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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, JANUARY 17, 1960
No. 252
Me
'Well, Those Are Outside The Country"
State Tax Surplus
May Be $23 Million
Oregon may complete the
current biennium with a sur
plus of $20 to $23 million if
the present rate of income tax
collections continues, Don Mc
Neil, manager of the Jackson
County Chamber of Com
merce, said he learned in
Portland last week.
McNeil attended a meeting
of Oregon Tax Research, a
state taxpayer association
founded in 1935. He was elect
ed a director for a 5 -year
term
The association reported
Storm Sweeping
Across Southwest ,
By United Press International
A steady storm that will
probably pick up intensity
swept across the southwest
Saturday night, dropping a 4
inch blanket over the Texas
panhandle and covering mucti
of Oklahoma a half-foot deep.
Forecasters in the area said
six inches were expected to
fall over the panhandle by
Sunday morning and that
most of northern Texas would
be plagued by heavy snows.
Forecasters in the Boise
City area said blinding snow
was falling over nearly the
whole state and that it was
either raining or sleeting else
where there.
Texas authorities said the
snow cut visibility to one-half
mile at Amarillo and sur
rounding communities, halt
ing air traffic, and that driz
rle and fog hung over the
state where it wasn't snow
ing. The Texas storm even forc
ed cancellation of the Air
Force Academy - Amarillo
semi - pro hockey game be
cause the Air Force team was
unable to fly in from Colorado
Springs.
Two major storms had been
anticipated in the southwest
earlier Saturday, allowing the
area to scarcely catch its
breath from one of the win
ter's worst which was just be
ginning to blow itself out to
sea.
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BREAK IN DIKE Shown in this aerial
photo is the break in the dike that allowed
water from the North Sea Canal (upper
right) to flow into and flood the low parts
of the Amsterdam, Holland residential su
that the state finance picture
indicates current income tax
collections are running about
$1,100,000 per month above
the budgeted figure.
If this rate continues, and
there is no economic upset,
the state would have about a
$20 million surplus at the end
of the biennium, McNeil said.
McNeil noted that in the
last legislature. House Bill
670 was introduced to con
sider the income tax, using
the argument that at that
time the state would face a
$15 million deficit at the end
of the biennium.
Oregon Tax Research and
other organizations fought the
bill, McNeil said. The bill
resulted in some adjustments
in the income tax which in
effect raised "enough money
to meet the anticipated de
ficit.
Charges by OTR
At that time, McNeil said,
Oregon Tax Research charged
that the tax department was
ultra conservative and unre
alistic in its figures when the
bill was being considered.
Oregon Tax Research is an
independent, non - profit or
ganization of citizens, busi
ness and professional people
and industries interested in
tax equality. Primary purpose
of the group is research to
determine tax inequities.
Edward A. Geary, former
speaker of the Oregon house
of representatives, was elect
ed president of the organiza
tion. He is a prominent Klam
ath county rancher and seed
man. Seminar on Traffic
Safety Lists Plans
Portland. Ore. (UPD - A
traffic safety seminar for
newsmen Saturday revealed
plans to use psychological re
search on traffic problems in
the 1960s.
The seminar was sponsored
by the Oregon Traffic Safety
commission in coopera t i o n
with the Oregon Newspaper
Publishers association, the
Oregon Association of Broad
casters and the Oregon State
Motor association.
burb of Tuindorp Oostzaan (lower left).
Some 10,000 residents of the suburb were
evacuated successfully from the threatened
UPI Telephoto)
U.S. Scientists
Bounce Signal
Off Big Balloon
10-Story-High Sphere
Soars to 250 Miles
Washington - (UPD - U. S.
scientists made communica
tions history Saturday by
bouncing a radio signal off a
huge balloon floating about
250 miles above the earth.
The sphere, folded into a
26-inch container, was hurled
aloft from Wallops Island,
Va., in a 2-stage rocket.. It
inflated at its peak altitude
into a balloon as high as a
10-story building.
After it unfolded, the Bell
Telephone Co. at Holmdel,
N.J., bounced a 960 mega
cycle continuous signal off its
reflective surface. The signal,
which covered a total dis
tance of about 300 miles, was
received at the Round Hill
station of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, on
the outskirts of Boston.
Historic First
The Bell station continued
to send the signal for about
10 minutes.. Officials said it
was the first time in history
that a man-made space reflec
tor had been used in radio
communications.
The test was part of a pro
gram to put into orbit a "ra
dio mirror" satellite that will
virtually revolutionize world
communications.
