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Newspaper Page Textm o) tote Acting Secretary To Be Top Man At Paris Meeting Dulles Declared Unable To Attend Washington -flJPD- The State Department announced today that Acting Secretary Chris tian A. Herter will head the U. S. delegation to the forth coming western foreign min isters meeting in Paris. He will serve in place of cancer stricken John Foster Dulles. Officials said the decision that Dulles would not be able to attend was taken soon after the ailing secretary returned unexpectedly Sunday to Walt er Reed Army Medical Center from Florida, where he had been trying to recuperate. The department also an nounced that physicians who have been attending Dulles since his recurrence of can cer are holding a conference this afternoon at Walter Reed Hospital. Afterwards there will be a "further statement" on the Dulles case. Department Press Officer Lincoln White said he could not disclose at this time whether the doctors were go ing to be prepared to say what new treatment they planned. The announcement that Herter would serve as head of the U.S. delegation at Paris came soon after he had conferred with Dulles for 45 minutes at the hospital this, morning. White said Herter and the secretary had a review of cur rent international questions, especially the negotiations in Geneva (on nuclear test sus pension) that resumed Mon day and the current status of the questions of Berlin and Germany." White's announcement about Herter came when he was asked about reports that Dulles would not attend the Paris meeting, which starts April 29. His statement did not specifically rule out the possibility that the ailing sec retary might be able to be present in an advisory capac ity, but other officials previ ously had told United Press International that this ap peared impossible, according to present indications. 117 Appointments To Donate Blood A total of 117 appointments had been made by noon today for the Red Cross Bloodmobile this afternoon. It will be at the Red Cross chapter house, 60 Hawthorne ave., Medford, until 6 o'clock this evening. Quota for today's visit is 290 pints, for which 350 do nors are needed, Red Cross officials said. Drop-in donors will be welcome, they said. The Bloodmobile will be at the Ashland Elks temple be tween 1 and 5 p.m. tomorrow. Augusta, Ga.-UPD-President Eisenhower resumed his golf ing vacation today at the Au gusta National Golf club. Eugene Firm Construction Jeske Brothers Construction company, Eugene, is apparent low bidder at $221,912.75 for constructing the Berrydale sanitary sewer system. Bids were opened yesterday "after noon at Medford city hall. The Eugene firm is one of four contractors bidding be low the engineer's estimate for the major part of the pro ject. Jeske Brothers did not bid on construction of two pump ing stations, separate items in the plans. Den Herder Con struction, Inc., Lebanon, was apparent low bidder for the stations at $24,357.25 for one and $1,483.75 for the other. The city council is slated to consider awarding ' con tracts at its meeting Thursday. MM! s f3Wf FINAL LOGS-Members of the 417th engineer brigade, Army reserve unit of southern Oregon, above are shown putting the final logs in place on the Siskiyou summit stockade en trance gates. Maj Harold Cooley of Glendale, construction foreman of the stockade wall, is shown directing placing logs. Other members shown are Lt. Eldon C. Everton, Grants Pass, on wall, and Pfc. Cleo H. Taylor, Jacksonville. Shopping Center to. Provide 200 Jobs For Local People The Medford-Shopping Cen-i ter on Jackson st. is sched uled to open the week of Aug. 15 to 20 and should provide about 200 to 225 jobs for local people, according to Mark Goldy. Goldy, active in develop ment of the center, said yes terday buildings under con struction this year constitute the first phase of the center. Other buildings will be erect ed as the demand arises, he explained. The. Sears Roebuck store alone, Goldy told the Jackson County Chamber of Com merce roundtable, will em ploy from 125 to 160 persons -about 80 per cent of whom will be local residents. Goldy said the 11 Vi million center should be a great boon to Medford's progress as the shopping hub for those living within a 75-mile radius. He described the Sears store be ing erected here as about 50 per cent larger than those in Eugene and Salem. - Besides Sears, Safeway and Pay-Less Drugs, Goldy said, tenants will include a La Pointe dress shop, a Gallen- Orchard Heaters Lit Long Hours Last Night Last night saw one of the longest nights of Rogue val ley orchard heating, accord ing to the county extension office. It was the most extensive heating this season but not on record. Orchards in some of the colder spots in the val ley started heating about 11:45 pjn., and general heating be gan some time after 1 pan. Apparent Low Bidder on of Berrydale Sewer The city's engineer-Cornell, Howland, Hayes and Merry field, of Corvallis - estimated the sewer system at $233,100 and the pumping stations at $27,87) and $2,400. Other bidders for the sewer system were R. A. Heintz, Portland, $223,326,50; P. S. Lord Mechanical Contractors, Portland, $227,378; and Den Herder, $230,508. The