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MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Tuesday, December 16, 1958 Oral Agreement Terms Provide Five-Foot Setback, New Fence (Continued from Page 1) Meanwhile, Boyce reported ly shaved a foot from each unit to reach a five-foot set back and ordered cyclone fencing to be installed along the side lot lines at a height of four feet. These, it is under stood, are the terms of an oral agreement reached with the two adjoining property own ers, who agreed in return to withdraw their objections. No written agreement among the three 'parties has been reported as yet, how ever. Meanwhile, the units are still at least five feet short of the required setback, Ba shaw told the planners. Variance Permitted The zoning ordinance per mits a variance when "hard- shio amounting to the prac tical confiscation of the prop erty" would otherwise result Bashaw pointed out that since th units were built on solid rnnrreto blocks the cost of moving them back another five feet would appear to De nrnhihitive. He said the situation would thus qualify for consideration of a variance, "li tne ouua ings are permitted to remain,' he said, "it should be sane tioned bv law." Hp said that City Manager Robert A. Duff, currently out of town, had asked him to wialro thp reauest. Under normal procedure, if the variance were approved the Dlanners their recom mendation would go before the city council for further consideration by tnat toay. The fate of the court action remains uncertain. Wilkes based his objection 4 th. nark reauirement in z the proposed subdivision ordi nance on a recent aecision w Multnomah county in which a circuit judge upheld such a requirement. . Judge James W. Crawford held that it was an exercise of police power for regulation rather than of the power to tax. Hence, he said, no comT pensation was necessary for the property taken. Seized by Power MIf residential property can be seized by police power for park purposes," Wilkes told the planners, "then business property can be seized by po : lice power for parking pur poses. "If this Is to become the policy of Medford, then suit able portions of each down town block can be seized, cleared off, paved and the off street parking problem solved. 'As Judge Crawford states, since this is an exercise of . police power no compensation need to be paid. "I think" you surely can see this is a dangerous pol ; icy," he said, "and it certain ly has no place in a subdivis ion ordinance." City officials are reportedly still considering a list of 20 changes, mostly of a techni cal nature, recommended re cently by "four leading sur veyors" interested in the pro posed ordinance. Request Refused Following a lenjrthy public heading, the planners turned down a request by ueorge Porter and others that several tracts along Berrydale ave. just off North Facitic mgn h rezoned from single family to limited light indus trial. A nrimarv consideration in this decision was the inade quacy of Berrydale at its pres ent width and state of im provement to accommodate commercial traffic. Also con siHprpd were the potential danger to school children re sulting from this traltic since no sidewalks exist, and the rmpstion of sewaee disposal. The commission approved a request by Nick Gier to re zone his property on North PaHfiV hiahwav from single family to light industrial to accommodate a trailer court an sales aeency. A request for a change from single and two-family to lim- , itprl commercial for the urive- In Cleaners to permit a pick- nn noint on East JacKson si. was denied. Two petitions from property owners and a letter from Ward I Council man Ed Hall was presented in opposition. Amendment Presented An amendment to the zon ing ordinance that would per mit erection of single signs in residential areas to adver tise undeveloped subdivisions was presented to the planners by Bashaw. A public hearing on the proposal was called for the Jan. 12 meeting. Hear ings on sign variance requests for the Mont Crest and Brook hurst subdivisions were con tinued pending the action on the amendment. Also continued was a sign variance request from the First Church of the Nazarene, 520 North Holly st. It is un '. derstood that a compromise between the large sign re quested by the church and the limits of the zoning ordinance is to be sought. A one-year variance for a Big Y Market billboard on Crater Lake highway was ap proved. A public hearing was called for Jan. 12 on the rezoning from single family to commer cial for lots at the southeast corner of Crater Lake ave. and Roberts rd. and west of Crater Lake between Covina ave. and McAndrews rd. Hearings on that date were also called for the Eagles property on Biddle rd., for which a change from single family to commercial has been requested, and for property at the northeast corner of Cra ter Lake and Reddy aves., where a change from single family to multiple family has been asked. The planners agreed to in clude on the Jan. 12 