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q c-J o u uju eE3oo:a boo " Oo. C3EC3 O SS9SEE I eswse- is e . (, oo cO n o o 0 sj?scsfi O o O o o o o O OO O O CD o OCO o oo O Oq 55th Year Subscribers Price 10 Cents Recommended A tiory tm the training pr of new recrulti ty the 1 Oregon SUt Police appears e EDFORD 1RIBUNE To report Improper or non delivery of the Mail Tribune in Medford phone SP 2-614). in Ashland MU 2-!021. and m Vreka. VI 2-2R07. before :45 p m dailv and 10 30 a m. Sunday If regular delivery arrive shortly after you call please nntifv office thus eliminating ipecial meuenger aervice j wage 14 of Uday't Mail Tribune. I United Preaa International Full Leased rtiie United Preci International Full Leased Wire 56 Pages Section A MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MAY 15, 1960 No. 47 0 n O M Bedford Council Lends Support to Niantic Paving The Medford city council at a special meeting Friday af ternoon voted unanimously to lend the city's name to a pe tition seeking pavement of Niantic st. from Edwards to Maple sts. The action means that pav ing of this section of Niantic it. is closer to realization now than it has ever been in the even years which residents and the Lincoln school PTA have been vorking for it. ) Niantic st. at this location if presently just a 20-foot wide unpaved alley. School offic ials, the PTA, residents and the Medford Safety council Bave all contended that the present condition of the street constitutes a traffic hazard to Lincoln school children. Dust Causes Nuisance " It has also been pointed out that the dust raised by ve hicular traffic on this alley causes quite a nuisance to resi- - ents. Much of the efforts to get the street paved have been done by Mrs. Max P. Weston, 1102 North Riverside ave., and president of the Lin coln school PTA. '; Some 231 feet of property fronting the east side of Ni antic st. from Edwards to Austin st., is owned by thu city. The city's signature will mean that some 62.1 per cent ot the total footage of prop erty in this area will be repre sented on the petition. Plans for a 40 foot right of - way and 34 feet of paving on this portion of Niantic have already been approved by the council. The next step will be to call for bids. The council had been to the point of calling for bids at their May 5 meeting, when Mrs. Jeanette Marshall, a Precipitation at Crater Lake Park Above Average Snowfall and precipitation . reports from Crater Lake Na tional park are encouraging to local ranchers and farmers as the summer water supply picture has improved over earlier reports. Otto Brown, park superln : tendent, has announced vari- ,.; out weatner figures, all lm ! provements on previous re- i ports for this year. : April precipitation at the I p a r k headquarters weather ! station was 6.64 inches, which :;, represented a 44.97 per cent .'increase over the 25-year April average. Cumulative precipitation for the year through April was 53.65 inch . ei or 86.9 per cent of the 25' year average. Only four Aprils . during the 25 years had more - precipitation. ' Snow Above Average Snowfall for the month was ', 58.5 inches or 28.4 per cent j more than the average. Cumu ' lative snowfall for the year ' was 73.5 per cent of average . Only five of the 25 years dur- , ing which records have been kept had more snow during ' April. ! Snow on the ground April ' 30 measured 103 inches conv pared to the average of 101.4 inches. County Census Still Not Complete " The U.S. Census of Jack son county residents is still not complete, Harold Sander, Rogue River, one of the crew leaders in this area, reported Friday. Crews are completing work In the Griffin Creek, South Stage Road, and other subur ban areas, Sander said. While the population Inside the Medford city limits was below estimates, he reported that of the suburbs has proven to be far above earlier esti mates, and it is taking up to two weeks longer to complete tht non-city count than was planned. He said he hopes the sub urban count can be completed by Tuesday. If, by tht time, residents still have not bete ) called on by an enumerator, I. he suggested they send in the 4 "cis j uu V.UUIIICU iuiiii , printed recently in the Mall , Tribune and elite ere neve- i tftpevt, Medford attorney and daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Thatcher, residents of the area, contended that a peti tion for paving did not have over 50 per cent of the foot age signed up as the petition ers claimed. She said this was because two of the properties were not properly signed up. The council then deferred action on the matter until Fri day's special meeting. Disqualification Asked Mrs. Marshall also appear ed at Friday's meeting, but not to contest the petition She said she and her clients are opposed to a 40 foot street, and would rather have a 60 foot street. She asked that Councilman Fred Robinson not vote on the matter because his relatives own property on Niantic. Robinson declined to do this and said he saw no reason to disqualify himself. Mrs. Marshall and her hus band, Harry B. Marshall, told the council that a new $500,- 000 motel is being