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Bissqii Pre iklM 0) SHED. FIRE -Medford Fire Capt. Charley Hobbs shoots a stream of water on the roof of a shed behind a house at 215 South Front st. The shed caught fire Saturday from what is believed to be a transient's ciga Ledger Seen To Substantiate Inconsistency in EP Penalties By ERIC WENTWORTH Mail Tribune Staff Writer The Eagle Point Irrigation district's assessment ledger apparently substantiates Mrs. Howard Todd's complaint of inconsistency in levying pen alties for late payment of water assessments. Mrs. Todd stated at a meet ing of the district . directors Sept. 2 that these penalties had been charged against some delinquent water-users and not against others. Other complaints made by Mrs. Todd at that meeting and more recently are being studied by District Attorney Thomas J. Reeder, "I am continuing my in vestigation of the matter." Reeder said Friday. "I will take appropriate action when the investigation of the dis trict has been completed." "In going over the assess ment rolls of the District," Mrs. Todd stated, "it has come to our attention that the Dis trict has failed to charge in terest for late payments of assessments to certain water users. However, it appears that the District has required other users to pay the 8 per cent interest on the annual assessments." t Mrs. Todd's complaint men tioned specifically Clarence J. Greb, a director of the dis trict, Ted Flury, tts secretary manager, and Mrs. Thelma Short, its bookkeeper, as not having been charged penalties in certain years. Mrs. Short admitted Friday she had not charged the pen alties in some cases, includ ing her own. She denied, how ever, that Flury ever paid his assessment late. She said she had used her discretion in not charging for late payments by certain other water-users be sides herself and Greb. "I admit I did it," she said. "I did it on my own author ity." The records reveal that Mrs. Short did not charge herself penalties for late pay ments in 1953, 1955 and 1957. According to her figures, the total of such penalties would have amounted toS8.48. In Greb's case, the records show delinquent payments for two tracts since 1954 and for two other tracts since 1955 Hatfield Tells For Executive Portland -(DPD- Secretary of State Mark Hatfield today ac cused the state administration of "carelessness with govern ment money" and said he would work toward economy in the exeeutive department if he is elected governor. Hatfield told the Portland Chamber of Commerce that the director of finance and ad ministration, under the ap pointive power of the gov ernor, has predicted a $60 mil lion increase in the General Fund budget for the 1959-61 biennium. The Republican nominee for governor said: "We cannot af ford to continue this type of increasing state expenditures. "Increased expenditures mean increased taxes; taxes come out of the porfkets of No penalties against Greb have been recorded. Flury, according to the records, has consistently paid his assessments on time for one tract. Flury's name appears on the district's assessment roll for two other tracts. These, he said Friday, are being bought from him on contract. For one tract, reportedly being sold to Chet Flury, his brother, late payment was Lumber Promotion Tallcs Scheduled How the West Coast Lum bermen's association and na tional advertising plans dove tail to give maximum value to the mill subscribers will, be, explained by H. V. Simpson, executive vice president of WCLiA, during a meeting of the association in the Jack son j hotel tonight. Dinner is scheduled for 7 p.m. and will be preceeded by a social hour at 6 p.m. . Proposed grading rule changes in some west coast species to conform to FHA requirements will also be discussed. The changes are de signed to insure better ac- UAW Expected To Reject Proposals Detroit - (UPD .-The United Auto Workers Union, head ing toward a climax of almost six months of contract nego tiations, was expected to re ject offers by General Motors and Chrysler Corp. today and present a counter-offer of its own. General Motors, largest of the "big three" auto produc ers, and Chrysler proposed Saturday, the union accept substantially the same terms from them that it ' did last Wednesday from Ford Motor Co. But UAW President Walter P. Reuther called the offers "just the start of bargaining" and said he wanted more than a "carbon copy" of the Ford pact. of Plans Economy businessmen and working men alike, he said. In his own department of state, Hatfield said, expenses have been trimmed in several agencies. For instance, he said, a change in distribution pro cedures, with the co-operation of the county clerks, has ef fected a savings of more than $30,000 in pay for temporary employees in putting out the voters' pamphlet, and added that "by careful planning and more economical use of per sonnel, supplies and equip ment another $35,000 will be saved in the Elections Divis ion alone." He added that there were fewer employees on the Department of State payroll on Sept. 15, 1958, than on Jan. 6, 1957, despite an ever increasing workload. rette. Hobbs is flanked by Firemen Elmer Tompkins and Bob Swindler. A partition and part of the shed roof were burned. Owner is George Howard, 713 West 10th st. made in 1956. The indicated penalty, $3.31, according to Mrs. Short's figures, was ap parently not paid. A penalty of $5.19 was paid along with a late assessment Sept. 8 of this year, the records show. For the second tract, the records reveal a penalty of $3.19 paid for late payment assessment in 1957, and no payment of assessment this year as of Sept. 19. (Continued on Page 11) ceptance of west coast lum ber in tthe .'. nation's home building program, a spokes man- said.' - '' ' Arthur. ,W Priaulx,. public relations director, and Em mett Stoddard, field repre sentative of the West Coast Lumbermen's a s s o c i a tion, will take part in the program with Simpson. "We hope that every lum ber manufacturer will attend this meeting," Simpson stated, "because policies established here may well affect lumber's ability to compete' with other materials in the years ahead. Lumbermen of southern Oregon and northern Califor nia will receive a preview of the - million-dollar national wood promotion program and a look at the 1958 advertis ing and promotion plans of the West Coast Lumbermen's association, a spokesman said Labor Contractor Licenses Proposed Redmond - (UPD - The gover nor's committee on migrant labor Saturday adopted a res olution asking for a law to license all labor contractors in Oregon. Under the proposal contrac tors would receive temporary permits from the farm place ment service and be licensed by the state labor commis sioner after meeting certain standards. Another resolution approv ed was to ask the legislature for $50,000 for a "pilot edu cational fund."- School dis tricts could apply for grants to pay the cost of educating the children of migrant work ers and colleges could ask for grants to use in teacher train ing, with migrant children as pupils. , Parole Violation Charges Brought James Michael Hughes, a transient, was held in Med ford jail today on a parole violation charge following his arrest here yesterday for be ing drunk in public He received a $10 fine this morning in Municipal court, suspended on the .condition that he leave .town by noon. But police said they learned that he had been sentenced to 3V years at the Oregon State penitentiary last February for assault and robbery. It was reported he had been paroled to custody of the Veterans hospital in Portland for med ical treatment. teres Wd 53rd Year Medford 16 Pages Adams Addresses Nation Following Talks With Ike Unprecedented Statement Made. Newport, R. I. - (DPD - Sher man Adams was to address the nation by radio and tele vision today,, presumably to announce his resignation as the President's chief assist ant. . , His decision to make an un precedented public statement was announced after he flew here for a dramatic, unexpect ed series of meetings with President Eisenhower and other White House staff mem bers. Adams was to speak from a Washington broadcast stu dio from 2:35 to 2:45 p.m. (p.s.t.) No Hint of Decision White House Press Secre tary James C. Hagerty, who accompanied him . back to Washington to prepare the statement, said only , that Adams would announce whether he will resign as a re sult of the ' political storm raised by his "imprudent" ac ceptance of gifts from Boston industrialist Bernard Gold- fine. Hagerty refused to hint at what. Adams', -decision-would be, but reports in both Wash ington and Newport indicated Adams would bow out of his top White House job because of political pressure resulting from his friendship with the gift-giving Goldfine. The press secretary said "pthers have expressed them selves through media of the national circulation" on the Adams - Goldfine controversy, "and Mr. Adams now wishes to have a similar opportu nity." Fire Destroys Hornbrook Home Hornbrook Fire about midnight Friday destroyed the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Withearl while the couple and their two small boys were away on a hunting trip. California Division of For estry fire trucks from Horn brook and Yreka, as well as the Hornbrook fire truck, were brought to the scene, but firemen were unable to control the blaze. All of the family's posses sions were destroyed, includ ing Withearl's carpenter tools, with