agenda the continued hearing on re zoning the Luther M. Davis property on Barnett rd. at Bear creek from single family to limited commercial to per mit a motel and filling station, This site is at the proposed location of a freeway inter change, and action has been deferred previously pending a decision on zoning policy for interchange areas. The commission asked fur ther study by city officials of the proposed dedication and subdivision of a street south of Spring st. and east of Cra ter Lake ave. and the pro posed dedication of Swing lane. Proposal Continued Consideration of the pro posal by Dr. L. Dow Inskeep to dedicate a dead-end street across his El Mar addition property was continued to the next meeting. Dr. Inskeep re portedly proposes to dedicate a 60-foot right of way to in clude 40 Oriental Plain trees and to rearrange property lines along each side to form lots larger than those origi nally platted. The street would run north from Hillcrest rd. and stop 10 feet short of Capital ave. op posite the city reservoir. Dr. Inskeep said he hoped by making it a dead-end to pro tect children and pets and pre vent hot-rodders from passing through. Since the trees are report edly only 30 feet apart, the street would have to be sub standard in width. New Plat Suggested Planning Technician Ned Langford, at City Manager Duff's request, has recom Oswego Residents Not Wishing for White Christmas Oswego, N.Y. (UPD No one here is dreaming of a white Christmas. With nearly a season's worth of snow already on the ground all the melodic senti mentality in the world would have a hard time getting any one to wish for any more. The 85 inches of snow began fall ing on Dec. 7. For a while it brought nor mal life to a standstill in this northern New York commu nity. And although normalcy is slowly returning it will be a long time before any one will forget this particular Dec. 7 and its aftermath. The snow, piled into huge drifts by winds and packed into solid walls 15 feet high by plows, brought hardship and some danger to the 23,000 residents of this community at the southeastern bend of Lake Ontario. But no real crisis de veloped. Despite the tons of snow which tell between Sunday and Thursday, all but the sick or elderly managed to get in and out of their homes with little trouble. Food and sup- Medco Train, Car Involved in Crash Dimitri James Bolton, 53, of 527 Spencer st., Medford, yesterday escaped injury when the car he was operat ing was struck by a Medford corporation train on Vilas rd., according to state police. Police said Bolton was trav eling east on Vilas rd and noticed the train too late to stop to avoid hitting the en gine broadside. He attempted to cross the tracks before the train crossed the road, police said, and the engine struck the right rear of the car, spin ning it around. Engineer was Floyd Lenn Hickman, 35, of 3 West Sixth st., Eagle Point. A car operated by Kenneth Earl Fields, 30, of 806 East Fifth st., Jacksonville, went out of control and down an embankment on Hanley hill about 6:30 p.m. yesterday, po lice said. He was not injured. mended that the existing plat be vacated and that a new subdivision plat be submit ted. The recommendation in cludes the advisability of pre serving the trees if possible. The city's street tree com mittee is reportedly interest ed in their preservation too. The planners granted final approval to the Hillcrest Me morial Park cemetery plat, to be situated on North Phoenix rd. about lVz miles southeast of Medford. Tentative approvals were granted to Mark Goldy's pro posed subdivision on Crater Lake ave. at Buckshot rd., and to Grandview Unit No. 2 subject to vacation of the Rogue Valley Heights Exten sion plat. 16-Year-OId Girl Weighing 14 Pounds Dies Vine Grove, Ky. - (UPD - Fu neral services were held to day for Wanda Sue Hardy, 16, whose tragically tiny body seemed to have been made up almost entirely of heart and courage. Never in her life did Wanda Sue weigh more than 20 pounds, and at death she weighed just 14 pounds.. She was born an apparently normal, healthy child, but at 10 months contracted whoop ing cough. The disease left her blind in one eye, and by the time she was 3 she was almost sightless. She almost stopped grow ing, and did not gain any weight after that time. Friendly Child Doctors said her condition could have been congenital, or my have been the result of a blood vessel bursting in her brain during a whooping cough spasm. Although she could not be very active, Wanda Sue was always a friendly, cheerful child. Her father, James Hardy, is a civilian employee at nearby Ft. Knox. The little girl required al most constant care, which put a heavy load on her parents, unable to afford nursing help. Mrs. Hardy was with her al most every minute, except for several occasions when the strain brought on a break down and forced her to go to a hospital. plies were available. It was just a little more difficult than usual to get them. Until the end of the week, for example, there