bidding also included the alternative of using asbes tos cement instead of con crete for service connections. On this alternative Jeske Bro thers bid $19,882.52 while Den Herder bid $21,450 and P. S. Lord, $20,812.50. Lord Brothers, Portland, bid $23,150 and $1,750 on the pumping stations. But the firm's bid on the sewer sys tem itself was $250,148 and it will lead n nn pe.Gg3nE.01. kamp shoe store and a mall comprising several small shops. The small shops are to include a Columbia Optical company outlet, a barber shop and a beauty parlor, and a restaurant, he said. Practically all space is now rented, Goldy reported. He said the stores are ex pected to open between Aug. 15 and 20, with individual businesses occupying their quarters from June 15 on to install fixtures. The leases, he said, are for 25 years. No Closure Contemplated Asked about a rumor that Safeway store on North Bart- lett st. would be closed after the store at the center went into operation, Goldy replied that no closure, was contem plated at present. He said the first phase of construction will p r o y i d e 1,800 to 1,900 off-street park ing spaces. A total of 2,700 spaces, it is understood, can be provided with full develop ment of the site. Goldy said the shopping center has an option on land across Biddle rd. as well. But, he noted, this land is on the right-of-way for the proposed Highway 99 freeway. Asked whether the center developers would oppose fur ther commercial zoning in the surrounding area, Goldy said the center was "not going to be a dog in the manger." Goldy said the entire park ing area will be paved. He said slow-growing trees will be planted to break its bare ness, and recommended trees will be planted along Jackson st. and Biddle rd. in accord with the city's street tree program. stipulated "all or nothing." Other bidders on the sewer system were Salem Sand and Gravel company, Salem $239, 103.35; F. L. Somers, Klamath Falls, $286,115; and C. H. Strong Engineering and Con struction company, Eugene, $306,730. Other pumping station bid ders were R. A. Heintz, $29,- 431 and $2,500; and Ausland Construction company, Grants Pass, $30,000 and $1,560. The larger pumping station, to be erected east of Bear creek, will .pump effluent from the entire . system through a pressure line to the Camp White trunk line. The smaller one is to be just east of the Table Rock rd.-Merri- man rd. fork, and will pump sewage up from the lower properties east of that point. Discoverer II Space Capsule Recovery Out Timing Apparatus .Failure Blamed Washington -(UPD- The Gov ernment said today it will not attempt to recover a space capsule from the polar satel lite Discoverer II. Roy Johnson, director of the Advanced Research Proj ects Agency, said a malfunc tion of the timing apparatus made impossible the planned recovery of the capsule by air planes or supporting naval vessels. To Test Components Johnson said, however, that a test would be made of the separation components and possibly of the functioning of oi xne retro-rocket and par achute of the Discoverer II. Signals from the Air Force satellite, blasted into space Monday as part of a long range project designed to lead to manned vehicles, were re ceived ""loud and clear" at stations in Hawaii, Alaska and here. The launching took place at Vandenberg A'ir Force base about 170 miles north of Los Angeles. An attempt at Cape Canav eral, Fla., Monday to send up two earth satellites in a sin gle Vanguard rocket failed when the rocket's second stage did not fire properly. Metallic Cylinder The Vanguard carried in its third stage a metallic cylin der designed to collect data on the earth's magnetic field and another satellite made of inflatable plastic balloon w,hich was to drift slowly in a descending orbit around the earth and be visible to Moon watch teams. Discoverer II was reported by the Air Force orbiting the earth every 90.84 minutes at a speed of more than 17,000 miles an hour. It ranges from as far as 243 miles from earth to as close as 156 miles. Local Man Held On Extortion Rollin Benjamin Dexter, 49, of 12 Rose ave., Medford, is being held in the county jail on charges of extortion, Sher iff Joe Walsh said today. Bail has been set at $1,500. A complaint was to be sign ed today, and Dexter will be arraigned in district court sometime today, according to the Jackson county district attorney's office. Sheriff's deputies made the arrest yesterday in Medford. He signed a statement admit ting the charges, Walsh said. David Lee Mathias, 28, of 724 Alder st., Medford, had reported to the sheriff's office of attempted blackmail. Sheriffs deputies yesterday afternoon gave Mathias a roll of rrnrked bills. Deputies watched from near an agreed meeting place at the First National Bank, then followed as Mathias was picked up in a car driven by Dexter, Walsh explained. Near Mathias home Dexter stopped the car and left Ma thias, Walsh said. Mathias dropped a small leather bill fold and picked it up as a pre arranged signal to indicate that marked money had been passed. Sheriffs deputies then stopped Dexter's car and ar rested him. WEATHER FORECAST: Increasing cloudi ness tonight. ParUy cloudy Wednesday. Chance of a few showers in the