which he earned a liv ing. There was no insurance on the house, or its contents, Withearl said. Voter Registration Mobile Units Set Non-partisan mobile voter's registration booths will be lo cated in front of Mann's de partment store from 5 to 9 p.m. and at the Big Y from 7 to 9 p.m. today, it was an nounced by' Democratic head quarters. . Canvassers will go door-to-. door in the Big Y area to en courage residents to make use of the booth if they have not already registered, the an nouncement stated. Freeze Warnings in Central Oregon Area Portland - (DPD The weather man issued a freeze warning for central Oregon plateau areas for tonight and said snow flurries could be expected in the mountains above 5000 feet. There also is the possibility of some light frost in low areas of the Willamette val ley. RED. CHIG3A SAID' GaOVfflfi VESSELS MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1958 Deer Hunting Season Expected To Open Ocf. 4 Salem UPD Gov. Rob ert D. Holmes said today he saw "little likelihood'' of a postponement of the Ore gon deer hunting season which -opens Oct. 4. The governor said au tumn rains had brought re lief to most fir danger areas. The 1957 hunting season, was delayed by the gov ernor but a late downpour then permitted lifting of the ban. Hungarian Item Voted Spot on UN Debate Agenda United Nations, N.Y. -(UPD- The United States declared today that the Soviet-supported Hungarian Communist regime must resort to "revolt ing spectacles of secret trials and executions" to remain in power. ' U.S. Ambassador Henry Ca bot Lodge made the statement refuting Soviet attempts to block a new . Hungarian de bate in the U.N. General As sembly. . . The assembly voted 61-10, with 10 abstentions (mostly Afro-Asian) to put the Hun garian item on th'e"agerida f or debate later in the session. Red China Debate Looms Assembly President Charles Malik of Lebanon put off un til this " afternoon considera tion of the Chinese represen tation issue, on which a major debate loomed. Debate on the admission of Red China hinged on debate on the agenda for the assem bly session and a report by the steering committee which voted against including this item this year. India, which for two years has sponsored Communist Chi nese membership, indicated it would raise the issue in the assembly. American dele gates were convinced they could defeat the issue which lost last year by a vote of 47 27 with 6 abstentions. Embezzlement Charges Brought Bascom Taylor Buzbee, 42, formerly of North Central ave., Medford, and now of Modesto, Calif., was arraign ed in district court this morn ing on a charge of larceny by embezzlement. . Buzbee, who was returned to Medford this morning from El Paso, Texas, by Medford City Police Lt. Lyle C. Per kins, waived the right to an attorney and preliminary hearing before Judge James M. Main. He was bound over to the grand jury and was lodged in county jail on $1500 bond. Buzbee is charged with em bezzling $633.24 from the Greyhound Post Houses, Inc., Fifth and Bartlett sts.,- June 9. He was arrested ona dis trict court warrant issued June 11. WEATHER FORECAST: Partly cloudy to night and Tuesday. A few light showers mountain. Low tonight 43. High Tuesday 70. Temp. Highest Yesterday 77 Lowest this Morning 53 , Precip. To 10 a.m. Today .' .10 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 6:10 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5:59 a-m. The Sun enters the Sign of Libra tomorrow at 5:10 a.m. This marks the 'Autumnal Equi nox, the beginning of Fall in this hemisphere. Moonset tomorrow 1:57 a.m. Full Moon (Harvest Moon) Sept. 27 PROMINENT STAR Altair, high in south west 9:46 p.m. peon Peiping Warns War Could Come 'At Any Moment' Top Commanders Meet in Taipeh t Taipeh, Formosa -(DPD The Nationalist naval commander said today that Communist China is attempting to move some of its larger ships into the Formosa Strait, where theJ U.S. 7th Fleet is on patrol. Adm. Ling Shau-chao ad' ded, however, that none of the larger type Red naval vessels had been sighted in the strait thus far. The Communist Chinese navy includes one cruiser and several destroyers and sub marines.