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of State 53rd Year Medford 14 Pages MS G8ef Five Tax Bills Designed To Help Holmes' Budge) Committees Given Chance To Organize Salem -(LTD - The Oregon House got down to business in a hurry today with introduc tion of 56 new bills on the sec ond day of the session. The House met for 40 min utes and then adjourned until afternoon to allow its various committees a chance to or ganize. Five of the new bills were tax bills designed to help im plement ex-Gov. Robert D. Holmes, $298.6 million budg et. They were introduced at the request of the House Com mittee on Taxation headed by Rep. Clarence Barton, (D-Co-quille). House bill 1 would change corporation excise tax rates on income of public utilities from 7 to 6 per cent. It also changes the manner of com puting net income of the util ities from the federal system to a state system used by oth er corporations. Provision Cut Out House bill 2 eliminates a provision allowing personal income tax payments on a quarterly installment basis, except for the tax years end ing between July 1 and Dec. 31, 1959. This bill was suggested by Holmes to allow the state to gather more revenue this bi ennium rather than next. House bill 3 permits defer ment of a tax lien being filed n a taxpayer's property for nonpayment of personal in come or corporation excise or Income taxes upon the posting of bond or a deposit securing payment of delinquent taxes, House bill 4 requires de posit in the general fund of all sums, including sums upon which refunds are claimed and not settled, collected by the state treasurer under the inheritance and gift tax laws. Tax Court Asked A tax court of one judge to hear taxpayer appeals that previously have been heard in Circuit Court is called for by House Bill 5. Most remaining bills intro duced today were appropria tion bills which came out of the Joint Ways and Means Committee this morning. The rest of the 104 appropri ation bills prepared on the basis of the Holmes budget are expected on the House floor tomorrow. Telephone Company 'Shocked' by Action Portland -(ITS- A spokes man for Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company said today the firm was "shocked and deeply disappointed" by outgoing Public Utility Com missioner Howard Morgan's $4,000,000 cut in the com pany's rate increase applica tion made last June. Youth Buried Escapes as Cliff Falls San Francisco-IJPD-A huge mass of rain-sodden earth plunged down the cliffs here near Lands End Monday, burying a young high school student and seriously injuring his girl companion. The victim was William Soltero, 16, whose body was not recovered. The girl, Mar garet Valentine, 15, was hos pitalized with a severe leg cut and in a state of shock. Works Self Free The girl worked herself free of the slide and managed to pull her way up a 450-foot cliff to summon aid. How ever, a desperate four-hour rescue effort by police and firemen was called off when high tide endangered the lives of the rescuers. . Efforts to recover the body MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY iff T Quick Start; lis Dinilroni "By the Way, Did You Get My Message Of November 4?" Number of Jobless Mounts 275,000 During December Washington - (DPD - The gov ernment reported today that the number of unemployed rose 275,000 in December to a total of 4,108,000 because of winter cutbacks in farm ing, construction and outdoor jobs. It was the biggest monthly increase in jobless since last June when 500,000 newly Hood Announces Stockade Plans Plans for a stockade at the summit of the Siskiyous on Highway 99 were announced today by Ernie Hood, chair man of the Jackson County Centennial association. The building will house a welcome booth and service counter in the front section with rest rooms at the rear. It will be a completely en closed log-type structure. Timbers on either side of the entrance will be 20 feet high with a 32-foot timber across the top for an arch. Walls of the stockade will be 16 feet high, and two guard stations will be constructed over the counter area. Hood said construction will be under the direction of Brig. Gen. William Prentice, commanding officer of the Army engineer brigade unit in Medford. Plans for the stockade were drawn up by Albert W. Gandt, a member of the Centennial association and president of the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation, and surveying was done by Bill Wilson of the California Oregon Power company. Alive, Girl resumed early today. Margaret told authorities she and young Soltero, both students at George Washing ton High school, had gone down to a beach below the cliffs to photograph the light house which lies off Lands End. Heard Rumble "We were walking about a foot apart, when suddenly I heard a rumble-a terrible, roaring noise," the girl said. "I looked up toward the hill and saw it coming." Margaret said she was buried in mud and rocks up to her waist, but managed to dig herself out in about five minutes. "I looked for Bill, but he was gone," she said. "He was completely buried." idled workers boosted the un employment total to a post war high of 5,437,000. The Labor and Commerce departments said in a joint release that unusually severe weather made the December rise in unemployment "com paratively large." December employment fell by 680,000 to 63,973,000, de spite a pickup in pre-Christ- mas hiring by retail