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BlEf GROUND Crater Lions Club Pres- company and the Holiday Pool Construction'
Kent Lon Skinner turns a shovelful of dirt company; Herb Partridge, member of the
to break ground for the cluh-sponsored city parks and recreation commission; Skin
wading pool at the Jackson swimming pool ner; Murrey Dumas, chairman of the Crater
site. Looking on are, left to right, Ed Mc- Lions club television auction; and Robert
Farlane, representing the National Gunite Van Sickle, city councilman from Ward 3.
Tentative Plans
For New Housing
km Revealed
Discussion of a requested
zone change at last night's
Medford city planning com
mission mting revealed ten
tative plans for a large apart
ment type housing develop
ment to be located north of the
Medford Shopping Center.
According to figures pre
sented by Ned Langford, city
planning consultant, plans
are for a development to be
constructed in four groups,
each having 24 dwelling
units.
They ould be erected on
a 23-acf site behind the shop
ping muter. In addition to
the .JwiHings the ms elves
thre a?e tentative plans for
a putting green and a swim
ming pool for use by the resi
dents of the development.
Developers Noted
The persons planning the
development are Paul Lar
son, owner of the Modern
Plumbing and Sheet Metal
company, 613 East Jackson
st., and Herman L. Ekerson,
owner of Ekerson's Paint and
Roof Store, 619 East Jackson
st. It has been proposed that
the development would be
run on a corporate basis with
each resident holding stock
in the project.
Just when the development
would be constructed, if at
all, has not been made known.
Larson estimated that it would
cost in the vicinity of $300,
000, but financing is not yet
complete, he said.
Ekerson and Larson sought
a change of zone last night to
have the area changed from
its present single-family zone
status to a multiple-family
tone, which would permit the
development.
Langford said the proposed
development would allow for
8,000 square feet per living
unit, which is far above the
city's requirement of 2,000
square feet per living unit for
multiple-family dwellings.
The' commission voted to
defer the request until the
next meeting pending more
information on the project.
One of their considerations
on the matter is that by con
verting this 23 acres into mul
tiple family zone they might
be exceeding the recommend
ed acreage for this kind of
zone.
Boston -UPD- Bernard Gold
fine and his secretary were
indicted today on charges of
evading a total of $817,334 in
fede'ral income taxes.
Salem - UPD - state Sen
Ward Cook (D-Portland) has
filed for the Democratic nomi-
nation
for Stale uecujuici.
MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 11,
Public Hearings on
Zone Changes Held
By City Planners
Three public hearings on re
quests for changes of zones
and a lengthy hearing on a re
quested variance to a zoning
ordinance were held by the
Medford planning commission
last night.
In addition to the hearings,
the commission recommended
to the city council approval
of a request that the city va
cate an alley off Highway 99
north.
About two hours were
spent debating a request from
Virgil Anderson, 1234 Corona
ave., that he be allowed to
erect a carport over gas pumps
on his business property in
what is otherwise a zoned
residential area.
Anderson, whose business
existed prior to the area's an
nexation in 1957, was repre
sented, by an attorney last
night as were a number of
property owners in the area
who were opposing the re
quest. Matter Deferred
The matter was deferred to
the next planning commission
meeting pending more infor
mation as to the exact size of
the half-completed carport.
Action on a request for a
change of zone at the corner
of Jackson st. and Academy
place from single family to
limited commercial was de
ferred to the next meeting
pending a study by a commis
sion committee.
A spokeswoman for the
property owner making the
request said a house at the
corner could not be rented as
a single family dwelling, but
could be if it were multiple
family or could be used for
limited commercial enter
prises. Because there has already
been some commercial pene
tration into the immediate
vicinity of the lot, she felt
New FCC Head Pledges
Crackdown on Payola
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Washington -UPD Frederick
W. Ford, named to head the
Federal Communications
Commission after John C.
Doerfer resigned Under fire,
today pledged a new crack
down on payola.