mountains. Con tinued' cool. Low tonight 36. Highest Wednesday 65. Temp. Highest Yesterday 65 Lowest this Morning 32 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today '6:51 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 5.32a.m. Tonight the Moon is moving near the star, Alhena, in Ge mini. Moonset tomorrow 12:55 a.m. First Quarter April 15 VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets 9:31 p.m Jupiter, rises 10:15 p.m. Mars, sets at midnight Saturn, rises 1:06 a.m. Voters Backing Balanced Budget Drive, Ike Hears Survey Report Shown President Washington -(DPD- President Eisenhower greeted with en thusiasm today a report from House Republican leaders that the voters are backing his drive for a balanced budg et. House GOP Leader Charles A. Halleck showed the Presi dent a report on a survey tak en among House Republicans of their Easter recess findings on public attitudes toward the four big issues-the budget, de fense, Berlin, and "spend thrift federal programs." Halleck told newsmen after the weekly GOP leadership conference at the White House Lthat the President looked over the report and was "encour aged" by what he saw. Voters Back President The report said the voters are supporting the President on all four issues. Halleck reported there also was discussion of a Senate approved bill to create a com mission to investigate unem ployment problems. He said there was no inclination among House Republicans to delay action since no one has a monopoly of concern about the unemployed. But he added that he would support the res olution with ' "qualms" be cause it might mean a 60-day delay until the commission makes its report. In a speech to the Seventh annual GOP Women's Con ference Monday night, Eisen hower said government spend ing should be governed by na tional needs and not by "po litical opportunism." Republican Creed The President laid down a six-point Republican creed for the 2,000 cheering GOP wom en. He said that he was with them . "to the bitter end" in the fight for victory in 1960. But he cautioned that the Republicans are badly out numbered by the Democrats and said "all of us have to work hard" if the party is to retain the White House and wrest control of Congress from the Democrats. . In this connection, he spell ed out the creed which he said had been "lived and expound ed" by a long line of Republi cans beginning with Abraham Lincoln. Security of Nation These Republicans, he said, invariably have insisted: "(1) Upon the security of our nation; (2) upon the lib erty and rights of the indi vidual . . . (3) upon respect for the rights and responsi bilitites of the several states; (4) upon honesty in govern ment; (5) upon fiscal integrity; and (6) upon an expanding economy, based upon a dollar that, earned today will buy tomorrow and the next day an equal amount of groceries." Attempts Made to Set Fires at School Two attempts were made to set fires in Roosevelt school, 112 Lindley ave., shortly after noon last Friday, Medford po lice reported today. Students are being inter viewed in connection with the case, police said. Two test papers on a second floor bulletin board were re portedly burned, in one at tempt. The second attempt in volved setting fire to. paper towels in a container in the girls' rest room on the same floor. When the metal cover on the towel container was lowered, police reported, the flames, were snuffed out. Grants Pass Woman Dies of Injuries Mrs. Marjorie Hardwick, 58, of Grants Pass, died in a local hospital yesterday of in juries suffered in an automo bile accident March 17 near Grants Pass. Mrs. Hardwick was a case worker , for the Josephine County Welfare commission. The accident occurred on Lower River rd. near Robert son bridge when she drove her car into a ditch to avoid hitting children getting off a school bus. The car went down a 20-foot embankment. She suffered a spinal in jury, according to reports. Portland -(DPD- Dunkin Wel te, Chicago, has been named president of the National Grain Elevator and Processing superintendents. 54th Year Medford 16 Pages MEDFORD, Wednesday Deadline for Federal and State Taxes Washington-(DPD-Wednesday is T-day for nearly 61 million Americans. April 15, the law says, is the deadline for getting your income tax return into the-offices of Uncle Sam's tax collectors. That's no postmark deadline, either. Your return is supposed to arrive at the of fice, of your district director of Internal Revenue by midnight Wednesday. The address can be found in the instruc tion booklet that comes with tax return forms, available at post offices and banks. All of which means if you wait until Wednesday to mail your return it's going to arrive Thursday-late. What will happen then? Probably noth-ing-if your return is in good order and you've enclosed a check for any taxes you may owe. The tax collector usually is too busy to bother with returns that are a day or even two days-late. But he could charge interest figured at the rate of 6 per cent a year for every day your return and check are late. Special Meeting Of Reorganization To Be Scheduled A special meeting of the Jackson county school district reorganization committee will be held next week to consid er