stores and the postal service. A big decrease in farm jobs account ed for the decline, the depart ments said. "As usual in December,' their report said, "unemploy ment was less than the drop in employment because most of those leaving farm jobs were housewives and others who withdrew from the labor force instead of seeking other work. Weekly Earnings Up The rate of unemployment, after season adjustments, edg ed up to 6.1 per cent from 5.9 per cent in November. The rate was 7.5 per cent during the depths of last spring's recession. The report said . weekly earnings of factory workers rose to a record $88.04 in December. He attributed the rise to an 18-minute increase in the work week to 40.2 hours and a two-cent rise in average hourly earnings. Filibuster Fight Ends in Senate Washington-ttJPB-Liberal sen ators today foresaw only a slim chance for civil rights legislation in the make of the Senate's refusal to make a ma jor change in its anti-filibuster rule. The four-day filibuster fight ended Monday night when the Senate approved, 72-22, a com promise by Democratic Lead er Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) providing for a mild rule mod ification. The Johnson provision pro vides that two-thirds of sena tors present and voting can limit debate. The old require ment was two-thirds, 66, of the Senate's 98 members. Democratic Committee To Meet Wednesday . The Jackson County Demo cratic Central committee will meet at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 14, in the Medford Labor Temple, 246 South Grape street. Elected county officials plan to attend the program, which has been designed to interest the precinct worker, committee members said. Tribune 13, 1959 German Peace Treaty Proposals Declared Stupid Dulles Sees Risk Of War in Europe Washington (DP6 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles today branded as brutal and stupid the Russians proposals for a German peace treaty. He said they would run the risk of plunging Europe into a new war. Dulles told a news confer ence that the United States was prepared to guarantee Russia against the possibility of resurgent German mili tarism if Germany were reuni fied under free elections. But, he said, the Russian demand for a neutralized and demilitarized Germany is worse than brutal; it is stupid and unrealistic because it eventually might lead the Germans to try to play the East against the West and thereby again shatter world peace as it did in 1914 and 1939. Dulles said he and other U.S. officials are not engaged in any specific negotiations with visiting Soviet Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan. But he added that he hopes each side is getting a better understanding of what is really in the mind of the other. Dulles said it was important to have the discussions with Mikoyan because they could lead to avoiding miscalcula tions which otherwise might plunge the two countries into real trouble with each other. There are enough real diffi culties between Moscow and Washington, Dulles said, with out adding to the problem by permitting misapprehensions to exist. Dulles said the Russians and the West has basically differ ent philosophies concerning reunification of Germany and its future place in the Euro pean security scheme. The U.S. and its allies, he said, believe that the proper thing to do is to bring a reunified Germany, able to protect it self, into the closest possible relationship with other West European countries. Such a close association, he said, is the best possible guarantee that the German aggression which Russia fears so much would not be practical or possible. Large Orchard Sold To Crystal Springs One oa the largest recent sales of orchard property in Jackson county occurred late yesterday afternoon when Ralph L. Cook sold 125 acres of pear orchard on the Hill crest-Phoenix rd. to Crystal Springs Packing company, Inc., Medford fruit packing firm. , The sale was handled by Lanse Pitts of Spencer-Bagley Agency, 224 West Sixth st., Medford. Cook said he will keep his pasture land and name but is selling machinery in the pack ing house to Crystal Springs. He will concentrate on his polled Hereford herd and his business interests in Portland, he said. Duncan's Gave! Once McAllister's The gavel which Robert Duncan Medford. will use as speaker of the House, will not be new to the hands of a local man. The gavel was presented to Duncan Monday by Wil liam McAllister, chief just ice of the Oregon Supreme court. It is the same gavel McAllister used when he was speaker of the House in 1943. McAllister served in the legislature as a Republican. Duncan is a Democrat. They were law partners here be fore McAllister was ap pointed to the bench. Price 10 Cents No. 253 High Water Closes Coastal Highway North of Bandon Marion County Road Also Under Water By United Press international High water had one Oregon route closed today but the weather bureau predicted the streams would start falling as a clearing trend brought an end to heavy rainfall in the western part of the state. The weather man warned of foggy conditions tonight on both sides of the Cascades. Highway 101 between Co quille and Bandon was closed by high water and motorists used the alternate Seven Dev ils highway. The Woodburn Estacada highway was cover ed by four inches of water a mile south of the Clackamas county line in Marion county near the Pudding