planned for the corner of Central ave. and Beatty st., and it would be better to have a 60 foot street rather than a 40 foot street. City Manager Robert A. Duff told the council that a 60 foot right of way would be more expensive than a 40 foot right of way, one of the reasons being that the larger right of way would require the removal of more homes and garages. Mrs. Glen Stewart, who was present at the meeting, said it would be "ridiculous" to have Niantic st. 60 feet wide when the nearest "through" st., Central ave., is only 36-40 feet wide and t"-e street with which Nintic would inter sect, Maple St., is only about 35 feet wide. Councilman A 1 Bradford said, "I believe that a 34 foot street is better than no street at all." When asked if the city would have to pay the same amount of assessment for its property as other property owners would, Duff said yes. Mayor John Snider noted that the city would have to pay the same even if it didn't sign the petition. Buildings Closer To Street Mrs. Marshall also objected to the fact that the city would be taking 15 feet of right of way from property owners on the west side of the street and only five feet from property owners on the east side of Niantic. Duff said this was done because the buildings on the east side of the street are much cli er to the street than those on the west side. It was noted that those who give more property get paid more for it anyway. Mrs. Marshall said that a 60 foot street would increase the property values in the area so much that residents could no longer afford to live there and wiuld sell their properties for commercial use. Bernice Viles, 424 Edwards St., and a school teacher at Lincoln school, countered by saying, "it takes a heap a livin' to make a house a home and I think homes are important." "Some Of Our Statecraft Is Missing" TV K i'-'I EUGENE ORR Legionnaire of Year Eugene Orr Receives Legion Merit Citation Eugene Orr, Medford furn iture store owner and long time American Legion mem ber, was awarded the Legion's citation of merit at a banquet Saturday night. Orr was named American Legionnaire of the year be cause of his record of Legion achievements. These include: post commander, Medford post, 1950-51. district com mander, 1953-54, current ex ecutive member of the Amer ican Legion national rehabil itation committee since 1952 and post service officer and delegate from District 13 to to the American Legion na tional convention. Community Service Community contributions include leadership in worth while charitable campaigns, service clubs and fraternal or ganizations, chairman of the Medford Retail Merchants committee, 1956, 1957 and 1960; member of the board of directors, Medford Chamber of Commerce. He also aided in organizing and gaining accept ance for the annual budget concept of merchant partici pation in promotion of Rogue valley events. He worked un ceasingly and successfully at his own expense for necessary expansion of the Camp White domiciliary center despite considerable public indiffer ence. Falling Boom Kills Grants Pass Youth Grants Pass -(UPC- A one thousand pound boom tumbled from a flatbed construction company truck here Saturday and crushed a 12-year-old Grants Pass boy on a bicycle. Killed was Greg Allyn, son of Ralph E. Allyn. Allyn apparently was killed instantly when the boom fell from a truck adjacent to him. Both the truck and the boy were just leaving a railroad crossing stop sign. Police theorized the boom was joustled from the truck when it crossed the railroad tracks. Driver of the truck, Bruce McFarland, 22, of Grants Pass, said he saw the boy at the stop sign and noticed in his rearview mirror after starting up that the boy was lying in the street. Choice of Peace in Public Hands, Speaker Asserts Helen Gahagan Douglas, former congresswoman from California, emphasized Satur day night that choice of peace rested in the hands of an in formed American public The President's office is an important one since he is the i one who has the greatest in fluence for peace. He can speak to all of the American people at once, she said at the ! 10th annual Roosevelt Memor ial dinner at Hedrick junior' high school. I Facts as Yardstick j "It's not hard for us to di-! gost a few fundamental facts ! about the arms race to use as a yardstick to measure any governmental program during an election year or any time," the former Democratic con gresswoman pointed out. "It doesn't take a scientist to learn these facts - to make the mental switch needed to keep up with this atomic age." "We must put our scientific brains in back of a peace pro gram," she declared. "We must invest much more money in a peace program. Our for eign policy now is an arms policy. We need a peace agency in our government." 