- Commanders Meet The Nationalist vice defense minister said Sunday that the Reds had moved about one' third of their naval vessels into the Formosa Strait. Meanwhile, top U.S. com manders in the Pacific met to day with Chinese Nationalist military leaders to plot strat egy in the face of Peiping warnings that war could break out at any time with the United States. Adm. Harry D. Felt, com mander of American military forces in the Pacific, and Na tionalist Chinese JVice, Pre mier Chen Cheng headed the groups which met today in the Defense Ministry building in downtown Taipeh. President Chiang Kai-shek joins the meetings Tuesday. Warning From Peiping No communique was issued after the first of two days of conferences. But military quarters believed the talks dealt primarily with Amer ica's role in defending the Formosa area with jet fight ers, atomic capable missiles and the nuclear equipped 7th Fleet. , As they conferred in secret, Radio "Peiping poured out a stream of warnings that, the Communists still were deter mined to take Formosa and the offshore islands. One broadcast said: "The United States is kind ling the flames of war with the Peoples' Republic of China which might be precipitated at any moment." State Centennial Director Selected Astoria (UPD ' The Oregon Centennial Commission meet ing here today appointed Wil liam W. Marsh of Portland director of promotion and publicity for the Centennial. The job pays $1000 a month. Marsh succeeds D.- Donald Lonie Jr., who resigned from the post two weeks ago be cause of pressure of other business. Marsh, who served in the Navy in World War II, joined Western Air Lines at Long Beach, Calif, in 1946. He came to Portland in 1947 as district salesmanager for Western Air Lines, when the Portland of fice was opened. He left WAL in 1951 to become sales man ager for White Stagg. In 1954 he opened his own public re lations office in Portland. Forfeiture Made On Petty Larceny Robert Lee Parnell, 18, of route 2, box 198A, Central Point, forfeited $30 bail in district court this morning when he failed to appear on a charge of petty larceny be fore District Court Judge James M. Main. Parnell was arrested by Medford city po lice Aug. 21 and charged with the theft of several hubcaps. y irntil 9 'Clock ToragBpi- Tribune "Gee, If Only We Could Hoover Enrollment Exceeds Predictions; High School up 300 enrollment at the new Hoover elementary school for the first day today exceeded expectations by approximate ly 15 students, according to Medford school district of ficials. First day enrollment at the Medford senior high school today totalled 1,252, it was reported. This compares to 990 for the first day of school last year. It also represents a 30 per cent or 300 student increase and the largest rise in enrollment at any Medford school. Some students are still out working in the fruit harvest, it was reported. Enrollment in the Hoover school was heaviest in fifth Hospital Decision Up for Discussion The Medford planning com mission may decide how to in terpret "professional and vo cational offices," in connection with a possible sale of the old hospital building on Fast Main st., at a meeting scheduled for 7:30 p.m. today at city hall. City Manager Robert A. Duff told the city council last week that an unidentified group was interested in pur chasing the building provided the uses it contemplated would be permitted in the present zone, "multiple fam ily." The city zoning ordinance permits "professional and vo cational offices" in this zone. One use the group is consider ing, it was reported last week, is branch offices for insurance companies. The commission is also ex pected to consider re-zoning of the Earhart tract east of South Riverside ave. to "com mercial" instead of "limited commercial," which the com mission had recommended in response to a request last week. Under "limited commer cial,," according to City Build ing Inspector Oliver McNeel, some businesses in the area would still be non-conforming. County Funds Get Interest Money An increase in interest rates at the First National Bank of Oregon on time de posits of more than 90 days will give the county between $9,000 and $10,000 more money for the general fund, County Treasurer Karl Janouch said today. The substantial increase in rates will balance the amount i lost during the year, Janouch said, when rates were re duced in May of this year. He reported that approximately $35,000 each year is received by the county in interest. Price 10 Cents No. 156 Have Closed The Courts' SePTfMBEP and sixth grades, a school dis trict official said. . "We have more students in those two grades than, we can handle. This will mean students in those grades living near the boundary line separating Hoover and Roose velt elementary schools will be asked to enroll in Roose velt school," an official said. State standards specify no more than 30 students to a classroom. School opening at Hoover elementary and the high school were delayed . because of construction. Hoover school classrooms are completed with a few accessory items still missing. Work will con tinue in the gym, auditorium and cafeteria building. Work is also continuing on the new industrial arts section at the high school, the cafeteria ex tension, work on classrooms on the second floor and the