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Risaffin n mm MDGJf Pi 111 TRAFFIC PATTERN The Eighth st. bridge over Bear creek will open for eastbound traffic Tuesday at 10:30 a.m., city officials announced today. The new bridge, under construction for five months, is at lower left. 'Who Owns Skyline?' Asked of Chamber Portland Architect Lewis Crutcher posed a "moral is sue" at the annual Chamber of Commerce dinner Saturday night. "Who owns the city's sky line?" he asked. The man who owns the ground below it? Or the people who have to look at it?" Crutcher, who has sparked a beautification program in the city of Portland, told some 200 persons attending the din ner at the Rogue Valley Coun try club that city beautifica tion is a most practical mat ter of property values, as well as an aesthetic matter of beauty. Using colored slides, Crut cher dramatized the sharp contrast between many Euro pean cities, where signs are small, trees and space are uti lized, and beauty is an integ ral part of the city, and many American cities, which are garish, unplanned, denuded of trees, and have no "heart." Us of Trees "Trees," the architect said, "are the most efficient air conditioners, helping keep the city cool in summer, allowing the sun to shine down in the winter, collecting dust, lower ing noise, and turning carbon dioxide into oxygen." He recommended: -Elimination of huge bill boards which hide the natural beauty of a city, and often times blot each other out, and the enactment of an effective sign ordinance governing size and location. -Increased use of trees in the city, both in business and residential areas. -Coordination of traffic and parking to make the most of the city's streets and open PllThe use of paint and color .1q accent or hide the city's good and oaa pomu. -Emphasis on parks and green areas. -F.limination. or hiding, of utility poles. His talk also brought out that American cities have much to learn in the prepara tion of attractive city ap proaches, in the utilization of water for beauty as well as " utility, in the emphasis on what is already good and the correction of what is bad. Unplanned He used his own city of Portland as a "horrible ex ample" of what can happen through unplanned and un caring growth, and sharply pointed up his message with the use of slides, and contrast ing good and bad points. One "gimmick" he used was a photograph of a glar ingly ugly American city street, immediately followed by an artist's conception of what it could be if billboard signs were eliminated, others were handled more tastefully, jf trees were returned to the " street, and if paint and awn ings and grass and shrubs were used decoratively. Another was a picture of some of Europe's most famous scenes, such as the Champs Elysee in Paris, or the Grand Canal in Venice, immediately followed by the artist's con ception of what they would look like if "developed" in the typical American manner -with trees and grass gone, and the whole covered with neon and painted signs. In planning, he said, a city should look ahead 20 years and prepare for its inevitable growth. This, coupled with an appreciation of the aes thetic values we all need, can pay- off both in dollars and cents, and in a city where it is a pleasure to live, he said. Noreen Kelly Gets State Assignment Salem -UPD- Miss Noreen Kelly, Medford, today was appointed an assistant attor ney general assigned to the State Industrial Accident Commission trial staff in Port land. Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton said Miss Kelly is the fourth woman attorney now serving with the Oregon Justice Department, appoint ed by Thornton. She is the daughter of Cir cuit Judge Edward C. Kelly and has served two terms as the first woman municipal judge in Jackson county. She will take over her Portland duties Feb. 1. re placing John L. Stoneburg. Stoneburg was transferred to the State Public Welfare Commission legal staff in Portland. WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy and mild through Tuesday with threat of a few scattered showers. Occa sional clearing periods. Low to night 40-42. High Tuesday 58. TEMPERATURE Highest Yesterday 82 Lowest This Morning 43 PRECIPITATION To 10 a.m. Today Trace Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 5:15 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 7:32 a.m. The Moon rises 5:54 a.m. tomorrow and is in Perigee. It will form a small triangle with the planets. Saturn and Mars. Saturn is the brighter planet; Mars is nearer the Earth. New Moon, Wednesday night. Welfare Commission Considers Work Relief Program in Jackson County A work relief program is being considered by the Jack son county public welfare commission, County Commis sioner Ralph James said to day. The commission, which in cludes the three members of the county