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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 23, 1959)
Stops Mig for; li Water 20 Pages GHatfield Appoints J oil el v n n n T tl B mm a ST O C CAPABLE OF. FLYING coast-to-coast in one hour, this is artist's conception of ramjet powered supersonic air transport Roy E. Marquardt, pioneer airplane manufacturer, Van Nuys, Calif., says can be produced today Property Rezoned For Commercial Use The Medford planning com mission at a special meeting last night approved rezoning two lots and most of a third on the north side of East Jack son st. immediately east of Genessee st. to permit com mercial use.'. :.-'V ,.Th, session-was. .requested at last week's regular meeting by Attorney Philip Lowry, who represents the Rogue Valley State bank. . The bank, he told the plan ners last night, intends to erect a branch office on the northeast corner of Jackson and Genessee if the zone change request is approved. The property is now zoned for residential use. Final approval for the change rests with the city council, which is expected to consider the matter next month. r The one dissenting vote last night was cast by William Prentice. Normal Court Lowry stated that the change to commercial zoning would represent "the normal course of development." Councilman Edward Hall, "Ward I, and Edward Branch field, Medford attorney, both spoke in opposition to the change. Branchfield submitted to Police Academy Uraedjn Resolution Salem - (ITD - Rep. Norman Howard fD-Portland) and Sen. Carl Francis (R-Dayton) spon sored a resolution today pro viding for an interim commit tee to study and recommend on a police academy for Ore gon. Four legislators and three appointees of the governor would serve on the committee. Medford, Crater Students Schedule March of Dimes Events on Week End Several March of Dimes activities have been planned in Medford and Central Point for the week end, it was an nounced today by Barbara Nulton, county Teen Age Pro gram chairman. Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. the senior class of Medford High school will sponsor a mother-daughter fashion show at the Rogue Valley Country club, under the direction of Judy Bell and Frances Flink. There will be an admission charge of 75 cents. Fashions will be presented by Burel son's. " Mils O' Dimes Thb seniors also will con duct a Mile o' Dimes down town Saturday, according to Bert Rostel land Bart Garred, co-chairman of the Medford 20-30 club, sponsors of the local fund-raising campaign. The seniors of Crater High school will have a coin toss during the Crater-Grants Pass 53rd Year -TiyAkJlT . MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 23, 1959 .i ... i. i .... 1 i the planners a petition signed bv residents against tne re- zoning. He stated that while commercial development in the area might be inevitable, "We don't think the time is right." Both Hall and Branch field said they reside near the property under consideration. JTheoniy other ttehioir5ne commission's agenda was a tentative approval for Mark Goldy's Blossom Hill Terrace subdivision plat. This was granted. DeArmond Brothers Sell Lumber Firm Rogue River A group of Grants Pass businessmen are expected to sign a contract next week for the purchase of the DeArmond Brothers Lum ber company of Rogue River, Robert DeArmond announced this week. The stub mill, constructed in 1952 which started operat ing in March, 1953, 'employs an average of 50 men on two shifts. DeArmond explained that the three stockholders in the company, R. L. DeArmond, Robert DeArmond, and D. E. DeArmond, have sold all then assets in the firm. They own another mill in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. The present owners report ed that since the mill started operating more than 100 mil lion feet of lumber have been shipped. It is believed that some expansion will take place at the plant when the new owners assume control next Wednesday or Thursday, it was reported. Names of the Grants Pass businessmen have have not been released. Future plans for the DeAr- monds is indefinite at the present, it was announced. basketball game tonight and again at the Crater-Klamath Falls game on Jan. 30. A movie, Fort Ty; will be shown by the sophomore . class fol lowing tonight's game. The Crater seniors will con duct a Mile o' Dimes Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. with Ruth White in charge. Crater freshmen will conduct a toll walk on Pine st. Saturday from noon until 4 p.m. A bottle drive, sponsored by the Medford High junior class and directed by Pat McLaugh lin, will be held Sunday from noon until 2:30 pjn. The jun iors also will give shoe shines downtown Saturday with Jim Lacy in charge, a windshield wash at Mansfield's Chevron service station with Rosiland Randies and Linda Slessler as co-chairmen and a baked foods sale at Home Appliance store, with Bonnie Allingham in charge. A talent show under the di Appling Selects Harold Phillippe As Secretary Aide Minnesota Native Governor's Choice Salem -. (DPS - Gov. Mark Hatfield today named Jonel Hill, 33, Salem, as public utilities commissioner. Hill, a native of