Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 05, 1958, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texto- A fo) r ir U1N G o House Affirms $9 Million To v. o Maintain Army More Than Ike Requested in Bill Washington (UPlp The House overwhelmingly passed a $38,409,56i;000 de fense appropriation bill today after beefing it an at tempt to prevent a eft in Army manpower. The roll carl vote on'fingl passage was 389 to 0. On a roll call vote of 2 to 158, the House affirmed its tentative decision of Wed nesday to add $99 mimon 8o the Army ca)be kejwr at its present strength of 9p,000 men. Sent To Senate , Then the House passed the measure and sent it to the Senate. House adoption of the am endment to increase Army funds came in the teeth of op position by its own Appropri ations Committee and the 9 enhower administration. The Army, now slightly above 900,000 men, is slated to be cut to 870,000 by July J? 1959 i$hder a decision by President Eisenhower. Spon sors of the amendment con tended the cut would serious ly - weaken this cointry's ability to fight brushfire wars. r)0 The vote tiroke o mostly along party lines, with Dem ocrats backing the amend ment and Republicans oppos- ed. - Pk - - w As passed ghy the House, the bill contained $212,614, 000 more than Eisenhower re- Siested to opQate the mili ry establishment in the year beginning the first of next month. A big share of the increase was earmarked for submar ines and rockets. Hawthorne Pool to s Open Saturday The municipal swimming pool in Hawthorne park is scheduled to open Saturday according to Darell Huson, city park .director. He added that the opening would be postponed in esse of bad weather. Swimming lessonscjyill sfrt June 16. he reported, witfi registration being held at t& pool starting the. latter grt of next week. The. exact dfttt will be announced oon as scheduled. During the summer SctiSn 1957, 33,381 swimmei too advantage of the city ?cg ities, Huson said. The gr vious year more tKfen 3,000 were registered during, 1$e season. i C C O ON THEIR WAY Two new homes in Oakland, Calif., constructed on filled land, are moving down a 100-foot slope toward the road at left The houses' 20-foot .patios, which have already dropped away, had been supported by the concrete pilings here shown leaning over to the left The houses have been evacuated, all utilities cut off and a large trench has been bulldozed at th bottom of the slope to catch the houses and dirt before they reach tig road. " ' M EDF0KD 2 Pages Approval Given Ten Departments j)y Budget Group Budgets for 1937-58 for 10 county department! have been tentatively approved by tSe county budget committee in meetings this week in the county court chambers in the courthouse. Most were increased over lfst year's budget. ' oBuflset Committee Chair man Tom Wray said the ap proves were somewhat ten tative" because the committee as Still considering the budg et tS whole and some chagAes may be made before the meetings end, probably lte today. Approver! so far are budg ets for tha county court, $Z5, 059, compared with $23,821.40 fbr the current year; circuit court No. 1, $22,396, $22, 3f040 this year? circuit court JTo. 8, 17,300, $19,340.40 this year; district court, $11, 714.85, 12,732.50. Ashland justice court, $8, 141, $7,096 this year; Gold Hjll justice court, $2,670, $2,- 60; snenit s omce $ivv,zo, $95,89.64; elections depart ment, t31,356, $28,440; treas urer, $11,993.60, $11,028.40; nd district attorney, $20,130, 18.371.80. Wray said the salaries ap proved fbr employees in the various department w c r those recommended by the county court, rather than those recommended by de pf rtkient heads. Announcement of the first budget hearing will be set as soon as the meetings end. County budgeting is late this lyear because of the slow arri val of the 30b classification and compensation plans' from the civjl service. SaseMO 1TA.TIOMAL LEAGUE - ittaMak S 1 ft Louis 4 7 0 Tti& and roils; Misell 04 H. Smith. AtCEXICAN LEAGUE Chicago 5 2 TUw Tor ;. 11 15 0 Wfmm. Fischar (9). Qualt 0t (?) ad Lollar. Batley (7); i.usa, Duraa (7) and Sana. . eirt s 7 e ! 5 t a 1J1. Wilhalm () and Brojra; tmilh, Feisuales fialf (8) and White. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1958 County Workers To Talk Wages With Committee Representatives of the Jack- son County Employee's asso ciation will meet with .the county budget committee for a hearing on job classifica tion and salary scales at 4 p.m. Friday. The meeting will concern the recently released county job classification and salary scales prepared by the state civil service commission, as interpreted by the county court. Various county depart ment heads are being asked to meet with the executive committee and the county budget committee, according to the letter presented by Mrs. Jean Brown, secretary for the association, and Law- Five Hearings on Council's Agenda The 'Medford city council will hold five public hearings at its meeting starting at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the coun cil chambers in the city hall. Hearings are scheduled on rezoning about six, acres of land on Biddle rd. at Mor row rd. from single family to light industrial, and on re zoning property on Barnett rd. from single to multiple family to permit construction of a convalescent home. Other hearings are sched uled , on annexation of the proposed Ellendale subdivis ion; constructing a sanitary sewer on Siskiyou blvd., from Modoc ave., to east of Verde Hills unit 3; and paving East wood dr. from Main st. to Keene Way dr. Public hearings will be called on several paving and sanitary sewer systems, and plans and specifications for paving and sewer prejects will be considered. Several other items also are on the agenda, among them consideration of a spur track franchise; calling hear ings on withdrawal of recent ly annexed areas from spec ial districts, and minor revis ions to ordinances, rence Tweedy, county juve- nile counselor. Tweedy declared that there is a lack of understanding be tween the approximately-SOO county employees and the budget committee. The meet ing would result in "more satisfied employees" and would bring their problems to the county court "in a re fined package," .he said. Follows Masting The action followed a meet ing of employee association members and other interested county employees Wednes day night in the county court house auditorium. . The association liaison com mittee will meet tonight when information from the various county departments will be compiled. This will include both questions and com plaints on -the job classifica tions and salary scales and will be presented to the coun ty budget committee during the Friday hearing. It also was agreed that an attorney should be hired by the asso ciation to advise them on its legal status. Various employees com plained last night that the application of classifications and pay scales are not realis tic. Seniority was disregard ed completely, they said. One county employee who is a chief deputy in one of the departments has worked for the county for 33 years, but is started out on base pay, according, to the listed scale. Others complained that the same classification brings different rates of pay in dif ferent departments. Salaries Cut Lee Monroe, association president, said as far as he can determine the county court has cut salaries to 10 per cent less than what was proposed by the state civil service commission. He added that county employees have not received substantial raises for five years. Mrs. Kay Crowell, director of the county juvenile office, and association member, pointed out that the report made by the state civil serv ice commission is merely for the guidance of the county court and budget committee and could be disregarded completely if they desired. She said it is customary in other counties where she had worked to make the job classification sheets available to all employees. Such a sheet usually lists the' beginning pay step, the hiring step and states the county personnel policy. She said she had been told by the county court that if one of her employees should resign she could hire a re placement at the second step if the applicant had sufficient experience and training to warrant it. Industry, she' said, doesn't do this sort of thing. . She suggested that the as sociation combine with the department heads and present their salary requests as a uni fied, body. Both the commun ity and local industry would support such a move,, she added. It costs money when there is a frequent turnover of personnel. Portland (UPI) A. chart ered Northwest Airliner bear ing Creswell Farmer- Harry Hold and 81 Korean orphans arrived here at 12:05 pm. tpday. ' . . . Tribune No. 65 Four Gi Get Diplomas at St. Rose School Four girls, wards of the Jackson county juvenile court who have been at St. Rose school for girls in Portland, tomorrow will receive their high school diplomas and leave the school, it was re ported today. Mrs. Kay Crowell, county juvenile officer, said each of the four is now a fully-accredited high school graduate, and has completed the course of training at the school. Five other girls who have been at the school as wards of the local court have also completed training and will be returning to their homes this week, Mrs. Crowell said. One of the girls will return to her mother's home in Cali fornia, and plans to go on to college, Mrs. Crowell said. Another will remain in Port