Bastille where the French revolution of 1789 erupted. Former Premier Pierre Mendes-france, head of the Radical moderate party, was among them. "Fascism shall not pass the crowd chanted in a rolling crescendo that drowned out rush-hour traffic. "Long live the Republic." Coty' was ' acting with all possible haste. Earlier in the afternoon he conferred for two hours with leaders of three of France's middle-line - parties. Fear of Violence Informed sources' said the call to De Gaulle was issued after the Catholic Popular Re publicans MRP and independ ents had assented to asking De Gaulle to form a govern ment. The Socialists, who have opposed him energetically were said to have delayed their decision pending con sultations with their parlia mentary group this evening. The Socialists have' 100 votes. Coty was said to have ap pealed to all three parties to accept De Gaulle before the nation is plunged into chaos and possible bloodshed. Mosquito Control Equipment Shown A new blower and mosquito control machine was demon strated for the county court this morning, by County San itarian Walter Sutherland. The portable blower, which can project any type of in secticide, and will be used on roadside ditches and other spots of standing water, as well as other mosquito-breed-" ing areas which formerly were inaccessible. The county's mosquito-' spraying program has been underway for several eeks.