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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1958
iWLAJLT
NEW DUMP City Sanitary service
trucks bring the first day's loads Friday
to the new garbage dump south of Jack
sonville. The bulldozer pushes garbage
to the bottom of the pit, then covers it
Many Lumbermen Say Market
Will Continue to Show Upswing
Many lumbermen in this
area believe the current
"strong upswing" in Oregon's
lumber market will continue,
but have their fingers crossed,
a Mail Tribune telephone sur
vey of some of the larger com
panies in this area revealed.
With one exception, the in
dustry representatives con
tacted here said the current
rise in the lumber market is
a good strong sign. One lum
ber company official here
summed up the general atti
tude of others when he said,
"the psychology is good. This
will have a direct influence
on the building trend."
Industry spokesmen gener
ally seemed to feel that the
lower mortgage rates estab
lished by the government and
the general population growth
are two factors most directly
affecting the rise in the lum
ber market.
Oppose View
' A representative of one of
the larger lumber companies
in this area oppose'd these
views.
"It is not a strong upsurge
by any stretch of the imagina
tion. Yes, it is better than
earlier in the year. Then we
had reason to worry because
we were not breaking even.
This current rise is not some
thing we didn't somewhat an
ticipate. All statisticians anti
cipated it.
"It could be foretold by
the number of FHA loans be
ing taken out. Easier financ
ing helped. The market was
bound to show some improve
ment. "We work with sales repre
sentatives from all over the
United States. The eastern
areas were slowest to show
any market improvement. It
is getting a little better in
California. The southwest
states possibly showed the
earliest improvement by an
upturn this spring.
Production Increase
"It should be kept in mind
that as the market improves
production will increase, too,
and offset some of the price
increase. You could say that
we are not really enthusiastic
about the current market con
ditions." National trends seem to in
dicate housing starts for 1958
will be about 1,150,000 units,
a 10per cent rise over . 1957,
according to the current issue
of U.S. News and World Re
port. One lumber company repre
sentative here decried the
loss of Texas as a strong lum
ber market about two years
ago. Lumber there went main
ly into housing, he said. How
ever, as the Texas market
declined the commercial
building continued in the east,
he added.
The lumberman blamed sat
uration of the lumber market
for the market decline. Too
many builders had too many
houses in excess of the cur
rent demand, he said.
First To Recover
One spokesman noted that
sheathing plywood was the
first to recover on the mar
l:3t. Of the various species,
tx seems to be among the
strongest on the current mar
ket. Pine is not so good, he
said.
Another lumberman said
he thought a general shift in
investment demands was par
tially responsible for the bet
terment of the lumber market.
"For awhile all industry
was requesting money so bad
ly they paid good returns on
short term loans. However,
during the same period, the
housing industry was still
plugging along on long term
loans at low rates.
Need for Financing
"Now industry as a whole
is not able to make big re
turns since it no longer has a
big need for financing. In
vestors are content to invest
at lower interest rates on long
er terms. So you see the mar
ket is just balancing itself
out."
A spokesman for a com
pany dealing in manufactur
ed lumber, such as window
frames, door frames and
sashes, said one factor in
Enforcement of
Agreement Asked
The Medford Realty board
has requested that the Jack
son County Housing authority
enforce its stipulation that
purchasers' removing build
ings from its project demolish
them first.
"We would expect the hous
ing authority to have these
people fulfill their obliga
tions," Cap C Vandagrift,
president of the realty board,
said yesterday.
According to Mark A. Goldy,
chairman of the housing , au
thority, the stipulation was
"not ironclad" and "not en
forceable." He described it
Thursday as "a request of the
federal government, which we
in turn passed on to the buy
ers." He said that buyers re
moving buildings intact were
"in violation of an agree
ment," but admitted there
was "no written agreement."
Nothing To Say
Informed of the realty
board's action, Goldy replied:
"I have nothing further to
say."
William Frohnmayer, a di
rector of the board who initi
ated the request at a special
meeting yesterday, said: "We
were condemning the action
of the housing authority. If
they didn't have a written
agreement, then it was done
in a very sloppy manner.
"Probably the damage has
been done," he added, "but
we hope we can prevent the
rest of the buildings from be
ing moved out this way."
