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Al Least Three
Dead; Tidal Waves
Nearly Erase Isle
Vessels, Plane
Search Bays, Coves
United Press International
At least three persons lost
their lives today when a five
hour earthquake ripped the
rugged Alaska coastline north
west of Juneau with tidal
waves which nearly obliterat
ed a small island.
The three dead were report
ed to be picking wild straw
berries on tiny Khantaak
island in Yakutat bay when
huge waves rolled over the
island, crumpling much of it
into the bay. . The island was
about five miles long.
Bays, Coves Searched.
Reports of the deaths came
from Bob Welsh of Belling
ham, Wash.; who was in Yaku
tat, about 300 miles north
west of Juneau, for the salmon
fishing season. Welsh tele
phoned Bellingham to report
the death of his mother, Mrs.
Jean Welsh Walton, and a
man and his wife identified
only as "Mr. and Mrs. Tibbie,"
government employees living
at Yakutat.
Two Coasto Guard vessels
and a Coast Guard amphibious
search plane were searching
the bays and coves between
Lituya bay, about 150 miles
west of Juneau, and Yakutat
for a missing fishing boat, the
Sunmore. Coast Guard head
quarters at ' Juneau reported
two persons were rescued
when a small fishing boat, the
Badger, was swamped and
sank in Lituya bay.
Survivors Flown- Out " ,
" Mrs. Dean Goodwin,, wife
of the bush pilot who flew the
two survivors to Juneau iden
tified them as Mr. and Mrs.
William Swanson "from some
where in the Seattle-Tacoma
area." Mrs. Swanson was re
ported to be suffering from
chest injuries and her husband
was -less seriously injured.
The Coast Guard found a
awamped cabin cruiser near
Yakutat bay and was checking
out a report that four persons
were aboard the small pleas
ure boat.
Frank Neumann, University
of Washington seismologist,
said the temblerowas the
strongest quake recorded at
his station since the shock
which caused a tidal wave in
the Aleutian islands Mrch 9,
1957.
Lasted for Five Hours
"Thiswas a terrific earth
quake,"' Neumann said. "It
lasted for five hours and was
so strong that it knocked out
some of our equipment. The
first shock was recorded at
10:19:14 p.m. PST July 9."
He said the center of the
quake was in the Yakutat
area.
The shock sent residents of
the Hawaiian Islands scurry
ing from- their homes in a
tidal wave alert which later
was called off when it became
evident the force had dissipat
ed itself in Alaskan waters..
Lebanon, Ore. (UPI)
Leonard Gilliland, 27, missing
from his Scio home since
Tuesday, walked into a farm
house near his homj today.
Phoenix Woman Elected
Demo Group
Mrs. Marvin Madden of
Phoenix elected secretary of
the Jackson County Demo
cratic Central committee at a
meeting at the Central Point
Legion hall last night. About
100 attended the meeting, ar
ranged by K. C. Wernmark,
Central Point precinct com
mitteeman. It was one of a
series of periodic area meet
ings. County Chairman James
A. Redden presided.
. Speaker was Ray Schu
macher, county assessor,
whose topic was "taxes and
the methods of appraisal." A
15-minute question and an
swer period followed.
Reports were given by
William Fronhmayer, party
treasurer; Mrs. George Rode,
Mrs. Albert Straus, Mrs. Dee
Newton- and David Peterson
on precinct organization; Mrs.
Frank Christian and William
V. Deatherage on arrange
rangements for the annual
picnic which will be held at
Tou Velle State park Sunday,
Au$. 3.
ODD EGG - It's not the commonest thing in the world to
find a turtle nest in one's garden like Medford residents
Mr. and Mrs. William Jeffery did Tuesday. Mrs. Turtle
did a neat job of digging a hole, plastering it with mud
before laying the egg (above) inside. The egg, soft and
leathery, is about two inches long. After the mother
engineers the-nest according to specificatipns and lays the
egg, she never returns during the incubation period, ac
cording to Mrs. Jeffery. The Jefferys, whose property lies
along Bear creek, take a great deal of interest in the wide
variety of birds, muskrats, porcupines, skunks, squirrels
and turtles that visit their back yard from time to
time.
