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Newspaper Page Text- o) fo) LTD 53rd Year Medfqbb 16 Pager Ko Property Tax Levy in County No county property tax will be levied during the coming fiscal year, the county budget committee decided yesterday. As a result, the county will operate without a tax- base during the year. Committe members said the action "bowed to the will of the people" who defeated a measure on the May primarya election ballot which sought to establish a permanent coun ty tax base of $652,386.68. Under the state constitu tion, taxes must be levied at least once every three years to preserve the tax base, un less a Dermanent base has been established. No Tax Levied ' With no tax levied during 1958-59, the base automatical ly will disappear, in as much as no tax will have ben lev- iH within the past three years? Lack of a tax base will require n election in order for the county to levy fny t in the future. County Treasurer Jftrl it nouch estimated yltterfitj that the county will ftot 3, 924.073 on hand iilf I. Eti- mated income Jbr nti Jtt is $2,795,410, ftbou, tT.3 per cent of which comet from tflt federal govOrni, 11. from the state anfi h rom local soured." The 1957-9 lutfet totlS $3,127,195.7 (gptit t ich Twonogs Hs14 UpCop2udgct The Jackson county budft hit two tempoid lt to day, according to tftt Stet son county court. Compfiation of vfrious counrj department budgets into a grand total SI expected to be completed m time tomorrovS, according to the county clerk's office. ' - Members of the county court said the wrong county planning commission budget was submitted. The revised budget which includes both city jpd county 'j0nt plan ning expenses was submitted after the budget committee had completed what they thought was their last hear ing yesterday. Total budget request sub mitted by the planning com mission is $14,377. Of this $5,600 in services is pledged to the city of Medford and $1,500 to the- city of Ashland in the federal aid to planning program. The federal govern ment will match the $7,100 .total of these services. The other 'snag was dis covered when it was learned that the salary total submit ted for the assistant county watermaster was in error, according to the county court. i Members of the county court planned this morning to contact other budget com mittee members to get ap proval of the two revised budgets. Dulles Seeo Necessity To Take China Into Tot Dan Washington (uri; aec- retary of State John Foster Dulles hinted today that Red China will have to be in cluded in any future agree ment for banning nuclear tests. Inspection PoSls Ycsar Dulles told a news confer ence it may be necessary to have inspection posts in Red China to check on possible Soviet nuclear testing Si Communist China. - He said he did not know ex actly how this problem would be handled. But he said the United States wouldn't want the Soviet Union to be able to move nucjjr equipmit to 'MEDFORD, Janouch said probably will not be spent. As long as income from fed eral and state sources remains about the same, there will probably be ho need for a oounty levy for a few years, providing costs do not rise, Janouch said. Levies each third year in the past have been mostly used to pay coun ty government costs, except for the 1955-56 levy which added to the surplus fund, the committee said. Stockmen Protest Firing of Brand Inspector Here Additional action on the discharge of Sterling Fryrear, brand inspector for this area, i pending the outcome of a meeting between members of th Jackson County Stock men' tssociation and Guy Huflhes, district supervisor for the brand inspection ser vice in association , spokes man said today. Jim Miller, Medford, and Lton Offenbacher, Apple- fate, were appointed by the association directors to con tact Hughes, a former deputy sheriff here, on the possibility of reinstating Fryrear. Fry rear had obtained about 400 Signatures from stockmen on petitions urging him be re hired as brand inspector, a spokesman for the association said. locJtmen Study Case Study of the case by the ajtockmen's association reveal ed Fryrear was discharged in April for insubordination. He had reportedly disobeyed a directive from state brand in spection headquarters, stating that anyone not hired by the inspection service could assist with brand in spections. Fryrear's wife has been helping him. Permission had been granted his wife as an assistant by a previous dis trict supervisor, an associa tion member said he learned Miller and Offenbacher were to ask Hughes if he would reinstate Fryrear pro viding he should agree to "correct his errors," conform with regulations and if Hughes could overlook the facf his subordinate' had tried to go ovef his head, in be coming reinstated. ' o Association representatives said Fryrear is well acquaint ed with the area, was thor ough and impartial in his in spections and is always avail able on call. He has served here for about eight years, they reported. 