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0 If ax Rotle' Singled Qui As Problem by Advisory Committee (Sh Story on Page 1) Oregon's "high tax rate" was singled out as one of the major problems facing the Medford area at yesterday's luncheon meetftig of the citi zens advisory committee to the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce "Keep Pace With Tomorrow" program. A number of the local civic and business leaders who at tended pointed to taxes, and Louis Armstrong Showing Signs Of Improvement Spoleto, Italy - (UPD - Louis Armstrong appeared to be re sponding to treatment today and his doctor said the best thing would be to get him back to New York as soon as possible. o The 59-year-old jazz king, hospitalized with bronchial pneumonia, heart trouble and body swelling, flashed his famous smile and was as cheerful as he could be Thursday night. reporter had told his jtfiejician, Dr. Alexander dfchiJt, that it had been rum- hd died. "Veil come take look," Schiff. j 3fk 'Just Dandy j trs. Armstrong woke her Q?eping husband with a gen X19 kiss. "How do you feel, honey?" she (sked as she propped him up on two pillows. "I feel just dandy, just danfty," flashed Satchmo. The doctor said Armstrong $as "getting better. His tem perature is slightly above normal." It ha shot up to 102 Thursday after a relapse but he responded to treatment later in the day. o "We would like to get him back to New York as soon as possible," said the doctor. "We will watch him closely for the next few days and ' when he is better he will go back to ome'and then hop on a fast jet for New York." BANKER GETS SCALE Chicago-(UPD-Mrs. Max L. Baughman asked for a divorce from her banker husband. She said he makes $18,000 a year but makes her pay him union rates for painting, waxing floors or other odd jobs around the house. MO) deductible to pay when Allstate-insured cars collide! Another good'reason why it pays to insure your car with Allstate. Here's a feature of Allstate's broad protection that could save you 50 to 100 dollars someday: ' When you carry Allstate Collision in surance, and hit another car insured by Allstate, you are not required to ay the deductible amount. Allstate "pays your repair bills in full. This feature is especially important when you consider that over 4,000,000 of your fellow motorists are insured with Allstate, This is just one of the many features you get' with Allstate auto insurance. For all the facts about Allstate's broad protection fea tares ... money-saving low rates ... and "on the spot" claim service, talk to your Allstate Agent today. DOUGLAS H. HINISLY and JOHN J. FRANTZ and UWIS I. SEARS Sears, Roebuck and C. Bldg., 40 South Central Madford, Oregon Phone SPring 3-4722 9 You're in good hands with 0 I M S U A M e Pounded by Sears, Roebuck and and liabilities. Home IMSUBANCI to other problems, as standing in the way of the community's progress. They suggested that it was difficult to induce new indus tries to move into a "high tax situation." Mayor Presides Mayor John Snider presid ed at the meeting, held at the Rogue Valley Country club, and asked some of the guests to voice their off-the-cuff opin ions as. to what the chamber's program should try to ac complish. Some of the suggestions were: State Representative Eve lyn Nye-"Taxes are the big gest problem we have to over come." State Senator Dr. Edwin Durno-"Medford is a wonder ful place and we should tell people about it. We should beautify the city with shrubs and flowers and pave and curb some of our 'asphalt trails'." Robert Duncan, speaker of the Oregon House of Repre-sentatives-"We should make sure that the chamber of commerce represents every one. It should expand its geographic and occupational bases and enlist the support of the laboring man and peo ple of differing political be liefs. To enlist new businesses and industry we should em phasize the affirmative as pects of Oregon rather than concentrating on its defects. We basically have good roads, a good school system and a good institutional program. The tax field in the last few years has been improving." Diversified Industry Otto Ewaldsen, businessman -"We should look for diversi fied industry that will suit itself to our geography, such as electronics industries. But the big problem, state-wide, is one of taxes." Frank Bash, businessman "So far industry has come to us because we've lacked the money to go to them. Now we have a chance to take the initiative." Tony Lausmann, business-man-"We need a public rela tions program. Every civic, business, and professional group should tell its story to the people of Jackson county." Jennings Pierce, business-man-"We should tell people more about the chamber of commerce and we should get a home for the chamber. A community of our affluence shouldn't have a chamber of commerce that tourists can't even find." 0 0 0 COMPANIES Co. with Independent assets Office: Skokle.,111 ' lii 1 AT CENTENNIAL The Everly Brothers, shown above, will be among performers in the Country America show at the Oregon Centennial Exposition arena in Portland June 26 through July 5. The rural extravanza is expected to have the largest group of country andwestern stars ever assembled for one production. 