was vir tually no passenger car travel. But anyone who wanted food could get it by trudging waist deep through the snow to the city's main business area. Police, Red Cross and civil defense personnel were kept busy bringing supplies to peo ple who could not get out for them. While many neighbor hood grocery stores had to close because of a lack of de liverieSj supermarkets in the downtown section operated as usual. A tavern owner reported that at the height of the snow siege, "business was twice as good as any warm summer day." He attributed his good fortune to the fact that his was one of the few establish ments in the area which kept a path open from the street, where pedestrians found it easier going than on the walks to his door. Although' many industries were shuttered, along with all schools in the city, the snow provided work for many. Po lice and firemen were kept busy directing emergency service for 18 to 20 hours a day. And the regional un employment office channeled jobless workers to snow shoveling chores at $2 an hour. It's hard to estimate the cost of the storm to the city. Mayor Vincen Corsall Monday night asked the Common Council for an -extra $20,000 to help handle the snow expenses. - FOR SALE OR LEASE - Adding Machines - Calculators TYPEWRITERS - DICTAPHONES "Standard-Portable-Electric" "Timemaster" Ask about our Rental Purchase Options XOIUT'C Meclord Office Equipment Co. Y VIWII I 9 "Voight will give you a better deal". 41 South Grape Phone SP 2-4100 EASY PARKING Larson Elected President of Safety Council C. D. (Swede) Larson, Pierce Freight Lines, Med ford, has been elected presi dent of the Medford Safety Council for 1959. Other officers named in clude Ralph Matthews, trans portation officer, Medford public schools, vice president; and Rudy Tetrault and Greg Orr, members of the board of directors. Russ Jamison and Capt. Clyde Fichtner, Medford. po lice department, were reelect ed secretary and treasurer, respectively. The council recently en dorsed the National Safety council s position that holi day office parties should be kept "dry." Cites Several Examples Berry Bigham, current president, has cited "several examples" of firms in this area that have pledged them selves to "dry up" their Christmas parties. The council . noted that drinking drivers were involv ed in more than 50 per cent of the 273 Christmas holiday accidents in Oregon last year. These accidents resulted in 111 injuries and five deaths, the council said. The real traffic menace dur ing the holidays, council spokesmen stated, is the "so cial drinker." They indicated that business parties are the source of many automobile ac cidents at this time of year. The council's new officers are to be installed at the an nual awards banquet, tenta tively scheduled for Jan. 16. The committee for the ban quet includes Capt. Fichtner, Elliott Becken, Sheriff-elect Joe Walsh, Irean Grigsby and William Bell. Holiday Program Set at Gold Hill Gold Hill The annual Christmas program for Gold Hill schools will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 18, school off icials h a v e an nounced. The Patrick school program will be divided into two parts with the first grade imper sonating Santa Claus' helpers, and the second and third graders depicting the Christ mas story in scenes and music. The reader will be Donald Sizemore and the soloist will be Carol Rosecrans. The play, "Christmas at Whitman's Mission, 1845," will be presented at 9:30 a.m. Thursday and. again during the program that night. Participating in the morn ing production of the play will be Greg Applen, Toni Morrow, Barbara Schatz, Bob Turner, Steve Wakeman, Judy Fisher, Glenda Callahan and Linda Mitchell. In the eve ning production, the cast will include Ogden Kellogg, Karen Patterson, Loraine H i x s o n, Ronny Brown, Sherman Ki ger, Penny Flenner and the Misses Fisher, Callahan and Mitchell. 1 About 85 fourth through eighth graders will take part in a processional and sing Christmas carols and other holiday favorites. The chorus is composed of members of music classes at Hanby school. The Hanby school band also will participate. The Gold Hill Parent Teach er association will furnish re freshments following the pro gram. Hammarskjold Eyes MidEast Mission United Nations, N. Y. -JUPD-Secretary-general Dag Ham marskjold today planned a new trouble-shooting mission to the Middle East to calm the latest border flare-up be tween Israel and the United Arab Republic. The Security Council, , dis cussing Israel's charge of UAR "aggression" for the second day, decided late Monday to turn the, case over - to the Palestine Truce' Observation Commission with Hammar skj old's help.- , Hammarskjold will take on his new Middle East mission in connection with his custom of spending Christmas with the UN Emergency Force on duty-in the Gaza Strip, along the southern border of Israel with the United Arab Republic. Impersonation of Daughter-in-Law Leads To Arrest Ventura, Calif. (UPD A 54-year-old woman was jailed here today for impersonating her daughter-in-law, appar ently in a bold attempt to break up her son's marriage. Police were investigating the possibility that the younger woman might have been kid- Scientist Kills Student Suspected Of Coveting Wife Berkeley, Calif.