Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 01, 1959, Image 10

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Newspaper Page Text10 MAIL TRIBUNE, Mctfford, Or. WtdnesJay, July 1, 1939 Public -Hearing ffor fifledfortf CS4y -Budget Tomorrow Night A public hearing and final consideration of the proposed 1959-60 municipal budget for Medford will be held tomor row night in the city hall. The total for cash budget expenditures in the coming fiscal year has been set at $2,522,747, against the 1958 59 figure of $2,451,851. Offi cials attribute this difference of $70,896 primarily to in creases in balances and re serves in" the arterial street bond construction fund, the sanitary sewer construction fund, the storm sewer con struction fund and other funds. As usual, nearly , one-half the proposed cash budget out lays are in the area of street and sanitation, services. An other one-fifth u fall in ;. the province of protection to per sons and property. Nearly 10 per cent this year are to be allotted for cultural ; and re creation services. .' , ' General Service General government serv operation and. maintenance ices account for 6.6 per cent of the proposed 1959-60 out lays, while another 11.3 per cent are set aside for bond redemption ana interest pay ments. - To provide the funds for these outlays, property taxes are to furnish 36.8 per cent of the revenue. An estimated 16.6 per cent is expected from the carry-over cash balance Assessments, bonds and mis cellaneous revenue should ac count for 15.6 per cent, reve nue from other agencies for 13.4 per cent, current services for 6.7 per cent and licenses and permits for 5.6 per cent. From fines, forfeitures and penalties some 2.4 per cent of the revenue is expected. Turning to the1 city's depart mental budgets, an increase in salaries across-the-board for its approximately 185 em ployees represents the lion's share of the higher totals. Oth ers reflect , generally higher costs and a smattering of cap ital improvements. General Fund Outlay Proposed general fund out lays for city departments and services in 1959-60 total $934,- 361, an increase of $50,136 over the 1958-59 total. Broils; At Least Eight Persons Die 'By United Press International The AtlanticvSeabpardH broiled todays in a persistent,' early-summer heat wavejand violent thunderstorms, ' nit wide sections of the Midwest 'and Southeast. i The durable heat wave and damaging . storms .took, ..a mounting toll of lives." At least eight deaths bad been attribut ed to the weather since the hot spell gripped the . eastern -half of the nation last week end. - - '-'- ; A construction worker died , of "sunstroke" Tuesday on a job at Irwin, Pa., and a 10 . year-old Little League base ball player was killed by a lightning bolt in an Indian apolis, Ind., sandlot. Six other deaths were blamed on the weather - two . in New York City, and one each in North Carolina, New Jersey, South Carolina and Tennessee. j Cooling Expected v The Weather Bureau in Chi cago said a dawdling cold air mass would drift slightly ' southeastward today and bring .some cooling in a band stretching from eastern Okla- homa to central Illinois. ' Forecasters said hot, humid s weather could continue in the South and most of the Eastern Seaboard. Temperatures in the heat belt Tuesday soared to 104 at Louisburg, N. C, aijd Ra- 103 at Columbia. S. C Richmond, '-Va 102 at ileigh, N.C 101 at Danville, Vaand .Montgomery,- Ala 100 at'Washington, D. C, and 94 as far north as Boston. North of the cool air front the mercury dropped into the 30s in Wisconsin. The Birmingham, Ala.,.; su burb of Center . Point had its sixth consecutive day of water power failure. A water main burst at Charlotte, N. C, and cut off water-to a . parched residential section. A state of emergency was in effect at Corning, N. Y., where a three-million-gallon reservoir ran dry. .. , ' Hail Damages Crops High winds ripped a roof from a supermarket near Fuquay-Varina. N. C." Tues day night ' and the Raleigh Weather Bureau said it had reports of hail damage to crops in Franklin county. Lightning knocked two radio stations off the air tem porarily and caused several fires in the Sanford, N. C area. Parts of seven counties went without electricity for three hours after the storm knocked out a power line be tween Sunbury and Winfall, N. C. Thunderstorms and heavy rains swept a wide belt