"All we ask," Vandagrift
said, "is that the obligations
be fulfilled if at all possible.
Actually a great many more
people would have bid if they
had thought the buildings
could have been removed
without demolition."
In advertising sales of the
buildings in the Mail Tribune,
United Nations, N.Y. (BPD
The Security Council is like
ly to meet this week to set
the time and place of a "sum
mit" conference on the Mid
dle East crisis, diplomatic
officials said Saturday.
1 .riTL,rr2S2Ji
with a layer of dirt. Meanwhile, John
F. Keaveny, Jacksonville's mayor, has
announced closing of the town's "junk
dump" on Sterling creek rd.
fluencing his business is that
aluminum is losing in demand
in the housing market
Another lumberman point
ed out that stumpage prices
are still too high and would
have to come down before he
could predict any substantial
improvement in the lumber
market.
As he stated during a sur
vey of lumber industry opin
ions earlier this year optimism
and efficiency in operation
are still the key words for
better returns on lumber, ;he
added. - ;
Lumbermen generally be
lieved that the ' government
could not do .any more: than
it is already doing to improve
market conditions. Industry
spokesmen seemed to feel
generally the lower home loan
rates set by the government
had contributed materially to
help (the market
the housing authority stated
"The buildings must be de
molished to at least panel
size." But purchasers were ap
parently never bound to this
by formal contract.
See Carried Out
The realty board's request
stated that the authority
should "not only demand, but
see that the verbal sales agree
ment is carried out at the site
of the demolishing," and that
it should "make this sales
agreement ironclad."
"The present practice," it
concluded,, "will create un
safe, substandard living con
ditions in Jackson : coupty,
thus reducing present proper
ty values."
Frohnmayer said the board
had a "reliable report" that
five building units had been
located in sight of Crater Lake
highway between Medford
and Shady Cove and that two
more were located back from
the highway out of sight.
DEDICATE PARK Medford Kiwanis
club Friday noon dedicated the Maple
park rest area to the city and county.
Shown above after dedication ceremonies
are, left to right, City Councilman Robert
L. Van Sickle, Jackson County Judge
Rodney Keating, Medford Mayor John
'Sleeper Fires
Expected Today;
Showers Forecast
Strikes, Outages
Result from Storm
"Sleeper" fires, resulting
from Saturday afternoon
thunderstorms . in southern
Oregon, were expected today
by forest service officials.
A total of 12 fires were
reported by the forest service
and state department of for
estry late yesterday, and
crews still were on three for
est servipe fires in the Apple-
gate area this morning. The
fires all were small and crews
extinguished most of them
yesterday.
The storm left only a trace
of rain at the Medford airport,
but substantial amounts were
reported in other sections of
he valley. At the airport, the
temperature dropped from 91
degrees to 73, and climbed
again to 87 within about an
hour during and after the
storm.
Power Outages ''
Several power outages were
reported by California Oregon
Power company, but service
was restored by late last night,
officials said.
The weather bureau fore
cast more thunderstorms for
late this afternoon and early
this evening over the moun
tain areas of southern Oregon.
The forest service yester
day used calcium borate mix
ture, dropped from planes on
the three Applegate fires. The
mixture, which was used for
the first time in this area,
keeps the fire from spreading
until ground crews are able
to reach it. Medford Air Serv
ice has three planes equipped
for the work.
Smokejumpers Dropped
Two smokejumpers from
Cave Junction were dropped
on one of the Applegate fires,
and they later were joined by
ground crewsQther.,. fires
were in Klamath district east
of the Cascades and two in
the Prospect area.
State crews were dispatched
to five strikes, mostly in the
area east of Medford. One
strike was reported on Cole
man Creek rd. Others were in
the Hiatt lake area, north of
Eagle Point, one west ox Pros
pect, and one east of Browns
boro.
Twister-type winds whipped
the area west of Talent,
knocking out power. Hail also
was reported in the area, and
trees knocked down power
lines.
California Oregon Power
company officials said broken
power lines in the Talent area
were repaired last night, and
service was restored from
several minor outages extend
ing from Ashland northward
toward Eagle Point. '
Sports Bulletins
Memorial Stadium, Camp
White Rogue Valley Dairy
Maids scored a 6 lo 3 ver
dict over the Shasta-Cascade
All-Star women's soft
ball learn here last night.
