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C3 CO IV O CO N fo 02) 0 0 o (DO 3 o O i -w i c o o :oo U' o O o O n. O o O o u o o 55th Year- o o Recommended On of the fundamental r jeirftatnts of a ichool prj;ra U to provfctf the education in iktlli for a person (o enter so ciety as an IntelltErm. useful tltizea. lead bnw Bedford trains Hi paatls ia basic shop .kills on rat 14 wt Utfay t Mall Tribute. Subscriber Price 10 Cents Medford Unitfd Preaa International Full Leased Wire) Tribune To report Improper or Hon delivery of the Mail Tnbuna in Med lord phone hP 2-6141, Ashland MU 2-1021. and Vrrka. VI 2-2607, IWora 845 p m. dailv and 10 30 a m. Sunday If regular delivery arrivea ahnrtly After ym rail plea n"';y of'te1 tu,if '!ir ipectal messenger aervica. I fined ("w International Full leased Wirsj 56 Paget Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1960 No. 41 o o "There, Now, You'll Be Sound A. A DolUr Though Not Quite At Important, Of Coune" Taxpayers Reminded Of Petition Deadline Property taxpayers in Jack son county are reminded that May 16 is the deadline to file petitions with county boards of equalization for correction of property assessments. The Oregon State Tax com mission has advised that the county boards are to convene May 9 to review assessments of their respective counties. As per Oregon law, property owners, or their legal repre sentatives, may appear before the board when it considers petitions for reductions of as sessments. Ray Schumacher, county as sessor, is to post the ratio used in assessing property ,so that taxpayers, by dividing assess ed value by this ratio, can de termine the true cash value arrived at by the assessor. If an individual feels that the arrived cash value is incor rect, he may petition the board for review. Cases to Board Persons planning to petition are advised to first review their assessments with Schu macher, who is able to make adjustments up to and includ ing May 1. In the event the assessor makes no adjustment, the petitioner may then place his case before the board on or before May 16. Forms for this purpose can be obtained from the county clerk's office. According to the OSTC bul letin, if the board does not grant the requested relief, the taxpayer has 30 days after re- 3 U.S. Newsmen Arrested in Riot Havana -IUPU- Pro-Castro and anti-government elements rioted at Havana International airport Saturday and three American newsmen were pick ed up by Army Intelligence agents while trying to report the incident. The three reporters, An drew St. George, and Jay Mai lin, both of Time-Life, and Hal Hendrixs of the Miami Daily News, were released after 15 minutes detention. Agents confiscated film and broke one of St. George's cameras. '"7; J Mod llSlV r-. ' rM JmW .'.f- r J 1 THE HONEYMOONERS Londoners wav good by is the royal yacht Britannia passes bDiktb Towaf iBridgt lit Friday. Aboird () u ceivlng the board's decision to appeal to the state tax com mission. If the commission makes no adjustment, the bulletin indi cates, the taxpayer can appeal to the Jackson County Circuit court. Candidates Will Discuss Issues Here Thursday Candidates for contested of fices on the primary ballot will discuss current issues on the county and state levels of government at 7:30 p.m. May 12, at the Red Cross building in Medford. The political discussion, to be preceded by coffee and dessert, will be hosted by the Medford League of Women Voters as a substitute for its usual pre - primary candidates meeting, according to Mrs. Thomas Rutter, League voter service chairman. Members of the League, their families and friends, and the general public are invited to meet, hear, and question Republican and Democratic candidates for the offices of state representative, county commissioner, and county sur veyor. GOP Candidates Republican candidates for state representative include John R. Dellenback, E. H. Mann, and Mrs. Evelyn Nye. Demo cratic candidates for representative are Robert B. Duncan and Miss Inez M. Hol comb. Candidates for county com missioner are Ralph A. James and Edwin H. Taylor, Demo crats, and Paul B. Rynning, Republican. Candidates for county surveyor are Mark E. Boyden and Lowell E. Ager, Republicans, and Edward A. McGinty, Democrat. Candidates for other offices on the primary ballot are un opposed. They will be invited to appear with the victors from the primary contest"! at the League's Candidates Fair in November. - 4. 