'Playhouse 90' Makes Rather Unhappy Choice In 'Second Happiest Day1 By WILLIAM EWALD UPI Correspondent New York (DPD CBS-TV's Playhouse 90 declared .its re- cess for the regular season with "The Second Hap piest Day," a rather unhap py choice. The play, adapted by Steven Geth ers from a novel by John Phillips (he's William EwahJ John Mar guard's son) was a curious hy brid: A mixture of Scott Fitz gerald type people and Mar quand point of view. What's more, it received some curious performances an inadequate one by Mar garet O'Brien, a very solid one by Judith Anderson, a woeful one by Fay Wray and a see-saw one by Tony Ran dall. Randall bore the brunt of the proceedings and pass ed an uneven night at some points, particularly an early drunk scene, he was excel lent; during other key mo- Wagon Caravan Reaches Cokeville Cokeville, 'Wyo. - (UPD - The covered wagons of the Ore gon Centennial wagon train negotiated the steep trail from Dempsey Basin to Cokeville, Wyo., Thursday. Rough locks made of a piece of channel iron placed under the wheels, were used to prevent the wagons from speeding out of control. The caravan was traveling historic Sublette cut-off, a short-cut from the Little Col orado Desert to Fort Hall, Idaho. The road drops 2,000 feet in elevation in about one-half mile. All wagons made the descent without mishap and rolled on to a campsite in Cokeville, population 400. A band of Indians attacked the wagons as the members were preparing for supper. The band of scantily-clad red skins wearing warpaint and carrying lethal looking weap ons, were beaten off. Wagon master Tex Serpa said they could be one of several bands of white renagades the wagons had encountered during the trip. It was later learned they were a group of youths from Cokeville High school. The caravan, was scheduled to reach Idaho today and head for Montpelier where a second load of mail was to be picked up and carried to Oregon. Tigard Sanitation Chief Wins Award Miami Beach, Fla. - (UPD'- Verne C. Reierson. Tigard sanitation chief for the Ore gon State Board of Health, was named winner of the 1959 Walter S. Mangold award as the nation's outstanding sani tarian at ceremonies here Thursday. The award was Dresented at the 23rd annual banquet of tne national Association of Sanitarians educational con ference. Reierson has been with the Oregon State Board since 1946. He is a cast nresident of the Oregon Public' Health association, Oregon Associa tion of Sanitarians, and a rjast regional vice president of the National Association of Sanitarians. ments, a crying bit, the love scenes, he was off-target. To compound the difficulty, the drama's dialogue was weirdly teeter-totter. Many of its lines had crisp and bounce, many more were em barrassing: "He shot himself right through the guts he never had." "He's lost . . . lost like his father ... like me." To a man going to the piano-"You play something soft while I drink something hard." Adolescent Fantasy The play itself trembled on the lip of adolescent fantasy: Young man rocketing to the top job, joining the top set, snaring the top girl, all with out much more talent than' the knack of insulting the wrong people. A bid was made to retrieve the play's innards by giving it an ironic twist, but I found the irony rather incredible, too. I should tack on one final note about a love scene be tween Miss O'Brien and Ran dall about midway through. It was . . . well, I really don't know what to say . . . except that it wasn't. What do you mean .. . GOOD OLD DAYS? (Yesterday) (Today) H II II I I I I II 1 I it 7Z. mm A mm mmm Bk. n m. mm mm - m itcl - m I U rniiDAkiv . . WWW. ffW COMPLETE, $6000.00 Announcement of New 1908 Prices 15 H.P. Shaft drive, 4 cylinder Chassis, - 25 H.P. Shaft drive, 4 cylinder Chassis, - - ' - 40 H.P. Chain drive, 4 cylinder Chassis, - - 45 H.P. Chain drive, 6 cylinder Chassis, 60 H.P. Chain drive, 4 cylinder Chassis (Kaiser Cup), THE ABOVE ' Touring Bodies, $1000.00, Closed Bodies, $1500.00 BROADWAY, From 58th to 59th STREETS, NEW YORK t ' N. I. Branch, 885 Boylston St., Boston Phila. Ajjts., Girard Motor Car Co., 236 N. Broad St. Responsible Agents Wanted in All Principal Cities (Ad from 1908 Newspaper) Discoverer IV Satellite Fails To Go in Orbit Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.