To 'Avoid Embarrassment'
Doerfer quit Thursday and
said he was doing so to "avoid
embarrassment" to President
Eisenhower. He had been un
der fire from House payola
investigators who likened
Doerfer's accepting hospital
ity from a broadcaster to disc
jockeys taking payola.
Ford declared that the FCC
that keeping it as single fami
ly would constitute an undue
hardship to the owner.
Several residents of the area
attended the meeting and pre
sented the commission with a
23 - signature petition which
asked that a further study of
the East Jackson st. area be
made before any rezoning is
done to determine just how
far commercial penetration
there would be allowed to go.
A request for rezoning 23
acres in the Phipps tract north
of the Medford Shopping Cen
ter from single family to mul
upie iamiiy was also con
tinued to the next meeting
pending further information
on a proposed housing de
velopment for the area. ,
Postpone Request
: One of the considerations in
postponing the request is that
the addition of a 23-acre mul
tiple-family zone might cause
too much of the city's prop
erty to be zoned for this type
use.
A request to rezone a lot at
1827 North Riverside ave.
from single-family to IIIA,
limited commercial, was ap
proved. In approving the re
quest, the commission noted
that most of the surrounding
property is already limited
commercial and it was serving
no practical purpose to main
tain the lot for single-family.
The commission recom
mended approval of a request
from the 21 Club and Dun
hams that the city vacate an
alley between the properties
off Highway 99 north. A com
mission committee had studied
the request, and recommend
ed approval on the basis that
the city has no improvements
there nor is the alley of any
use to the city.
must issue a clear definition
of payola and then crack
down on the practice.
Renewed Attack
Doerfer's resignation also
led to a renewed attack by
Sen. William Proxmire (D
Wis.) on James R. Durfee,
present chairman of the Civil
Aeronautics Board.
; Proxmire said Thursday
night that the President
should follow his acceptance
of Doerfer's resignation by
withdrawing the nomination
of Durfee to the U.S. Courto f
Claims.
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No. 299
Choice Not To Be
Active Candidate
Of Either Party
Governor Might
Force Court Test
Salem, Ore. - (UPD - Oregon
Republican Gov. Mark Hat
field in a surprise move late
Thursday indicated he will
not appoint Mrs. Maurine
Neuberger to fill out the un
expired term of her late hus
band, Sen. Richard L. Neu
berger, who died in Portland
Wednesday of a cerebral hem
orrhage. The move came only a few
hours after Mrs. Neuberger
filed as a Democratic candi
date for the Senate seat in the
May 20 state primary, and
only 24 hours before the fil
ing deadline of 5 p.m. today.
If nominated she would be
come the first woman candi
date for the U. S. senate in
Oregon history.
In a flat statement with no
elaboration Hatfield said "I
shall not appoint as the suc
cessor to Sen. Neuberger any
active candidate for that posi
tion from either party."
Although Mrs. Neuberger
was not named, it was clear
she was eliminated.
A close -political mate of
her husband as well, she is
termed by many as the "logi
cal" person to serve out the
term, which expires next Jan
uary. Might Defy Statute
The move gave impetus to
speculation that Hatfield
might defy a 1953 statute
which says the appointee must
be a Democrat. If he names
a Republican the matter will
have to be decided by the
state Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, three members
of the Oregon congressional
delegation considered as pos
sible Senate candidates took
themselves out of the mad
political scramble.
Democratic Reps. Edith
Green and Charles O. Porter
indicated their support of Mrs.
Neuberger's candidacy and
Rep. Walter Norblad ruled
himself out Thursday night,
making former Gov. Elmo
Smith the prime GOP candi
date. Memorial Rites Sunday
Private funeral services
were held Thursday for Sen.
Neuberger in Portland.
The memorial services, to
be attended by an official con
gressional delegation, will be
held at 2 p.m. Sunday at
Temple Beth Israel in Port
land. In Washington, D. C, Sen.
Wayne Morse had "no com
ment" on Mrs. Neuberger's
candidacy.
Through Thursday night
five persons actually had filed
for the Senate, two Democrats
and three Republicans. They
included Republicans R. F.
Cook and Lee C. Leslie of
Silverton, and George Alt
vater of Portland. The Demo
crats were William B. Murphy
of Portland and Judge Harry
Fowler of Prineville.