'e ' 2 ATS r- "-sr.). mi 'Token' Reduction OK'd By Board; Voting May 26 Br EARL H. ADAMS i Action on the budget yes Mail Tribune City Editor I terday followed last Monday s The Medford school board : rejection by district voters of Saturday approved a "token'' i reduction in the proposed i per cent limitation. The pro 1960 61 fiscal year budget, and posal was defeated by 65 un called an election on the new! official votes, amount exceeding the 6 per The reduction will reduce cent limitation May 26. i the net millage increase next The budget was reduced ! year from the previously esti $21,279 by a board vote of 3 mated 3.35 mills to an esti to 2 with Chairman William mated 2 9 mills. It represents A. (Bill) Ewaldscn votes. Barker and Otto casting negative Gov. Daniel Wins Renominalion,3rd Term in Texas Dallas, Tex. - (UPIt -Gov. Price Daniel, 49. won renom ination and a third term Sat urday in a Democratic pri mary election, held 11 weeks early to help Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson along with any plans he may have to become the Demo cratic presidential candidate. Returns to the Texas elec tion bureau from 221 of the 254 counties in the state, in cluding 100 complete, gave Daniel 535,149 votes to 371, 931 for Jack Cox. 38, a state representative and well-to-do Breckenridge oilman. Cox conceded his defeat at midnight (CST), saying that he was "disappointed," but the voters apparently had made their choice. Fifteen of Texas' 21 Demo cratic congressmen won re-nomination-which is the same as reelection-without opposi tion. Congressmen with opposi tion were Olin E. Teague of College Station, John Dowdy of Athens, John Young of Cor pus Christi, Joe M. Kilgore of McAllen, Omar Burleson of Anson and Walter Rogers of McAllen. Nixon Endorses Ike's Health Plan Washington -(UMI-Vice Pres ident Richard M. Nixon Sat urday gave the administra tion's health-care plan for the aged a ringing endorsement and charged that the Demo crat's Forand bill would "open the door for Socialized medi cine." The Vice President, in a formal statemen displaying the "vigorous" support fore cast indirectly Friday, said rresident Eisenhower s pro gram is "superior" to the For and bill in five major respects But he emphasized that the overall difference between the two proposals "goes to the fundamental nature of our free society." Congress Leaders OK Test Decision Washington - IUPD - Key members of the House and Senate Saturday gave guarded endorsement to President Ei senhower's decision to resume U.S. underground atomic tests Democrats and Republicans alike agreed that resumed tests probably were necessary to perfect detection systems. sailing on the honeymoon were Prin cess MsrgAre and Jjtr husband, Antony Armittong-Johes (UPI Telephoto) a proposal to exceed the 6 a reduction of 14 per cent in the total amount charged property taxpayers over the amount paid by taxpayers this year. Had Monday's proposal been approved, the property tax increase would have been an estimated $150,000 dis tributed over a $45 million assessed valuation. Under the new proposal, if approved May 26, the increase will be an estimated $130,500 on the $45,000 valuation, or a net increase of 2.9 mills. The total amount of the pro posed budget exceeding the 6 per cent limitation does not change substantially because of the "token" reduction. The amount exceeding the 6 per cent limitation which was re jected last Monday was $1, 978.404 99. The amount ex ceeding the limitation on which voters will cast ballots May 26 is $1,957,125.99. Russian President Quits, Gives III Health as Reason Moscow -diPIl- Kliment Vor- oshilov, 79-year-old veteran Bolshevik and military hero, stepped down Saturday as president of the Soviet Union and the nation's parliament approved a series of sweeping economic, government and party changes. Voroshilov. who gave ill health as the reason for re tiring, was succeeded at once by Leonid Brezhnev, 54, a veteran Communist party offi cial but a relative unknown to the Western world. In another major move, the Soviet government named Chief Marshal Midrofan Nede- lin as commander-in-chief of the Soviet army rocket forces Not a Surprise The resignation of Voroshi lov from the presidency of the Presidium of the Supreme So viet - a largely titular post did not come as a surprise. Voroshilov requested permis sion to resign in a statement to the Supreme Soviet. Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev said in a speech that the central committee of the Communist party proposed that the resignation request be granted. He praised Voroshi lov for his "many years" of service to the Soviet Union as "a true son of the party." Voroshilov, however, w a.s elected a member of the pres idium of the Supreme Soviet. Bev to See Mom; It's Mother's Day Hollywood -HJPB- Florence Adland visits her daughter Beverly in Juvenile hall on Mother's Day accompanied by an Evangelist from a Holly wood church group. "I'm going with the Chap Iain and his wife from the church group," Mrs. Adland said. "Beverly needs people like that. These people are from a wholesome Christian group of young men and women, mostly from show business. "In fact, Beverly's now sing ing in the chapel. She's not doing bad there, She's reading a lot and I'm not worried as lone as she's in there," the platinum-haired divorcee said WEATHER FORECAST: Moitlv tirmy tn 4a v. Inrreaslnc rlniiilnes laie today. Rala lale tnalcht. Mon lav mnrntm parilv rloudv with shnr Monday afteranna. HI eh toddv . ) Mnaday 4 aad hib Mnaday i, Tib ft,,--.. iarf ft Lwm ;MartAT Morning 5t P recta. To f pi, latartav .... 19 Ta 1 a m. lUrf.f Our Skie foright .tat ty . ..?:1 m. Kaarlt tomorrow S a . Hrnnet tomorrow 1:12 R 1HOMINFST STH. ft pica, ntwr tee nr lira n VISlJIl.t l.ANfclft ntllhMt S.t.irn. k w ll:.)p m mttht . Marl, H !. .... I:l a .. .(..y.n a.m. The difference, however, does not show in the amount exceeding the 6 per cent lim itation, but in the amount of property tax increase over the amount taxpayers oaid this year. In the case of the bud get reductions approved yes terday the increase over the present property tax will be an estimated $130,500 on an increased assessed valuation. Lengthy Discussions The decision to reduce the amount stemmed from more than eight hours of discussions I on the previously proposed budget since -ts defeat, some of the causes for its defeat. and what could be done in the way of reductions. Board members agreed that reductions from what they considered an already tight budget were not easy, and considered whether or not any reductions should be made in view of the small number of votes by which the propos al lost last Monday. Ewaldscn said he did not believe such a token reduction is fair to the public since actu ally it means only a few dol lars on a tax bill. He believed the proposal which was defeat ed should have been resubmit ted as it was, then if the vot ers again rejected the propos al, substantial cuts to notice ably lower property taxes would be in order. Not Understood Too many people, Ewaldsen said, had encouraged him, and through him, the board, to resubmit the identical pro posal in the belief that many people who voted did not ful ly understand what the pro posal meant. Had it been more fully understood, they would have voted affirmative, they told him. Ewaldsen pointed out that his negative vote on the mo tion to reduce the budget by $21,279 was not based on his personal feelings, but on the basis of the people who ex pressed their feelings to him He represented a segment of residents who firmly believed that the same budget would be approved if resubmitted (continued on page 10) EP School Budget Vote Tomorrow Eagle Point - Patrons of the Eagle Point school district will vote from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. to morrow on the amount of the school district budget exceed ing the 6 per cent limitation, announced Glenn D. Hale, su perintendent. Amount exceeding the limi tation is $378,235.07. The bud get amount within the limita tion is $75,227.91. Budget total is $453,462.98. This makes the total estimated tax levies for next year, starting July 1, as $516,722.15 compared to the current year's tax levies amounting to $509,077.15, an increase of $7,645. vided at the Elk-Trail school, Shady Cove school and the Eagle Point school gymnas ium. "For years it has been nec essary to exceed the 6 per cent limitation as the tax base is inadequate to cover the bud getary needs," Hale explained. "Last year a $377,738.76 levy outside the 6 per cent lim itation was passed by the dis trict voters, but the levy was reduced later by action of the school board to $353,050,76. This was done when the coun ty school funds were increased by the county," Hale explain ed further. Starting July 1, there is an increase in estimated revenue of $24,233.90 due to increased enrollments and the bond in terest and redemption fund being $21,797.54 less than the current year, the superin tendent said. Korean Official Asks Aid Checkup Seoul-OTH-A South Korean political leader Saturday urg ed the United States Congress to send an investigating team here to look into American id onarilions. former Prim Minister Chang Tail Sang also calldd fbr the "whohttalc replace ment of American aid person nel." "The witnesses are here and I can guarantee thai (the com mittee members) would father plenty of deadly Information.' h Mid. O 0 U.S. ADMITS PLANE PR NIKITA'S