Values on
Defended
&aiem (.un iane uoun-i
ty Assessor Winfred W. Smith
today defended values placed
on timber by the State Tax
Commission as hearings into
timber valuation in Oregon
went into their third day here.
Smith accepted valuations
placed on timber by the com
mission and also a 25-year
depletion s c h e d u 1 e recom
mended for Lane county
timber. .""''
Action Appealed "' -
However, the Lane County
Board of Equalization, in a
split vote, slashed tax com
mission , recommendations an
average of 68 per cent. This
action was appealed by Asses
sor Smith.
Voting to sustain the asses
sor was Equalization Board
Chairman Robert Straub, but
Atlantic Scoured
For Mouse in Cone
Cape Canaveral, Fla. (UPI)
Air Force recovery, boats
scoured the South Atlantic to
day for an experimental
rocket nose cone and a tiny
captive mouse hurled into
space in a combination military-scientific
missile test.
The Air Force was keeping
quiet about the success or
failure of the mouse-carrying
hybrid rocket, designed as a
forerunner of the missile ex
pected to shoot for the moon.
After the firing Wednesday
night, spokesmen said only
that the missile "performed
successfully."
, There was no mention of
the mouse's fate, or of the
landing place of the nose
cone.
The mouse and the nose
cone were "sent into the hea
vens atop the second stage of
a Vanguard rocket which in
turn was mounted oh the
first stage of a Thor." inter
continental ballistic missile.
Secretary
Named on the picnic com
mittee were Mrs.. Christian,
general . chairman; Deather
age, park arrangements; Mrs.
Straus, foods chairman assist
ed by Mrs. Roy Johnston,
Jesse Wagner, Mrs. Scott
Hamilton, Mrs. Robert Dun
can, Mrs. Marcus - Norton,
Mrs. Ray Schumacher, Mrs.
W. G. , Werner, .Mrs.. Neva
Clarke; Ray Schumacher, en
tertainment ..chairman; Mr.
and Mrs. Larry Sheehan, reg
istration, assisted by Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Madden; Clyde
Fichtner, prize chairman, as
sisted by Wernmark, Mrs.
Richard Kane, George Deck
kelman and L. B. Nordwick;
Gordon Hudson, Christian
and WilMam Fronhmayer,
tables; Scott Hamilton and
Gerald J. Scannell, co-chairmen
.of games; Tom Reeder,
Karl. Janouch and Marcus
Norton, co-chairman of clean
up, and. Mrs. George Rode andJ
Mrs. Edward C. Kelly, publicity.
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Timber
at Hearing
board members L. H. Wil-
hams and Earl L. McNutt
voted for the slash.
"The action of the board is
unjustifiable," Smith told the
State Tax Commission which
is sitting as a board of equal
ization during the hearings.
Smith said that before the
reappraisal program sponsor
ed by the tax commission was
completed in Lane county re
cently there were no accurate
c'ruises of timber which could
be used for tax purposes. He
also said that before reap
praisal there were many in
accuracies in cutting reports
submitted by some companies.
- The assessor said he based
his disagreement with the
Board of Equalization both on
a knowledge of tax commis
sion methods in arriving at
the value of timber and his
own personal experience in
trying to buy timber land for
his serviceman son.
Values 'Conservative
He said tax commission
values were "conservative"
and in some cases amounted
to only about half what the
timber was actually worth on
the market.
Smith favored tax commis
sion procedure in :using an
average of five or six years to
determine the value of timber
even though timber prices this
year have fallen off badly. .
"If the same number of
years is used continuously to
obtain an average value, the
taxes will average themselves
out and timber will be taxed
uniformly with other classes
of property," Smith told the
hearing.
Visitor's Cards
Used at
"Visitor's cards" are being
used by Rogue Valley Memo
rial hospital, hospital officials
have announced.
The cards may be obtained
at the main desk in the lobby.