22 Persons Rescued in Argentine Air Crash Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (UPI) An Argentine state airlines oplane with two en gines out crashed in flames on an island in the Atlantic near Rio today. All 22 persons aboard were rescued. neignooring Territory and thereby escape any ban on testing. At the Same time Dulles in dicated to a news conference that the U. S. will not agree to t test ban that does not deal with other problems of disarmament. He said such a ban probably could not be isolated. Bisenhover's Proposal Dulles' statement came an hour after President Eisen hower proposed to Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev that East-West talks on banning of nuclear tests begin in Geneva about July 1. DafM OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNE Miss America to Attend Kiwanis Fair Aug. 21-24 Miss America, Marilyn Van Derbur of Denver will be the official hostess of the Kiwanis County fair August 21-24 at the Medford armory, accord ing to Russ Jamison, fair manager for the club. It will be her last public appearance before returning to Atlantic City. Reservations of space in the county fair are now being re ceived at fair headquarters Col. A. M. Savard is general chairman for the event. . Exhibitors from last year's Kiwanis Town and Country show who have already indi cated interest in this yeaj's county fair will be contacted this week. Other exhibitors ai invited to contact the headquarters, 11 Almond St., for booth rental information. Reserve Space More than a dozen county business firms and organiza tions have already reserved space with at least three re guests from farm groups, Sa vard said. The success of the venture will insure support for the many Kiwanis sponsored proj ects for underprivileged cnii dren in Jackson county, as well as provide a showcase for Jackson county business, agriculture and industry, Sa vard said, - Miss America's appearance has been arranged by the Med ford Pepsi -Cola company, which will be her official sponsors in this area. She will be a featured entertainer at several of the stage shows at the fair. Air Force To Try To Hit Moon Soon Milwaukee, Wis.-r-(UPI) Lt. Gen. S. E. Anderson, di rector of the . Air .Force Re search and Developraent.com mand, said today that the Air Force will try to hit the moon in three shots this year in August, September and October. Anderson said a three-stage missile with the Thor as its basic component will be used for the shots. The goal will be to hit the moon, he said, and if the shots miss, to es tablish a long eliptical orbit around the moon. He said it would take about 21 days for the missile to travel from the earth to the moon. He said he did not know if any public announcement would be made before the firings so that the public could watch the moon for a hit. . Control Board lips Blind School Fee Salem (UPI) The State Board of Control today voted to charge the territory of Alaska $225 per month to send children to the State school for the Blind here. Present cost is $125 per month. Two Alaskan children are now enrolled at the school and there have been as many as six. In the future, cost of train ing the students will be based on per capita costs of the in stitution. In other action the board renewed fie group life insur ance policies of the officer force at Oregon State peniten tiary and the Oregon State Police. Also approved was obtain ing federal pre-planning mon ey for a new service kitchen at Fairview home. Salem (UPI) More than 30 field staff members of the State Unemployment Compen sation Commission are here for the 20th annual training meeting for field auditors. Tribune 10, 1958. Mews at a Glance Algiers Mayor Resigns Algiers (UPI) Mayor Jacques Chevallier has resigned in protest against the activities of rightwing rebels here, and 48 of the city's 50 coimcilmen were reported ready to follow suit. Chevallier handed his resignation to Lt. Gen. Raoul Salan Monday after the self-appointed rebel "Committee of Public Safety" challenged the right of elected officials to speak for the people of Algiers. Lodge To Warn Nations y United Nations, N.Y. (UPI) U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge is expected today to warn all nations--includ-irig Russia to keep their noses out of Lebanon's affairs. Today'se Security Council meeting affords Lodge his first opportunity to, reply to the veiled Soviet charge that the Lebanese crisis is a U.S. maneuver to' keep President Camille Chamoun in office with troops if need be. " Greek-Turk Ties-Strained Nicosia (UPI) The slaying of a Turkish-Cypriot police man and a mob attack on a Greek-Cypriot woman strained Greek and Turkish relations to the verge of collapse today. Even before the latest outbreak of feuding' on troubled Cyprus Monday night, the government of Grece' called ..for NATO to protect Greek rights on the British island when its council meets in Paris today. Ike Agrees To Conference Rio De Janeiro (UPI) President Eisenhower has agreed to the idea of a hemisphere conference, either of presidents or of foreign ministers, to patch up U.S -Latin American re lations, it was reported today. --Brazilian President -Juscelino Kubitschek has "appealed for action to heal the breaches in U.S.