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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 20, 1958)
r ' f fit J mm m MHgS SCRUB DOWN COW Michele Nie haus, 11, of Medford, and Donna Geren, 11, of Eagle Point's Antelope 4-H club, scrub down Donna's entry in the 4-H dairy division in the 4-H, FFA Fair. Mi chele is not "a 4-H clubber but helps her Complaints Heard On Fair Grounds Complaints on the condi tions of the county fair grounds were made yesterday by Jackson county fair board members and 4-H leaders. They complained that the county court has been asked repeatedly to sprinkle the grounds to lay the dust, dur ing the 4-H and FFA fair, but had failed to do so. The fair board this winter and spring had requested also that gravel be spread on the main road into the 4-H and FFA buildings and also around the wash stands. A group headed by Arm in Rich- ter, Medford contractor, this year donated and constructed new wash stands for cleaning livestock, according to Bill Bigham, chairman of the fair board. "We have asked the county court repeatedly to sprinkle the fairgrounds each morn ing to lay the dust," Bigham said. "So far they haven't done it." He added that the county court has failed also to get rid of a pile of weeds which theyj dumped in the center of "the parking area. - The county court was asked at budget time for a new building costing an estimated $30,000, but refused, Bigham said. "I've helped around the fair for 22 years and been a 4-H leader for 20 years and this is the first time the coun ty court has been asked for money to improve the grounds that I have ever Western Oregon Closed to Logging Salem (UPD Much of western Oregon was ordered closed to logging effective at midnight Tuesday because of continued high forest fire danger. State Forestry Department officials, who reported several small blazes in Oregon, closed down operation of .power driven machinery used in log ging and sawmilling in zones 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 and the Lane county portion of zone 7. The closed areas includes land north of the Douglas county line and -west of the summit of the Cascades with exception of the coastal strip as far north as Otis junction, and the floor of the Willam ette valley north of Lane county. Lighthouse ....... .--s:-: - - w.- zz.i V.l - heard of," Bigham said. County Commissioner Ches ter Wendt said yesterday af ternoon he was trying to contact a water truck to wet down the grounds. He did not know of any request for gravel for the grounds, the county commissioner said. A lot of gravel was dumped in there last year, he added. Asked about erection of a new fair building, Wendt said "there is quite a possibility for it." It is up to the budget committee, however, he add ed. Miss America To Arrive Here Final touches are being ap- Dlied to booths and interior decorations at the New Na tional Guard armory today in preparation for the formal opening of the Kiwanis club's county fair at 5:30 p.m. to morrow, according to . Russ Jamison,' fair manager. First stage presentation will be at 8 p.m. Those groups having con cessions at the fair have been asked to meet at the armory at 7 p.m. to get their space assignments. Jamison added. Registrations for fair entries will start at 9 a.m. tomorrow. Everyone is welcome, even those who previously nave not sent in an entry will be welcome, he said. Marilyn Van Derbur, Miss America, is scheduled to ar rive at the Medford municipal airport at 7 p.m., where she will be met by representa tives of the city, Medford Jun ior Chamber of Commerce and Kiwanians. It may be possible for her to make a brief , appearance at the fair, Jamison added. The four-day affair will in clude- more than 100 different demonstrations, exhibits and events, the spokesman said. Included will be commer cial and non-commercial ex hibits, concessions, games, stage shows, food, textile, flo ral and land products exhibits and a number of other events yet to be announced, the fair spokesman said. Salem (UPD Twelve pro fessionally landscaped gar dens will be a feature of the floral and garden show at the Oregon State Fair, opening here Aug. 28. friend.with her entries at fair time every year. Tomorrow swine will be judged. Other events include the dairy judging contest, beef and sheep judging and swine showmanship. The 4-H, FFA fair ends Saturday. Eight Cities' Tax Mill Rates Up; Decrease in Two Tax millage rates in all Jackson county incorporated communities but two in creased this year, it was re ported today by County as sessor Ray Schumacher. The two cities in which the rates decreased were Jackson ville, down 7 mills, and Gold Hill, down 3.6 mills. The oth er eight went up. 'Largest increases were in Rogue River, up 10.9 mills, and Butte Falls, up 10.3 mills. Medford millage increased 2.6 mills, and Ashland went up 1 mill. Other increases were in Phoenix up 4.3; Cen tral Point, up 5.5; Eagle Point, up .17; and Talent, up 1.2. Here are the millage rates for the county's incorporated cities, showing new rate first, and that for the 1957-58 tax year in parentheses: Ashland, 15.6 (14.6); Butte Falls, 19.6 (9.3); Central Point, 20.3 (14.8); Eagle Point, 22.4 (20.7); Gold Hill, 22.5 (26.1); Jacksonville. 