They will be issued to anyone
wishing to visit in the hospi
tal, and provide a means of
telling who is in the building,
officials said. -
If a patient is asleep, or
otherwise unable to see visit
ors, hospital attendants will
notify the patient later who
the visitors were.
Fires Mopped Up
By State Crews . ..
Two brush ' fires were
mopped up by state depart
ment of. forestry personnel
yesterday.
Five fire fighting crewmen
brought under control an 80
acre grass and brush fire
near Ruch, department offi
cials said. Cause of the fire
was not determined.
Another crew was dis
patched to a two-acre light
ning strike near Browns,boro.
New York (UPI) The
94th Grand Lodge convention,
of the Benevolent and Pro
tective Order of Elks ended
today.
Yugoslav, Poland
Policies Blasted
At Berlin Meeting
Soviet Boss Backs .
East German Leader
Berlin (UPI) The East
German Communists began a
week-long congress today
marked by the steady rise of
iron-fisted Stalinism aid bit
ter blasts against the West
and the independent policies'
of Yugoslavia and Poland.
East German Communist
leader Walter Ulbricht open
ed the congress with a two
hour speech in which he at
tacked Yugoslavia for its
"false anti-Marxist"' doctrines.
He said Yugoslavia "revision
ism" was damaging to the in
ternational Communist move
ment and that revisionism
led to the Hungarian revolt.
Ulbricht Defended
Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev, in a speech re
leased today, placed himself
squarely behind East . Ger
many's Stalipist leaders and
rebuked "national .Commun
ists" who attempted to depose
them. He particularly defend
ed Ulbricht.
Only one major satellite
Communist leader was report
ed present at the congress
Hungarian Communist boss
Janos Kadar. whose Dro-Stal-
inist policies put him at the
head of the government when
Soviet troops crushed the
1956 rebellion.
No Significance
UDservers said tney saw
no particular significance . in
the absence of Polish " Com
munist leader Wladyslaw
Gomulka since the' other Com
munist satellites represented
did not send their top lead
ers. ' ; -.
Khrushchev spoke Wednes
day at Bitterfeld and the
Communists released addi
tional parts of ,h;3 sp'?ech to
day.' He 'called j , Ulbricht a
friend and a true servant of
the working class and said
Russia would stand behind
him and defend East Germany
against -the West.
Subdivision Bill
Talked by County
A revised proposed county
subdivision ordinance was dis
cussed Wednesday evening at
the county planning commis
sion meeting in the county
courthouse.
The new proposed ordin
ance was recently compiled by
Jack Eaton technician for the
planning commission, from
subdivision ordinances in ef
fect in Multnomah, Clackamas
and Lane counties and engin
eers and local subdividers.
Mrs. Leona Perkins, record
ing secretary, submitted her
resignation to the commission
effective Aug. 1. She stated
"personal reasons" for' her
resignation. The commission
accepted her resignation and
directed Eaton, to contact ap
plicants for the position. The
commission approved, on the
recommendation of Eaton,
that with the increase work
load in the office that a secre
tary be hired on a full-time
basis. ';
Work progress and expend
iture reports were also read
and approved.
Present for the meeting
were Edwin Gebhard, presi
dent: and John Niedermeyer,
Ed Bolt, Gerald Latham, and
Lloyd Selby.
Lice No Longer
Menace in Portland
Portland (UPI) The
Portland area no longer has a
louse problem, " health; of
ficials said today.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Fair nd -warm
through Friday. Low tonight
55. High Friday 95.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 92
Lowest this Morning St
Our Skies Tonight
Sunest today T9 P-m-
Sunrise tomorrow 4:44 a.m.
Moonrise, tomorrow. 1Z:5 a.m.
New Moon July IS
PROMINENT STAR
Spica, in the south- 1
west . 9:1 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Jupiter, above ' Spica. '
Saturn, due south Z10:1C p.m.
Mars, low in east 12:58 a.m.
-Venus, rises 2:58 a.m.