land, working as a nurse's aide, and plans to work for a degree in nursing. The other two graduates will return to their parents, in Jackson county. , The , schooLis. operated by the Sisterhood of the Good Shepherd, . an international Catholic order, which oper ates schools for girls all over the world. Such schools are maintained in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle and Spokane on ,the Pacific coast. St. Rose school is a benefi ciary of the United Medford Crusade, Mrs. Crowell point ed out. Reports on New ilding Sought Federal department reports on a proposal to build a new Federal building in Medford have been requested by the committee on public works of the U. S. house of representa tives, it was reported today. Mayor John W. Snider was informed by Congressman Charles O. Porter that Con gressman . Charles A. Buck ley, chairman of the commit tee has asked the federal agencies involved to comment on the ouilding proposal, which is contained in a bill introduced by Porter. Presumably, the agencies would be those which are now housed in various parts of Medford, including the bureau of land management (in the city hall), the Veterans Administration, selective ser vice, bureau of internal rev enue (at the Federal building on Riverside . ave.), . and the forest service and ' national park service (m the post of fice building). ' - Porter's letter indicated the congress has abandoned ' the earlier plan of having federal buildings constructed on a lease-purchase program, and has reverted to direct auth orization and appropriation by congress itself. It was for this reason that Porter in troduced his bill for a new Federal building here, he told Mayor Snider. Bulganin May Be Headed for 'Exile' London UPI : Reports circulating here today said So viet Ex-Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin soon may follow his predecessor, Georgi M. Malen kov, and . former Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molo tov into provincial "exile." Hillings See Victory In California Election Washington UPI Rep. Patrick J. Hillings (R-Calif .) said today-' it -is "now ap parent" that he has won the Republican nomination for' at torney general of California. , Bu De Gaulle Takes Plea for Peace To War Center Crowds Varied in Reaction To Words Constantine, Algeria (UPI) Gen. Charles De Gaulle car ried his campaign for peace in Algeria into this bloody center of Algerian nationalist fighting today with a plea to the Moslem rebels to lay down their arms. In a speech to a cheering crowd of 50,000 persons, the new Premier again made his pledge that this country's nine million Moslems and one mil lion European settlers hence force would have the same rights and duties. Clamor of Cheering . He struck that theme in an opening speech in Algiers Wednesday, repeated it here this morning, and then flew on to the small eastern Al gerian city of Bone to make it again. In Constantine, the an nouncement was almost drowned out by the clamor of cheering and applause by the crowd, at least half of which was made up of Mos lems. In Algiers, the crowd, made up almost entirely of Alger ian French, received De Gaulle's words with marked coolness.. Despite the enthusiasm of the crowd here, De Gaulle's words received- mixed reac tion throughout the French Moslem world. Criticism in Africa In Cairo, the FLN Algerian nationalist organization which has been in the forefront of the 3V-year fight for inde pendence against France flat ly rejected De Gaulle's peace plan for this troubled land. In neighboring Morocco, a high government source branded De Gaulle's speech in Algiers "a catastrophe." .AnotherJiigh Moroccan, per sonage said "this speech sets us back 25 years." In Tunisia to the east, gov ernment circles registered new disappointment with De Gaulle. They said the new French Premier had "retard ed" a solution to the Alger ian problem. - - Jury Dismissed By Federal Judge A hung jury in the case of United States versus Walter E. Wengren, operator of Bet ter Roofing company, Grants Pass, being tried in U. S. dis trict court here, resulted in the case being, tentatively sched uled for retrial in August. The defendant was charged with income tax evasion in volving underestimation of in come for the years 1951 through 1953 and the under payment of taxes. He was rep resented by Elbert L. Mike sell, Grants Pass attorney. The case went to the jury at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday. With an hour recess for dinner the jury deliberated until 9 p.m. At that time District Court Judge Guss Solomon. Port land, dismissed the jury when it became evident that it could not reach a verdict. r . . The government called ap proximately 15 witnesses. The defensd called only Wengren and Mrs. Wengren. - The trial started Tuesday and was the final case to be tried by this session of district court. 