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r o o p o o O u o IM1E Km n W. B. (BEN) TOCfll To Retire rfgget Retire kteMi , To Unia.Cfijr O (ten) Suctt, son county CStffnCioa ffgent since lfSf, ttfci gun 30. He Qnf Brt Xcjer continiO feti?t it Jftiford TucCs$ c)M Htt A)rd in 1947 Go cifi c 4ht fct son court tftttUicff Jjrcrm followirfl tfiWi fttctAint of the la'Q . 4 olt. trior to comiH f.9f " Assist ant slate aJBtV3 orthf ttf tenswn seroicft BrcAr&m for emergency rm labor, 19f to 1947. Major contributions by Tucker to local agriculture in clude a range improvement program in cooperation with the forest service. Soil Con servation service and Agricul tural Stabilization and conser vation committee. He also has worked closely with the coun ty agriculture and rural life planning committee on long range programs. In Crook County : From 1921 to 1935, he was Crook county extension agent, and in 1935 accepted a posi tion to serve 'with the U. S. department of agriculture re settlement administration pro gram in Oregon. The program was responsible for helping re locate families from the "dust bowl" during the mid-thirties. Tucker is credited with much of the pioneer wrk m use of Ladino clover for for age and seed while he was fVnnlr pnnntv apent. E R. Jackman, ftrm crops specialist at Oregon State college, said Tucker along with other coun ty agents from southern Ore gon paved the way for use of Ladino clover as the leading pasture legume throughout the nation. A past president of the Ore gon County Agent's associa tion, he also was secretary of the Jackson County Extension agricultural council, and is secretary of the Jackson Coun ty Stockmen's association and the Rogue and Sams Valley-Beagle Corrvtion dis trict. Hegs Q irftnbtr of the Oregon Seed grotucers, member of the dford Ro tary clu i9 Phoeni Grange. O No ActionVat mt Hearing iorWomn Portland (UPI) A hear ing with a view to drafting new regulations governing employment of women and minors in industry was held here Wednesday but no action was taken on any proposal. Another hearing was tenta tively set for June 23 here at which time final recom mendations were expected to be made. "Hit It Again I Don't Planners Give flew Subdivision ill First Cheek A rough, preliminary draft of a new subdivision ordi nance for Jackson county has been prepared, and was" given a quick, first check by mem bers of the county planning commission last night. Members of the commission, who had a chance for only cursory inspection of the pro posel last night, will give it further study at later meet ings. Copies ' were collected from the members at the end of the meeting. A. quick inspection of the tentative, proposal indicates it is less stringent in its re quirements than the one sub mitted to the county cqurt by the planning commission earlier this year. No action was taken on the earlier pro posal. The new plan is simpler in form, and shorter. Cogies Taken Up Commissioner John Nieder meyer suggested that copies of .the plan be taken up and not made public at present, since members of the commis sion have not had a chance to study them. He said that jremature publicizing of the trlier proposal had led to misunderstanding and opposi tion. -Niedermeyer also asked that only official actions of the commission should be re ported by the presa, not the conversations leading to the official actions. .Reporting on the recrea tion subcommittee's activities, Planning Commissioner Jerry Latham, the . subcommittee chairman, said members have been invited to make a tour of the Talent project June 26 to consider development of possible recreation facilities on Howard Prairie lake, Emi grant lake and Hyatt lake. The tour is to be made by representatives of various fed eral agencies and representa tives of the Portland Cham ber of Commerce. - Decision to Follow Latham said it is likely that a decision will follow the tour on development of recreation facilities. If the county takes over the development it may be necessary to hire a technician to scale down park service plans, he noted. In other business, the coun ty planning commission re ferred the secretary's com plaint on classification and salary scale to the county court to be acted on by board of arbitration. Mrs. Leone-Perkins complained that she is classified as clerk-typist now and is actually doing the work of a clerk-stenographer I. She holds a part-time posi Hicmillan Meets YHh Canadians Ottawa, Ont. (UPI) Brit ish Prime Minister Harold Macmillan met with Canadian officials today to continue talks on international rela tions he started during his three-day conference in Wash ington. . . Macmillan flew here from Washington Wednesday night. Topics he was expected to cover in his talks with Prime Minister John Dief enbaker and External Affairs Minister Sidney Smith most likely would be commonwealth eco nomic and trade relations, dis armament and prospects for a summit conference. Think They Heard You' tion with the planning com mission. Planning Technician Jack Eaton