Mankato, Minn., was a twice-captured infantry man of World War II and administrative assis tant to the chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court. ; . Hill will take over PUC duties from Gordon Heiber who has been serving in an acting capacity under Hatfield since the resignation of How ard Morgan who served two years as an appointee of ex Gov. Robert D. Holmes. Member of Bar Group The new commissioner was chosen by the late Oregon Chief Justice Earl Latourette five years ago as an admini strative assistant. He is a member of the Ore gon, Minnesota, Marion coun ty and American Bar Associa tions. ; Currently he is vice-chairman of the National Confer ence of Court Administrators. come .enecuve as soon as State Supreme Court can find a replacement for Hill. Mean while Hieber, , a . career-administrator, will serve as act ing commissioner. Meanwhile, Harold F. Phil lippe, for many years chief of the accounting division of the secretary, of state's office, was named as assistant secretary of state. Appling Names Aide , Howell Appling Jr., secre tary of state, made the an nouncement and at the same time named Dale Mallicoat, presently education director of the State Tax Commission, as his administrative assistant. The selections were made to fill positions vacated when former Secretary Mark Hat field's key aides moved with him to the governor's office. Phillippe, 56, has been head of the accounting division of the secretary of state's office for 29 years. Jury Returns Verdict In Defendant's Favor A circuit court jury re turned a verdict in favor of the defendant, Josephine Louise Malot, 3009 Table Rock rd., Wednesday in a case filed by Etta Mae Williams, Gold Hill. The complaint was filed fol lowing an automobile accident at the intersection1 of East Fifth st. and North Bartlett st. Feb. 20, 1958. The plaintiff had asked $19,950 for general damages, medical costs and compensation. rection of Kerman Bennet in the school cafetorium at 3 p.m. on Jan. 29 is on the schedule for Crater high school and a car wash at Pine st. and Highway 99 on Jan. 31 also is scheduled. , - The sophomore class of Medford High school will sponsor a teen-age dance at the Country Club on Jan. 29 from 8 tJ 11 p.m., with Becky Gates as chairman. Girls chosen by Crater high school to represent them in school and county TAP com petition are Bobbie Danielson, senior; Carolyn Ellis, junior; Lea Taberna, sophomore, and Mary Governor, freshman. Coin in Bottle ine notue of dimes, in which passersby are asked to deposit a com in a bottle marked with the state of their birth, will again be conducted by the Eagles Lodge in front of the First National bank on Saturday. Tribune 4-H AA.ss.le Lead Russia Seen Washington-(UPD-Sen. Stuart Symington (D.-Mo.) said lo daay "an honest count" will show Russia with a four-to-one lead over the United Slates in long-range, military missiles by 1961. Symington, Air Force secretary in the Truman adminis iion, spoke out after Defense Secretary Neil H. McElroy told reporters he does not believe 'Russia has an intercontinental ballistic missile ready for operation against this country "at this lime." Symington charged that the Eisenhower administration instead of closing the missile gap is "actually allowing it to widen." ; He said in a Senate speech that a Senate investigation of the whole missile situation is in the offing. Rural Board Plans Budget Calendar Preliminary plans were made at a meeting of the Jackson County Rural school board this week for election of board members, appoint ment of lay members to the board's budget committee, and consideration of the budget calendar, County school sup erintendent Alf B. Mekvold said today. .The board prepares a budgef for expenses of the board and the total budget of the county school superintend ent's office, i The operating Budget "rmisf'.'i'be ' ready,fdr publication . and - posting by March 15, Mekvold said. . ; Two specific budget prob lems were given a preliminary study by the board.. Money may be alloted for classes for mentally retarded. Jackson Man Cited After Pursuit, Accident Gaylord RaymondCox, 1585 Crater Lake.ave., was cited for reckless driving last night after his pursuit of a car driven by two Medford youths ended in a collision at Pearl st. and Saling ave., Med ford police reported. Cox's license to carry a con cealed weapon, issued by the Jackson county sheriff's of fice, was confiscated, police said. Cox said he chased the youths after he heard them pounding on his mailbox, ac cording to the report. The two teen-agers told in vestigating officers they at tempted to break an empty rum bottle on the mailbox. They said Cox chased them for several blocks, struck their vehicle from behind at Pearl and Saling ' and then brandished a pistol, according to police. " Hearing Held on Freeway Overpass A brief Public Utilities commission hearing was held in the anteroom of the coun ty court this morning on the proposed construction of an overpass near Rogue River for the new Highway 99 freeway. The overpass would cross Southern Pacific tracks a mile west of Rogue River. C.E. Jaqua, of .the engine eering department of the PUC, conducted, the