Neuberger Seashore
Proposal Expected
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Washington Correspondent
Washington - Senate lead
ers of both parties were re
ported today to be preparing
to sponsor a bill to create the
"Richard L. Neuberger Na
tional Seashore" on the Ore
gon Coast as a permanent me
morial to the fallen senator
who championed it.
A refinement of bills intro
duced earlier by Senator Neu
berger is being prepared for
introduction in the senate next
week by Sen. Mike Mansfield
(D-Mont.). Sen. Thomas Ku
chel (R-Calif.) is expected to
put the Republican stamp of
endorsement on the measure.
Mansfield and Kuchel are
their respective parties' assist
ant floor leaders.
INEZ M. HOLCOMB
Announces Candidacy
Medford Woman
Files for State
Representative
Miss Inez M. Holcomb, 35,
of 632V2 North Central ave.,
Medford, said this morning
she would file as a Democra
tic candidate for state repre
sentative from Jackson
county.
She left for Salem this
morning, and was expected to
file early this afternoon.
Up to late this morning, she
was the only Democratic can
didate for the legislature.
State Representative Robert
Duncan (D) has not an
nounced whether he will seek
reelection, but was in Salem
today, and could file his can
didacy before the 5 o'clock
deadline this afternoon.
Miss Holcomb was an ac
tive Democratic party worker
in southern California until
1957, when she moved to
southern Oregon. Between
1951 and 1953, she worked in
conjunction with the Atomic
Energy commission on equip
ment development used in
radiation research.
She is a member of Unity
church, Young Democrats of
Jackson county, the Siskiyou
Pioneer Sites Foundation," the
Little Theater group, was a
member of the Jackson Coun
ty Centennial commission,
and the Jacksonville Jubilee.
Miss Holcomb has been ac
tive as a Democratic precinct
committeewoman and is par
ticipating in the Jackson
County Democratic registra
tion drive for 1960.
She worked with various
programs of child welfare in
southern California and Ore
gon during psychological re
search. She was born in Glen
dale, Calif.
Rogue Wonderland
Proposal Heard
Salem - (UPD - The State
Highway Commission con
cluded a two-day meeting
here today by hearing dele
gations from widely-scattered
are as of the state.
Those presenting requests
for highway changes included
the Rogue Wonderland Asso
ciation which gave a four
point plan of improvement on
Highway 62 from Medford to
Crater Lake and Highway 97.
The group estimates cost of
maintenance at up to $70,000
annually.
Pittsburgh (UPD The Pitts
burgh Press, a Scripps-How-ard
newspaper, said in a copy
righted story today that Dr.
Jonas E. Salk, developer of
the polio vaccine which bears
his name, will leave here soon
to establish an institute for
biological research at San Di
ego, Calif.
Split-Level Living
Western Nations
Reach Agreement
On Disarmament
Proposal To Go
Before Conference
Paris (UPD The west will
ask Russia to join in creation
of an International Disarma
ment Organization to carry
out three-stage world disarm
ament, diplomatic sources said
today.
The United States and its
four allies will present the
proposal for the IDO next
Tuesday when they meet the
Soviet Union and four Com
munist bloc nations in Geneva
for disarmament talks, the
sources said.
Victory Claimed
France claimed victory in
the drafting of the joint west
ern plan, after weeks of op
posing the United States,
Italy, Canada and Britain on
the lines the western policy
should take. A compromise
was announced yesterday.
French sources indicated
today that the compromise
brought the western policies
closer to the French view
point. Agree With America
The agreement was the re
sult of "a tangible approach
toward French ideas," the
sources said.
The United States was un
derstood to have favored a
plan for ending nuclear tests'
as a first step, with destruc
tion of nuclear stocks to fol
low later.
Britain, Italy, and Canada
agreed with the American
stand.
But France wanted the west
to propose destruction of nu
clear stockpiles during an
early stage of disarmament.
That would eliminate the
weapons gap between France,
which has just exploded its
first atomic bomb, and the
other nuclear nations, which
nave been producing them for
years.