53rd year
Medford
26 Pages
County Budget of
$3 Million Passes
After Hearing
Committee Refuses
Request Petition
Jackson county will enter
negotiations soon to assume
administration of the - pro
posed recreation sites in the
Talent project, members of
the county court announced
yesterday afternoon. "
The announcement, f o 1
lowed meetings with the Ash
land park commission and Tal
ent Irrigation district repre
sentatives. Both organizations
said that due to legal ques
tions they would be unable to
assume administration of any
of the park sites, County
Judge Rodney. Keating ex
plained. The county court expects to
sign , a contract with the bu
reau of reclamation and the
national park service in the
near future. Members of the
county court are now await
ing receipt of a sample con
tract from Neal Butterfield,
Portland, chief of Columbia
Recreation Survey branch, na
tional park service.
Work Scheduled
Work will start next spring
on the two recreation sites at
Howard Prairie reservoir and
on one site at Emigrant reser
voir, according to James CaPTj
lan, project engineer for the
bureau of reclamation here.
First step will be to draw
up of a master plan of the rec
reation layout. This will cover
the access roads to be con
structed in and around the
camping areas and minimum
facilities such as sewage and
water.
Next step will be drafting
of specifications by the bureau
of reclamation office at Camp
White. Then public notice will
be given advertising bids.
Howard Prairie reservoir
will be completed by the end
of next summer, Callan said.
However, it cannot be used
for recreation for the next two
years. . Callan expects heavy
useage of Howard Prairie res
ervoir water while the dam is
being raised at Emigrant res
ervoir. Heintz construction com
pany, Portland, expects to
start work on the dam next
week. The dam will be raised
80 feet to a total of 190 feet
and will more than double the
area of the reservoir.
Meter Relocation
Postponed by City
.Relocation of parking me
ters on Main and Eighth sts.
to allow for one-way traffic,
state statutes and a new bumper-to-bumper
parking system
has been postponed, Public
Works Director Vernon
Thorpe said today.
Thorpe said the relocation
would take place just before
the changeover to one-way
traffic, tentatively scheduled
for Aug, 10. He said no meters
would be changed now since
in the new locations they
would interfere for the time
being with motorists opening
car doors. ,
Thorpe also reported that
city crews were resurfacing
11th st. between Oakdale ave
and Peach st. today and to
morrow.
Average of 428 Use
Park Poo! in June
An average of 428 swim
mers used the city municipal
swimming pool each day dur
ing June, according to City
Park Director Darell Huson.
This is a drop of 60 swimmers
a day from the 1957 daily
average, he said.
Total number of swimmers
for the month was 10,282,
compared to 10,726 in 1957.
This, he explained, may be
attributed to fact that 1958
average temperature for the
month was 79 J degrees while
1957 had an average of 82.5
degrees. '
A sft
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1958
to, i i re on Su a Eie ir Ag ir
To Establish Jeinnt
Cdmmittefi M
I Need '
, (Uerblock Is on
Coil
to
nty
On Recreation Sites
The Jackson county budget
for fiscal year 1958-39 was
adopted last night following
a public. hearing in the county
courthouse auditorium. .
The new budget totals $3,-
435,887.09, . which is S323,
191.37 larger than the budget
for fiscal year 1957-58, which
was $3,112,695.72.
The county . budget com
mittee refused a petition from
county department heads to
create a budget item to make
adjustments in job reclassifi
cations. The item was propos
ed to handle "adjustments in
equity" for employees . re
questing reclassification and
granted by a review board.
Any adjustments made would
have been retroactive or the
1958-59 budget. . f '
Closed Issue -? -
Budget committee mem
bers indicated they consider
ed this a closed issue for the
1958-59 fiscal year budget.
"We spent eight' days on
this (job reclassification),"
Committee Chairman Tom C-.
Wray said. "If you can get all
the help you want at a cer
tain salary why change it."
Gerald T. Latham, chair
man of the governmentalop
erations committee, . Jackson
County Chamber of Com
merce, presented a memoran
dum of the chamber's conclu
sions on the new budget. ,
It commended the budget
committee and the county
court "in implementing a per
sonnel program to meet eco
nomic and social trends in
employment." .The memoran
dum also pointed out the civil
service report is only a yard
stick or tool for establishing
an equitable salary schedule
in relationship to responsibil
ity, and tenure. Productivity
and efficiency also should be
factors in using the classifi
cation and scale formulae for
developing economical opera
tion of county government."
