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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.
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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.
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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
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