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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 5, 1959)
Ul Jl at EXERCISES-Part of the large crowd and president of Southern Oregon college, spoke, the 339 graduates of Medford High school and students were presented awards. Com are shown above at Hedrick Junior High mencement exercises also were held at Ash- school last night. Dr. Elmo 339 Students Get Degrees at MHS' Commencement0 Dr. Elmo N." Stevenson, president of Southern Oregon college, compared the individ uals of the Medford High school graduating class to sputniks going into orbit. Addressing the 339 mem bers of the senior class during graduation ceremonies Thurs day evening at Hedrick Jun ior High schoo! auditorium, Dr.. Stevenson reminded the class of training and guidance they had received. "What you do now should reflect all tke resources and outlay of energy that has gone into shaping you,"- he said. "When making your decision as to a job or further educa tion, select a position commen surate with your interests and ability so you can be of serv ice to mankind." Particular Field Dr. Stevenson mentioned that research shows that the majority of persons who en ter a particular field remain in that type of work. "Set your sights high," the college president commanded the seniors, "so when you go . . , - i lit 1 41 in LO orDll you win jiia&e we most of what you know . . . serve your fellow man as well as yourself." Robert Steele was valedic torian of the. class and Robert Pond was salutatorian. DeWanda Winchell was chos en outstanding senior girl and Larry Anderson, outstanding senior boy. ; Thursday evening gradua tion exercises were also held for Crater High school and Ashland High school. A class of 102 seniors heard three students speak at the Central Point commencement. They were Arvella Prom, Richard Hammersley, and Margaret Taylor. Allen Barnes was valedic torian and Elaine Kroon salu- totarian. Outstanding senior eirl and boy were' Arvella Prom and Kerman, Bennett. Dr. Howard Runkle, Willa mette university department of speech and dramatics, spoke for the Ashland cere mony. Class valedictorian was Sybil Hamilton and salutator ian was George Converse. Adenauer to Keep Chancellor Post Bonn, Germany -(IJPD- Kon- rad Adenauer electrified Ger mans and the Western alli ance today with a surprise de cision to remain chancellor of West Germany instead of run ning for the less important post of president. The Communists were ex pected to react strongly to the decision since Adenauer is one of their most implacable foes. ., The ; move, announced to members of his Christian Democratic Party Thursday night, was seen as Adenauer's way of stiffening the Western position at Geneva; and smoothing intra-party battles over who should succeed him. Lodge as Leading Darkhorse Candidate East on. Pa.-(HPD-Gov. Mark Hatfield of Oregon tocSry was given an honorary degree by Lafayette College whereQhe was described as a product of higher education who is a popular and forceful govern ment leader. Doctor of Laws Hatfield was named a doc tor of laws by Dr. K. Roald Bergethon, Lafayette's presi dent. "Your" rise to eminence is a bright reminder that the college ivory , can build not merely towers of contempla tion but also bridges of com- JN. Stevenson, lagi ana uraier Consolidation Vote Officially The ballot and canvass of the Phoenix-Talent consolida tion election was officially ac cepted this morning by the county boundary board. The board noted that the 10-day period allowed for pro testing the election expired yesterday. The proposed con solidation of Phoenix and Talent school, districts had been defeated in Phoenix by 425 to 411. Talent had ap provedit by 239 to 119. Voters in each district had to approve the issue. Meanwhile, District Attor ney Thomas J. Reeder said his office has been making an in vestigation of the election and expects- to issue 'a statement soon covering the findings. ; Consider Transfer . This morning the boundary board was considering the transfer of three pieces of property from School District 6C to the Rogue River school district , , J. P. Jewett, District 6C superintendent, formally pro tested the proposals on behalf of the Central Point school board whose members were not able to attend this morn ing's hearings. Mr. and Mrs. Harry White protested trans fer of two of the three pie'ces of property. Their land is across the Rogue river from District 6C. The third piece is on the Ward creek side of a mountain ridge. Alf B.- Mekvold, county school superintendent and board secretary, r explained that no children are involved in the transfers of properties. The aim is merely to straight en boundaries and conform Miss Webster Resign Post ' Miss Helen Webster has re signed as head of the Med ford Public library ,t was an nounced today by Mrs. Leland Mentzer, president of the li brary's board of trustees. The letter of resignation, received from Miss Webster, who is now in California on vacation, said she will relin quish the position at the end of her vacation period, on June 30. Miss Webster did not an nounce her plans for the fu ture, although she has re ceived attractive offers from several libraries in recent months, Mrs. Mentzer said. r Miss Webster has been li brarian for three years, dur ing a period of increasing pop ulation and demand for li brary