from New v Mexico to the Great Lakes, The largest single depart mental increase is in the parks and recreation budget, where the general fund outlay has been enlarged by $25,310. Over four-fifths of this in crease is in tne area of per sonnel. The parks and recreation department staff has been ex panded primarily by the addi tion of a parks and recreation director, a part-time recrea tion supervisor and part-time recreation leaders. Among other city personnel changes are the addition of a part-time senior clerk in the finance department; tne re ctification of the city at torney to a part-time basis, effecting a saving; and the shifting of a clerk-stenogra pher from part to fullstime to handle switchboard duties as well as to serve as reception ist. No, Personnel Increase No additional personnel are proposed in .either the police or fire departments. The city budget committee considered adding a brace of meter maids to the police force to release EMBRACING HER bed-ridden husband, Louis "Satch mo" Armstrong is Mrs. Lucille Armstrong in Spole'to, Italy. The v Jazz musician has been gravely ill with pneumonia and an aggravated heart condition. ' patrolmen for other duties, but settled for simply recom mending such a move to next year's committee. . A particular important cap ital improvement item is the proposed, West Jackson st. swimming pool, to be financed primarily by an estimated $70,000 - $75,000 from ; t h e Jackson County Housing au thority; ' W This figure is supplemented .in the budget.by a $2,300 gen eral fund1, appropriation for developing the park area around The pool site. A total of $80,301 for var ious capital improvements is proposed irf the street division budget J These funds are pro vided by-..tate tax revenue rather , than by city levies ine major improvement spe cified is the Melrose ave.-Bar- nett rd., extension, with costs estimated at $44,700. . Bookkeeping Machine Another capital . improve ment in the budget is the. pur chase qf a $5,500 bookkeeping machine for the finance de partment, which must keep tabs 'on. a' wide array of spe cial assessment projects. Other outlays jnclude such diverse items as $8,640 for new library books, . $65 for three waste baskets and two electric fans for the police de- rpartment, $150 for a change able letter board for the may or s office to show the mem bership of city boards and commissions, and $300 for im provements to civil defense quarters jn the old fire sta tion building at the airport. One casualty of committee action on the ; budget this spring was the $7,000 allotted in 1958-59 for development of municipal off-street parking facilities. The committee de cided against setting aside any sinking fund for this purpose, and the $7,000 as a result was dissolved into other outlays. Also subject to final ap proval tomorrow night is the city water department budget for 1959-60, which proposes total outlays of $488,849.49. This figure represents a con siderable drop from the 1958 59 total of $555,633.06. Operating Expenses Proposed water department operating expenses show an increase from the 1958-59 to tal of $154,640.77 to the pro posed 1959-60 total of $175, 820. This increase reflects sal ary boosts in line with those proposed . for other city em ployees. Capital expenditure outlays, on the other hand, show a decrease from $313,- 883.98 in 1958-59 to $232,340 proposed for the coming fiscal year. Individual budget requests from city departments "were trimmed considerably in the city manager's office before submission to the budget com mittee, it is understood. This trimming was necessary to keep the general fund tax levy within the 6 per cent limit. Oregon law requires that the general fund levy in any given year not exceed, the levy for the preceding year by more than 6 per cent un less the voters approve the ex cess. Also see story on page 1. Retired Merchant Starts College Boston-CPD-Morris Spring er, a retired fruit and vegeta ble merchant, will enroll in Boston university in Septem ber as a freshman at the age of 86. '. "Some people say I'm fool ish to start college so late in life," said Springer. "But these same people thought I was foolish to start high school at the age of 81.'" " Springer recently won his thigh school diploma. In Sep tember he will be -one class behind his grandson, a sopho more at Bfandeis university. v We Give: 41 GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG .'Main and Central PATENT granted on improved process for making GORDON'S VODKA! This is the first and oniy pat ent granted a vodka distiller on thii.improved process! Now you can enjoy Gordon's Vodka smoothest and clearest of all ' "Vodkas absolutely neutral! -Next time you buy Vodka, try : GORDON'S VODKA . . .'the new standard of Vodka quality 10 AND 10B PROOF DISTILLED FROM GRAIN GORDON'S IRT GIN CO. LTD., LINDEN, N. L Distributors: Porrott & Co.. Son Francisco, ies Angolu, Portland, Seattle f 1 "Bp1 j H. 8. Pf No. t79.1 Troutdale Farmers Sue Reynolds Firm Portland-fUPD-Two farmers from Troutdale Tuesday filed damage suits in circuit court here against Reynolds Metals company charging that their land was damaged by fluorine gas deposits and other matter from the firm's Troutdale alu minum plant. Damages sought total $1, 068,941. The plaintiffs were Mr! arid Mrs. I. B. Wand and Mr. and Mrs. Julius Lampert. Each suit asks $500,000 puni tive damages and special dam ages. The suits also seek to com pel the company to install controls to collect fluoride gasses. ART MAN DIES Paris - (UPD - Paul Rosen berg, 78, who founded the art gallery in New York which bears his name, died here Monday. ; LIFE ON A SPACE STATION... A SBSCE STATION WILL NOT B BUILT KS? CQWRXT. ITS OCCJFftNTS WILL LIVE IM AM ACTlRCIAliy C2EATED ATMOSPHERE UNCER CONOTOIS OF . LrTTLE Ok HO GK4MTY PQ OXYGEN GARDENS CONSISTING OF y JgZtie&iiW ffi AU3 WTO THE AID OP SUNLIGHT XVjpSlCjRr WILL KNEW THE OXYGEN SUPPLY S Hfh-s" WALKffS N THE GBWITY FREE STATION WILL' VbTi . & BE CONE WITH MAGNETO SHOES O? PERSONNEL ; AtNV?Jl " WIX PULL THEMSELVES ALONG VMTH SnWTEOCAL- t l iMOA -. . -t, LY PLACED- PAILS ANOGf IPS - : . : ? COOKING WITH-NO GSiVITV WiaWAVETO BE CONE IN ENCLOSEO PRE95GI?I2ID CONWINEfeS Kpfp vntit? ffpt nn tur Gontiun. eiuiKirtAHvf MAKE RtGULAI? INVESTMENTS IN : ' jr ; , U.S. SAVINGS BONDS Z BANK BITES ON ID Savanah, Ga. (OPD - A bank customer whipped out his false teeth Tuesday to estab lish his identity. It worked. A bank spokesman said the for mer GI's dentures carried the same serial number as the veteran's pension check he wanted to cash. ' PLANE SETS RECORD Honolulu -(UPD- A Boeing 707 jet airliner of Qantas Air ways set a new commercial speed mark Tuesday by flying here from San Francisco in four hours and 49 minutes. The plane's average speed for the 2,200 mile flight was 518 m.p.h. Motel Tenant Demands Free Oats: Seattle-fDPD-Jeff Perry was a bit taken aback when Fred K. Polinder, a Lyriden, Wash., dairyman, reined up. his Clydesdale in front of Perry's motel and demanded free oats for his horse. GRENADE KILLS FOUR Taranto, Italy (UPD - Four children were killed and four were wounded near here Tuesday when a hand gre nade exploded in their midst. Officials said the children had come across the grenade - ap parently of World War II vin tage while playing in a field. It went off as the young sters attempted to take it apart. In the table of measures, a troy (a word seldom used in modern times) is one pound of 12 ounces. Before Perry could protest, Polinder, who had previously registered at the moteL pro duced the yellowed copy of a city ordinance which said an "innkeeper" was required to supply oats to horses in 3iis keeping. ,-. Perry's mouth was still open when Deputy Sheriff "Walter R. Powell appeared im the scene, astride a palo mino quarterhorse. The butt ofA - pistol protruded mena cingly from Powell's holster. "I'm here in behalf of neg lected horseflesh," said the dvputy. "Barney," the Clydesdale, go" t a pailful of oats from Per ry a few minutes later when triu- motel keeper discovered tf.je whole thing was a gag to advertise a milk, fund ball. B arney was hitched to an old fa ehioned milk wagon. During the past 20 years the number of pupils trans ported to and from school at the public's expense has in creased 350 per cent. Positively NOTHING IN THE EAR I QlfAMY : EYEGLASS HEARING AID FwlWstvtw cm tW iwkMrhiiM Jnjw (mini Owy Aaf FREE DEMONSTRATION George E. V'hite, Hearing Aide 38 S. Central Ph. SP 2-2201 OREGON FOOD STORES , OPEN 9 A.M. to 9 PM. - 7 DAYS A WEEK ' 1475 Siskiyou. Blvd. - ASHLAND We Will Be Open the 4th of July! FRANKS Swift's Premium . SALADS Robertson's Home Style Potato Macaroni Jelllo 33 ft l TTI. : .L 0. I a- i f II i f. 1 ea. 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