court, is consider ing a program similar to one now being tried in Polk coun ty. Under this program all general assistance recipients who are able to work would do so on various county proj ects. General assistance amounts $110,000 annually in this county. "This would be better than paying a lot of money out to people who do nothing when they can at least work a little," according to James Pullman, Jackson county pub lic welfare administrator. "The county could receive from $20,000 to $40,000 in labor. The arrows on the map show the traffic pattern for east and west bound traffic. The bridge is part of the one-way couplet which went into operation in 1958. Bridge to Open Over Bear Creek Tuesday Morning The new Eighth st. bridge across Bear creek will be open to traffic Tuesday morning. Opening ceremonies will be conducted by Mayor John Sni der, City Manager Robert Duff announced today. Mayor Snider will cut the tradition al ribbon at 10:30 a.m. Tues day, Duff said. Work on the bridge was completed this morning when the asphalt for approaches on both sides of the bridge was laid, the city engineering de- j partment said. The new two - lane bridge will be restricted to "one-way traffic eastbound, and the Main st. bridge will be re stricted to one-way traffic west. Traffic approaching River side ave. on Eighth st. in the right hand lane will no long er be able to turn onto River side ave. but must proceed on to the bridge. Cars wanting to use River side ave. must keep in the left lane it was announced. There will be no-parking re strictions between 4:30 and 6 p.m. between Almond and Eighth sts. oh Main st., so there will be two lanes of one-way traffic east on Main st. from the bridge to Almond st., during the rush hours. The bridge, which cost $51, 000 and took five months to build, is part of a 10-year street improvement program approved by Medford voters in 1956. As the Eighth st. bridge opens, the city engineering department is going over plans for a Tenth st. bridge. It is hoped that work on it will begin in early spring, city engineers said. Meeting Tonight First meeting on the rural school district budget will be held at 8 o'clock tonight in the Jackson county school superintendent's office, ac cording to Bruce Hitt, assist ant county school superinten dent. and the county would pay the "A good supervisor would be needed for the work crews, operation costs. The welfare commission would pay only the salaries of the men, but not the supervisors." The program would employ those persons unable to com pete on the labor market physically or mentally. One possible drawback may be that general assistance recipi ents would be in the county longer than usual, Pullman explained. After failing to find work here those receiv ing general assistance usually drift out of the county seek ing work. Another problem is the limited amount of work available the year around for such unskilled persons. Specifically, the welfare de partment would provide the money the county would pay out ux salaries for a 40-hour week. The county would hire Regional Edition M Jrf PAGES fJeuberger Offers Revised Seashore Bill to Congress Washington-(UPD-Sen. Rich ard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) to day introduced a revised bill calling for a national seashore recreation area in the dunes area near Florence, Ore., al though he said he had reser vations about some of the pro visions. The revised bill was for warded to Neuberger by Gov. Mark Hatfield of Oregon. Neuberger originally intro duced legislation for such a park in March of last year. Neuberger's original bill brought considerable criticism in Oregon and Hatfield's Nat ural Resources Committee re jected it. Neuberger intro duced a revised bill last Oct. 26 which he. called an effort to meet many of the criticisms voiced by Hatfield and others. 'Drastic Departures' Neuberger said he was in troducing the bill received from Hatfield Jan. 18 of this year although it contained a "considerable number of rather drastic departures from my bill." He also said it con tained a great many of the provisions of his Oct. 26 bill "almost word for word." The Oregon senator said he believed Oregon's "magnifi cent and scenic seacoast" mer its the national shoreline park near Florence and Reedsport. "I think the best way to get that park is for Gov. Hatfield and me to reach all possible agreement on the details of the legislation authorizing such a park," he said. "My goal is not political warfare; it is to bring Oregon its first new national park since Cra ter Lake was set aside in 1902." He asked that the bill be referred to appropriate com mittees so hearings may be held and departmental and administrative views obtained. Neuberger said it was his intention to accept whatever changes are acceptable to the Interior