-Latin American rela tions which opened the way for last month's mob attacks on Vice President Richard M. Nixon in Peru and Venezuela.. De Gaulle Plans Talks Paris (UPI) Gen. Charles de Gaulle is planning early meetings with President Eisenhower, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, it was reported today. Informed sources said the new French premier would meet with Macmillan around the end of June and that he would meet with Adenauer shortly afterwards to determine France's new role in NATO and allay Adenauer's, fear that wartime memories would be rekindled. The sources said a meeting between Eisenhower and De Gaulle was a possibility before the end of the summer. 200 Delegates Due For DAV Convention Between 200 and 300 dele gates from 27 chapters of the Disabled American Veterans will be in Medford this week end for the 37th annual con vention of the Department of Oregon. The session will open for mally at b:30 a.m. Thursday in the Moose hall. Registration of delegates and social func tions are planned for Wednes day. Already here for prepara tions and conferences with local officers are Dept. Ad jutant Thomas F. VanLan ningham, West Linn, Ore., and Mrs. VanLanningham, de partment treasurer in the Women's auxiliary. Local Delegates Jackson county Chapter No. 8 will have 20 delegates and 20 alternates taking part. Ten delegates and 10 alternates will represent the local aux iliary unit. Pat ' Graham, department convention chairman, will ap pear on television at 6:15 p. m. Wednesday with Depart ment Commander William H. Manley, Eugene, Department WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy with scattered showers 'mostly in the mountains tonight and Wednesday. Low tonight SO. High Wednesday 78. Temp. Highest Yesterday .. 74 ' Lowest this Morning 51 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:34 a.m. Sunset - 7:48 pjn. The Moon rises Wednes day 115 a.m. and is in Apogee tonight with a distance of about 251,000 miles. New Moon June 16 VISIBLE PLANETS Jupiter, in the south .. 8:18 p.m. Saturn, low in south east 9:10 p.m. ' Mars, leads the Moon. Venus, rises 3:04 ajn. 1, ' Mgs Price 10 Cents No. 69 Commander of the Auxiliary Mrs. Pearl Zeek, Newport, and others. A chartered plane flight of one hour has been planned to show the Rogue valley and Crater Lake to delegates and others interested. Reserva tions for the trip must be made not later, than Wednes day night at the ' Medford hotel desk. - Following the joint opening of the DAV and auxiliary Thursday morning, a memo rial program will.be held at 11; business session at 1 p.m.; and a banquet at the Medford hotel at 6:30 p.m. Breakfast Set A commanders and past commanders breakfast will be held at the Jackson hotel Pio neer room at 8:30 a.m. Friday, following morning business sessions. At 6:30 p.m. Friday a Lifers' banquet will be held at the Medford hotel with the annual Rendezvous at 8:30 p.m. Business sessions, including election and installation of officers, will be held Satur day. A full program of women's activities is planned through out the weekend with business sessions held at the YMCA. Democratic Central Committee to Meet The Democratic central committee of Jackson county will meet at 8 p.m. Wednes day in the Labor Temple on South Grape sf. Jim Redden, chairman, said that new officers will be elect ed. All recently-named pre cinct committee men and wo men are asked to attend. Safety Committee Demands End To Political Parties Action Threatens Precarious Truce Paris (UPI) The Super committee pf Public Safety in Algeria openly defied Gen. Charles de Gaulle today with a demand for an end to all political parties i n France and a warning that the safe ty committee movement is going to be extended through out the French mainland. The move by the rebel gen erals and extremist European settlers in North Africa this morning threatened to tear apart the precarious ruce that now exists between Parig and Algiers. It was a direct challenge to De Gaulle's authority and showejd that the Algerian dis sidents were on the move again. It was a complete de fiance of De Gaulle's request last week that the public safety committees refrain from political activity. . Demand - End To Plan The Algiers committee also demanded that De Gaulle call off nis plans for Algerian municipal elections within a month. The new Premier had promised these elections dur ing his three-day visit to Al geria last week: , Meanwhile, De Gaulle met with his. top advisors today to review France's foreign policy and to discuss possible high level meetings with world leaders. Recreation Study s An on-the-site study of the possible future development of recreation facilities within the Talent project will be made June 26, according to members of the county court. Making the study with the county court will be mem bers of the state parks com sion, the Portland Chamber of Commerce, - forest service, bureau of land management, bureau of reclamation, the state game commission, and County Engineer Paul Ryn ning. , A discussion will be held on whether the state should take over development of recreation facilities of How ard Prairie, Hyatt and Emi grant lakes, or whether the county will be asked to as sume responsibility. According to present fig ures $150,000 is available in the total funds for construc tion of the Talent project for development of recreation fa cilities. This would mean the development of connecting roads, utilities and public rec reation grounds. According to the present understanding the tentative proposal, the county court said, is for the federal government to pro vide the facilities and the county will supervise their operation and maintenance. 