7-Year-0ld Found In Tree Near Home John Park Hudson, 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs? Gor don Hudson, 220 Erie st., was located Wednesday afternoon following a four-hour search by more than 12 Medford city policemen, firemen, and vol unteers. The boy was discovered sit ting in a tree near his home. It was reported that he had been there the majority of the time between 10:30 a.m. when he 'was discovered missing until found at 3:45 p.m. . According to police reports, the boy told his teacher at Roosevelt, school that he didn't feel well. The teacher sent him to see the school nurse and notified the school principal when he failed to return. - Off duty police officers Were called to aid with the search. "We Like It So Well, We Want To Sail It For You" Certificates of 1 .'-' Nominations To Erected Certificates of nomination went out this week from the county elections department to 299 individuals elected to precinct committee posts or nominated for the November general election: , . Only one 'candidate receiv ed a majority of votes in the primary did not receive; a certificate. He was Robert Danielson, former Ashland attorney, whose possible elec tion as district .judge is to be decided by an attorney general opinion in the nea future. . Danielson requested a cer tificate of nomination from County Clerk Bereth Hopkins some time after . he had re ceived more votes than" Med ford City Attorney Roy Bashaw in the race. . Issue Bashaw . District Attorney . Thomas J. Reeder issued an opinion that Bashaw had won the election, inasmuch as Daniel son was not a legal candidate. Reeder also requested an opin ion from the attorney general. Five positions for precinct committee posts which were tied in the election were set tled yesterday in the elections department. Obera Dunn, 715 Pennsyl vania st., Ashland, is Repub lican committee woman for precinct 9, and James and Mary R. Tungate, . 49 Mace rd., Republican committeeman and woman for 28 A. Walter L. Townsend, Camp White, is Democratic commit teeman for precinct 73 arid Joan Redden, route 1, box 349 A, committeewoman for 66. 'Winners in 15 Republican and 14 Democratic committee Bids Opened for Fencing Highway Harold W. Slater, Rogue River, was apparent low bid der on providing , and install ing fencing along . relocated Highway 66 at Emigrant lake southeast of Ashland. Three bids were opened by the bureau of reclamation at the Camp White, office today.1 The job is in connection with enlargement of Emigrant lake dam, and the fencing-will be installed when the highway is relocated. . Bids on relocating Highway 66 around Emigrant lake have been called by the state high way commission. Other bidders were Thomas J. Parker, Ashland, $8,681.50; and El Dorado Fence com pany, Sparks, Nev.; $9,729. Engineer's estimate was $8,530. The bids will be for warded to the Boise, Idaho, bureau of reclamation office for consideration and awarding- Strauss Quits Post On Atomic Commission Washington UPI Presi dent Eisenhower regretfully accepted today the resignation of Chairman Lewis L. Strauss of the Atomic Energy Com mission effective June 30 at expiration of his five-year term. Portland UPI Mrs. Es telle Berry, a Portland bail bondswoman, said that James Elkins" had guaranteed the $5P00 bail she posted Wednes-J day for Jmes Q. Jenkins, 36. Sen? Persons posts were to have been de- cided yesterday by . the elec tions department in a straw vote, but only those five per sons called at the department, it was said. - Central committees will fill the remaining vacancies. '' 259 Seniors to ' A total of 259 Medford High school seniors will re ceive diplomas during; the 65th annual commencement at Hedrick Junior High school auditorium at "8 p' flock.., to; night. Dr. Harry L. Dillin, presi dent of Linf ield college, Mc- Minnville, will speak, and awards will be presented by Lester D. Harris, principal of Medford High. Frank C. Bash, chairman of the board of education will present diplomas, and Leon ard B. Mayfield, superintend ent of Medford schools, will introduce Dr. Dillin. The Rev. Thomas McCam ant, pastor of the Congrega tional church, will give the invocation and benediction, and the Medford High school band, under the direction of I. A. Mirick, director, will provide music for the pro cessional and recessional. . Other members of the school board are William A. Barker, Otto A. Ewaldsen, Edward Branchfield and Keith Hockersmith. Associ ated Student body officers are David Frohnmayer, presi dent; Mike Russell, vice presi dent; Sharon Walsh, secre tary; Tom Morris, treasurer and Frank Albert, business manager. WEATHER- FORECAST: Scattered thunder storm! - thii evening. Consid erable cloudiness tonlfht and Friday, with possibility of thunderstorms again Friday afternoon. Mild temperatures. Low tonight SS. High Friday 82. Temp. Highest Yesterday 7 Lowest .this Morning 54 Prec. to. 1 a.m. Today,. Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunrise .. ,.- 4 Sunset 7: Moonrise : : H Last Quarter :. PROMINENT STAR -Arcturus, high: In ' south VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, due south. .... S: Saturn, low in south east S Mars, rises .. : 1 Venus, rises 3 it a.m. :4 p.m. :J1 p.m. 'June S 27 .m. IS p.m. 31 p.m. :4S a.m. :0g a.m. Receive Diplomas 50 Boy Scouts to Hike Along River A group of 50 Boy Scouts and five adults- headed by Dr. William H. Roberts will leave Medford Sunday morning on a hike along the Rogue river to Gold Beach. They will re turn here June 14. The group will- .leave Graves creek Sunday morn ing and will hike to Agness. From there they will take the mailboat to Gold Beach when cars will return them here. According to Dr. Roberts, this is Che first time the hike has been made since 1950 when 35 Boy Scouts made the trip. He reported that the trip is being , financed . by money earned by the Scouts through various projects dur- ing the year. Aid Stations o Established To Care for Injured Victims Stand in Line at Hospital . Menomonie. Wis. (UPT) Tornadoes cut a 40-mile wide swath through the peaceful dairy country of Northwestern Wisconsin Wednesday night, killing at least 30 persons and injuring more than 100. Hospitals in four citiies were filled to overflowing with casualties and emergen cy first aid stations were set up in armories and school gymnasiums. Sixteen persons hovered between life ' and death. "It was like a battlefield," said Dr. G. J. Neumann, a den tist at Colfax, hardest-hit com munity in the area. . 'I was in World War II and I've seen a lot of people die, but when you see your own towns-people killed its some thing different. . ." . . Twisted Automobiles r One-third of the homes were leveled in Colfax and at least 13 persons were killed. Auto mobiles were twisted into gro tesque shapes. Hundreds of trees and fallen telephone poles meshed and formed mac abre arches through the stricken area. Roads, were lit tered with debris, pieces of metal, boards, and five bodies were found together, "horri bly mangled." " Starting in late afternoon. the tornadoes struck hard in a two-state area. A twister damaged homes near St;. Cloud, Minn., then clubbed an estimated 25 farms in the Al bany, Minn., area. Several in juries were reported: Crossing into Wisconsin, the violent storm pattern hit with deadly force. One man was killed in Wilson and there were reports of heavy in juries. Pursuing a zig-zag pat tern, the tornado ' generally followed U.S. 12 into Me nomonie, then skipped north east into Colfax where it un leashed its full fury. On some farms, not a stick was left standing. Communications Cut ' It was discovered early to day that the twister had con tinued into neighboring Clark county and killfl a 30-year-old woman at Tnorp. Cutting a two-mile path of destruc tion, it tore down all com-' munications and made it im possible for rural residents to contact the outside world until today. , "There Is no telling what the casualty list will be," Clark County Coroner Bob Lulloff said. "Right now, there's.' no . communications and the roads are blocked. The livestock destruction is fan tastic. The hospital at Stanley, Wis., Is jammed. People are standing in line outside the hospital." In Chippewa Falls, a trail er court owner told how the tornado demolished seven trailers, throwing two of them into a ravine. Within sight of .. the trailer court, at least a dozen automobiles were over turned. (See story on page 11) Lebanon Insists on Pressing UN Charges United Nations, N.Y. . UPI Violent-torn Lebanon insisted over Western" and Arab . league objections on pressing charges today that the United Arab Republic is stirring up' and aiding Leba nese rebels. ' ' Only Arab League action could prevent the shawdown in the Security Council this afternoon. to Agness The boys and leaders will camp out along the river, and at Agness will be guests of a rancher. Dr. Roberts said that any Boy Scout physically able who has proper equipment, and is at least 11 years of age, is eligible to make the trip. - i He said this is the first year that the Wimer Troop will have a representative group on the trip. Dr. Roberts, who has made the trip by trail three times and by boat five times, said the forest service has been alerted that the group will be in the area and that they have checked the forest serv ice trails along the rifer.