EVIDENCE Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, speaking before the Russian Parliament in Moscow, holds a photograph which he identified as a pic ture of the wreckage of the shot-down Sheriff's Chief Deputy Quits; Pay 'Too Small' I Dean Coe, chief civil deputy for seven years with the Jack son county sheriff's office has announced his resignation. Coe said he would leave for a two-month vacation In Mex ico in about two weeks. His five-acre Applegate ranch Is up for sale. Following his vacation Coe said he may go into police work in Montana. He added he has been offered much more money than he was receiving here. The work was just too heavy for me and the county court wouldn't give us any more help," Coe remarked Saturday. "The wages the county court pays are just too small for all the responsibility this job. Shift in Staff Sheriff Joe Walsh confirm ed Coe's resignation but de clined to comment further than to announce a general shift in his staff to fill Coe's vacancy. Deputy John O'Hara has been shifted from the criminal division to assist Glenn Wright in the civil depart ment. Dale Smith, relief offi cer, has been added as a full time staff member for records and identification. Deputy Bjarne Bjornsen has been taken from the records desk to go on patrol. Morse to Speak in Medford, Ashland Sen. Wayne Morse is expect ed to arrive In Medford Mon day about 11 a.m., according to Bruce Manley, chairman of the Jackson County Morse for President committee. At noon a luncheon for Morse workers will be held at the Medford hotel. At 2 p.m. he will speak at Southern Oregon college on issues of the coming presi dential campaign. Tickets for the Monday din ner at 7:30 p.m. are still avail able, Manley said. They may be obtained at the Morse Headquarters in the Medford hotel or by telephoning Man ley at SPring 2-8451. The public is invited. Sports Bulletin Loi Angelee -iM- Catch er Norm Sherry's home run in the bottom of the 11th inning Saturday night brought the Lee Aagale Dodgers and his brother, pitcher Larry Sherry, a 1-2 victory over Ike IlllaeW phia Phillirt. The game w ! first time the Sherry brothers had worked ls0e better this season. Larry Sherry was the third Dodger pitch er and worked 4 Innajge io chalk up his third win of the season. OB V. ef is." 1V '""IflBIt IT American plane piloted by Francis C. Pow ers. In his speech Khruschev revealed that Powers is alive and in good health. (UPI Radiotelephoto) Diplomatic Set by USSR, Cuba Havana, CuDa - mm - cudb and the Soviet Union have formally reestablished diplo matic relations on the em bassy level, It was announced Saturday night. The announce ment was made by Foreign Minister Raul Roa The- Russians broke of re lations on April 3, 1852, af'er two couriers were barred from Cuba when they refused to allow customs men to in spect their luggage. The following November the government of Dictator Fulgencio Batista out Iawed the Communist party In Cuba. Mikoyan's Visit The possibility of reestab lishment of Soviet-Cuban re lations was enhanced when a trade mission, headed by So viet First Deputy Premier Anastas I. Mikoyan, visited Cuba last February. A trade pact was signed between the two governments, primarily for the sale of Cuban sugar, shortly after the visit. A statement issued by Roa said relations had been "tacit- Portland -(1IPIU An official of the Oregon State Republi can Central committee has re vealed plans for the state-wide circulation of petitions to urge the draft of New York Gov ernor Nelson Rockefeller as the Republican vice president. Don Stathos, secretary of the committee, told the news to delegates at a state Young Re publicans convention here Saturday. Demo Candidates, Officials To Attend A delegation of slate-wide candidates, Democratic digr.a- taries, and stale and Demo cratic parly officials are ex pected at the tenth annual Roosevelt Memorial dinner to be held at Hcdrick Junior High school here May 14. HELEN G. DOUGLAS Guest Speaker o o Helen Gahagan Douglas will bPguest speaker, speak ing on "World Peace." Th dontr, which it open f it ff j DOWNED ABLY' SPY .