22.R r29.8Y MprU I ford, 27.6 (25); Phoenix, 32! (27.7); Rogue River, 20.2 (9.3); Talent, 22.1 (20.9). . Tax rates in the various service districts held fairly steady from one year to the next, with the largest gain in the Central Point Rural Fire district, up 2.7 mills. Next highest increase was in the Elk City Water district, up 1.8 mills. All others varied less than one mill. Widest fluctuation was in the school districts of the county, and at least a portion of these were accounted for by the new state school laws, and rearrangement of tax ob ligations. Schumacher said he is preparing a comparative study of the school districts tax rates to put them in a per spective more accurate than is possible by just listing the millage rates. Milage rates are computed by the assessor by applying the total budget of the taxing unit (city, school district, etc.) ; to the total assessed valuation. I The millage rate itsejf repre- i sents tne amount that will be charged (in tenths of once cent) on each $1 of assessed valuation of property in thej taxing unit. The rate any individual tax payer will pay on his property depends on the millage rates of the taxing units where his property is. The county is divided into "code zones" according to the taxing units involved. This year zone 1-1 (city of Jackson, ville) has the highest rate in the county, 108 mills, which includes the city, the school district and the rural school levy. Lowest . rate is in code zones 5-2 and 5-3, just outside Ashland, with a combined rate of only 43.3 mills, includ ing the Ashland school district and the rural school levy. The county itself has no millage rate this year, as no tax levy is being made. The county this year has adequate income and reserves to oper ate without a tax levy. WEATHER FORECAST: Scattered, thunde storms this evening. Consid erable cloudiness tonight. Part ly cloudy Thursday. Low to night 60. High Thursday 92-95. Temp. Highest Yesterday 96 Lowest this Morning 60 Free, to 10 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today ... 7:06 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:24 a.m. Moonset tonight ..10:30 p.m. First Quarter Tomorrow PROMINENT STAR Vega, high overhead 8:49 p.m. The Earth and entire solar system are moving through space in the generai direction ot Vega, the fourth brightest star. 53 rd year Medford 16 Pages District Judge Issue Now Set For Friday Trial Circuit Judge Edward C. Kelly has set Friday morning at 9:30 o'clock as the trial date on the disputed district judgeship in Jackson county. At that time he will hear the various actions whieh have been filed with regard to the legal dispute over which, if either, of the pri mary candidates is the legal candidate for district judge E. Roy Bashaw received the lesser number of votes, but Robert G. Danielson, the ma jority vote getter, is alleged to have lost his eligibility for the nomination by' moving from the county before the election. The latest action in the case was taken yesterday when Danielson filed an answer to an earlier Bashaw complaint in which Bashaw reauested that Danielson be declared in eligible and the plaintiff have his name placed on the No vember ballot alone and un opposed. Bashaw had claimed that Danielson was not eligible for the nomination;, that he was not and is not now a resident of this district, and that Danielson himself de clared his ineligibility and abandoned his candidacy for office prior to the May 16 pri mary. Danielson denies all of these allegations and in turn alleges that the circuit court lacks jurisdiction to act fur ther in the case. He also re fers to earlier action taken by Richard J. House in which House contested his nomina tion. Danielson alleges that since that case is still unde termined, he could be faced by court orders- directly con trary to each other and which might place him in possible contempt for obeying one judgment or the other. Seeks Dismissal . In light of this argument, he requests that Bashaw's ac tion be held in abeyance until the other contest has been de termined or dismissed. The answer concludes with a re quest for dismissal of the complaint and recovery of costs and disbursements. Judge Kelly also antici pates hearing arguments Fri day for setting aside the tem porary restraining order which he issued last Friday forbidding the county clerk from entering the name of any candidate for district judge on the November bal lot, he said. In other action involving the disputed case, a nominat ing convention is to be held Thursday evening to name a candidate for the judgeship in question. , The convention is set for 8 p.m. in the Esquire theater. The name of the conven tion nominee would presum-' ably appear on the ballot if neither Bashaw nor Danielson is found eligible. Scenic Protection Bill to White House Washington (UPD The Sen ate Tuesday night accepted House amendments to the Rogue river scenic protection bill and sent the measure to the White House. . Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) told the Senate that the bill would authorize land exchanges in the Siskiyou Na tional Forest to safeguard rec reational areas along -the banks of the Rogue below Grants Pass. Rep. Charles Porter (D Ore.) initiated the measure in the House. Truckers, Union Open Talks Today San Diego (UPD Trucking industry representatives and Teamster Union ' spokesmen open talks today in a nine day strike-lockout which has all but paralyzed common carrier freight haulage in the West. Federal mediator George Hillenbrand, San Francisc6, along with a mediation team of Ralph Patterson, San Frn cisco, and Stephen D. Halli gan, Denver, were prepared to supervise the meeting. - MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1958 SWEAT AT SARDINE CREEK Parch ed by smoke and dust, this crew of young volunteers cuts a crucial fire trail barely a shovel's length from the flames. Later LumberShipments Would Increase if Rate Was Lowered San Francisco (UPD A Fnoenix number executive said today if Southern Pacific is permited to reduce freigh rates he will increase the amount of lumber shipped from Southern Oregon . by rail. ; Testimony of Larry Ham- man Wholesale Lumber and Supply company paralleled that of E. Earl Arthur, vice president of Weyerhaeuser Sales Company. Arthur said Tuesday his firm would in crease lumber shipments into California if SP is permitted to cut freight rates. Both were called by SP as it presented its case at an In terstate Commerce Commis sion hearing on its proposal to . cut lumber freigh rates between southern Oregon and southern California 'and Ari- z o n a. Northern California lumbermen, who enjoy lower freight rates to the south, are opposing the request. Shipmenls Decrease Arthur said since Oregon rates were raised above those for northern California in 1954, Weyhaeiiser's lumber shipments into California have decreased steadily. He said they dropped from 40 to 15 per cent of total ship ments at Klamath Falls, Ore., and from 15 to 9 per cent at Springfield, Ore. He said they are now at the point where customers are demanding truck han dling for. speed and lower ul timate cost. -If the new rates are not granted, he said, the shipments probably will have to go to trucks. Arthur said the new Tates would have no effect on ship ments at Coos Bay, Ore., where- 96 per cent of the shipments go by sea. Somebody Get Hurt Arthur admitted that if Weyerhaeuser increased "its shipments' into California, somebody would get hurt; most likely northern Califor nia mills. : . Earlier, E. J. Larson, freight traffic manager for SP, said the decision to re duce . southern Oregon rates was made for a two-fold rea son: To enable Oregon mills to comoete with nearby north ern California mills once again, and to Drevent further losses of rail lumber business to trucks. Larson 'said that before 1954. northern California and southern Oregon and equality of lumber rates. : . Genera Assembly Has Night Sessions , United Nations. N.Y. (UPD The United Nations Gener al Assembly began overtime sessions today to speed pass age of a Western proposal to send U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold to the Middle East in search of peace. 16) M. Ul IS W ITU Faber Won't Run For C. P. Mayor Central Point Don Faber, mayor of Central Point for two terms, and a two-term councilman before that, said today he will not seek reelec tion this year. "I'm a controversial figure here," he said in explaining his' decision. And he added that he believes , several im "portant decisions facing the city can be worked out better if he relinquishes any official status for the time being, "The question of Central Point annexing to Medford is one of the things under., dis cussion, and it's a hot one," he said. "I don't want to enter into the arguments at this time, and in an official ca pacity." Faber , also pointed out that he believes city offices should be rotated, and not held by th same individual too long, and said that two term each as mayor and councilman are "enough for a while." He added, however, that he may run for the council again later, after "a long vacation," and after he gets several business matters straightened out. He said he- and Mrs. Fa ber plan to travel some next year. He also said that there has been misinformation concern ing a subdivision he is devel oping, with some people hold ing the incorrect opinion that the city was paying for the streets and sewers. "I'm pay ing for it all," he said, "but it will go to the city when it's complete." Improvements Slow Faber added that street and sewer improvement in the city is not moving fast enough to suit him, and he thinks that, with a "less controver sial mayor," progress can be speeded up. Faber's announcement came just prior to an adjourned council meeting scheduled for