76 Appointments Made For Bloodmobile . Only 76 appointments to donate blood had been made by midmorning today for the regular visit of the Red Cross bloodmobile : Wednesday at the Red Cross chapter house on Hawthorne ave. The Bloodmobile will be here between 1 and 6 p.m. Wednesday. The quota for the visit is 350 pints, an increase over the previous visit since the quota last time was not received. Red Cross officials said drop-in- donors will be wel- come. Portland Company Low Bidder on Paint Edward L. . Kropp com pany, Portland, was awarded a contract for furnishing, 700 gallons of yellow traffic paint to the county. The company was low bid der at $2.54 a gallon. Other bidders were Bruce Bauer Lumber company, Medford, $2.85; Big Pines Lumber company, Medford, $3.30; Norris Paint company, Salem, $2.60; Pittsburgh Glass company, $3.12; and Smith Dynge Lumber com pany, Medford, $2.96. Set by Group "Who Me? I Can't Afford To" TiiiH ne ii ill irr i wn . Public Hearing or Rezoning Continued By Medford Planners A public hearing on zone changes in the Berrydale area was continued until the next meeting by the city planning commission last night. Three other requests for zone changes were consid ered. One was approved and public hearings were sched uled for the others. Approved was a request for change of zone from class IB (single and two family) to class II (multi ple family) on the north side of East Ninth st. Set for public hearing were requests for . zone changes from Class IA (single family) to Class IIIA (limited commercial) for property on Merriman rd. from Midway rd. ' to the north city limits, and for the corner of Cottage and East Mainsts." The latter was at the request of the city council. Zoning Explained Lloyd Anderson, bureau of municipal research, Eugene, explained zoning in the Berry dale area and added that the city tried to conform as closely as possible to the current zon ing arrangement. American Priests To Be Freed Soon Hong Kong (UPI) The last two American priests held in Red China prisons are expected to be freed Sunday. The only Americans left in jail then will be four civilians sentenced to terms ranging from 15 years to life'. The two priests are Joseph P.McCormick, of Ossining, N.Y., and Cyril P. Wagner, of Pittsburgh, Pa. Both are ar rested in Shanghai, June 15, 1953, and later were sen tenced to five years in prison. The other four Americans in prison are ohn T. Downey of New Britain, Conn.; Rich ard C. Fecteau of Lynn, Mass.; Robert W. McCann of Alta dena, Calif., and Hugh F. Red mond of Yonkers, N.Y. " Oregon Moonwatch Team in Trouble Portland (UPI) Oregon's Moonwatch team may have to go out of business soon be cause of lack of funds, Rob ert Boardwell, its chief said today. . Boardwell said that so far the learn had managed to get by on donations from inter ested persons and from limit ed ' financial " success. Deficits have been made up from his salary as an art teacher at Clackamas high school. Treasury of the Moonwatch team stood at $18 Monday and Boardwell said it would take $500 to carry the project through to the end of the In ternational Geophysical Year in December. He said the team may have to disband in a matter of weeks, thus de priving the nation of its most westerly observation team. Dulles Will Visit Brazil This Year i Washington (UPI) Pres ident Eisenhower announced today .that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will visit Brazil later this year as a pre liminary step toward improv ing U. S. relations with Latin American countries. William Doernbach, Mace rd., contested the changing of an area in the Valley Center subdivision plat from re stricted single family to light industrial. The area involved s southeast of the intersection of North Pacific highway and Mace rd.'