services, Mrs. Mentzer pointed out, and has efficient ly supervised a considerable expansion of the library, which serves both Medford, and, by contract, Jackson county. Mrs. Kenneth Baker, a trained librarian who has handled reference work at the library on a part time basis in recent months, will be in charge until a successor is ap pointed, Mrs. Mentzer0 said. Gets Honorary prehension ' toward a better world," CDr. Bergethon told Hatfield. . The 36-year-bld Oregon Re publican governor formerly a dean of students and politi cal science professor at Wil lamette Ore. University,0 Salem, Boston-flJPD-Gov. Mark Hat field of Oregon said Thursday night tha U.N. Ambassadorl Henry Cabot Lodge : is the leading dark .horse candidate for the 1960 Republican presi dential nomination. The 36-year-old Republican, ffe mgn scnooisi lasi mgm. Accepted with natural barriers, he said. The Jackson county reorgan ization committee previously had approved the transfers. "Jewett said the school board opposed the transfers of all three pieces of property since it would remove some of the assessed valuation from the school district. Gradually changing small sections of land would harm the district's bond issue program, he said. The Whites said Rogue Riv er is too small a district to give children a good educa tion. They said they would want their future grandchil dren who will live on their property to go to District 6C where they could get a better education. Meter Reductions May Be Sought o Medford City Councilman Ed Hall, Ward I, last night said he plans to ask reductions in parking meter hours and street corner meter rates since the city is not using the extra revenue for off-street park- "I cannot conscientiously continue to collect monies voted for one purpose and used for another," Hall stated. The city council two years ago approved increasing meter hours and street corner rates as part of a program for revenue to develop municipal off-street parking facilities. Meters, formerly operating from 9 a.m., to 5 p.m., were put on an 8 to 6 schedule, while meters near downtown street corners were placed on a special rate of 5 cents per half hour and 10 cents per hour. Additional revenue from these changes was estimated at $15,000 a year. Hall said he plans to ask the council at its June 18 meeting for a return to the previous hours and rates.' Budget, items both in 1957 58 and 1958-59 were estab lished for off-street parking purposes. In 1957-58, the money reverted to the general fund when no dispensation was made. City Manager Rob ert A.'. Duff last month re minded this year's budget committee that unless it set up a special off-street park ing sinking fund the $7,000 budgeted for 1958-59 would also i revert to the general fund! : Hall asked at a budget com mittee meeting that the coun cil consider creating a spe cial fund or else return meters to their former status. The committee itself took no ac tion. Committee Probing Nicaragua Conflict Washington (UPD A four nation committee began an investigation today to deter mine whether the armed con flict in Nicaragua threatens the peace of the hemisphere. Portland (UPB-r- Democratic day at the Oregon Centennial Exposition will be held Aug. 1. Degree; Sees second youngest governor in the nation, said Lodge would be the logical choice in event of a deadlock - between Vice President Richard Nixon and New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. Sees Stevenson Choice Hatfield also told newsmen at a press conference preced ing a GOP dinner here he believes Adlai Stevenson will be nominated again as the Democratic presidential con tender, with Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) as the vice presidential candidate. Contract Awarded For Construction Of Creek Bridge Plans for Extending Willamette Adopted The Medford city council last night awarded a contract for the Eighth st. bridge across Bear creek and author ized preparations of plans and specifications for extend ing 10th st. across the creek. The council also adopted preliminary plans and author ized right of way acquisition for extending Willamette ave. from Siskiyou blvd. south to Barnett rd. The Eighth st. bridge con tract went to R. and M. Con struction company, of Cen tral Point. The firm submitted a bid of $51,038. Engineer's estimate was $49,368. Bids were opened May 26 by the state highway department at Salem. Completion Date Completion of the bridge is expected " in October. An embankment to the east, con necting the bridge to East Main st., has already been constructed and awaits pav ing, curbs and gutters. The city plans to raze part of the Western Auto building be tween Riverside ave. and the creek to link the bridge with downtown Eighth st. The 10th st. extension step follows a petition filed with the council last month by over 200 interested residents. The extension would run from Riverside ave. across the creek to meet the presently existing East 10th st. at Port land ave. This link would be constructed as part of the city's arterial street program. The extension of Willam ette ave., according to City Manager Robert A. Duff, is an attempt to get a head start c-i the state highway depart ment. - ", ' - - -Arterial Street Program The city's 10-year arterial street program . calls for Willamette to., cross Bear creek and continue south across . the Earhart tract to Barnett. In