'Blunders' Reach Climax Becoming increasingly dra matic, Mrs. Douglas deplored "the blunders" made by the current administration which, she indicated, reached a cli max with the U.S. U2 spy flight incident. This occurred at a time when it looks as if the na tions of the world were final ly turning down the path to ward peace, she emphasized. Mrs. Douglas cocked a quiz zical eyebrow as she related how the president followed up the spy flight incident by announcing the United States would continue its atomic tests. She deplored the Repub lican President's statement that he would stay at the sum mit conference on disarma ment only one week unless there was evidence of sincere negotiations. "You never in sult the government with whom you plan to negotiate," the congresswoman thunder ed. Impressed with FDR Mrs. Douglas gradually built up the intensity of her speech as she started by re lating how Eleanor Roosevelt, the late President's wife drew her from the stage into public life which led soon to the U. S. Congress. She told how Mrs. Roosevelt became inter ested in her efforts to better the living conditions of the migrant farm laborers. As she visited the White House, the former congress woman said she became deep ly impressd with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's vision, his quick sympathy, deep human ity and quick resilence in listening to criticism of him self and laughing at that McDonald Given 10-Year Sentence Portland - IUPI) - Convicted dynamiter Levi McDonald was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $500 Friday for masterminding the bomb ings of four newspaper trucks. His attorneys filed notice of appeal. McDonald, 51-year-old form er stereotyper union negotia tor, was convicted on testi mony of four youths who con fessed to bombing the trucks in Portland and six others in Oregon City the night of Jan. 31. The hucks carried papers and newsprint for the struck Oregon Journal and Oregon ian. Morse To Arrive In Oregon Monday Portland, Ore. - (UPD - Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), lack ing the organized support of his party, flies to Oregon Mon day to challenge front-running Sen. John Kennedy (D-Mass.) in the state's May 20 presiden tial primary. Kennedy, who also faces Morse in next Thursday's Maryland primary, was to ar rive today and has several ap pearances scheduled. Both plaa to campaign Intensively right up to the Friday primer date. Porlland-Wt-The Columbia inter-eieaev commute will belt Its next (Meting here Sum 14. which "overshot the mark." I "Mr. Roosevelt would be pleased with Oregon," she I said. "Oregon has shown a I great discremination in its I choice o frepresentatives. It has sent great senators in Wayne Morris and Dick Neu berger and a reat representa tive in Charles Porter. He (Roosevelt) taught we have nothing to fear, but fear." Overflow Crowd Attends Safety Patrol Banquet A standing-room-only crowd of more than 400 persons packed Hedrick Junior High school's cafeteria Friday eve ning for the annual School Patrol banquet sponsored by the Medford Safety council. So many school patrol mem bers, parents, teachers and school officials turned out. for the banquet that it was near ly 25 minutes late Retting un der way. Several teachers gave up their seats and watch ed the program from door ways. Largest Crowd Rudy Tetreault, manager of the Oregon State Motor asso ciation's Medford office, term ed it "the largest crowd ever" at a safety banquet. About 210 students from 14 elementary schools in District 54SC and SI. Mary's received patrol badges and pen and pencil sets. Awards were presented to captains of patrol units bv Medford Police Chief Charles P. Champlin, who told patrol boys and girls they are the "greatest single force of help ana am tnat your police de partment has." Thanked for Work Guest speaker V e r n Hill, Salem, director of the Oregon State Department of Motor Vehicles, thanked patrol mem bers for their work and said "we cannot emphasize too much the value that you have to your community." Patrol badges, denoting the rank of each member, were contributed by the Oregon State Motor association. Pen and pencil sets were furnished through the combined efforts of a number of civic clubs. Contributing clubs were the Medford Rotary, Medford Lions, Medford Kiwanis, Cra ter Lions, Elks, Medford Jun ior Chamber of Commerce, Medford 20-30 club, Zonta In ternational and the Business and Professional Women's club. Banquet Coals Defrayed Mothers' clubs and parent teacher groups defrayed the cost of banquet tickets for school patrol members from their respective schools. Tetreault introduced repre sentatives from clubs aiding the project and teacher-coordinators of the traffic safety program at the various schools. Banquet chairman was El liott Becken, assistant superin tendent of Medford schools. Sports Bulletins Memorial Stadium, While City - The Salom Sham rocks defeated the Rogue Valley Dairy Maids 5-0 hare Saturday night in the opin ing game of the itaion for both iaamt in the Northwest Woman's M i j o r Softball league. Eugtnt t:PI The Univer sity of Oregon elumni, guid ed by professional quarter back Norm Van Brocklin, turned a blocked punt and a fumble into a 13 to 12 vic tory over the 1960 Oregon Ducks varsity Saturday. WEATHER FORECAST: Variable rfnudlneti Kunrixv and ftnndav nltrht with pntKihlv a few ihnwm over and nmr the mountain, late sunrlxv. Partly rlnudy Mnndiv. Illth Kunday 6X. l,o Aunday nlfht 3D. High Monday 70. Temp. Hlgheit Yetlerday