. Doernbach stated that the original plat was re stricted as to minimum build ing costs, setback lines and other requirements. , He re quested that the area be re zoned to . single family. ' - Doernbach challenged the legality of. changing the zon ing of an area in which the original plat requires certain restrictions. , ' ' Cty Attorney Roy Bashaw said that legally the city, with its zoning powers, can change the -area to light industrial and not enforce the restrictions. Doernbach -added that as pri vate individuals, they could request and obtain from the court an injunction against anyone who attempted to build a structure other than a family residence in the area even if the city zoned the area for light industrial. The city attorney agreed with Doern bach. Against Change Several residents in the Val ley Center subdivision spoke against the change in zoning of this area. Also, heard regarding the Berrydale area zoning was a request by Llyod Neilson who owns two acres of land along North Pacific highway near Elk Lumber, company. The zoning, as set up by the com mission, cut his property in half, part for light industrial and part residential. He re quested that it all be zoned light industrial. The commis sion set a public hearing on the request. Also on the agenda were several subdivision plats sub mitted for tentative approval. The areas included the Crest brook, D. L. Pickell, Spring brook and Rosedale subdivi sions. A special hearing will be held for the Crestbrook subdivision. The Pickell sub division plat was tentatively approved with the exception of . 11 lots that joined the drainage canal and Juanipero ave. ' Approved by the commis sion, with minor corrections, were the Bel Air Heights sub division submitted by Archie Pierce and the Pioneer Sub divison extension No. 2. It was suggested by Paul Selby, commission member, and approved by the group to meet with the city council and discuss mutual problems. Macmillan Warns Against Tightening of U.S. Purse Baltimore, Md. (UPI) British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan . warned today against Uncle , Sam's tighten ing his. purse strings too sharply in the economic cold war with Russia. U. S. Chief Banker Russia's cold war economic offensive requires that the United States act as chief banker to the Free World, he said. Great Britain and West ern Europe no longer have the money resources to be "the main props of world trade." Macmillan, delivering the commencement address a t Johns Hopkins University, Soviet Embassy Discounts Report In German Press Helicopter Crew o Still Being Held Berlin (UPI) East Ger man .Communists threatened today to try as spies nine American servicemen cap-, tured in an off-course .heli copter. Soviet officials dis counted the threat. ' The official East German Defense Ministry newspaper? Die Volksarmee said the U.S.; helicopter flew over Commu nist Germany . to spy, and "flying spies will be treated as such." Story Not Official But. officials at the Soviet Embassy in East Berlin said the newspaper story was "awkward" and iot officiaL 'They insisted the East Ger mans had jurisdiction in the case, and not the Soviets, but they said it was hardly likely the captured Americans would be tried. In Washington, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to day denounced the East Ger mans as kidnapers but said the U. S. might have to deal with them. However, he said this- would in no way imply recog nition of the East German government. Embarrassment Shown Russian officials at the East Berlin Embassy showed em barrassment at the East Ger man newspaper report. The warmongers in Wash ington and Bonn should know that the German Democratic Republic (Communist regime) -which in their view does not exist will not allow our border to be flown over rash ly in order to carry out es pionage," the newspaper said. Swimming Classes Set at Hawthorne : Registration for swimming' classes at the Medford muni-" cipal swimming pool at Haw thorne, park will be held Wednesday through Saturday from 3 to 8 p.m. at the pooL Lifeguards Robert Suther land and Herb Bowman will be instructors for the 30-min-ute classes in beginning and intermediate swimming, ac cording to Darell Huson, city park director. Two sessions of 10 lessons each will be held in the morn ings, the .first beginning Mon day, June 16, and ending June 27. The second session will be held July 7 through 18. A charge of $2 will be made for fee 10 lessons. Students must be at least eight years old -and furnish , their own suits and towels.' Those who pass the course will receive Red Cross cards. 2 H Shady Cove Home Destroyed by Fire Shady Cove Fire of unde termined origin early today destroyed a bouse owned by Mrs. Eleanor Smallwood on , River rd., three miles south of Shady Cove. Mrs. Smallwood, who was , staying at 415 Newtown st., Medford, was notified of the loss this morning. The house was unoccupied. About 18 men answered an alarm turned in about 2:50 a.m. by Jim Reed, River rd., who trove to Shady Cove to report the blaze when he discovered the tele phone lines were out, accord ing to reports Igre.. Reed discovered the fire while going home from work. Flames were so extensive help arrived too late, fire', men said. O compared the capitalistic sys tem to'a game. "If one player gets all the chips, the game comes to an end," Macmillan said. "Even from a narrow selfish point of view, creditor nations cannot afford to im mobilize money." Both Awarded Degrees Macmillan, accompanied by President Eisenhowerllew to the Johns Hopkins campus by helicopter directly from " the White House lawn. Both were awarded honorary . doc tor of laws degrees. Eisen hower's brother, Dr. Milton Eisenhower, is president of the university.