Spokane, Wash., (UPD
The Spokane1 Indians back
ed into a 4-3 win over the
Salt Lake City Bees in the
first game of a double head
er as the Bees' left fielder
Jim McDaniel committed
two fifth inning errors that
led to Spokane's winning
run last night.
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Public Hearings
On Rogue Basin
Are Postponed
Porter Informed by
Corps of Engineers
Public hearings by the
Army Engineers on the Rogue
Basin development plan have
been postponed until Octob
er, it was reported Saturday.
Congressman Charles O.
Porter told the Mail Tribune
he has been informed by the
Engineers the delay is occas
ioned by an extension of the
current survey of the basin
to include the feasibility of
the Lost Creek dam site, and
other possible sites.
The hearings originally
were to be announced in July,
but their announcement is
now expected in September,
Porter was told. The notices
of public hearing are to in
clude details of a proposed
survey report, Porter said.
Meeting Monday
(A meeting sponsored by
the Rogue Basin Flood Con
trol and Water Resources as
sociation, at 8 p.m. Monday
in the Josephine county court
house in Grants Pass, is ex
pected to be given similar in
formation by Engineer repre
sentatives), i '
Porter said the expansion
of the survey to include the
additional sites is expected
to cost about $165,000. He said
the report would serve as the
basis for revision of his Rogue
Basin project bill, now sched
uled to be reintroduced to
Congress in January.
' The proposed public hear
ings-will, be .held .in..several
different places in southern
Oregon. They will report on
the work of the Engineers
oser the past year investigat
ing a number of alternate pro
posals for development of the
resources of the Rogue for
multiple-purpose use.
Long Considered
Rogue Basin development
has long been considered. In
1948, hearings on an overall
development plan resulted in
the shelving of most of the
proposals, but one portion, the
$22,000,000 Talent project,
now underway, was approved.
Porter s bill calls for an
estimated $60 million, or more
in additional dams, fishways.
recreational benefits, and ir
rigation works. He has i
peatedly stated that it would
be revised in conformity with
the Engineers recommenda
tions, when they are complet
ed. It was introduced when
it was largely to expedite the
Engineers' study.
Million Dollar Relay
System in Operation
Pacific Telephone placed a
$1,300,000 micro-wave radio
relay system in operation be
tween Medford and Klamath
Falls Saturday, the 80th an
niversary of telephone service
in Oregon.
The system increases the
number of long distance cir
cuits between Medford, Kla
math Falls, Eugene, Portland,
and other points in the north
west and California.
W. Snider, and Bill Singier, president of
the -Kiwanis club. Members of the club,
and local labor donated work in pre
paring the park for use. The park is
located at the corner of Highway 99,
south, and Stewart ave.
, (Knackstedt photo)
SHED DESTROYED Two large oil
tanks lie in the rubble of a machine shed
which burned Friday afternoon in the
Vilas orchards in the Central Point area.
A speed-sprayer, caterpillar tractor, and
. pickup truck also were destroyed when
the shed burned, Ned Vilas Sr., said he
About $30,000 in
Damage Results.
From Farm Fire
At least $30,000 worth of
equipment was destroyed
when a shed burned to
the ground at Ned Vilas' .orch
ard in the Central Point area
Friday afternoon.
Equipment destroyed in
cluded a caterpillar tractor,
another tractor, a speed-sprayer,
and a pickup truck, ac
cording to Ned Vilas Jr., son
of the orchard owner. Both
the shed and equipment were
insured, Vilas Sr., said. Tanks
of smudge oil and diesel oil
and a stack of hay also were
destroyed. '
Cause of the fire is unde
termined. Ned Vilas Jr. said
he spotted the fire and called
the Central Point rural fire
department about 2:18 p.m.
Kept Flames from Spreading
Neighbors, volunteer fire
men and 1 a : crew irom Cali
fornia Oregon Power company
used garden hoses and hoses
from two pumpers and two
tankers to successfully keep
the flames from spreading to
a barn and house. Flames had
alreadv ' charred narts of a
woodshed, two-car garag and
the Copco power pole.