-, Relations iy reestablished" In 1B53 when the U.S.S.R. recognized Premier Fidel Castro's revolu tionary government. This was ratified by Mikoy an during his visit and by Castro as representatives of their governments. The statement said the Soviet ambassador to Mexico, Vladimir Bazikin, arrived here Saturday "to effect the exchange ot notes that cul minated in the U.S.S.R. -Cuban trade pact. Porter to Begin Area Visit May 14 Rep. Charles O. Porter (D- Ore.) is scheduled to open the southern Oregon part of his May trip to the state with a no-host luncheon in Ashland May 14. After the open meeting, the Congressman will visit Camp White and return to his Med ford office in the Goldy build- ng. Office hours are 3:30 to 30 p.m. Saturday evening Porter is to attend the Roosevelt Me morial dinner In Medford. A trip at Crater Lake in a Snocal Sunday is to complete his regional visit. Portland -IUPU- Police are looking for an accomplice of the would-be robber of a Port land bank here last Wednes day. Police said they have is sued a felony warrant for the arrest of James R. Lynch, 41, an ex-convict. Roosevelt to the public, will begin at 6 p.m., and serving will be concluded by 7. Maurine Neulierger, who is seeking the U.S. Senate seat left vacant by the death of her husband, Senator Richard L. Neuberger, will fly here from Portland with Mrs: Douglas. She will begin her Medford campaign at this time, and will be guest of hocr at . a tea In Grants Pass Sunday. Also planning to attend the Medford dinner are U.S. Con- gresswoman Edith S. Green, who Is running for delegate- at -large to the Democratic national convention, and heads the "Kennedy for Presi dent" campaign in the state. Fourth district Representa tive Charles O. Porter, also running for delegatc-at-large to the convention as well as for re-election, is to appear at the dinner. Others who plan to attend the dinner include Democratic National Committeeman C. Glrard Davidson, and Al Flcgal of Roseburg, a membcV of the House of Representa tives Taxation committee; Senator and Mrs. Monroe Swtetland; County(Jidge Jo r.M 1.'''a'"'",vs3Ui at 1,1, 1 rV,it But Flight Said Net Authorized By Washington Khrushchev's Charge Goes Uncontradicted Washington-4!PI)-The Unit ed Stales admitted Saturday night that an American plane shot down in Russia last Sun day "probably" was on an intelligence mission "to obtain information now concealed be. hind the Iron curtain." But, In a statement approv ed by President Eisenhower, the stale department denied Soviet Premier Nikita Khru shchev's charge that the flight was authorized by offiicals in Washington. The statement contained ab solutely nothing to contradict Khrushchev's charge that the unarmed U 2 observation plane viloted by Francis G. Powers, a civilian, had flown 1,300 miles into Russia to "spy" on that country. Report Inaccurate Instead, the statement left the Impression that the re port on the incident furnish ed the state department and the White House by the Civil ian Space Agency two days ako, was nut entirely accur ate. The agency had said that Powers, flying on a weather mission In Turkey along the Soviet border, was missing since reporting an hour after takeoff that his oxygen was failing. Khrushchev said Powers bailed out after a "remark able" Soviet rocket hit his plane and, after parachuting safely, confessed that hs had been on an espionage flight. The Soviet Premier ab solving Eisenhower said Powers made the flight" at the assignment of his super iors" and as a spy for the Central Intelligence Agency. No Auihoriiation The state department said, however, that "it has been established that in so far as the authorities in Washington are concerned there was no authorization from here for any such flight. Nevertheless," the U. S. statement said, "it appears that in endeavoring to ob tain information now conceal ed behind the Iron curtain, flight over Soviet territory was probably undertaken by an unarmed civilian U-2 plane. - The United States said such activities are made more nec essary "by the excessive sec recy practiced by the Soviet Union In contrast to the free world." The statement gave no hint as to what kind of informa tion the U-2 was trying to get. Dinner Jaross of Washington county; Ward Cook of Portland; State Attorney General and Mrs. Robert Y. Thornton of Salem; State Senate President and Mrs. Walter J. Pearson; Mrs. Elaine Hoffman of Eugene; Mrs. Helen Stoll of Portland; Former Congrcsswoman Nan Wood Honeyman of Portland, and Democratic State Chair man and Mrs. Robert Straub of Euon?. Custom Adopted Marking a decade of hold ing the Roosevelt Memorial dinner, the local committee has seen several other coun ties in Oregon, and some in other states, adopt the custom. Roosevelt Memorial dinners have been announced in Eu gene and Grants Pass as well as in Vancouver, Wash. Following the local dinner this year, the newly-formed Eleanor Roosevelt, league will honor the guest of honor and visiting dignitaries at a brief coffc$ and reception in the Ifcdrlck cafeteria. Thit) event will fir open to all who have attended the din ner, according to Edith Rodu, chairman of the woman' group. L7 u o o o o oo (T)0 0 o o o 0 0