further a public vote on the proposed Talent-Phoenix school district consolidation, it was reported today. The action followed a Phoe nix school board meeting last night when representatives of Phoenix and the Wagner Creek area urger the board to request a vote in Talent and Phoenix districts. They objected to the reorganiza tion committee turning down petitions last Wednesday af ter they, requested a vote on the consolidation question. Jack Hoffbuhr, member of the reorganization committee and Phoenix school board, said this morning he had re quested Committee Chairman Keith Hockersmijh to hold the special meeting. Hoffbuhr emphasized any action he may have taken in the past or will take in the future as' a member of the reorgaization committee is not as a repre sentative of the Phoenix school district or board. The entire county picture must be seen he said. Allen Harris, Phoenix school board chairman, said last night the board agreed to request a public vote on the Talent-Phoenix school consoli dation question. "We will try and get our petitions honored with the letter," Harris said. "A 60 per cent vote as required by law to turn down the reor ganization plan once it is es tablished is not democratic. It should be by a simple ma jority." Mrs. Claire Sommers and Mrs. Hulda Sommers, both of Wagner Creek, led a delega tion which opposes the reor ganization committee's plan to remove the Wagner Creek area from the Phoenix dis trict and reorganize it, Tal ent and Pinehurst with Ash land. About 100 per cent of the Wagner Creek residents favor the proposed Phoenix Talent consolidation, Mrs. Claire Sommers argued. Asked why the Phoenix school board did not send a letter to the reorganization committee urging the Phoenix-Talent consolidation, Cur tis Barnes, board member, ex plained that the board should not recommend any one group those favoring reor ganization with Medford, those favoring consolidation with Talent or those wishing to remain independent. . The taxation question con tinually arises, he said, be cause a big question is wheth er Phoenix or Talent-Phoenix could support a high school adequate to serve the educa tional needs of the pupils. Members of the Wagner Creek delegation complained of the distance for bus trans portation into Ashland. One mother said it is 21 miles round trip from her home to Southern Oregon college in Ashland. ' ' Barnes emphasized that it is impossible at this time to es timate the millage involved with the different proposals. (The county assessor has yet to determine the assessed valuations for the county on which the millage is based). OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL If you're one of the estimated five mil lion or more taxpayers filing today or Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service offers these last minute reminders: -Be sure to include your name and so cial security number. Lots of people send in perfect returns but no names. -Sign' the return at the bottom. If it's a joint filing, your wife or husband must sign too. -Check your arithmetic. Last year near ly two million people made mistakes in addition, subtraction or other figuring. -Include a check or money order if you owe Uncle Sam unpaid taxes. Send the return to your district director, not to Washington. If the above isn't enough woe fop the late filer, Oregop income taxes are due Wednesday, too. State tax returns should be sent to the State Tax Commission, Salem, while federal returns go to the District Di rector of Internal Revenue, Portland. 'Do You Have To Bring Up Technicalities?' IWL Not Tentative The Jackson county chapter of the Izaak Walton league re fuses to endorse any tentative proposals for development of Rogue basin water resources until it learns of specific oper ation plans, according to Hen ry DeVoss, chapter member and state director of the na tional organization. DeVoss' statement followed a report made to the Rogue River Basin Flood Control and Water Resources associa tion last night. County Judge Raymond Lathrop, Josephine county member of the association, noted that the Grants Pass chapter of the league had gone on record favoring the tentative development propo sals with certain reservations. Tentative Proposal The tentative proposal of the bureau of reclamation, the Army Corps of Engineers and the state water resources board is development of sites at Merlin and Tucker creek in Joseph county, Evans creek Copper site on the Applegate river, Lost creek and Elk creek in Jackson county. Such single and multiple purpose dams at the sites des ignated should be constructed so as to "inflict the least pos sible damage under the cir cumstances on existing natur al resources, the qualifying clause of the Grants Pass res olution read. Fish propagation should be promoted according to the "most modern and accepted practices," the clause also stated. Judge Lathrop also report ed that the Illinois Valley Sucker creek project of the bureau of reclamation would place some 16 000 acres of Josephine couo-l;T under irri gation. The project will have positive benefits for both fish and wildlife, Lathrop stated. The association approved the project and directed the secretary to write the recla mation