The balloon was visible for
hundreds of miles along the
eastern coast, glowing like an
oversized planet. It was sight
ed as far north as Stamford,
Conn., and in such widely
spaced places as New Lon
don, Conn., three points on.
Long Island, N.Y., and in
Wilmington, Del.
Court Will Ask
Bids for 5 Cars
The Jackson county court
will advertise for bids Mon
day for five sheriff's depart
ment cars. , . -. ,
The bids will be submitted
according to minimum speci
fications recently established
by Sheriff Joe Walsh, the
county c o u r t's resolution
stated Friday afternoon.
County Commissi oner
Ralph James was voted down
by County Judge Earl Miller
and County Commissioner
Chester Wendt when he rec
ommended that the county
accept bids on cars below the
minimum 119-inch wheelbase
so smaller cars could be
bought.
"The sheriffs department
has a specific place and speci
fic jobs for the five cars,"
Wendt said. "Lighter cars
would not be suitable. The lat
est specifications would in
clude such cars as Plymouths,
Fords, Chevrolets and such
larger makes as Buick and
Pontiac. We don't want to
buy something not suited for
the job," he added.
County Judge Miller said
five more cars could be pur
chased for the sheriff's civil
department if the new budget
permits.
"Politics, is not the reason
I suggested the amendment to
the motion," James said em
phatically. "I have felt the
same way from the start."
Antelope's Ready
It's Leap Year!
Providence, R.I. -dlPD-At-iention
all unmarried girl
antelopes!
There's a husband wait
ing for you at Roger Wil
liams park, just for the ask
ing. Park Superintendent
Martin V. Noonan is look
ing for a mate for Pancho,
the park's 7-year-old South
American antelope who's
been a bachelor for the
past four years.
Noonan said he wants a
bride for Pancho so badly
that he would even trade a
"well-groomed elk", for a
female antelope.
Henry Elected
President of
Growers League
Charles Henry, Pinnacle
Packing company, was elect
ed president of the Fruit
Growers League of Jackson
county at the annual meet
ing Friday in the Medford
YMCA building.
Other officers include Tom
Spatz, Chrystal Springs, first
vice president; Don Root,
Root Packing company, sec
ond vice president; and Shel
by Tuttle, secretary.
New directors elected for
3-year terms are Larry Hull,
Paul Gulbertson, Dave Low-
ry, Lyle Kinney and Don
Root.
'Important Problems'
"We met many important
problems during the year,"
Robert Minear, immediate
past president, noted in his
president's report.
Tuttle was appointed league
secretary at first on a part
time basis and later was put
on a monthly basis. The league
now operates offices at 766
South Grape st., Medford.
Six bills were passed on
migratory labor. The county
assessor's office has now
placed a" valuation on fruit
in storage as of May 1 for
taxation purposes.
Chief Activities
The annual pear-packing
school and the pear decline
study were two chief activi
ties sponsored by the league,
Minear noted.
The meeting ended with a
talk by Frank Suigi, Port
land, head of the commodity
department of the Oregon
Farm bureau. He urged all
growers to join a fruitgrow
ers Farm bureau group being
formed in the Medford area.
The league went on record
recommending all pear grow
ers join.
(See story on page 6.)
Hey, Mister You
Forgot Your Change.'
A gas station attendant
at the Chuck Risse Rich
field Service. 204 South
Central ave.. told city po
lice that two men short
changed him of nearly $20
Thursday night.
He described the incident
as follows:
Two men drove into the
station and purchased a
quart of oil. One of the men
gave the attendant a $20
bill for the oil and the at
tendant gave him his
change.
The man then gave the
attendant the right amount
of change for the oil and
asked for his twenty back,
which the attendant re
turned to him.
Next the man bought a
can of Bardahl for which
he gave the attendant the
right amount of change.
Then he asked for his
change back and gave the
attendant the twenty again.
The attendant made change
for the twenty and the two
men drove off.
After they had left, the
attendant discovered that
somewhere in the lengthy
transaction he had lost $20.
Can you figure it out?
WEATHER
FORECAST: Cloudy with occas
ional rain or snow or both
mixed today and tonight. Show
ers Monday partial clearing.
High today 40, low tonight 32.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday .....38
Lowest This Morning 31
Precip. to 4 pjn. Yesterday .06
Our Skies Tonight
Sunset today
5:05 p.m.
7:37 a-m.
Sunrise tomorrow
Moonrise tonight
9:13 pjn.
Venus, Jupiter and Mars (named
in order as they now rise) will
soon be joined by Saturn in the
morning sky. The four planets,
in the order of their brilliance
at this time, are Venus, Jupiter,
Saturn and Mars.