Details of the compromise
were not disclosed.
Flury Resigns as
EPID Manager
Eagle Point - Laurence R.
Silveira, Lovelock, Nev., has
been named secretary-manager
of the Eagle Point Irriga
tion district, it was announced
today.
Silveira replaces Ted R.
Flury, who submitted his res
ignation early last month, to
become effective March 15.
Flury, who has served as secretary-manager
since 1952,
gave "personal and business
affairs" as the reason for the
resignation.
District board members in
dicated that he has been
"pressuring the district" for
several years to find a re
placement, but the board
"had prevailed on him to re
main." He was a member of
the board for several years
before becoming manager.
Silveira has been assistant
water master for the Pershing
county water conservation
district, which serves irriga
tion water to 19,000 acres.
Mrs. Silveira and the couple's
four children have already ar
rive in Eagle Point.
Flury said he plans to re
main in the Eagle Point area
and will assist the district
"when needed."
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ROCKET BLASTS OFF A
shown as it roared away from its launch pad at Cape Ca
naveral, Fla., today. Riding atop its nose is a "paddlewheel"
satellite which went into orbit around the sun and is ex
pected to send back important
President Formally
Asks Congress to
Hike Postal Rates
Washington (UPD President
Eisenhower formally asked
Congress today to raise post
age rates, including a one
cent increase in post cards,
regular and air mail letters.
These increases, along with
Four File for
Non-Partisan Jobs
Four persons have filed for
non-partisan Jackson county
justice of the peace positions,
according to the county elec
tions department. Filing dead
line is 5 o'clock this after
noon. Frances I. Gallatin, 148
Central ave., Ashland, the in
cumbent, and Arthur M. Bo
ner, 149 South Main st., Phoe
nix, have filed for the Ash
land position.
Betty L. Ladd, route 1, box
265, Gold Hill, and Norman
R. Matteson, route 2, box 277,
Central Point, have filed for
the Gold Hill position.
Mrs. Gallatin was appoint
ed justice of the peace in Ash
land last June following the
death of L. Peers Wilmeth
who had been Ashland justice
of the peace for 2V years.
Mrs. Gallatin had been his
secretary for a number of
years.
Boner is affiliated with a
wood products business in
Ashland, and was manager of
the Southern Oregon Produc
tion Cr.edit association be
tween 1945 and 1953.
He is an exTdairyman and
rancher. His wife, Gladys, op
erates the Phoenix Beauty
Shop. ' -
WEATHER
FORECAST: Cloudy with in
termittent rain tonight and
Saturday. Low tonight 40. High
Saturday 52.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 53
Lowest this Morning 37
Prec. to 10 a.m. Today 02
Our Skies Tonight ,
Sunset today
Sunrise tomorrow -
Moonrise today
Moonset tomorrow ..
The eclipse of the
morrow night will
6:14 p.m.
6:29 a.m.
4:51 p.m.
6:06 a.m.
Moon to
begin here
.10:38 p.m.
at
VISIBLE PLANETS
Jupiter, rises ..
Saturn, rises .
Mars, rises '
2:52 a.m.
3:56 a.m.
5:31 a.m.
Venus, rics
. 5:53 a.m.
Thor - Able multi-stage rocket is
information from outer space.
. . (UPI Telephoto)
proposed boosts in second and
third class mail, are designed
to bring in about $550,000,
000 in new postal revenue for
the year starting next July.
Prompt Action Necessary
In a special message to the
House and Senate, the Presi
dent said his resquest "de
mands prompt action in this
session to restore the Post Of
fice Department to its tradi
tional posture of budgetary
good sense."
The Post Office is losing $2
million every working day,
the President said.
The President also is seek
ing an average 40 per cent
increase in second class mail
fates applying to newspapers
and magazines.
He is asking for an average
25 per cent increase on third
class mail, advertising matter
and packages weighing less
than a pound.
Most of the President's pro
posals were disclosed last
month by GOP congressional
leaders after a legislative con
ference at the White House.