-OJPE-Air Force scientists may disclose today why Dis coverer IV failed to place in orbit a satellite which its launchers hoped to recover from space for the first time. Scientists presume that after no radio signals had been picked up by tracking sta tions, Discoverer IV burned up as it hit the dense atmos phere. A similar fate occurred June 3 to Discoverer- IH, which carried mice in its cap sule. Thor Sent Aloft ' At Cape Canaveral Thurs day night the Air, Force sent an intermediate range Thor ballistic missile on a blazing flight toward a target area in the Atlantic 1,500 miles away. Unlike the Discoverer launch ed at Vandenberg, which failed in its objective of orbit ing the earth, the Canaveral Thor was a single-stage ve hicle which was supposed to hurl its nose cone 1,500 miles across the Atlantic. The target was a circular area of ocean near Wantigua "Island in the West Indies. The Air Force did not disclose results of the test. Gathered Speed The seven-story high rocket rose slowly from its pad at 2:47 p.m. (P.S.T.) and then gathered speed. It looked like a vanishing, upsidedown Ro man candle as flame roared from its tail and ' it headed southward into an intended polar orbit. "The main thing we want to do is recover one of these things," a spokesman said. "It's strictly a hardware test." Two previous Discoverer shots failed to return so-called life capsules to earth. Rat Bites Fatal To New York Boy New York (UPD A three-month-old boy died Thursday of multiple bites from a rat or rats which invaded his car riage in his mother's kitchen. The city health department said it was the first death ever recorded as resulting from rat bites, although 262 bite cases have been reported so far this year. The infant, Richard Fox, died of shock resulting from the bites less than an hour after his mother had been wakened by his screams. 40 H.P. 1908 "FIAT" II AUTOMOBILE II mwPAR IHkM -C , yesterda$ Fiat mmr Vgj added feates fl T l S ARE TURIN FACTORY PRICES AND INCLUDE DUTIES. FREIGHT AND PACKING CHARGES. Local Youths Named To Posts in Boys State at Corvallis A complete list of offices held by area boys who at tended the American Legion Beaver Boys' State held last week at Oregon State college, Corvallis, has been received. One of the local boys, Jere Randolph, St. Mary's High school, was elected secretary of state during he final ses sions. Elected governor was Dick Miller, Hillsboro," and other state officers were Greg Payne, Portland, state treas urer; Denny Crowe, Hood River, attorney general; George Putz, Portland, super intendent of public instruc tion; and Jim Zeek, Waldport, labor commissioner. The boys were first divided into 10 cities and area boys elected to city offices includ ed, Applegate, Kirby Fox, mayor; Whitman, Ray Kono pasek, recorder; Miller, Jim Schmidt and Nathan Parrish, councilmen; Lewis, Pat Mc Laughlin and Burton Dea kins, councilmen; Meek, Sam Knudsen, Talent, councilman; and McLoughlin, Jere Ran dolph, St. Mary's, mayor; Tom Tomjack, St. Mary's, treasur er. Second Day During the second day's ac tivities officials for five coun ties were elected. Local boys elected included, Clatsop, Steve Petterson, Ashland, judge; Pat McLaughlin, jus tice of peace; Siuslaw, Don Seig, assessor; Roger Kelsoe, Phoenix, coroner; Jim Schmidt, commissioner; Mult nomah, Sam Knudsen, Talent, assessor; Jere Randolph and Tom Tomjack, both St. Mary's, commissioners. Senators and representa tives elected from the coun ties included: Siuslaw, Jim Schmidt, senator; Dan Sieg, representative; Clatsop, Steve Peterson, Ashland, senator; Booth Deakins, representa tive. Grange News Sams Valley Grange Sams Valley Grange will hold a regular meeting Satur day, June 27, at 8:30 p.m. All officers are asked to be pres ent. This will be the annual visitation meeting. All ladies attending are asked to bring cookies. The Grange will fur nish ice cream and coffee. Bermuda was an important base for British ships block ading the Atlantic coast of the U.S. during the War of 1812. CAR $3500.00 4500.00 5000.00 6000.00 7250.00 Receiving party nomina tion forvstate office but de feated in the election were: Doug Kliever, labor commis sioner; and Pat McLaughlin, superintendent of public in struction. State officers were inaugu rated at ceremonies in Salem. Gov. Mark O. Hatfield was on tne reviewing stand tor a i parade prior to the event held in the state capitol. A joint session of the leg islature was presided over by last year's governor and Ger ald Vice, Medford, one of the junior counselors for the ses sion, who was first citizen. 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