Mystery
If
Dean Charged With
Murder of Protege
lj
(UPI Telephoto)
NIKOLAI BELYAEV
He Gets the Boot -
Red Farm Chief
Relieved of Job
Moscow - (UPD - Soviet press
reports Saturday indicated
that Nikolai Belyaev, who
shared the blame for the
worst Soviet grain harvest in
four years has been remov
ed from his job as Commu
nist Chief of the Agricultur
al Republic of Kazahstan.
The government newspaper
Izvestia and the official Tass
news agency listed Belyaev as
among four officials awarded
a high honor for "labor prow
ess."; The other three men
were carefully : identified : as
party- secretaries - of the Lat
vina, Estonian, and Kirghiz
republics. There was no such
identification for Belyaev.
Belyaev was singled out by
Sovet Premier Nikita Khru
shchev in his Christmas day
speech to the central commit
tee, in which he revealed that
the Soviet grain harvest in
1959 was the poorest in four
years.
Khrushchev put much of
the blame on the Kazakhstan
republic and its leaders. He
said that thousands of trac
tors and harvesting machines
were out of commission dur
ing the harvest because they
needed repairs.
Belyaev, he said, did not
notify Moscow of the trouble
and more than three million
acres of grain went unharvest
ed. Demonstrations
Said Insignificant
Honolulu-(UPD-Japan's Prime
Minister Nobusuke Kishi said
Saturday the demonstration
in Tokyo over his trip to the
United States were "distaste
ful" and "insignificant."
Kishi said the demonstra
tions, by Ultra left wing stu
dents against his going to
Washington to sign a new se
curity treaty with the United
States, were "insignificant,
consisting of a small segment,
a minority of the National
Students union."
145 Prisoners on Trial in
Cuba for invasion' Plot
Havana - (UPD - A five-man
military tribunal conducting
a mass trial of 145 accused
"counter-revolutionaries" Sat
urday rejected a defense con
tention challenging its legal
competence.
The ruling represented the
first action in a court battle
that is expected to run
through the middle of next
week.
The "court room," an offi
cers' theater inside La Caba
na fortress, was filled to ca
pacity with 1,000 persons, in
cluding wives, relatives and
friends of the accused. They
greeted the prisoners' arrival
with a mixture of applause
and weeping.
White-helmeted guards cir
culated through the auditor
ium advising "no smoking,"
but the air was soon thick
with cigar and cigarette
smoke.
In the street directly across
from the theater, ice cream
and cigar vendors hawked
their wares.
The trial, biggest yet in the
year-old Castro regime, was
Baton Rouge, La. -(UPD- The
district attorney Saturday ac
cused Dean George H. Mickey
of the Louisiana State uni
versity graduate school of
telling a false story about his
whereabouts for 2Vz hours on
the night of the bludgeon
murder of his pretty biology
professor protege.
The period of the alleged
false alibi was from 5:30 p.m.
to 9 p.m. on the night of the
murder of Dr. Margaret Ros
amond McMillan, 38, LSU as
sistant biology proffessor and
research expert in the gov
ernment space program.
Her prone body the skull
cracked by 13 savage blows
of a sharp instrument was
found at 6:30 a.m. last Sun
day on a lonely road 5V4
miles south of the LSU cam
pus here.
Dr. Mickey is in jail on a
charge of murder. The district
attorney and sheriff have an
nounced that fresh spots of
human blood, of the type of
the dead woman, have been
found on Dr. Mickey's auto
mobile. Saturday's accusation was
in a joint statement by Dis
trict Attorney J. St. Clair
Favrot and Sheriff Bryan C.
Clemmons. It said that Dr.
Mickey had made statements
indicating that between 5:30
and 9 p.m. last Saturday he
met a representative of the
graduate fellowship section of
the U. S. Department of Ed
ucation from the defense ed
ucation act.
The district attorney said
the dean has consistently de
nied being the murderer. He
said that the investigation is
continuing, : with the sheriff's
office checking every possible
lead. r'-.i ' :7.if;s.
Tests of the clothing that
Dean Mickey had worn Sat
urday night are being made
in state police laboratories,
Favrot said, but some of them
are time consuming and re
sults will not be known for
several days.
Budget May Include
Reclamation Plans
Washington (UPD Rep.