Vaughn Beer, a Copco line
man said nis crew was en-
route to a job when they
saw the fire truck. The Copco
truck followed since crew
members thought a power
pole might be endangered.
Camp White Man
Dies in City Jail
William Russell Blaine, 39,
of Camp White, died in city
jail at 2:25 p.m. Friday, ac
cording to city police.
Police said they arrested
him two hours earlier on a
charge of drunk in public. He
had been picked up on Fourth
st. between Central ave. and
Bartlett st., police reported.
Henry Converse Lanigan,
a transient in jail at the time,
saw Blaine collapse and sum
moned police to the cell.
Police Chief Charles P.
Champlin called in a deputy
district attorney, the coroner
and representatives from the
county sheriff s office. A cor
oner's report is expected Mon
day.
Blaine had been arrested
July 22 on a similar charge,
police records show. Dr. E.
G. Everett, Camp white, re
ported Blaine had been con
fined to the guardhouse there
Thursday night for drunken
ness and had been released
Friday at 10 a.m. It was learn
ed he was being treated at
Camp "White for tuberculosis
and "abdominal spasms."
His next of kin was listed
as Mrs. Betty Louise Blaine,
Clovis, Calif., a former wife.
7 railways Seeks to r
Halt Gold Hill Stop '
Continental Pacific Trail
ways has filed an application
with Public Utility Commis
sioner Howard Morgan seekng
permission to abandon service
to a number of Oregon cities,
including Gold Hill. ,
A hearing on the applica
tion will be held at 10 a.m.
Aug. 11, in room 210, public
service building, Salem, Morg
an announced.
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Operating
Reject Wage Offer
Portland ftlPIl Strilrini
Operating Engineers Friday
rejected the "final" wage of
fer of the Associated General
Contractors in a meeting here
killing hopes of a speedy set
tlement to the three-week-old
heavy construction strike.
Union Spokesman P. R.
Wages, business representa
tive of Local 701, said the
vote to reject the AGC offer
oi wages, travel time and ex
tension ft the contract for
three years was 613 to 88.
He said, however, that un
ion members voted unani
mously to. accept the section
of the contract concerning
working conditions which the
two factions had agreed upon.
The AGC said the package
offer was: A 25-cent-an-hour
increase effective April 1,
1958; an added 15-cent hourly
hike Jan. 1, 1959; 10 cents an
hour for pensions July 1,
1959, and 5 per cent an hour
(about 17 lA cents an hour)
Jan. 1, 1960.
Wages said members of the
union in other parts of the
state will vote on the offer at
the special meetings either
Monday or Tuesday nights. He
said these meetings will be
Argument Ends
In Gun Wound
A two-man argument in a
cabin on South Stage rd.
ended with the shooting of
one man Friday evening,
wounding him in the hand,
according to state police.
Steve Dinkins, no address,
given, was . shot by Herbert
Joe Taylor, 52, Hillsboro, Ore.
police said. Dinkins told of
ficers Taylor ordered him to
leave the cabin they shared,
and as he was about to do so,
Taylor pointed a gun at him.
The two then struggled, ac
cording to the injured man,
and several shots were fired.
State police were called to
the scene by Mrs. Paul Hen
rricksen, 594 South Stage rd.
at 9:22 p.m.
Taylor fled before officers
arrived, but was apprehended
by Medford city police with
in an hour and a 'half on
Front st.
State police, sheriffs depu
ties, and city police cooperat
ed in the hunt for Taylor, set
ting up road blocks through
out the area. Medford police
said he offered no resistance
when asked to go with them
to the police station.
A .22 caliber rifle, believed
to be the weapon used in the
shooting, was found in Tay
lor's car when he was arrest
ed. Taylor is being held in the
county jail charged with as
sault with a dangerous wea
pon, police said.
WEATHER
FORECAST: Variable cloudiness
this .afternoon and tonight. Fair
Monday. Isolated thunderstorms
in mountain! this evening. High
today 88. Low tonight 56. High
Monday 90.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 91
Lowest Yesterday , 66
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today 7:30 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow 5:06 a.m.
Moonrise tonight 9:21 p.m.
The-bright "star" seen lower
in the southwest each evening
for the next two months is the
planet, Jupiter. Tonight it -will
be about 10 degrees above the
horizon as the Moon rises.
did not know the cause of the fire. Dam
age was estimated to be at least $30,000.