two art rooms.. The high school work should be com pleted by Thanksgiving, an official said. Lebanon President Faces Strength Test Beirut (DPD A new wave of tension in Lebanon today confronted Pres ident - elect Fuad Chehab with a test of strength even before his scheduled inauguration Tues day. Beirut law was in a coma, with security patrols enforc ing a 24-hour curfew while thousands of armed, undis ciplined men on both sides awaited only a pretext for new violence in this revolt- torn country. AH leaves for U. S. forces in Lebanon were cancelled. Only the most essential Amer ican military traffic was mov ing. Los Angeles (DPD Norton Simon, board chairman of Harbor Plywood Co., has an nounced that the firm's Rid dle, Ore., plant and adjacent timberlands have been sold to the Stomar Lumber Co., of Portland, Ore., for $3,500,000. Television Used To Teach Little Rock School Pupils Little Rock, Ark. (UPt Television integrated the high school students of Little Rock after a fashion today. Fifteen white teachers taught 3,480 students, white and Negro, by television in an emergency program to keep the high schools while closed in an integration crisis from being a complete waste. Negro teachers were not used in the TV project. It was the first time white tea chers had ever instructed most of the Negroes, who total more than 700. Response To Ike's Refusal of Note May Bring Charge Claim of Preventing Far East Peace Seen Washington (DPD-- United States officials today predict ed a new blast of Russian propaganda trying to identify this country with war mong ering in the Far East Presi dent Eisenhower was reported preparing a "sharp" answer to the latest Russian charges. The Soviets were expected to attempt to capitalize on President Eisenhower's rebuff to Soviet Premier Khrush chev by making it appear America is preventing peace in the Far East. Diplomatic observers would not speculate on what they believed would be the official Soviet reaction to Eisenhow er's rejection of the Soviet premier's note. Red Note Abusive But they were certain it would be preceded by an all out propaganda attack charg ing the United States with de liberately preventing any Far Eastern settlement. They not ed the official Soviet news agency Tass already had claimed the United States was unwilling "to listen to the voice of reason." The Tass dispatch they said, undoubtedly would be fol lowed by similar propaganda blasts in the Russian newspa pers and over Radio Moscow. This probably would go on for a day or two before the Soviet government took any "official" action, these obser vers added. The Soviet premier warned against U. S. ."interference" in the Formosa Strait situa tion in his note to Eisenhow er. The President flatly re fused to accept the note and the White House branded it "abusive," "intemperate," "re plete with false accusations' and containing "inadmissible threats." Prepare Policy Statement Tass called Eisenhower's ac tion "a new example of how little these ruling circles con sider the demand of t h e peoples to put an' end to the policy of rattling of . arma ment, which is bringing the world to the brink of war, and to enter on the path of a peaceful settlement of un solved international ques tions." White House Press . Secre tary James C. Hagerty said at the "Vacation White House" in Newport, R. I., Sunday a policy statement on the Formosa situation was be ing prepared for later this week. Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State John Fos ter Dulles by telephone Sun day on the statement. Hagerty declined to give details but said it would be a "sharp" and "detailed" rebuttal to Russian charges and would include constructive recom mendations as well. SOC Schedules Frosh Sign-Up Ashland Registration of all freshmen on Tuesday, from 6 to 8 p.m., will start a round of events at Southern Oregon college in Ashland, according to Dr. Alvin L. Fellers, director of student affairs. Those living in campus halls will register first. Wom en in Susan Holmes hall and the men in the men's dormi tory and off-campus fresh men will register in the lounge of the Britt student center. Discussions, games, dancing and refreshments will be featured in a fireside at Britt student center beginning at 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. As the television program got underway for a total of six hours a day over three commercial television sta tions, reopen - the - schools movements gained momen tum. Two more laywers signed a statement saying Gov. Orval E. Faubus can't legally reopen the public schools as private schools with state money, making a total of 63 signa tures. The lawyers all called for the people to vote for in tegration in a special election Saturday.