Walter Norblad R-Ore.) said
Saturday he was "reliably in
formed" that President Ei
senhower's budget message to
Congress Monday would in
clude at least $5,926,000 for
Oregon reclamation projects
plus increased funds of $1,
767,950 for agricultural re
search. Reclamation projects for
which funds were slated in
cluded: Crooked River, $2,
235,000; Rogue River Talent
project, $2,450,000; Klamath
project, both in Oregon and
California, $868,000; rehabili
tation of Rogue river basin
project, $200,000. Some $173,
000 will be included or a new
project starte on Vale-Bully
creek.
Albany, Ga. (UPD President
Eisenhower and his friends
spent a long day in the hunt
ing fields Saturday lunching
on quail broiled over a camp
fire and getting the full bag
limit of birds.
expected to run through the
night. The defendants were
given an early supper before
they shuffled into the theater
where 25 defense attorneys
waited to present their cases.
Some 51 witnesses were to
be called including Castro
himself, his brother Raul and
Maj. William Morgan, a one
time U.S. Army paratrooper
from Toledo, O., who joined
Castro's revolution and was
acclaimed a hero in the balk
ing of the alleged plot against
the rebel government. ,
Death Not Asked
Although firing squad jus
tice has been authorized for
counter - revolutionaries, the
government was asking a
maximum of only 30 years im
prisonment for the nine al
leged ringleaders.
Sentences ranging from 20
to 25 years were demanded
for the rest.
The trial grew out on an
"invasion" plot allegedly
hatched by the Dominican
government of strongman
Rafael Trujillo, who is Cas
tro's sworn enemy.
Surrounds
'
NIXON IN MIAMI Vice President and Mrs. Richard Nixon
are shown here on their way to a reception in Miami Sat
urday. Nixon said Saturday Russia has "no weapon we can
conceive that could completely
power."
Russians Can't Stop U.S.
From Hitting
Miami Beach - (UPD - Vice
President Richard Nixon said
Saturday he was confident
Russia does not have any nu
clear weapons capable of wip
ing out the United States
power to strike back.
Nixon told newsmen he did
not know -what new weapons
Russia may have but said
there was "no weapon we
can conceive that could com
pletely destroy our own retali
atory power." :
As long as Red leaders
realize this, he said, they will
not dare risk a nuclear at
tack. Sports Bulletins
A bulging margin in the
first half carried Medford
high to a 64 to SO Southern
Oregon conference basket
ball victory over Klamath
Falls her. Saturday night.
The Black Tornado had
quarter spreads of 16 to 5.
39 to 21 and 46 to 34 in its
fifth straight 1 . a g u . tri
umph. Jerry Anderson re
corded 21 points for Med
ford and Fred Biehn had 13
for Klamath.
Grants Pass Grants
Pass high nosed out Cra
ter 57 to 56 here Saturday
night in a Southern Oregon
conference basketball con
test. Eagle Point Bill Wil
son poured in 31 points as
Yreka, Calif., high downed
Eagle Point 66 to 45 here
Saturday night.
Phoenix Phoenix high
gained its second Rogu.
league basketball victory
Saturday night with a 37
to 35 nod over Illinois Val
ley here.
Prospect avenged an
earlier loss to Days Creek
by defeating them 46 to 25
in Saturday night basket
ball action at Prospect.
Prospect forward Craig
Gardner was high point
man with 17 points. Tight
defense by the Prospect
squad held the fast-breaking
Days C r . k five in
check. Quarter scores were
Prospect 6 to 2. 18 to 3, and
29 to 13.
Monmouth Southern
Oregon college scored a 72
to 58 victory over Oregon
College of Education here
last night. Dennis Spencer
led all scorers with 19
points for the OCE Wolves
while Gordy Carrigan can
ned 18 for the winner.
The win for the Raiders
evens the two-gam. series
at on. game each.
Eugene, Ore. - (UPD - Ore
gon's Ducks defeated the
University of Portland 65
S0 here Saturday night to
av.ng. a Friday night loss
at the hands of the Pilots.
Ball handling mistakes
proved costly to the Pilots
Saturday night as they lost -the
ball 18 limes.
ra
destroy our own retaliatory
(UPI Telephoto)
Back-Nixon
The Vice President and
Mrs. Nixon arrived here Fri
day night on a trip which
unofficially kicked off his
1960 campaign for the Re
publican presidential nomina
tion. The Nixons were honor
guests at a reception attended
by the' state's top GOP of
ficials Saturday afternoon.
Nixon told a news confer
ence he thought the Republi
cans stand a 50-50 chance of
carrying Democrat-dominated
Florida in the 1960 campaign.
Florida went Republican in
the last presidential election
and Nixon said the odds were
"approximately even" that
the state would go the same
way again.
Nixon, wearing a candi
date's flashing smile and
shaking hands, talked about
politics, the cold war, and the
Cuban situation at the news
conference.
