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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
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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.