tonight, at which time consid eration will be given to di viding the city into three wards, as permitted in the city charter after the town's population exceeds 1,000 per sons. City Attorney Kent Black hurst has prepared a tentative ordinance, which 'provides that all the city west of Sec ond st. will be one ward; that portion east of Second st. and north of Pine st. will be another, and that the portion south of Pine and east of Sec ond st. shall be the third. The citv has six council- men, three or whom are elect ed each two years. Blackhurst said that, by -chance, two councilmen now live in each of the three wards, thus satis fying the charter require ment that each ward be rep resented equally. Councilmen who have al ready filed, for nomination must do so again if the ward ordinance is approved, Faber said this morning. He also said he recommends to the voters that their new mayor be a former council man, someone who is experi enced in city government and Tribune VALLEY reinforced by a "cat," their mission yes terday afternoon was to turn the flank of the blaze high up on the ridge w?st of Sardine creek. familiar with the problems He mentioned by name Coun cilmen Mervin Gleason, Les ter Bingham and E. R. Yocum as good possibilities for mayor. Wilkes Nominated For Council Seat Roy P. Wilkes today be- came the second official can didate for city councilman from Ward 1. -. A petition in his name bear ing 65 signatures was filed this morning with the city re corder. A petition naming William -Doernbach was filed last Friday. Fred E. Robin son, the-incumbent Ward 1 councilman, also has an nounced his intention to run but his petition has not been filed, as yet. Wilkes, 1863 Crater Lake ave., owns the Brookhurst orchard. He was at one time a college professor and re search scientist, and served as an officer in the Navy in World War II.' A former member of the city budget committee, Wilkes was organizer and leader of the recent drive for munici pal services in the Kenwood Grandview district area. He has appeared before both the council and planning commis sion, speaking in favor of the Sears-Roebuck shopping cen ter development - and early zoning of the Kenwood Grandview and Berrydale areas, and in opposition to the proposed subdivision ordi nance. De Gaulle Starts Trip To African Possessions Paris (UPD Premier Charles de Gaulle begins a 12.000-miie tour of France's colonial possessions in Africa today to win support from 19 million African voters for his constitutional reforms. BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 1- 19 1 New York 7 8.1 Bell, Ferrarese (7). Mar tin (8) and Nixon; D it mar and Howard. Home runs: Berra. New York. . Chicago 10 . 16 1 Boston '. 8 13 1 Wilson, Shaw (5), Lown (6), Staley (9) and Lollar; Bowsfield, Wall (1), For nieles (3). Byerly (7), Kiely (8) and White. HR Wil liams, Bos. NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh u...; 4 9 0 Chicago -2 9 0 Kline, Gross (8). Face (9) and Hall, Foilei (9); Hill man, Alston (8), Henry (9) and S. Taylor, Neeman (9). Long (9). Home runs: Stuart, Pittsburgh; S. Taylor. Chi cago. . Price 10 Cents No. 130 Sardine Creek Area Fire Now Under Control A spectacular electric storm, one of a, series which have hit the southern Oregon area this summer, struck the val ley and the surrounding mountains last night. It started a number of fires in federal and state protected forests. The exact number of fires was not de termined by noon today, but was expected to exceed 20. The state department of forestry, already busy fight ing a big brush and timber - A total of 951 persons sat through adverse weath er condition's to see "The Merchant of Venice" at Ashland's Sli kespearean Festival theater last night. About 100 persons could not attend the production, which started at 8:30 p.m. with actors and actresses in street clothes. During an intermission later, when the stage was cleared of water, the com pany changed into cos tumes and finished the pro duction. Festival officials said no "one got up to leave during the performance. fire on Sardine creek, was "spread pretty thin" this morning in the wake of the storm. Additional supervisor personnel from Coos Bay was flown here today to take charge of some fixe fighting crews. . 350 Acres 7 ' ' : The Sardine creek fire to taled about 350 acres this morning, and crewmen had achieved control of the blaze Origin of the fire was not known. Both the state department and the U. S. forest service had planes in the air today to spot any additional fires resulting from last night's lightning strikes. Rain accompanying the storm varied in amount ac cording to location. The Med ford weather bureau station recorded only a trace of pre cipitation, but far heavier amounts fell elsewhere, al though not enough to dampen the dry woods enough to re move the fire hazard. Little Damage To Crops Little damage to crops in the county, or, to-utility in stallations, was reported this morning The Sardine creek fire broke out about noon yester day on