submitted three addi tional courthouse parking lot plans to the' commission These will be submitted the court for their selection and approval, he said. The original plan, submit ted at the request of the coun ty court, provided for 130 parking spaces in an area be side the courthouse annex on Eighth st., along Main st., and the present lot. Plan A of the revised study provides a total of 30, includ ing 19 of the present 21 spaces and 11 more in new areas .behind the old court house. Study B provides for 19 spaces of the present 21 and adds 22 spaces on the back lawn of the courthouse, for total of 48. Study C provides for a total of 45 spaces, in eluding- the present 21 spaces and 24 in the space extending to Main st. Redden Reelected Head of County Democratic Group James A. Redden Jr., Med ford attorney, was elected to succeed himself as chafrman of the Jackson County Demo cratic Central committee at a meeting of the group last night. Redden has served since his "appointment last November, when he succeeded Larry Sheehan. Rogue River, who resigned. Elected vice chairman was Mrs. Edith Rode, Medford The new secretary is Dorothy Gebhard, Jacksonville, who formerly was treasurer, and William Frohnmayer, Med ford, was named treasurer. Redden and Mrs. Rode are automatically 'delegates to the state central committee. First and second alternate dele gates elected last night are Mark Norton, Phoenix, and Mrs. Donna Straus, Sams Val ley. Sheehan was named con gressional committeeman, and Mrs. Myrtle Newton, Ashland, congressional committeewom- an. ' If there are Democratic candidates for local public of fice who drop out between now and the November elec tion, new candidates can be named by the central com mitee. A committee to secure candidates in case they are needed was named last night, including Frank DeSouza, Jess Wagner, Cecil Norris and Earl Cook, all Medford, and Mrs. Frances Hamilton, Central Point. Other committees were named including those re sponsible for election work, and one to secure precinct comriiitteemen and women in the. 34 precincts where none were elected May 16. About 75 members attend ed the meeting. Pistol Coarse Held A! Police Range More than 60 law enforce ment officers in the valley participated in the Police Practical Pistol course Wednesday at the Police Pistol range off Cory rd. Top scores went to Glenn Wright, Jackson county sher iff's office, 98.4; Orlo McGee, 96; Frank Elsom, 93.6; Jack Sanders, 93.2; and Berle Ste vens, 92.8; all of the Medford Police department. City police department of ficials are required to parti cipate in the shoots every two months and twice each year hold a general shoot for all interested law enforcement agents. Two-Car Crash Hurts Two on Highway 58 Eugene (UPI) Two per sons were injured, one seri ously in a two-car collision about 12 miles east of here on Highway 58 late Wednesday, State Police reported. One of the cars went into 20 feet of water. Alvin Richard Erickson, 22, Lowell, was in serious condi tion at Sacred Heart hospital here. Lucille Grahlman, Bend, driver of the othar car, was hospitalized with facial lacer ations and possible chest in juries. Morse By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.) said Wednes day he will attempt to block appointment of Wendell Wy att to a $22,500 judgeship on the U.S. Tax Court. Although he declined to elaborate on his reasons for taking this position, Morse was reported to feel that Wyatt was greatly responsible for the character of the Re publican campaign , waged against him when he sought reelection in 1956. He was Lebanon Loyalists Seeking To Crush Rebel Offensive Beirut (UPI) Artillery, tanks and . jet planes are in action today in Lebanon, where loyal forces are seek ing to crush a mounting rebel offensive.'' The five-week-old struggle has progressed from the level of bitterly-fought local actions - in which more than 200 per sons have been killed to ap proach the dimensions of a full-scale civil war. A party of military ob servers arrived here from Jerusalem today as the first step toward creation of a UN "Watchdog" commission to halt the reported smuggling of arms and men from Egypt and Syria to aid the rebels. United Nations, N.Y. (UPI) Secretary-General Dag Ham merskjold sought acceptance today from a select group he has asked to. serve on the United Nations watchdog com mission for Lebanon. His first step was to call in Dr: Ralph J. Bunche, the American Negro diplomat who is recognized as the U.N.'s foremost Middle Eastern ex pert. Together, they compiled a panel of names for the watchdog group and invita tions to serve on it were dis patched. Dulles' Statement ; Irks East Germany Berlin (UPI) The East German Communists took is sue today with John Foster Dulles' statement they had "kidnaped" an American Army helicopter with nine servicemen aboard. The official Communist par ty newspaper Neues Deutsch- land said if an aircraft made forced landing you cannot accuse anyone of having kid naped it. The secretary of state