Department and the National Park Service. He said if they find some of the changes made by Hatfield un acceptable "then I have every confidence and hope that Gov. Hatfield will join with me in acceding to the wishes of this great conservation agency ..." Objections Raised Neuberger said one of the provisions in Hatfield's bill which caused him concern was one saying "there shall be no further extension of the . . . area except for the con currence of the Oregon Legis lative Assembly and the gov ernor of Oregon." Neuber- Tug En Route to Crippled Freighter Astoria -(UPD- The tug Sal vage Chief was en route to the side of the crippled 7,300 ton Korean freighter Silla to day. The vessel, with 34 Korean crewmen aboard, reported last Fridya it had a crack across its main deck and down one side, and also had taken some water in its fuel tanks. the supervisor and provide transportation to the various county projects. The welfare department would furnish transportation from the men's homes to a central pick-up spot. The county would advise the welfare commission as to work available, location and who is in charge. Any special clothing, safety equipment and other required articles for work would be loaned to the men by the county, the welfare administrator said. The county would also pro vide workmen's compensation coverage in case of death, in jury or illness occurring dur ing the work. The men may be examined as to physical fitness for the work. Those who refuse to work, or fail to work satisfactorily, are insub ordinate, or fail to follow es tablished rules will be fired and cut off from general as- sistance funds, Pullman said. EDF0RD MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 25, 1960 ger said this may not even be constitutional. He also objected to elimina tion of the provision which would authorize the interior secretary to enter into ex change agreements in order to acquire land for the park. Another section, he said, ap peared to establish divided or dual jurisdiction between the state and the interior secre tary over use of water resour ces. Another section, he said, would tie the secretary of in terior's hands in the conser vation and management of the area by binding him to "the present program planned by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service" for the stabilization of the moving dunes. He said the present program of dune stabilization had been formu lated with other uses of the area as the objective. Name Change Approved for Local Chamber The membership Saturday night approved a change in the name, Jackson County Chamber of Commerce, to Medford Chamber of Com merce. The vote, called for by in coming Chamber President Gerald T. Latham, was un animous. It was Latham's first official action as cham ber president, succeeding Hugh Coleman. During the evening awards for service were presented to outgoing chamber board mem bers and division heads by Board Member Dick Wood cock. Coleman, in his brief talk, discussed the past year, and pointed out the chamber's ob jectives, many of which have been attained, and others of which are still being sought. Objectives They include a wider mem bership, a larger budget, a new location for the cham ber office, the attraction of appropriate industry to this area, improvement of trans portation, the use of trees in the towntown area, and oth ers. Latham, discussing the jobs still facing the chamber, said the organization must first be come informed,, second, rea son through what is needed, third, attempt to arouse a con structive attitude among its members and others, and, fin ally, bring its program into action. The name change will cause no change in chamber activi ties, Latham explained, and was proposed as a matter of simpler and more effective identification. The chamber's program is still county-wide. Murray Gardiner was mas ter of ceremonies, and "The Strollers," high school quar tet, entertained. The dinner, attended by some 200 cham ber memblrs and wives, was at the Rogue Valley Country club. Meeting Tuesday on Air Pollution Control All persons interested in the air pollution problem are in vited to join the Air Pollution Control and Abatement league when it meets at 7:30 pjn. Tuesday in the courthouse, ac cording to Jack Foster, league chairman. "This is not a meeting to discuss problems as much as to review what has been done and to give a great deal of credit to those people and concerns who have done some thing about it," Foster ex plained. Representatives of the fruit and lumber industries will re port on what is being done as well as City Sanitary Serv ice company. Kennewick, Wash.