the west side of Sar dine Creek rd., about one mile from the old highway route. The flames spread to the west and over several ridges. An estimated 100 to 150 forest patrol and logging crewmen have been sent to the scene since the fire broke out, although not all have been on the blaze at one time. Two tread tractors were sent in yesterday. Patrol headquarters said that most of the lightning fires were on the east side of the county and that crews had been sent to most of them. A forestry department plane was flown in from Salem to assist with fire spot ting. It came by way " of Coos Bay where two foremen were picked up. The Rogue River National forest said this morning that it had reports of hundreds of strikes "iut. so far. .no fires." Aerial check, of .south. half of the forest was being made. The Rogue forest reportedly received more rain from the storm than did state protected land. A forest service spokes man said that the rain may have put out any fires or at least held them down until a later and warmer time of day. There were eight fires re ported this morning in a small area west of Grayback mountain in Siskiyou Nation al forest. Seattle (UPD A safe in the accounting office of the Uni versity of Washington was burglarized early today and $2,500 in currency was re ported missing. Ike Says States Responsible for Their Obligations Position Same As It Was Last Year Washington (UPD Presi dent Eisenhower said today -there can be "no equivoca tion as to the responsibility, of the federal government" to see that court rulings on school integration are carried out. He also said that each state has the responsibility to see that the court mandates ; are not opposed by violence. "It (a state) cannot by ac tion or deliberate failure to act permit violence to frus trate the preservation of indi vidual rights as determined by a court decree,", the Presi dent said in a statement which he read at the opening of a news conference. "It is my hope that each ' state will fulfill its obligation with a full realization of the gravity of any other course." Defiance by a state of this duty would present "the most serious problem,'.' he said. "But there can be no equiv ocation as to the responsibility of the federal government in' such an event," he said. N Use Of U.S. Troops The President said his posi tion was exactly that of a year ago. He then quoted from a statement then in.' which he said: "The very basis of our in dividual rights and freedoms rests upon the certainty that the president and the execu-. tive branch of government will support and insure the carrying out of the decisions of the federal courts." The President did not spe cifically mention the use of troops. But his statement ap peared to make it clear that he would use them again as a last resort. He said that all Americans: must understand that if indi viduals, communities or states are "going successfully and continuously to defy the courts, then there is anarchy." He said that all Americans have "the solemn duty" to comply with final orders of the courts. Eisenhower repeated his oft-expressed belief "that the common sense of the individu al and his feeling of civic re sponsibility must eventually come into play if we are to solve this problem." Judge Overruled The President opened his weekly meeting with report ers by saying that he had prepared a statement in an ticipation of questions about the decision of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Monday. The court set aside a ruling by U.S. District Judge Harry J. Lem ley, Hope, Ark., suspending integration in Little Rock Central High School for two and one-half years. After reading the statement the President . said that he would have nothing further to say on the matter for the present because other phases of school integration contro versies are pending in the courts. But, in answer to later questions, he said there had been preliminary negotiations looking toward talks between himself and his aides and Gov. Lindsey Almond Jr. of Vir ginia on the racial integration situation in schools in that state, particularly at Arling ton just across the Potomac from Washington, and . Nor folk. ; ' Thousands of families of federal employees live in these two areas. Boys Sought for Starting Fires Two boys, believed to be between 10 and 12 years old, were being sought today by city police and firemen m connection with ah attempt to set fire to an automobile on West 13th st. yesterday after noon. : v According to reports, some one about 2:15 p.m. yesterday started fires in cars belonging to Herman Budd Mitchell, 720 West 13th st. and Donald Arthur Greaves, 716 West 13th st. Firemen answered an. alarm, but the Mitchell car was reported totally de stroyed. The Greaves car suf fered a 3 to 5 inch burn on the front seat, according to police Later, a witness reported seeing two boys ride up to the Mitchell car and attempt to drop a match onto the seat. Police believe the boys may have been responsible for the earlier fires as well.