hearing attended by representatives of the Oregon Highway depart ment and Southern Pacific railroad. No objections were made and the matter will be submitted to the commission for its determination, Jaqua said. Eagle Point Man Believed Drowned Grants Pass, Ore. - (UPD -Dragging operations were under way today for a man feared drowned in the Rogue river near Galice. The identity was not defin ite, but sheriff's deputies said evidence indicated he was Robert Henry Mitchell, 63, Eagle Point. Price 10 Cents No. 262 loner county now such classes conducts two the Talent school system. Further development of a curriculum materials center in the county school superin tendent's office is being con sidered. This includes the audio-visual materials center, Mekvold reported. ' Three . members of the seven-man board will be elect ed at the annual school meet ing May 4, Mekvold said. One member will be elected from Zone 4. 'iyhich includes Jack- nvilieiJtfdffin cfeek; Ruch, fhoenix and Appiegate. in cumbent is Glenn W. Smith Two members-at-large will be elected. Incumbents are Ben Lombard, whose two-year term expires, and Sam Harbi son, appointed to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Elwood Hed berg. Member of Board All members of the rural board will be elected for three years except Harbison or his successor. His appoint ment is effective only until the next annual school meet ing so the term for that posi tion is only for two years. N o-m i n a t i ons for board members should be made by petition to be presented at the county school superinten dent's office by April 3 or 30 days prior to the annual school board meeting on May 4. Petitions may be obtained from the superintendent's office. Budget Committee The law requires the same number of lay members on the budget committee as elect ed officials, or seven. These are appointed by the board for three-year terms. The board also computes a county-wide equalized levy based on information from December reports on atten dance and enrollment sub mitted by the school districts The levy must be computed by March 1, according to Mek vold. Since the total rural school district does not have suffi cient tax base to cover the re quired levy, it will be neces sary to call for an election tb get voter approval of that portion beyond the tax base, Mekvold said Next meeting of the rural school board is Monday noon at Medford hotel. Albino Robin Seen In Valley Sections A pink-breasted robin sighted in the Medford area is proving that while birds of a feather may flock together, there is room for birds of another color. This bird, an albino with pink breast plumage and while . feathers elsewhere, has been seen accompany ing a flock of his less style conscious brethren in raids on holly berries and other garden delicacies. He has been sighted near the Jacksonville highway .and on Fairmount st. so far. according to Rev. Thomas McCamant, former Mail Tribune birdwatcher dia rist. But he may appear almost anywhere, Mr. Mc Camant believes. Hearing Sought On Policies of Acquiring Land Dissatisfaction Expressed to Duncan State Rep. Robert B. Dun can, Medford, speaker of the house, has asked the house highway committee to con sider holding a hearing con cerning techniques and tac tis used by the state highway commission in acquiring land. Duncan said a large group of citizens in, both Jackson and Josephine counties have "expressed considerable dis satisfaction with the land ac quisition policy" of the com mission, and "particularly their techniques and tactics in acquiring land for the relo cated Highway 99 in the area near Rogue River." Expressed at Hearing He said he understood the same dissatisfaction was ex pressed during the legislative highway interim committee hearing in Albany recently. Duncan said attempts were made to resolve the differ ences in conferences with the highway engineer, but have "thus far been unsuccessful." He requested that the com mittee "give consideration to holding a hearing to which the highway commission, in terested members of the high way department, the public and the highway engineer might be invited to determine the extent of the problem and whether legislation is needed to solve it." The commission has been acquiring land between Grants Pass and Gold Hill for the Highway 99 freeway, and land acquisition is getting under way in the Medford area for the freeway. Two Men Appear in Circuit Court Two men appeared before Circuit Court Judge Edward C. Kelly yesterday afternoon. Imposition of sentence was suspended for two years for Jobt-. Robert-Congers ?23-t,of 211 Cottage st., Medford, who is charged with attempt to commit burglary. Conger waived right to a grand jury hearing and plead ed guilty to district attorney s information. He was charged with at tempting to enter Gail's Gold Hill market Nov. 30. Bob Bryant, 718 Gilman rd. is charged with the same of fense. He appeared in circuit court Jan. 16 and his case was continued for plea. Sam Harbison was appointed his attorney. Elmer Ward, Lakeview, Ore., appeared on charges of assault with a deadly weap on.' Robert Boyer was ap pointed his attorney. The case was continued