Estimates on Receipts
The chamber committee
suggested that estimates on
receipts for the coming year
would -provide a means of re
ducing school district levies.
An increase of $10 per census
child would reduce school dis
trict levies about Wi mills, it
was pointed out. This would
mean inclusion of $206,160
in the budget for this item.'
However, Karl Janouch,
county treasurer, said there
is only enough money in the
county treasury to tide the
county over for the first three
months of the new fiscal year
in case sources of revenue are
slow. He said- it is hard to
predict what future revenues:
Vacation)
Negotiate
, might be, Next year, various
receipts can be allocated . to
this .purpose and the next
budget be set up accordingly.
" Latham said the committee
had conferred with the tax
commission, the Oregon tax
research bureau, the district
attorney and the county asses
sor. They said it could be
done, Jie added. This is espec
ially true considering the
accelerated timber y sales in
O and C and federal forest
lands, Latham commented. ,
Following a motion by Hen
ry Conger, local farmer, that
the. budget be . passed, C.
Wernmark, Central Point,
protested, that nobody had
been given a chance to voice
any objections. Wray replied
he thought people' had plenty
of time to make their com
ments since the budget was
explained department by de
partment. Conger strongly
objected to the petition from
the elected county officials
as coming from ."a pressure
group."
Carnival Fat Man
Succumbs To Uremia
Bremen, Ind. (UPI)
A carnival fat ' man who
weighed more than 1,000
pounds died today in a house
trailer on the parking lot .of
a hospital. i '
Roert Hughes, 32, Emden,
Mo", was pronounced dead of
uremia.
Change in Federal Timber Sales to
Al low Small Operators to Bid Favored
ay a. nujBi.ni jraun
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington ' A House
Senate conference committee
Wednesday "agreed to write
into law, that government tim
ber" agencies " must offer "a
fair proportion" of timber
sales to small operators.
The new timber policy dec
laration was "written into the
act making small business ad
ministration a permanent
agency. .
It" was first adopted on the
Senate floor last week at the
request of Sen. Wayne Morse
(D-Ore.) All pther northwest
senators . cosponsored ." the
amendment.
.- "The government sells over
8 billion hoard feet of timber
from public lands and nation
al forests," Morse said. "The
amount now equals about one
fourth of , the wood used by
our nation each year. The
smaller firms have difficulty
Price 10 cents
No. 95
liBfemis
Red China Trade,
Russian Economic
Issues Discussed
Recommendations
On Defense Planned
Ottawa (UPI) Presi
dent Eisenhower and Prime
Minister John Diefenbaker
agreed today on establishment
of a joint cabinet committee
on defense.
It will make recommenda
tions to the President and
Prime Minister on joint de
fense of the North American
Continent. It also will super
vise the three existing joint
military committees which
have been ' in existence for
some time: .
Members of the new top
joint, defense committee "will
be the secretaries of state, de
fense, and ', treasury on the
American side and the extern
al affairs, finance and defense
ministers for Canada. '
Meeting Date Undecided
It was hot immediately de
cided when , the ' committee
would hold its first meeting
or how often it would meet.
Creation of the committee
was ' agreed upon at an 80
minute meeting this morning
between Eisenhower and Die
fenbaker. Secretary of State
John f Foster Dulles, Canad
ian External Affairs .Minister
Sidney Smith and staff aides
also attended the conference.
, At the meeting, there also
was ' further discussion of
trade with Red China vand
ways to meet Russia's grow
ing economic offensive. ; -
An agreement reached on
Wednesday between the Pres
ident and the Prime Minister
opened the way' for possible
limited sale to Red China of
goods produced in American
owner plants in Canada..