river. Willamette To Fall The Willamette, river, fed by surging tributary streams, reached 17.2 feet at Albany this morning, less than 3 feet under flood stage. But the weather man predicted that the middle Willamette would start to fall by evening today. All tributaries to the Wil lamette and coastal streams will fall slowly for the next 12 days, the weather man said. The Santiam river at Jefferson was 1.2 feet over flood stage this morning but was dropping. The letup in rainfall was a welcome relief to coastal resi dents. North Bend had 10 inches of rain in six days. Fog Wednesday Local areas west of the Cas cades may not clear of fog all day Wednesday. Cooler temperatures were expected with lows of 28-38 in western Oregon and down to 14 in high valley of eastern Oregon forecast tonight. Klamath Falls was low for the state today with 20 above, It was snowing at Govern ment Camp this morning with two inches of snow. Santiam pass had three inches. Abandoned Car Shows Up Again A vehicle reported abandon ed on East Jackson st. at Bear creek Jan. 2 has reappeared, apparently abandoned again, off West Jackson st., Med ford police said today. Police identified the regis tered owner the first time as Waldo G. Davis, U.S. Coast Guardsman stationed at Fri day Harbor, Wash. Several unopened Christmas packages were observed in the vehicle's trunk at that time. At least one package was observed today. A check with Washington authorities previously . reveal ed the vehicle was not listed as missing or stolen. And ' a Medford patrolman reported a week ago that he had seen someone in a "Navy" uniform driving the vehicle away from the East Jackson st. site. But the vehicle has report edly been next to the Rose Grocery, 201 West Jackson st., for a week. It is a 1952 or 1953 grey Ford, with Wash ington license SJB198. Deputies Check on Exploding Golf Ball Jackson county sheriff's deputies are investigating a trick exploding golf ball picked up by a Shady Cove school pupil yesterday. The 12-year-old Shady Cove elementary school pupil dropped the ball on the school grounds yesterday morning and it exploded, scattering fragments 20 feet, W. A. Shep herd, principal said. ' The boy told the principal he picked up the golf ball "down the road." The ball was made of plaster with the charge in the center and had a plastic covering, he said. "It could have been danger ous if the ball had exploded near the boy's face" Shepherd said. "I asked the sheriff's of fice to check to see where such balls are sold in this county." Twin Girls Die In House Fire at Redside Landing Mother Severely Burned in Rescue Springfield, Ore. (DPD Twin three-month-old girls burned to death and their mother was severely burned Monday afternoon when their one-story frame home at Red side Landing on the McKen zie river 29 miles east of here was destroyed by fire. Six other children escaped un hurt. The victims were Tammy Lee and Kammy Dee Mc Kirdy, twin daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Homer R. McKirdy. The family had moved into the rented house only Sunday night from Yoncalla. Gasoline Apparently Used The fire occurred about 1 p.m. State police said it ap p e a r e d Mrs. McKirdy had used gasoline to start a fire in a wood stove in the belief that the fluid was kerosene. Her husband, who was at work at the F. & J. Logging Co. at the time of the tragedy, said later he believed a can containing gasoline for his pickup truck had been brought into the house when they moved in. A neighbor, Mrs. Henry Parazoo, said she looked over from her trailer about 1 p.m. and the house was in flames. Several of the McKirdy chil dren were in front of the house screaming, she said. Five youngsters fled the house and the mother carried a sixth child, 14-month-old Emily Sue, to safety. The old er children are Ruth, 9; John Thomas, 8; Mary Lou, 6; Rose marie, 4, and James Henry, 3. Neighbors said Mrs. Mc Kirdy had to be restrained from entering the holocaust for the twin girls. Their bodies were recovered by Harold Mathers, deputy Lane county coroner, in a crib near the stove. . ; . ' Contract Awarded For Clearing Lake Contract for clearing the Emigrant reservoir area was awarded this morning to Louis Rogers, Days Creek, Ore., who bid $13,900 on the work, The engineers estimate was $35,000, according to James Callan, project engineer for the bureau of reclamation. Second low bidder was Leonard R. Ward, Medford, $26,650, and third was Jack son and Bryant of Grants Pass at $26,750. The other 16 bids received ranged up to $145,000 submitted by Hugh L. Rufener, Portland, Callan said. The clearing work will in volve about 300 acres to be completed in 275 days or by late next fall, the project en gineer said. The work is scheduled to get under way in 30 days, and includes clear ing the area of trees, build ings, fences, and brush. Meanwhile, work is continu ing on a portion of the Talent project, Callan said. This in cludes both Cascade and Green Springs tunnels, Emi grant outlook works tunnel, the Green Springs power reservoir and the Ashland lateral from the power plant. Lakeview Man to Appear Wednesday Elmer Ward, 49 - year - old Lakeview man, charged with knifing a 17 - year - old Lake- view youth, is to appear be fore District Court Judge E. Roy Bashaw Wednesday. He also will appear at that time to answer a charge of provid ing liquor to a minor. The case was continued to allow Ward to obtain an at torney. Ward is charged with in flicting an 8-inch gash on the shoulder of Dorsey Lewis, 17, Lakeview, i n Jacksonville, Saturday. He also is charged with providing beer for three youths. WEATHER FORECAST: Fof or low over cast in valley, fair above 3.000 feet through Wednesday. Low tonight 30, high Wednesday 38. TEMP. Highest yesterday 53 Lowest this morning 27 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today . 