No Hope Held
Congress in 1958 raised the
cost of mailing a first class
letter from three to four
cents and took no action last
year on the President's re
quest that it be boosted to a
nickel.
Congressional leaders hold
no hope for the President's ap
peal to raise rates further this
year. But the House Post Of
fice and Civil Service Com
mittee agreed this week to
hold hearings on the matter
after it completes hearings
on a pay raise for federal employees.
Slots Confiscated at
Corvallis Elks Club
Corvallis -(UPD- State police
armed with a search warrant
raided the Corvallis Elks Club
late Thursday night and con
fiscated 27 slot machines. .
The raiding group was led
by Sgt. James Darby of the
Salem state police office and
Sgt. Verus Kezar of the Al
bany office. The officers act
ed on a warrant issued on
complaint of .Benton County
District Attorney John F. Fen
ner. ;
Fenner said be filed - the
Sphere Designed
To Gather Data
On Outer Space
Orbit Expected 0
For 100,000 Yj$
Cape Canaveral, Tla.-fcW-An
American intercontinel
rocket today sent a betch-btll-sized
satellite inte orbit
around the sun.
The 94.8-pound tluminum
sphere was designed to gather
information on radiation, cos
mic dust and magnetic fields
on its planned 311-day orbit,
a position in the sola system
it is expected to maintain for
100.000 years.
24.896 Miles Per Hour
The satellite, Pioneer V,
reached a velocity of 24,869
miles an hour to escape the
earth's gravitational pull,
within 150 miles of the plan
ned speed.
The trip to the sun and the
orbit of Venus will take seve
ral months but officials said
the moment the sphere left
the gravitational pull of the
earth it fell under the sun's
influence and at that moment
was in solar orbit.
Radio signals from the in
tricte package were being re
ceived "loud and clear" from
tracking stations around the
world.
Outside Path of Venus
The satellite is expected to
remain in its huge orbit for
roughly 100,000 years. If it
follows course it will go into
an orbit around the sun in
side the path followed by the
earth and outside the path of
Venus. It will touch each
neighboring orbit once every
circle, a trip of 295 days.
The ambitious, but oft-de
layed probe into deep space
was launched only a few hun
dred yards from the pad
where an Atlas intercontinen
tal ballistic missile blew up
Thursday night. The space
shot had been postponed ear
lier Thursday because of
rocket trouble.
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Porter Visits
In Medford Today
Congressman Charles O.
Porter (D.-4th Ore.), Eugene,
was a Medford visitor briefly
this morning.
He flew here from Wash
ington this week after hearing
of the death of his long-time
friend and colleague, Sen.
Richard L. Neuberger. While
in the state he made a quick
visit, by private plane, to
parts of his district.
He left later in the morn
ing to return to Eugene, anft
on Sunday he will attend the
memorial services for Sena
tor Neuberger before return
ing to Washington in the Air
Force jet transport which is
bringing an offical Congres
sional delegation to the me
morial rites.
Porter said he was serious
ly considering becoming a
candidate for the Senate to
succeed Neuberger until he
learned that Mrs. Maurine
Neuberger will seek the elec
tion. He said he will support her
as the "logical choice" to car
ry on Senator Neuberger's
progjram of conservation,
health research, education,
and social benefits.
Porter will return to Ore
gon about May 10, he said,
to campaign for renomination
in the May 20 primary ejec
tion, and as a supporter of
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey"
(D-Minn.), who is seeking the
Oregon Democratic presiden
tial vote.
Roseburg-fflPD-The body df
Judy Almond, 17, Roseburg,
who drowned last Saturday
when a car plunged into the
North Umpqua river, was re
covered Thursday.
Hollywood -UPD- Three gun
men were captured today min
utes after they robbed a bank
of an estimated $10,000.
complaint after it was stated
at a public meeting earlier
this week that the "one-armed
bandits" were in operation at
the Elks Club. He said he
made it "abundantly clear"
when he took office that he
would not tolerate slot ma
chines in the county.
Leonard Wagner, club man
ager, was arrested on a charge
of possessing the machines
and was to appear in District
Court today. i