Full Consultation : 4y
It provided for full consul
tation between the two gov
ernments on an individual
basis when Red China makes
a firm offer to make a pur
chase. A reporter asked White
House Press Secretary James
C. Hagerty if the agreement
meant any relaxation of U.S.
restrictions on trade with Red
China. Hagerty gave a flat
"no" answer. ,
Ottawa f(UPI) President
Eisenhower played golf at the
Ottawa Hunt Club course to-
i day.
securing' bids and financing
road construction. What we
propose here is to extend the
helpful aid of the SBA to
products sold by the govern
ment." rJ.
SBA heretofore has been
limited to seeing that small
business firms got a fair pro
portion of " government con
tracts. This is the first effort
to guarantee small business
special consideration in gov
ernment purchases.
"".An interpretation , of . the
new legal . requirement was
that if small timber operators
complained . that the forest
service or bureau of land man
agement weren't putting up
timber in the quantity and
value on which they could
bid, a special f timber -sale
would have to be called. for
small businesses only.
Just before the conference
convened, members of Con
gress received telegrams op
Peasants Spared
Life on Learning
Of Nationality
Noose Around Neck, '
Freed Flier Says .
Wiesbaden, . Germany
(UPI) One of nine U.S.
airmen shot down over So
viet Armenia by Russian jet
fighters disclosed today that
Armenian peasants almost
lynched him but spared his
life when they discovered he
was an American.
Maj. Bennie A. Shupe told
a packed news conference the
peasants had a noose around
his neck and the other end of
the rope' tied to a telephone
pole when he finally, made
them understand he was an
American.
No National Markings
It was not clear whether
the Armenians thought they
were about to hang a Soviet
flier or perhaps more likely
a Turk, their traditional
blood enemy from across .the
border. -
' 'The nine airmen wore fly
ing suits that bore no national
markings.
Shupe said he saved' his
life by ' shouting out the
names of American cities
until the peasants understood.
All Roughed Up .
Shupe spoke to newsmen
after Col. Dale D. Brannon,
the ranking officer among
the nine men aboard the
C-18 plane that was shot
down June 27, read a pre
pared statement for the
group.
Shupe and Brannon were
two of the five that para
chuted when two Soviet
MIGs set it aflame by shoot
ing at it. Brannan said all
five were "roughed up" and
had their hands tied behind
their bapks. ; : I . - -. i
Four others ; rode - t the
burning" plane down to a!
crude landing field with the
MIGs still firing at it. They
escaped minutes before the
plane exploded. : '
Shupe had the closest call.
"I was walking toward the
other men (who had para
chuted) , when a group, of
peasants surrounded me," he
said. ..
He said they tied his hands
behind his back and took him
to a nearby pole. ;
Close fo Death
"I was positive they had
every v intention of hanging
me from the pole when I at
last managed to make out I
was an American," he said.
"One of the peasants shouted
out 'New York, Chicago.' 1
then named all the U.S. cities
I could think of to keep them
Off."
Shupe said later he would
"never forget" his experience.
"The noose was partially
around my neck," he said.
,"It came down the left side
of my face, over 4he ear and
then under my chin. I was
much closer to death than I
ever want to come again."
Brannon said all five who
bailed out were hit with fists
by Soviet peasants off and on
for three hours.
Thrown Into Truck
He said he himself was
thrown into a truck and a
mob of peasants piled on top
of htm, kicking and battering
him while he lay defenseless.
He said they were abused
until they, got into the hands
of Soviet military police.
' After that, Brannon said,
the treatment, of the airmen
improved! t
posing the amendment from,
several Oregon timber inter
ests, including Western Forest
Industries association. Joseph
W. McCracken, WFIA official,
earlier wired his support for
the i idea, then reversed his
field.
"We oppose government o(-;
ficers deciding who will sur
vive and who' will die in the
lumber business," wired an
Oregon plywood operator. :
Agreement to the confer
ence report by both houses
will send, the bill to the White
House, r
Sen. Richard L. Neuberger
(D-Ore.) agreed with Morse
that the need for a timber
sales policy protecting small
operators was pointed up by
hearings held in Oregon and
here in -recent years by th
Senate Interior committee.
This new policy was an out
growth of those hearir&s.