5:01 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:39 a.m. Moonset tonight 10:14 p.m. PROMINENT STARS Sirius, in the southeast 8:27 p.m Regulus in the east at moonset. The light coming to us tonight from Sirius left that star in 1950; the light from Regulus left that more distant star about 1875. Gov. Hatfield's Dnaugural Talk Draws Criticism Salem-(DPD-Gov. Mark Hat field's inaugural address was criticized by Senate President Walter J. Pearson as "full of platitudes and well intention ed remarks, many of which didn't have much meaning." Pearson, a Portland Demo crat, said he was opposed to doing away with the attorney general as an elective office. He also said he favored leav ing successions to the office of governor as it now is. Hat field had suggested having the secretary of state next in line instead of the Senate presi dent. All-Time Great Pearson said, "I want to look at the interim committee report on governmental reor ganization before considering any other changes." Ren. Robert L. Elfstrom. Sa lem, House GOP leader, said the speech was one of the "all- time great inaugural ad dresses in Oregon history." . He said "Gov. Hatfield has announced intention to steer the 'ship of state' on a true course of fiscal responsibility and maximium value received Planners Suggest Zoning Variance on Apartment' Setback Medford's planning commis sion last night recommended to the city council' a zoning variance sanctioning substand ard setbacks of eight apart ment units constructed at 825 East Ninth st. The commission called a special meeting Jan. 22 for a public hearing to consider rezoning property on East Jackson st. at Genessee st. for commercial use. Denied, i following a heal ing last night, was the request of Drs. August Glutsch and William Thompson for a zone change to permit erection of an optometry clinic on Crater Lake ave. at Reddy ave. Three public hearings were continued. Request Rezoning These include a request for rezoning Luther and Ann Davis' property on Barnett rd. near the proposed freeway interchange to commercial to permit erection of a motel and service station; a request by Gottlieb J. Wolff for re zoning property on Crater Lake ave. at McAndrews rd. and on Crater Lake at Rob erts rd. to permit commercial uses; and a request for a change of zone to commercial Lack of Budget Noted by Duncan Salem- (UPD -House Speaker Robert Duncan, Medford, said today that although the House got down to work promptly, it was hampered by lack of a budget message from Gov. Mark Hatfield. Duncan mildly reproved Hatfield for failing to submit specific appropriation recom mendations to the House where such bills must orig inate. "We'll be somewhat handi capped and slowed by not knowing Gov. Hatfield's views, Duncan said. "His in augural address Monday didn't give us many clues." Chamber Must Convince Public of Role in Developing Area The Jackson County Cham ber of Commerce must con vince both its members and the community of its positive role in developing the area, immediate past-president Otto Frohnmayer said yesterday. "Our p r o b 1 e m," Frohn mayer told the chamber's weekly roundtable meeting yesterday noon, "is to con vince the community we are doing something for it. "We have to get an under standing with our members as to what we can do for the community." Membership Losses He cited the chamber's membership losses during the past year. "The recurring question," he said, "is, what has the chamber done for me?" Four new chamber board members were asked to dis cuss what they considered a prime factor for economic growth in the valley that the from each tax dollar." He said the address will be worth "re reading again and again." Rep. Clarence Barton (D-Co-quille) chairman of the House Tax Committee, said the ad dress covered a lot of good ground "much of which has been recommended by Gov. Robert Holmes and some of which we as the majority party attempted to pass in the 1957 session." Issues Faced Squarely Sen. Francis Ziegler (R-Cor-vallis) said Hatfield "faced some basic issues squarely, ones that have been too long ignored or avoided." Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D-Milwaukie) praised Hat field's recommendations for improvements but added, "un fortunately he advocated a Spartan tax policy . which would eat the heart out of his advocacies before they could even get under way." Sen. Harry D. B o i v i n, (D-Klamath Falls) president pro-tem of the Senate, said he believed the address car ried meritorious suggestions but that he did not agree with all of Hatfield's program. classification for the Eagles Lodge property on Biddle rd. Following another hearing, the planners recommended to the council approval for an amendment to the city's zon ing ordinance permitting sub- dividers to erect one large, non-illuminated sign (maxi mum 50 sq. ft.) on a year-to-year basis to advertise and designate a subdivision. Following elections at the outset of the meeting, Paul Selby became