Adenauer Vows to
End Anti-Semitism
Bonn - (UPD - Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer Saturday
vowed to stamp out anti-Semitism
in his country and show
the world that Naziism and its
hatreds "do not live on in
Germany."
"My government is com
pletely behind the Jewish
people of this nation," he said
in a radio and TV broadcast.
"On that I give you my
word."
As Adenauer spoke, the
number of anti-Jewish swas
tika daubings steadily de
creased in West Germany.
However, incidents continued
in West Berlin where vmore
hate signs were found Satur
day in the American sector.
Bakersfield, Calif.-OIPD-Gov.
Edmund G. Brown Saturday
was urged by a California
Democratic party caucus of
legislative and state elected
officials to enter the 1950
presidential race.
De Gaulle Prepares for
Toughest Political Crisis
Paris - (UPD - President
Charles De Gaulle put a stop
Saturday to the worst politi
cal crisis yet of his Fifth
French Republic, but his
growing opposition threaten
ed to start it up again at any
moment.
De Gaulle first went to
work Friday. He called each
rebellious cabinet minister in
to his office and told each
in turn to stick with him or
get out - and to decide then
and there what to do.
One Man Resigns
The ministers, with one ex
ception, decided to stay. In
dependent Max Flechet re
signed as secretary for eco
nomic affairs.
But the increasing opposi
tion to De Gaulle's rule will
have plenty of opportunities
next week.
Texan May Have
Sent Friend to
Death in Plane
Crashes in Which 76
Died Being Checked
New York-(UPD-FBI agents
investigating suspected murder-suicide
inthe death of 34
person in a New York-Miami
plane crash 10 days ago re
ported Saturday discovery of
mystery surrounding the
earlier cash of another plane
operated by the same airline.
In the investigation of the
Jan. 6 crash of a National air-
linos DC-6B, agents were
tracking down suspicions that
Attorney Julian Frank may
nave blown up the plane in
diabolical murder-suicide
plot so his widow could col
lect nearly $900,000 in in
surance. The other crash occurred
Nov. 16. All 42 persons
aboard a National airlines
DC-7B died in a crash in the
Gulf of Mexico on a flight
from Miami to New Ordeans
by way of -Tampa. A coast
guardsman saw a "red flash,"
in the sky over the scene of
the crash. Very little wreck
age and 10 bodies were re
covered.
Doctor was Ex-Convict
An FBI report released in
Miami Beach by the Civil
Aeronautics board said that
one of the passengers on the
DC-7B was listed as Dr. Rob
ert Spears, a Dallas, Tex.,
naturopath, ex-convict and ac
cused abortionist who once
allegedly offered to blow up
a hospital for $5GG. ; i
The FBI refused to elabor
ate on the report, which was
contained in a letter the bu
beau sent to , the CAB. The
letter, read at a CAB hearing.
quoted Julian Blodgett, chief
investigator of the Los Ange
les district attorney's office,
as saying that Spears may
have had someone travel for
him to collect a large insur
ance policy naming Mrs.
Spears as beneficiary.
Friend Still Missing
Tampa police speculated
that the person listed as
Spears on the plane may in
fact have been his good friend
and drinking companion,
William Allen Taylor, a Tam
pa salesman who has . been:
missing since the night the
plane took off.
None of the bodies recover
ed from the Gulf of Mexico
was identified as that of
either Spears or Taylor. In
Dallas, Mrs. Spears was high
ly agitated at reports that her
husband might have arranged
for another man to travel for
him on the ill-fated plane and
that Spears might still be
alive.
The theory was that Spears
might have taken out insur
ance in his own name, with
his wife as beneficiary, and
then sent Taylor in his place.
ROAD TO BE CLOSED
Highland dr., between Sis
kiyou blvd. and Roxy Ann
place will be closed Monday
because of storm sewer con
struction at that point, the
city engineering department
has announced. City officials
said work should be finished
by Monday and Highland dr.
will be opened to traffic Mon
day night.
On Monday, negotiations
are opening with Senegal and
the French Sudan. United as
the Mali Federation within
the French Community of Na
tions, they are seeking inde
pendence. On Friday, De Gaulle is
calling in his chief civilian
and military administrators
in Algeria to report to him on
the current situation there.
Attacks Increasing
They are expected to tell
him that the Moslem rebel
army is less active in the
field but that gun and bomb
attacks are increasing in the
cities.
The political crisis was
caused by De Gaulle's ouster
of Finance Minister Antoine
Pinay because of disagree
ments over economic and for
eign policy.