for one week to allow him to enter a plea. Ward is charged with in flicting an 8-inch wound on the shoulder of Dorsey Lewis, 17, Lakeview, in Jackson ville, Jan. 10. Cost of Living Shows Decline Washington-flJPD-Lower f ood prices sent the cost of living down in December for the first time since August, the government said today. The Labor Department's consumer price index declined- two-tenthsf of 1 per cent last month to 123.7 per cent of average 1947 - 49 prices. The wages of about 700,000 workers, whose pay is tied to the cost of living index by escalator clauses in labor contracts, will stay the same because of stability in the index. , Earnings of the average fac tory worker-after taxes-rose to all-time highs last month, at $79.60 a week for a man with three dependents and $72.10 for a single factory hand. The earnings were about $1.20 above the Novem ber level. Ho School Fire Measures Planned Salem - (UPD r- Deputy State Fire Marshal E. A. Taylor said today no new legislation was planned this session tightening school fire stand ards despite the disastrous Chicago school fire which claimed more than 90 lives. However, Taylor added that the Chicago fire has aroused public opinion so that local people and schools were more willing to cooperate with the fire marshal's office in closing down schools on the border line of safety. "Sam, a Lot of Those Liberals Don't Realize How Well We Treat These Folks Down Here" Jobless Benefit Bills Before Senate .; Salem -(OPD- Six bills deal ing with unemployment com pensation were introduced at the request of Associated In dustries of Oregon in the Sen ate today. One bill in this package provides that an individual disqualfied to receive unem ployment compensation bene fits would be penalized by the loss of four weeks of the benefit year. Another bill gives the Com mission power to waive all qualifications of a worker ex cept physical fitness and as sign such worker to the fields in the event of a shortage of harvest workers. Benefits Reduced An individual who.has worked fewer than 26 weeks during a base year would have his benefits reduced five per cent a week for each week less than 26 weeks but this, reduction ,. woud ot x- ceea-30 per. ceni unaer iei uu of another of the bills. Still another bill provides that an individual can not qualify for any week where his earnings were less than $20.00. Unemployment compensa tion amendments sought by organized labor have not yet made an appearance in the Legislature but probably will be introduced next week. Break in Sandy Dam Covers Yard Sandy, Ore. -(UPD-The ranch home of Dr. Amanda Lowe and her husband Robert,1 was surrounded by a mixture of mud, debris and rocks today after an irrigation dam burst only 4Q0 feet away. Water swirled around the home and a tenant house but other homes in the area were saved from flood and mud damage as the water was de flected into a nearby creek by a road on which the ranch is located. The dam was one wall of an irrigation pond which re ceived overflow waters from the city of Sandy reservoir. Two cars and a truck were partially buried in mud and debris and Dr. Lowe said dam age would run to thousands of dollars. Paul Named CP Administrator Central Point - The, Cen tral Point city council this week decided to establish an administrative type' govern ment and named Lyle Paull its administrator. The . council reappointed Wallace Bowen police chief, with Ed Zanders and James Corliss patrolmen. D. D. Tur ner was reappointed fire chief. The police department was instructed to. enforce the two hour parking limit on Pine st. between Front and Fourth sts., and one half block north and south of Pine st. WEATHER FORECAST: MosUy cloudy through Saturday. Occasional light rain tonight, becoming showery Saturday. Low tonight 36-48. Temp. Highest Yesterday 4S Lowest This Morning 32 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 3:13 p.m. 7:34 a-m. 4:37 p.m. 7rtS a.m. . Jan. 24 Sunrise tomorrow . Moonrise today vioonset tomorrow . Full Moon Mars, hi eh in the southeast after sunset, is now moving into the- constellation, Taurus. In a few weeks, it wiU be seen quite near the Pleiades. The Senate passed a bill ex tending the time for filling an appeal from any action of a county assessor in adding omitted property to the rolls from 10 to 30 days. A pledge that the 19 5 9 Legislature will advance the expansion of business and in dustry in Oregon was con tained in a resolution which passed unanimously. Rules were suspended in the Senate to pass a bill ap propriating $1,250,000 for legislative expense. The bill previously passed the House. City Plans fo Close Two Dumps The city of Medford plans to close the Ellendale dr. gar bage dump Feb. 1 . and the Camp VWba.dump isomer: time this year," City Manager Robert A. Duff announced to day. Duff said "The public will be required to . use the City Sanitary service's site in the Jacksonville area for the dis position of trash and rub bish." ; . , , Duff pointed out that pub- lis use of the Ellendale dr, dump, south of the city be side Bear creek, is already prohibited. He said that after Feb. 1 "all use of this site will be forbidden. Limited