the commis sion's new president and Al lan Perry its vice president Two of three new members, Harold Snodgrass and Larry Schade, attended the session, (Continued on Page 9) Assistance Case Goes to Jury The case of Marion Ben Day and Hazel Pauline Day, 417 King st., Medford, who are charged with unlawfully obtaining public assistance, went to the jury about 11 a.m. today. The jury was expected to return its verdict shortly after lunch today, according to court observers. The Medford couple is charged with unlawfully ob taining $288 in public welfare funds. Gerald Scannell repre sented the district attorney's office and Allan Holmes acted as attorney for the defendants. Dr. Harry D. Danielson, lo cal psychiatrist, testified this morning that Marion Day did know the difference between right and wrong following an examination of Day. A professor from Southern Oregon college, Ashland, testi fied that Day could read well enough and was intelligent enough to know the serious ness of the crime charged against him. Mrs. Martha Rhodes of the Jackson county public welfare department also testified. chamber could assist. Gordon Hudson stressed the area's liveability. He said the chamber should strive to keep the valley "an equally desir able place, and even more so, to live." Eugene Orr discussed build ing activity in the area. "Med ford right now," he said, "is in the process of a pretty good sized boom, especially in the commercial buildings." He said the cnamber should show people that "we have wonderful business opportun ities here in Medford and in Jackson county." Paul Selby underlined a need to "sell" Medford as a distribution center for south ern Oregon. He said "promis ing industrial areas" ' exist here but they "need to be sold." He suggested that the chamber's transportation com mittee study more thoroughly the distribution area that Medford serves. Supreme Court Test Expected To Decide Issue Hatfield Advisor Plans Proceeding Salem - (UPD - Oregon had a new governor today-36-year-old Mark Hatfield-but it also had a superfluity of secretar ies of state. Hatfield was expected to bring a proceeding before the State Supreme court in the near future to test whether outgoing Gov. Robert D. Salem -(CPD- State Treas urer Sig Unander said to day he would not honor any warrants from the secre tary of state's office until the Oregon Supreme Court decided which of two ap pointments to the post is valid. Holmes' appointment of Dave O'Hara, 71, as secretary of state is legal or whether the office belongs to his own ap pointee, Howell Appling, 39, Portland. Thornton Asks Time Hatfield's legal advisor, Lamar Tooze, Portland, hoped to get a "quo warranto" pro ceeding before the court to day, but Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton asked for more time to study procedure in the case. Appling was officially sworn in Monday on the floor of the House just as Hatfield concluded taking the oath of office as governor by saying "so help me God." The Appling swearing-in, by Tony Nunn, was done so quietly on the floor that no one in the packed chamber house except newsmen real ized it was taking place. Nunn, a notary public, is a brother of Warne Nunn, exec utive assistant to Hatfield. Appling Confident Earlier, Holmes had offi cially appointed O'Hara, a former state elections division chief and a Republican, to the post on the advice of Thornton that Hatfield must resign unconditionally from his office and let Holmes ap point O'Hara. Hatfield submitted a letter of resignation to the governor but it was not effective until the moment he took the oath of office as governor. Hatfield believes it Is his right to appoint his successor as secretary of state and this is the matter the State Su preme court must decide. Appling, a farm implement dealer relatively unknown in political circles, said he had "complete confidence" that he would be confirmed secretary of state by the high court O'Hara was not present for the ceremonies. Appling occupied the office of the secretary of state in the capital building Monday afternoon and said he consid ered himself secretary of state. He said he was not sure whether he would move into the office on a permanent ba sis until the court had decided the case. No Hitches Aside from the surprise swearing-in of Appling, the inauguration of Hatfield went off without a hitch. Both Holmes and Hatfield received good hands from the audience as they entered the House chamber. Gov. Holmes first delivered his biennial address to the legislature and then House Speaker Robert Duncan, Med ford, canvassed the votes de claring Hatfield governor. Members, Dick Woodcock brought uo the Centennial. "The whole chamber should concentrate on what we can do for the Centennial," he said, "and other projects will come out of it." . Gerald Latham, new vice president of the chamber, out lined some of the grdup's re cent accomplishments, includ ing promotion of the Talent project, water resources de velopment, t r a n s p ortation, agriculture, the timber indus try and medical facilities. "People are coming here from 200 miles around for medical attention," he said. Frohnmayer cautioned those present against encour aging "bad" growth, such as overhasty industrial develop ment that would glut schools, and other public facilities. "We ought to improve the quality, not the quantity," he said. "I don't think we want to take the lid off."