doing so, it must cross "the proposed right of way for the Highway 99 free way. Purchasing land for the freeway is expected to begin later this year; - The city's plan, as Duff ex plained it, is for Willamette to be extended across the Ear hart tract first so that free way planning , will have to allow for a crossing. Duff said it was hoped the free way would be bridged over Willamette. The danger, as city ofifcials apparently see it, is that if Willamette were not extended first the free way planners might ignore it and make no allowance for a crossing. Duff told the council Willamette's extension now would be "more or less an expedient" involving grading and graveling only. He said there would be no immediate plans for a bridge across Bear creek. (See council story on page 5) Bargain-or-Else Ultimatum Ordered New York - (UPD - Negoti ators for the United Steel workers of America resumed their dead-locked, contract talks with- the steel industry today' under orders to issue a bargain-or-else ultimatum to the companies. Salem-(DPD-The seventh an nual district attorneys insti tute will be held "here June 25-26. : "Oh Boy Wait 'Black Price 10 Medford 22 Paget Georgia-Pacific, Simpson Logging Set 4-Day Week Portland (UPD Two big firms Thursday announced plywood production cutbacks which will reduce work weeks. - Georgia-Pacific Corporation said its West Coast production would be cut effective imme diately with six plants going on a four-day week. The plants are at Toledo. Coos Bay, Coquille , and Spring field in Oregon, Olympia, Wash., and Samoa, Calif. Simpson Logging Company said cutbacks of 20 per cent from the present five-day work schedule would apply during June to its fir plywood plants at Portland, Lyons and Albany in Oregon; Eureka, Calif., and Olympia, Shelton and McCleary, Wash. . Similar Disclosures The announcement came on the heels of similar disclosures by two other plywood firms, Long-Bell division of Interna tional Paper and Evans Prod ucts Company. Robert B. Pamplin, Georgia Pacific president, said the rea son for the cutback was to guard against over-supply, "Business is excellent, the general economy is everything one could wish but inventories at the jobber and dealer level are higher than normal," he said. ' ... ".. Pamplin said the cut-back would help to bring inven tories back to a healthy nor mal. . Two Jactors leading to the inventory , build-up were an ticipation of a freight car shortage and the threat . of labor trouble, he said. Parade Included in Events June A parade Saturday, June 13, will feature the start of the Hillah Temple's Shrine spring ceremonial here next week end, when more than 1,000 persons areaexpected to attend events. Among units which are ex pected to participate in the parade are a drill team, the Shrine Patrol, captained by Bill Butler of Grants Pass; the . Hillah Temple band di rected by Clarence Bell of Ashland; the Oriental band from Coos Bay; the drum and bugle corps - from Klamath Falls; the Shrine Temple chanters from Medford and Ashland; and the Oriental Guard of Roseburg, Cottage Grove and Eugene. - The wrecking crew from Medford and Grants Pass will distribute ballons and candy during the parade. General chairman for the ceremonial is A. K. (Woody) Morse of Medford. Till They Discover Beauty " rttetss to Pro'tetBiei : -. i - ' , . . Cents MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 1959 Laurelhursf Park to Have Camp Facilities Laurelhurst State park on the upper Rogue river will be opened for public use for the first time late this month or early next. The park is the first and only state park in Jackson county where overnight camp ing is permitted. Chester Armstrong, superintendent of the parks division of the state highway department, 'said it will have 35 family camping units when completed. . The state has owned the location for some , time,, but Slide Blocks Highway 230 ,An earth slide, considerably larger than another one in the same location oh. April 25, has blocked -the Diamond Lake highway about 8Vi miles north of Crater Lake high way junction, according to state highway department en gineers. - " ' - The slide becurrad Thurs day morning. Officials reported that the highway is expected to be blocked from a week 'to 10 days before one-way traffic can be resumed. The slide covered the roadway with pumice rock .and trees, be tween 15 and' 20 feet, deep along a 200-foot strip. ' . It was i reported to have buried a bulldozer tractor which belongs to the con tractor removing earth from the former slide. Highway of ficials stated that the com pany which has the present bureau of public roads con tract will begin removal of the new slide. It was reported that a large shovel may be moved into the area. The first slide was esti mated at about 1,000 cubic yards. Spring seepage in the area is said to be the cause of the slides. Director Named for Finance Campaign State Republican Chairman Peter M. Gunnar told a break fast meeting of Jackson coun ty GOP finance workers today that Mrs. Paul (Helen) Daugh erty, Portland, has been named Oregon chairman of a nationwide Republican "re cruit now for '60' ." program. ' Gunnar said the program, which will open in September, is expected to "produce 10,000 new Republican workers in Oregon for victory in 1960. - He will speak at . a meeting at 7 o'clock tonight in the Jackson