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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1960
No. 41
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"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.
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THE HONEYMOONERS Londoners wav
good by is the royal yacht Britannia passes
bDiktb Towaf iBridgt lit Friday. Aboird
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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.
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'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
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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.'
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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.
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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
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DOWNED
ABLY' SPY
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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
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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.
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