told a Washington news conference Tuesday the U.S. would nego tiate with East Germany for the return of the nine men because if someone is kidnaped you have to deal with the kid napers. Until today the Communists had used the term forced down" in referring to the heli copter but they never spelled out whether it was forced to land by , the Communists or had to land because of engine trouble. House Turns Down Defense Proposal Washineton (UPI) The House, amid charges of politi cal oressure. todav rejected the first of President Eisen hower's proposed amend ments to a pending- defense reorganization bill. f)n a 1 fiS to 1 70 vote which generally followed party lines, members turned down lan pnaee that would have further bolstered the broad new pow ers the bill would give tne defense secretary. It was the first of a series nf amendments offered by Remiblicans in an attempt to meet the President's objec tions to the bill as it was dratt ed by the House Armed Serv ices Committee. As it stood the measure granted the President the bulk of what he wanted to streamline the military chain of command and revamp the Pentagon to meet needs of the missile and space era. Baseball AMERICAN LEAGUE (1st game) - t Kansas City 4 12 0 New York . '1 8 2 Herbert and Smith: Stur- divant, Ditaiar (6), Maglie (9) and Berra. Detroit - 2 7.0 Boston 4 11 0 Foytack, Aguirre 4, Mor gan 5, Valentinetti 7 and Hegan, Wilson 8. Sister,. De- lock 6, and While. Opposes vWyatt Appoonftmeinti challenged for his Senate seat by Douglas McKay. Wy att then was chairman of the Republican State Central committee. The White House has been considering appointing Wyatt to a vacancy on the tax court, which sets here. "It is my present intention to give senatorial clearance to such an appointment, if it is made," Morse declared. "I have so informed Mr. Wyatt. Wyatt, Astoria attorney; has been in Washington since Medford 28 Pages Indianans Flee Worst Flood In 45 Years" Indianapolis, Iftd. (UPI) Floodwaters termed the worst in 45 years raged through north central Indi ana today, causing at least 5,000 persons to flee their homes. A state of emergency was declared in Peru, Ind., by Mayor John - Devine as the Wabash river overflowed its banks Wednesday night and caused about 1,000 persons to abandon v their homes. Rep. John Beamer (R-Ind.) sent a plea to President Eisen hower to declare Marion a disaster area. He said up to 100 blocks of the city were under water. Continuing storms had claimed at least 13 lives, most of them in traffic accidents. The death toll included a youth electrocuted in the basement of his home as he stood in deep water, and a lightning victim. Devine's . emergency order gave National Guardsmen and city officials authority to evacuate endangered residents from their homes, whether they liked it or not. "The levee on the Mississin- ewa river has broken, flood ing 60 to 100 blocks," Beamer said in his telegram to the President. "The crest is ex pected to reach the Wabash river through the cities of Huntington, Wabash and Peru. The flood appears to be the worst since 1913, when mil lions of dollars of property was destroyed." Senate Committee Extends Excise Tax Washington (UPI) The Senate Finance committee to day approved a House-passed bill to continue for another year present corporation and excise (sales) taxes. The committee defeated a $6 billion tax cut proposed by Sen. Paul H. Douglas (D-Ill.). Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson noted that taxes covered by the bill are due to drop June 23 unless the measure is enacted. John son told the Senate "we can't let these taxes expire." He said the bill, will be put before the Senate for ac tion as soon as possible, per haps right after the pending labor bill. Frost Warnings Due Eastern Oregon Portland (UPI) The weather bureau today issued frost warnings for plateau areas of eastern Oregon for Friday morning. Temperatures in the Bend and Klamath Falls areas may drop to the freezing mark, the weather man said, but after noon temperatures will rise to the 70s. The weather man said a storm moving eastward out of the gulf of Alaska was ex pected to pass to the north of Oregon. WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable clou diness through Friday. Low to night 48. High Friday 75. Temp. Highest Yesterday 68 Lowest this Morning 50 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 4:34 a.m. .- 7:49 p.m. Sunset Mponrise Friday Z:l8 a.m. New Moon June 16 Venus, below - the Moon, is about 109 million miles from the Earth tonight, a little near er than Mars. The paths of the Earth and Venus around- the Sun are. now carrying these two planets further apart at the rate of 620,000 miles per day. j last week. Reportedly he sought advance indorsement of both Oregon senators. The appointment would be sub ject to Senate confirmation. Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) asked about his atti tude, said: "It is not my present inten tion to seek to block the ap pointment as being 'person ally obnoxious' to me. I gather that this privilege is used only when a senator feels that the nominee is guilty of turpitude or has grievously offended thei MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1958 BEAVER WORK Just why beavers come ness." But the beaver leaves his mark, as during the night and chew, the boards on shown oh the bottom. plank in' the above the woodwork at the fish, ladder and picture (and inset), at the top of the fish counter at Gold Ray .dam seems .to. Jje a - ladder. The fish counter -is -just to the mystery. One employee at the ladder said ' right off the picture. -. "it was probably "from just darned orneri- . Subpoena Powers Voted Mitchell Washington (UPI) The Senate voted 86 to 0 today to arm Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell with sub poena powers he had asked to carry out . investigations of union records authorized in the pending labor reform bill, Sen. John F. Kennedy (D- Mass.) floor manager of the measure, also agreed to ac cept two other administra tion changes to tighten the bill. . The amendments would tighten a section requiring unions to file detailed finan cial reports with the Labor Department. Besides giving the secretary subpoena pow ers to inspect union records and call witnesses, they would: Require that copies of the reports be made available to union members. . Remove a provision ex empting small unions from filing the reports. Instead the secretary would have discre tionary authority to grant such exemptions. In a speech opening the de bate, Kennedy took a slap at Mitchell, who had called for stronger legislation, and urged the Senate to approve his moderate bill. Kansas Girl, 14, Champion Speller Washington (UPI) The National Spelling Bee crown was won today by 1 4-year-old Jolitta Schlehuber, McPher sonKan. - Jolitta took the title and $1,000 top prize when she cor rectly spelled "syllepsis," meaning a summary or(bring ing together.- - The runner-up in the race, which ended in the 28th round, was Terry Madeira, 13, Elizabethtown, Pa. Terry, . standing tall and erect but with her eyes down cast, misspelled the word "propylaeum." Obviously guessing, she spelled it "pro pileum.'" Terry will pick up $500 for taking second place. Portland (UPI) The Multnomah" county delega tion to the State Legislature will meet here Monday night to consider procedure for granting scholarships to Ore gon State college., ' 1 senator in question. If the Wyatt appointment is made, I will consider it on its merits. Naturally, I will be interested to receive the opinions of eminent lawyers and tax ex perts in Oregon as to Mr. Wyatt's ' technical qualifica tions for such a position." Wyatt deciined to comment on the situation. He said he plans to return Friday to Oregon. Morse's expressed attitude raised the question whether the appointment now would ' Appeal to Supreme Court Made in Case Of Billy J.Nunn Salem A test of Gov. Rob ert D. Holmes' authority to commute the death sentence of convicted murdered Billy Junior Nunn will be taken to the Oregon Supreme court. In Medford Attorney Walter D. Nunley said he had mailed an appeal to Salem Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Eacret, Klamath Falls, whom Nunley represents, notified Marion County circuit court Wednes day that the appeal was to be made. , The Eacrets are the parents of 14-year-old Alvin Eacret for whose death Nunn was convicted. Issues Stay Gov. Holmes issued a stay of execution pending final determination of the case. Nunn's execution was orig inally scheduled for March. Nunley, who had 60 days to appeal to the supreme Pay Raise Agreed For Civil Service Washington (UPI) House- Senate conferees agreed today on a 10 per cent pay raise for an estimated 1,021,000 federal civil service workers. The pay hike will cost an estimated $542 million a year after 1958. It is retroactive to early January and will cost an estimated $800 million this year. Both the House and Senate earlier approved the basic 10 per cent pay raise for the so called classified workers and most other civil servants. However, they had not agreed on some lesser provisions in the bill, including special raises for scientists and en gineers and creation of addi tional top level government jobs. The compromise goes to both houses for final approval, with the Senate scheduled to act first. Salen (UPI) Ruth Par- rett, new queen of the Port land Rose Festival, will enter Willamette University in the fall. Portland (UPI) The new Morrison bridge here has been pronounced "structurally per feet in every detail." be submitted to the Senate by the White House. The Senate, as a rule of courtesy to each member, seldom approves an appointment if a senator from that man's state ' refuses to give senatorial clearance. As a matter of standing operat ing procedure, the judiciary committee which considers judicial appointments solicits the view of the appointee's home state senators. If they don't give clearance, the ap pointment usually never gets out of committee. Tribune No. L 71 court, said the question con cerned the democratic" proc esses of law and asked wheth er the governor has the authority to commute all sen tences, particularly . one im posed by the constitution which also gives him the pow er to commute. , He said the court' would decide whether Holmes could nullify another provision of the constitution just "because he (Holmes) disliked it." . A restraining order against the governor's commutation of Nunn's sentence was issued by Jackson county circuit court and transferred to Mar ion county. 