-(UPD-Dr. Clarke G. Costello, 42, died in a fire at his, apartment here Sunday night. Policemen Patrol Oregonian Area; No Violence Noted Demonstration Said Peaceful by Police Portland-(UPD - Thirty-nine policemen patrolled the Ore gonian building this morning as an estimated 300 demon strators appeared but there was no repeat of violence which occurred Saturday. Police said the demonstra tion was peaceful. Some em ployees entering the building reported name-calling. On Saturday a similar dem onstration resulted in violence in which about a dozen per sons were reported hurt. The Oregonian and Oregon Journal have been publishing combined editions in the Ore gonian plant since the Stereo typers Union went on strike last Nov. 10. All efforts at settling the dispute have fail ed. Other crafts have refused to cross picket lines although some union employees return to work. Police were on hand before 6:30 a.m. today and formed a corridor for employees of the two newspapers The demon stration ended about 8 ajn. Fights Brok Out On Saturday police called out reinforcements as fights broke out during the early morning .mass picketing. There were five arrests which included four demonstrators and one newspaper employee. Publishers and unions is sued statements after the Sat urday incident. Unions said police had been notified that a demonstration was to take place. The statement said "the violence occurred when a fly ing wedge of strikebreakers attempted for force its way through the ranks of the dem onstrators, although police had formed a corridor for the strikebreakers to walk un disturbed to the building en trance." It said the outbreak of violence was regretted. Publishers replied "the ab surdity of the inter-union newspaper committee's state ment is patent on the -face of it." : They said "... there was no such flying wedge and 38 policemen trying their hard est could not effectively con trol the mob." Publishers also said that in numerable pictures showed few women and no children in the demonstration. The un ions said women and children were present, and "we would not knowingly place our loved ones in a situation in which harm might come to them." Interim Tax Group Meets in Salem Salem -(UPD- Subcommittees of the Legislative Interim Committee on Taxation met in the state capitol today. The morning's business was taken up by insurance indus try representatives testifying before the subcommittee on tax administration and ap peals and ; exemption from taxation. Secret Tribune ARRIVE AT WHITE HOUSE U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsai (left) and Assistant Secretary of State for Inter- Amer ican Affairs Roy R. Rubottom Jr., arrive at the White House this morning to confer with President Eisenhower and Secre tary of State Christian A. Herter on deteriorating u. b. re lations with Fidel Castro's Cuba. (UPI Telephoto) Relations With Cuba Subject of Meeting Washington (UPD President Eisenhower conferred for 40 minutes today with Secretary of State Christian A. Herter and U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsai on deteriorating U.S. relations with Cuba. Republican Seeks Assessor's Position Herbert Hunter, 51, of 409 Lynwood ave., Medford, an nounced today he plans to file as a Republican candidate for county assessor. -' Hunter, a native of Eng land, is a naturalized citizen of the United States, and a veteran of World War II serv ice with the American Third Army. He has lived in Med ford six years. Hunter is a state-certified appraiser, and worked for two years in the county asses sor's office. Now working for Patterson's Plumbing, he also has had accounting experi ence, he said. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter are the parents of four daughters and a son. County Assessor Ray Schu macher, a Democrat, has an nounced his plans to seek re election. Hunter is the first" Republican to announce his candidacy for this position. Salem -(UPI)- Much of last week's snowfall was gone to day at Chemult and Austin, with slush at Lakeview, Bly and Quartz mountain. - Weapon Price 10 Cents No. 259 Herter . and Bonsai were tight-lipped as they left the White House by a side en trance. They declined all re quests for comment on their meeting with the President. Herter said "any statement' would have to come from the White House, but that did not indicate a statement was forthcoming. Herter declined to say when Bonsai would return to his post in Havana. Assistant Secretary of State Roy R.. Rubottom Jr., depart mental specialist on inter- American affairs, also sat in on the conference. Possibility of Sanctions Bonsai was recalled from Havana last week in the midst of rising anti - Americanism prevailing under the regime of Fidel Castro. State Department officials are discussing the possibility of economic sanctions against the Castro regime because of its confiscation of American owned property but the ad ministration hoped to avoid drastic measures. Bonsai met with Herter for 90 minutes Sunday at the sec retary's