hotel. Approximately 50 persons areaexpected to attend. ' . Mrs. D a.u g h e r t y is vice chairman of the GOP State committee. Gunnar also revealed pre liminary plans for a statewide workshop and training session for party officers and work ers to be held in October at Salem. He said the current state wide finance drive was meet ing with "unprecedented suc cess" in areas where the party has workers in the field. The local drive should be completed by the end of June. Cliff D. Oullette, Medford at torney, is county finance chairman and Frank Van Dyke, Medford attorney, is finance chairman for this con gressional district WEATHER FORECAST: Considerable clou diness tonight and Saturday morning. ParUy cloudy Satur day afternoon. Low tonight 50. High Saturday IS. Temp. Highest Yesterday 81 Lowest this Morning 38 Prec. to .19 ajn. Today, Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 1:44 P-rn. Sunset tomorrow 4:3S a.m. New Moon tomorrow 3:33 a.m. PROMINENT STAR Vega, high in the east at mid night. . VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, in the west after sunset. Saturn, rises 9:34 p.m. Mars, sets lo:3 p.m. Jupiter, due south 10:47 p-m. up to this year has not had the funds to' develop it for camping use. The project now nearing completion is costing around $25,000, he said. - Armstrong reported that the camp will not be completed to the state's usual high stand ard this year, although it will provide adequate camping fa cilities, will be fully develop ed by next year's camping season, he said Principal Hem The principal item still de laying opening of the park' is an electric hook-up' to op erate water pumps. It is anti cipated this will be completed within the next few weeks: The camping units will have the usual stoves and tables, and tent sites, for overnight i use. Adequate water and toilet facilities will be available, and will be improved by next year. Other Oregon state parks in Jackson county, each devoted only to , picnic, rest-stop" or view uses, include Ben Hur Lampman park on the Rogue river across from Gold Hill; TouVelle park, on the Rogue at Bybee bridge; Tubb Springs park at the top of the Green Springs highway grade; Casey and McLeod parks on the up per Rogue, and several small er waysides and . overlook spots. . Impro vemen tsare under way at several of these, Arm strong reported. Federal Tax Liens Filed in Court ' Federal tax liens totalling $5,868.93 have been filed in Jackson county ' circuit court against Ralph L. and Doris K. Schulte, former owners of the Plaza Cafe, Ashland. The cafe was closed by in ternal revenue agents April 2 for failure .to pay taxes withheld from employee's wages and social security taxes. The Schulte equity in the cafe was later sold at public auction to satisfy tax claims of the treasury depart ment. The tax liens involve money withheld for the tax quarters ending December, 1957; December, 1958; and September, 1958. Amounts are $1,275.34,. $1,275.34, and $3, 318.25, respectively. , Schulte is reported to have left the area prior to the cafe closing and his present where abouts is not known. Kennedy May Speak at Oregon Labor Meeting Portland - (UPD - Sen. John Kennedy (D-Mass.), a possible presidential nominee candi date next year, may speak at the Oregon AFL-CIO conven tion at Seaside in August, a labor official said today. City Subdivision Ordinance Adopted By Council; A Medford subdivision ordi nance last night gained final approval from the city coun cil following a public hearing and two amendments. The unanimous passage of the subdivision measure cli maxes years of effortby city officials to find satisfactory means of controlling this form of land development. One council amendment, however, reversed an action of the city planning commis sion last month. , Financial Statement The planners, at the sug gestion, of Mark Goldy, Med ford realtor, added submission of a personal financial state ment by the subdivider as an alternative to posting a per sonal bond, a surety bond or cash to guarantee putting in improvements. This alternative, as it ap peared on the proposed meas ure last . night, . would have permitted the subdivider to file "a personal financial statement which shall show personal financial responsibil 54th Year Tribune No. 66 Seasonal Upturn rn Employment Continues in Area . The seasonaloupturn in em ployment observed in March and April increased through out May, John J. Patton, man ager of the Medford office of the state employment service, said today. Along with the great im provement in employment, we have a substantial reduc tion in unemployment," Pat ton said. i At the end of May, unem ployment in Jackson county was estimated at 840 persons, 34 per cent below the total for last May and about 22 per cent below last month. Job openings, he said, have continued to increase and are running well above last year. The lumber industry con tinued to operette at a high level of employment. Con struction, Patton added, has been strong for some time, and received a further boost with the 'start of the $5Vi million Rogue Valley Manor. Shortages Show Up Shortages are beginning to be felt in several occupations. Patton said there is a lack of experienced, well-qualified office help. Many employers' are offsetting this lack of ex perienced people by hiring high school graduates. The young people lack job experi ence, but