352 Pints of Blood Collected by RC A total of. 352 pints . of blood, two more than the quota, was donated by Jack son county residents yester day during the visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile, Red Cross officials announced to day. They said 384 people made appointments or dropped in to donate blood, and there were 32 rejects. A pint of ice cream, donated by Rich Maid,' was given for each pint of blood donated. ' . The quota for this visit was increased over the previous visit because the earlier quota was not reached. Education Board BecoHnKi OTI Redevelopment plan Salem (UPI) Plans for either redeveloping or replac ing Oregon Technical Insti tute at Klamath Falls were presented by engineers to the State Board of Education here Wednesday. Gordon E. Trapp of Stevens and Thompson, consulting en gineers, Portland, said the re development' plan would in volve a new quadrangle of buildings including an admin istration building, auditorium, conference rooms and a li brary. -' i These buildings would cost $1,956,000. , Also included would be an engineering and finance build- Showdown on Who Will Direct France Expected Jacques Soustelle Summoned for Talk Paris (UPI) Gen. Charles de Gaulle summoned Jacques Soustelle back to Paris today for a probable showdown on whether the Premier or the rebels are go ing to run France. Official sources said Sous telle, fiery ex-Gaullist lead- er who escaped police surveil lance , in Paris to fly to Al giers 'fit the, start of the May 13 miliary-civilian revolt, left North Africa early thi&,after- noon. Mystery Man Soustelle remains the3 mys tery man behind the scenes in the crises that is still shak ing France, and which was eased from the possibility of a bloody civil war only by the advent to power of De Gaulle. Soustelle once was a close associate of De Gaulle, but there are reports the two have grown apart in their views. Soustelle has been closely identified, with the activities of the All-Algeria Public Safety committee which two days ago defied De Gaulle's edict to get out of politics. Instead- the committee de manded that political parties in France "disappear," that De Gaulle postpone scheduled municipal elections in Alger ia, and that a "real" govern ment of public safety be es tablished in France. Committee Rebuked De Gaulle reacted sharply Wednesday by sending a telegram to Gen. Raoul Salan, French commander-in-chief in Algeria and De Gaulle's personal representative there. The Premier rebuked 'the committee for defying his or ders and, in effect, repri manded Salan for having passed on the group's views to Paris. It was an obvious effort to find out further details of the Algerian - committee's views that De Gaulle sum moned Soustelle to Paris. ' As he did, three members of the Public Safety commit tee in Ajaccio, Corsica, which also revolted against Paris control in the recent crisis, flew to Algiers to consult with the All-Algeria commit tee. Adams Confers With Eisenhower Washington (UPI) Presi dent Assistant Sherman Adams conferred with Presi dent Eisenhower today but the White House did not say whether they discussed in fluence charges made against Adams by a House subcom mittee. White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty said he would not have any reply from Adams to the subcom mittee charges until later in the day. Hagerty said Wed nesday Adams would prove the charges "completely false." - Meanwhile. Chairman Oren Harris (D-Ark) said new sub committee hearings starting Monday would "develop any and all information" about Adams and his relations with Boston industrialist Bernard Goldfine. The committee says Goldfine paid $2,000 in hotel bills for Adams and his fam-' ily and received favors from federal regulatory agencies. Train Hurts Man On Portland Bridge Portland (UPI) Robert Lee Spradlin, 32, suffered multiple injuries last Wednes day night when he was struck by a locomotive on the west end of the Steel bridge. He was in fair condition tod$y. mg costing $1,230,000 nfl n allied arts and mediofl build ing costing $1,400,300. Total costs would reach some $4,586,300. A student housing building would be self-sustaining. Nearer Klamath Falls Under the replacement plan the institute would be moved nearer to Klamath Falls at a total cost of $4,450,000. Tentative replacement plans call for the same building ex cept that a combined auditor ium and gymnasium is plan ned. The 1959 Legislature will decide what plans to follow at OTI. 0