-(UPD-A sci entist who befriended and housed a student from Ger many killed the University of California junior today be cause: he suspected him of hav ing had a love affair with his wife. John W. Hampton, 31, a Ph.D research scientist for an oil company, told police he had carefully planned to kill Wolfgang Ludwig Marx, 26. He had resigned from job effective today. About midnight, Hampton said he finished his fifth mar tini of the night, put a .22 caliber pistol in his belt, and went stalking the campus for Marx, who had a room in Hampton's home. After search ing in coffee shops and all night bookstores he found his victim working on an experi ment in a third floor physics laboratory in. LeConte hall. Aimed for Heart "We recognized each oth er," Hampton told police. "We were face to face. I was about eight feet from him. My gun was under my belt. I cocked it and shot Marx, aiming for. his heart. I cannot recall how many shots I fired. After he fell to the floor I walked forward and fired at his head." A LeConte hall janitor saw Hampton fleeing after the slaying. A half hour later the scientist returned to the build ing and was captured in a light-well where he was trying to recover the pistol, thrown there after the shooting. Hamp'ton said he and his blonde wife, Madeleine, 29, had taken Marx into their home in 1956. "At that time he had an affair with my wife," the scientist said. Marx entered the U.S. Army at the end of that school year, re turning three months ago. Wife Is Hospitalized "They resumed their af fair;" Hampton said. He said he bought the gun a shprt time after Marx returned. Monday night he resolved to kill the sudent. When informed by police of the laboratory shooting, Mrs. Hampton gasped "Oh, my God!" and collapsed. She was hospitalized and was unable to confirm or deny her hus band's story of her alleged affair with Marx. The Hamptons have three children. Surprise Awaits Gift Box Thief Portland (UPD A thief who stole two gift-wrapped boxes from the 10th Avenue Smoke Shop here Monday will be disappointed if he waits until Christmas to open them up, the shop manager advises. Both boxes were displays only and empty. Australia's crop area ex tends about 22 million acres and more are being added to it year after year. The nation's proved oil and gas areas now comprise a combined total of about 125 million acres. T HAVE AN " E EXTRA VACATION! - ON THE WAY!z See us NOW even if you're going NEXT SPRING! Com en in for FREE " fully illustrated Bttratora, SEE GEORGE LEWIS ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline and Steamship Tickets PHONE SP 2-6779 111 E. 8th BY - naped. Olga Duncan, 30, wife of Santa Barbara, Calif., attor ney Frank Duncan, has not been heard from since she disappeared Nov. 17. The mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Duncan, was held Monday after she was formal ly charged with falsification of evidence, forgery, perjury and filing a false statement. Police said she had imper sonated her daughter-in-law and hired a man to pose as her son last Aug. 8 before attor ney Hal Hammons where the pair filed sworn papers to have the marriage annnuled. Appeared Before Judge Hammons said they both agreed to the annulment on grounds the marriage had not been consummated. ' The following day, the pair appeared before Superior Judge Perry Churchill who, unaware of their real iden tity, granted the "annulment." The younger Mrs. Duncan, a registered nurse who came to Santa Barbara from Van couver, B.C., and Frank Dun can were married June 30, but apparently they separated some time afterward. The missing woman's fa ther, Elias Kupczyk, said Olga had written letters telling of abuses and threats by the mother-in-law. He said he had turned the letters over to Santa Barbara authorities. Kupczyk, of Benito, Mani toba, Canada, said his daugh ter left home five years ago and became a nurse at Van couver General hospital. She went to Santa Barbara in 1957. "In her last letter Nov. 12 she told us of her plans for my wife to come and see her when her baby was born in January and my wife was going to be with her at tne time. That. was the last we heard from her," Kupczyk said. Police said an inspection of the missing woman's apart ment shortly, -after she van ished showed she had left her passport, purse and many oth er personal belongings behind, FBI agents from Los Ange les teamed up with local po lice in investigating the dis appearance. Two Men Questioned Special Agent D. K. Brown, in charge of the Los Angeles FBI office, said police have uncovered evidence that "this was not a voluntary disap pearance." He refused to spec- ulate on the possibility of foul play. 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