Two tankers and pump trucks from the
Central Point rural fire department were
used to keep the flames from spreading
to other buildings.
Engineers
in Klamath rails, Medlord,
Pendleton, Coos Bay, Eugene
and either Halfway or Rich
land for workers who have
been employed on the dam
projects in the Hells Canyon
stretch of the Snake river.
The AGC meanwhile, asked
the Oregon highway depart
ment and the U. S. reclama
tion bureau to delay bid op
enings on the Prineville dam
on the Crooked river and all
state highway work because
of : the strike. The organiza
tion said it was "impossible
to estimate cost properly" at
this time.
The dispute has halted
more than $400 million worth
of heavy construction in Ore
gon and southwest Washing
ton.
Snider Nominated
For Second Term
Three petitions with 75 sig
natures nominating John W.
Snider for a second term as
Mayor were filed at city hall
Friday, according to Mrs.
Updike, acting city recorder.
Petitions nominating Stan
ley Stark and Robert L. Bac
cus for city councilman, as
well as two more ' petitions
for Mayor Snider, are cur
rently in circulation, she said.
Stark would represent Ward
4 and Baccus, Ward 3.
Stanley C. Jones Jr., for
mer city councilman, and
Paul Meyers, city council
man from Ward 4 at present,
are circulating the petitions
for Mayor Snider and Stark.
Jones is circulating the peti
tion for Baccus as well, it is
understood.
The deadline for filing peti
tions will be "around the end
of August," according to City
Attorney E. Roy Bashaw. The
city charter sets a deadline of
35 days before election. How
ever, Bashaw explained, the
nominees would appear on the
same ballot as state and coun
ty candidates. - Deadline for
the ballot is 65 days prior to
election, which this year is
November 4. -
"I Can Lick Any
In The
Murphy Arrives in
Baghdad for Talks
With New Officers
Two Marines Released
After Formal Action
Baghdad, Iraq (DPD Th
United States formally recog
nized Iraq's new revolution
ary regime Saturday.
Shortly afterward, Iraqi au
thorities freed two U.S. Mar
ine sergeants who had been
held in custody here for 70
hours.
The release of the two Am
ericans came almost simul-,
taneously with the arrival in
Baghdad of presidential en
voy Robert Murphy who flew
here for talks with the new
Iraqui government leaders.
The two Marines had been
held for questioning along
with about 50 other foreign
ers picked up in the vicinity
of a vast oil fire in Baghdad
last Wednesday.
Flies from Beirut
Murphy, Deputy U. S. Un
dersecretary of State, flew in
from Beirut late Saturday aft
ernoon following the an
nouncement of U. S. recogni
tion of the new Iraqui gov
ernment. U. S. Ambassador Walde
mar Gallmain delivered a
State Department message to
Iraqui Foreign Minister Ab
del Gabbar establishing tha
diplomatic relations only 19
days after the coup that over
threw the late King Faisal's
regime.
Murphy, veteran U. S. dip
lomatic "trouble-shooter,"' be
gan a round of talks with top
Iraqui officials including Pre
mier. Abdul Kerim Kassem
shortly after his arrival. No
information on the talks was
expected until today, when
Murphy was scheduled - to
leave for Cairo.
Stand by UN Charter
The United States, in recog
nizing the revolutionary re
gime, noted the Premier Ab
dul Karim Kassem's govern
ment had assured United Na
tions Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold it would stand
by the UN charter and other
international obligations.
The note ' delivered here
also extended the United
States' "good wishes" to the
Baghdad government.
Ambassador Gallmain said
the Iraqui government was
very "pleased" at the Ameri
can recognition. He said the
Iraqui foreign minister made
a statement underlining the
many years of close and
friendly relations between
the two countries.
Seven Drown in River '
Near Princeton, Calif,
Princeton, Calif. (DPD
A car filled with nine persons
plunged into the Sacramento
river last night and seven of
them drowned.
Colusa sheriffs deputies re
ported that two families of
farm workers from El Paso,
Tex., had been riding in the
vehicle. Shortly after 8:30
p.m. seven bodies were re-
I covered from the river.
Other Peace-Lover
House"