commissioner that the funds needed for bringing the feasibility report up to date be included in the federal budget. Ben Day, attorney for the association, and Ben Hilton were authorized to speak with Price 10 Cents Tribune 14, 1959 No. 21 to Endorse Projects the Corps of Engineers in Portland to discuss the Home stead Gulch section of the en gineers report. Josephine county residents would prefer the Homestead site to the Meadows site which the corps apparently now favors, ac cording to Bill Jess, associa tion president. Next association meeting will be in Rogue River May 11. ' . Phoenix Man in Fair Condition Gerald Allbright, 37, of 3653 South Pacific highway, Phoenix, was reported in fair condition in Rogue Valley hos pital this morning, hospital at tendants said. 1 Allbright was beaten in a fight at the Veterans of For eign Wars hall at Rogue Riv er Saturday and was admitted to the hospital in serious con dition with head injuries, ac cording to the Jackson county sheriff's office. The district attorney's of fice state it is still investigat ing the case. The fight result ed from an argument over parking cars at the VFW hall, it was reported. Soviet Jets Buzz Yank Plane Over East Germany Berlin -(UPD- Two Soviet jet fighters buzzed an American Air Force cargo plane and forced it to reduce altitude while it was crossing East Germany on a flight from West Berlin April 3, a U. S. Embassy spokesman said to day in Bonn. 1 Second Incident It was the second such buz zing incident and came while the United States and Soviet Union were embroiled in a series of protests and counter protests involving another buzzing by Migs on March 27. Only Monday the United States delivered a protest to Overwhelming Non-Partisan Vote Recorded Bill Would Yet Go Before Voters Salem - (UPD - By an over whelming vote the Oregon Senate today passed a three per cent sales tax bill which would be referred to the vot ers at the 1960 general elec tion. Only seven votes were cast against the measure. Voting was on a non-partisan basis with two Republicans and five Democrats opposing it. Cuts Income Tax Rolls ' The three per cent sales tax would not be burdensome on persons with low incomes. Sen. Ben Musa (D-The Dalles) said on presenting the bill. The measure would reduce the income tax on the lower levels and would take 25 per cent of the citizens off the state income tax roles, Musa said. , In addition, he said, it would increase the basic school support program from $105 to $140 per census school child. This would reduce lo cal property taxes as much as 40 per cent, Musa said. 'Don't Understand Bill' Musa told the Senate he re gretted that some members of his own party were oppos ing the measure. "These Democrats .don't un derstand the bill,"' he de clared, "and they don't know that they will have lower taxes if this measure passes." Sen. Monroe Sweetland (D Milwaukie) an implacable foe of the sales tax, predicted that the House would defeat the bill, but added that if such was riot the case, he was cer tain that the voters would overwhelmingly defeat the bill "just as they defeated six sales tax proposals in the past." Dim Picture Drawn Sen. Edwin Durno (R-Med-ford) drew a dim picture of the fiscal condition of - the state two years from now un less the state income tax was supplemented by some other form of taxes. "The taxpayers of this state will be faced with an income tax that will come close to be ing confiscatory in many cases unless we have a sales tax," he said. "With growing population, basic school sup port automatically increases and costs of many other serv ices will likewise go up." . Proponents of the bill em phasized that formulas con tained in the sales tax could be changed by the 1961 Legis lature. If the sales tax passed the Legislature .and is signed by the governor and then is ' approved by the .people, the 1961 Legislature will enact a sales tax law. Two Fined $25 on Vagrancy Charges Two men arrested by state police Friday with Leland Duane Benson, who is charged with murder, were arraigned in district court yesterday on charges of vagrancy. Larry Donald Miller, 35, of Billings, Mont., and Floyd William Ballantine, 32, of Ya kima, Wash., were fined $25 each. They were charged with "unlawfully and wilfully asso ciating with a known thief and wandering about the high ways late at night and at an unusual hour of the night." Benson had admitted to state police following his ar rest that he had stolen the car in which he was riding- The Breckenridge, Minn., man was returned to St. Louis, Mo., Sunday to face charges of murder in connection with the death of Thomas G. Kimber, 27, of St. Louis, About March 31. the Soviet Foreign Ministry in Moscow charging that Russia intentionally created a hazard to flight safety in the Berlin air corridor when it buzzed the first plane. A new protest against the second incident has been lodg ed, at the Berlin Air Safety Center, informed sources said. Above 10.000 Feet Both planes were harassed because they were flying at altitudes above 10,000 feet in the 20-mile-wide air corridors leading from West Germany to West Berlin, 110 miles in side the Iron Curtain. The United States does not accept I such a ceiling on its flights.