home. This under scored the concern over the Cuban situation. Rubottom described the session as a pre liminary consultation and in dicated no decisions on policy revisions were reached. Informed sources said the American officials are ser iously studying possible ac tion to withdraw preferential trade benefits now given Cu ba. But these sources added that the administration is very reluctant to take such action for fear it might "ruin" the Cuban economy and pri marily would hurt the Cuban people rather than the Castro regime. V,I Mrs. Herb Col ley Is Named March Chairman Mrs. Herb Colley, 1036 Win chester ave., will head the Mothers' March in Medford Thursday night, Mrs. Vangie Brain, county Mothers' March chairman, has announced. Mrs. Colley has organized the city into sections with block workers in each area who will call at homes be tween 7 and 8 p.m. Besides accepting funds for the fight against polio, birth defects and arthritis, mothers will present a copy of 'Door Count." a fact-finding toia- er in which the householder will be asked to mark how many in the home have been afflicted with one or more of the three cripplers and how many have had three or more shots of Salk anti-polio vac cine. The folders will be kept Government Will Move to Restore Order in Africa Authorities Get Paris Instructions . Paris - (UPD - President Charles de Gaulle's govern ment reaffirmed its Algerian policy today and said it would move to reestablish order in that North African territory as soon as possible. The announcement was made in a communique fol lowing a two-hour and 15- minute cabinet meeting. Simultaneously, the govern ment announced it has sent urgent instructions to Al giers' military and civilian authorities on how to cope with the emergency. Information Minister Roger Frey refused to answer any questions about the communi que. The key part of the com-. munique, as read ay rrey, said: "The President of the Re public and the government are determined to maintain the Algerian policy that they have adopted, and to assure the return as quickly as pos sible of public order. "On this subject, instruc tions already given to the del egate general of the govern ment Paul DeLouvier; and to the general commander in chief of Algeria Gen. Maurice Challe have been confirmed." The communique did not specifically say so, but it meant that De Gaulle was de termined to go through with his policy of "self-determination" for Algeria which he announced last Sept. 16. He promised then to let the people of Algeria determine their own future by vote four years after peace is restored. The one million European settlers in the North African territory fear the results, since they feel the nine million Moslems in Algeria will vote 10 oreak away from France. The communique, in effect, threw the gauntlet in the face of the settlers in Algeria and told them to yield to Paris policy or be forced into doing so. The ominous question fac ing De Gaulle was whether to order the French Algerian army to move against the hun dreds of well-armed militia men, students and farmers and businessmen if they re fused to heed De Gaulle's ur gent appeal for calm. De Gaulle met with Debre until the early hours and con sulted his military advisers. Then he commanded the an guished Frenchmen of Al giers to "return to national order" and stop spilling each other's blood. Nortons File for Delegate Positions Marcus Norton, Jackson county lumberman, and his wife, Louise Norton, have filed for election as delegates to the Democratic National Convention, to fill the two po sitions in the Fourth Con gressional district. Both Mr. and Mrs. Norton have been active in the Demo cratic party in Jackson coun ty. In 1954 and 1956, Norton served as campaign chairman for Congressman Charles O. Porter here. Delegates to the national conventions file with the sec retary of state. Each of Ore gon s four congressional dis tricts will send two delegates to the national convention to be held in Los Angeles in June, as well as 24 delegates elected at large. Each delegate will have n vote, for a total of 16 votes from Oregon. confidential and will be used by the Jackson county chap ter of the National Founda tion to determine where aid is needed in the county and how much aid can be provid ed in line with the amount of money collected in the March of Dimes campaign, according to Mrs. Brain. Mothers' March chairman in the other areas are Mrs. Harold Highland and Mrs. Charles Fredrickson, Ashland; Mrs. Ethel Good, Shady Cove; Mrs. Dick Stratton and Mrs. Gay Hallett, Central Point; Mrs. Albert Consbruck and Mrs. Fred Barbeau, Phoenix; Mrs. E. O. Graham, Jackson ville; Mrs. Don Geren, Eagle Point; Mrs. Orvis A. Reeter, Rogue River; Mrs. Wilmer Bailey, Gold Hill; Mrs. Handle Perkins, Butte Falls, and Mrs. George Hubbard, Prospect..