many have shown ability to learn quickly, ac cording to tests given by the employment center. Jackson county schools, Pat ton noted, are currently gradu ating about 850 seniors, many of whom will be seeking per manent jobs. Agriculture has provided few jobs as yet, he said. There are no field crops in this area, such as the large berry acre ages in the Willamette valley. The next major demand for help will come with the start of the pear harvest after Aug. 1, Patton said. Forestry Crews y Control 12 Fires Southwest district crew of the state department of fores try controlled 12 fires during May. Six of the blazes, all small, were listed as lightning- caused. Two were caused by smokers, one by a camper and another by a logging opera tion. Two tfiazes were listed as miscellaneous. Forest patrolmen said that the logging fire was a hold over slash fire from slash burning of last fall. The fire had escaped and was declared out on Dec. 1. May fires brought the 1959 total to 18. Amendments ity in an amount to indicate that he is personally respon sible for the completion of the subdivision." Councilman Ed Hall, Ward I, stated, "In some instances this could be damaging to the city." 'Legal Entanglement' Hall asserted that should the subdivider die, the city might become involved in a "legal entanglement" with his estate. Furthermore, Hall said, studying such financial statements might prove "a terrific burden" to the city manager in some cases. The second amendment, at the request of Councilman Don Hansen, Ward II, requires a subdivider's personal bond to be cosigned by at least two additional persons - instead of at least one - and further re quires that the cosigners be "not related by blood or con sanguity." The council approved both amendments unanimously. The planning commission Indictment of Intrigues Given Foreign Ministers Diplomats Alerted For Major Surprise Geneva - (DPD Secretary of State Christian Herter today blasted Russia for espionage, subversion and outright kid naping activities carried out from East Berlin. Herter gave the Big Four Foreign Ministers' Confer enrce a detailed indictment of Communist intrigues in an attempt to blast through the sudden deep freeze imposed by the Russians in the four-week-old parley. Soviet Premier Nikita K-nrushchev has called the East German leadership to a Moscow "summit" session next week and apparently has ordered Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to sit tight, here pending some new policy decision. The moves alerted diplomats for a possible ma jor surprise. Formal Answer Ignoring these stalling tactics, Herter went before the semi-public Big Four plenary session this afternoon with a formal answer to earlier Communist charges that West Berlin is an "can cer" of intrigue. The secretary of state was armed with this record of spying, abduction and sub version centered in Commu nist East Berlin and East Germany: 0. -One hundred and three kidnapings of West Berliners in, 10 years. -Hiring of espionage agents in West Berlin by So viet, Polish, Czech, Hungar ian, Romanian, Bulgarian and East German curatives based in East Berlin. ' Criminal Practices -Steady agitation and in filtration of the West German Social Democratic party; trade unions, student and sport organizations. . . -Underground activities of the illegal Communist party in West Germany, guided and unancea xrom Jiast iieriin. -Such common criminal practices as burglary and holdups aimed at gathering intelligence information in West Berlin. Herter was the lead-off speaker at the 14th semi public formal sessions, which followed two days of secret talks that got nowhere. Until Thursday afternoon, these private conversations BCCU1CU W UC lllUVlllg IVWdlU some sort of an interim agree ment which would maintain western rights in Berlin and ease the current crisis. But Gromyko ' put on the brakes Thursday. He returned to the old Soviet demands for creation of a "free, demili tarized" West Berlin. Charge Dismissed Against Manrubia A charge of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle was dismissed in district court this week against Jose Manrubia Martinez, .26, of .722 West Fourth st. He was sentenced May 25 in circuitcourt on a charge of grand larceny. The dismissal was made following the request of the district attorney since the man received a three - year suspended sentence after he pleaded guilty to the grand larceny charge. Salem-(UPD-Test drilling will start soutlfof here next week for possible commercial alumi na deposits. Are Made was not represents! at last night's meeting. The only sub divider present was Roy Wilkes, who said he favored some foigi of subdivision ordinance but added that the measure before the council contained "a fundamental error" by being "designed to regulate rather than to serve."0 Force Prices Higher Wilkes asserted that the proposed ordinance would force the prices of residential lots higher. But, he noted, the ordinance grants the right of anpeal to the council. Wilkes said he would "reserve the right to come back and com plain if things go wrong." Seth Bullis of the California Oregon Power company, speaking from the audience, noted that a section in the ordinance requiring a 20-foot radius for street corners would prove more expensive both to the city and to his company. The council dis cussed this point but took no action.