use of the Camp White dump will be permit ted while the custodian is on duty," Duff said, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on week days. "The public is urged to use the Jacksonville garbage site now." Duff said, "as this site is properly attended and is opened from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. seven days a week." Entrance to this site in on the Jackson ville-Phoenix road about one mile southeast of Jacksonville he explained. The franchise granted the City Sanitary service by the City of Medford, Duff stated, provides that no charge for small parcels of garbage or ashes hauled in passenger cars cn be mde. For quantities in excess of that, he said scheduled fees must be paid. Salem -(DPD- House bill 170 introduced today provides that emnlovers allow employ ees four hours off with pay on election days for tne pur pose of voting. It provides a $25 fine and imprisonment up to five days for failure to comply. Good Start on Street Tree Program Indicated Edward H. Scanlon, Olm stead Falls, Ohio, a noted nurseryman and landscape architect, indicated yesterday he thinks the Medford street tree program has a good start and the committee has been wise in selecting the trees it has for various streets. Scanlon met with the street tree committee yesterday, and last night discussed street trees at a public meeting in the Red Cross chapter house here. Suggests Other Trees He suggested other trees which he believed would be adaptable to the soil types here and which have not been included in the local program. Scanlon commended the city and residents in the Gar field tract where last week fruitless mulberry trees were planted. The Scanlon maple, a tree which he developed. Flooding River Bars Attempt To Reach 12 Men Rescuers First Must Block Flow Pittston, Pa. - (DPD Hope for 12 coal miners trapped underground by a flooding river collapsing into their tunnelings faded today as the waters barred entrance to the mines "for at least 48 hours, if then." ' Daniel H. Connelly, state deputy secretary of mines, said that rescuers can make no search for the entombed men until water from the ice clogged Susquehanna river can be blocked off. Attempt To Dam River Rescue workers tried fran tically but methodically, to dam the river's flow into a tunnel under the river bed, dumping "everything we can get" into the gaping hole. The rescue efforts during the first 24 hours cost an estimated $2 million, including labor and the value of railroad coal cars, mine cars and other items with which they tried to stem the flow." "Entering the mines from the river, the break can put all mines in the Wyoming Valley out of operation, idling 5,000 employees," Connelly said. The deputy secretary esti mated that the work thus far has reduced the water's flow into the mines by 30 to 35 per cent, but the water already has reached a depth of 315 feet in the No. 4 mine, four miles away. Cause Undetermined The cause of the mine dis aster, described by veteran miners as the worst they could remember in the valely, could not be determined, but Con nelly said, "we believe the rock strata was fractured by the weight of the swollen river.' ' ' Connelly refused to give up hope for the 12 men still miss ing. We;' still "have hope,; they went to high ground," he said. Even after the river's flow into the diggings is halted, he said, it will take at least two days to pump out enough water to allow rescue work ers to resume digging. O&C Timber Sales Show Increase Portland -(DPD- Sales of tim ber of the O&C districts of western Oregon in the first half of the current fiscal year showed increases both in vol ume and in price over the same period of the 1958 fiscal year, according to Virgil T. Heath, Oregon state super visor for the Bureau of Land Management. Heath said the average price per 1000 board feet was up more than one dollar and the volume of timber sold showed substantial gains. Green timber sales in the first six months of fiscal 1959 totaled 351,538,000 board feet valued at $10,204,230, com pared to a volume of 206, 279,000 board feet valued at $5,658,784 in the first half of the previous fiscal year. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (UPD Dow Jones final stock averages: 30 industrials 596.07, up 0.38; 30 railroads 165.66, off 0.51; 15 utilities 91.99, off 0.03, and 65 stocks 207.62, off 0.08. Sales today were about 3,600,000 shares compared with 4,250.000 shares Thursday. will be planted on Holly and Grape sts., the committee told him. The first plantings are scheduled soon at St. Mary's school. Information c o n c e rning staking trees was presented to the committee. Scanlon said he has noticed throughout the country that many trees are not staked correctly. Identifies Tree Scanlon identified the "mystery" tree at 820 Beek man ave., Medford, as an acer crataegifolim' 'or Hawthorne maple, which he said can be classified as a collector's item because of its rarity. ' . At last night's public meet ing, he showed slides of var ious good and bad street trees and how they should be plant ed along streets in small and large towns. The slides in cluded pictures of cities in Europe.