fi I.oweit Yeiterday .17 Precipitation Yeiterday, none. Our Skies Toniglhrt ftanet today 7:? p.m. ftuerise tomorrow 4:49 a.m. .tooBrtie tomorrow ....12:01 a.m. iOINFNT KTAft Altalr. low tn east ....11:01 p.m. VHI,R PLANET! JitfMer, rliei 10:42 p m. aVttirn. rli, 1 1 -4 p ro. Mori, low In Mat H 1:11 a.m. S. F. Police Move Repetition oi NIKITA IN PARIS A beaming Soviet Pre mier Nikita Khrushchev, right, hands a bouquet of flowers to Russian Defense Min ister Rodion Y. Malinovsky after receiving it on his arrival in Paris Saturday. Khru Phoenix Schooi District Vote on Budget Monday Phoenix - A school levy election will be held in the new Phoenix administrative school district from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, May 16, ac cording to Ernest James, Phoenix school district super intendent. Residents of the Phoenix area will vote in the Phoenix grade school gym and those living in the Talent area in the Talent grade school gym nasium. Total estimated tax levy for the 1960-61 school year is $500,895.82. This includes both general fund and bond interest and redemption fund. This represents a decrease of $6,973.96 compared to the total of the Phoenix and Tal ent levies' total of $507,869.78 last year before the two dis tricts were consoli dated, James said. Exceeds Limitation The amount exceeding the 8 per cent limitation in the proposed budget is $369,- 276.43. This is $75,672 less than the amount exceeding the 6 per cent limitation in the total of the current Phoe nix and Talent districts' bud gets passed last year. The $35 per census child al lowed recently by the Jack son county court will provide an additional revenue of $26,775 for the combined dis trict, the superintendent point ed out, and will further offset the district's tax levy. The 1960-61 District 4 bud get shows a total increase of $25,493 for instructional costs due to increases in teachers' salaries, teaching supplies and textbooks. Also, because of approximately Sl.Ovfl reiur- tion In other items, the net budget increase is about $24,500. Russia Orbits Unmanned Ship New York HPI The Tais News Agency reported to day that Russia has orbited an unmanned space ship. The space ship-satellite has a pressurised cabin on board which contains a dum my spaceman, and all the necessary equipment for a future manned fligiit. Tass reported. It weighs more than 4'i tons, including some l'i of scientific instruments, the agency said. The announcement came en the eve ef tht Big Four summit Aeetiai In Fails. City -is-;v AM Khrushchev Plans To Confront Spy Plane Washington-fliPD President Eisenhower left Saturday night for the fateful summit conference in Paris where he will deal face-to-face with a belligerent Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Eisenhower, who was to ar rive in Paris Sunday morn ing, was said to carry a mas sive file detailing boviet es pionage activities in the United States in recent years. The file was to be for use in the event Khrushchev carries out his threat to confront the President with the recent spy plane incident. Paris -IUPI)- An uncom promising Nikita S. Khrush chev arrived in Paris Satur day for the big four summit conference and, in a backhand slap at the United States, in dicated he would take up face- to-face with President Eisen hower the quarrel over the spy plane Incident. High U.S. sources said Sat urday, night as Eisenhower headed for the French capital and the formal meetings to open Monday, that Khrush chev's bitter stand on the spy plane may be due to trouble at home and with Red China over any soft line. They said the Soviet Premier could be under pressure to get tough. He arrived with a beaming smile, but in an airport state ment attacked "certain influ ential circles" which he said were "preventing improve ment of the international cli mate." In the same breath he specifically praised France and President Charles De Gaulle. Diplomats took his re marks to be a rebuke to Amer ica. Khrushchev served notice he still wants the Western Allies out of Berlin. The West ern Big Three Fuieign Minis ters, already In Paris, prompt ly declared their firm inten tion of staying in the city. Khrushchev served notice that he wants the parley opening Monday to discuss: -"General and complete dis armament." -"The liquidation of the remnants of the Second World War and the conclusion of a German Peace Treaty." -"East-West Relations." General and complete dis- Ciudad Trujilio OJPH- The Dominican Republic has de nied that there has been any worsening of relations be tween that country and the United States. . San Angelo, Tex.-A)PD-The wool Industry has crowned 20-year-old Miss Patricia Shaw of Deer Lodge, Mont.. IS Its Miss Wool Of 1961. To Prevent Kali shchev carefully refrained from taking more than an indirect swipe at the United States while expressing hope the summit confer ence would succeed. (UPI Radiotelephoto) Ike With Incident armament was the title of his four-year disarmament pro gram which the West has re jected because it does not pro vide for ironclad safeguards. Liquidation of remnants of World War II obviously meant withdrawal of the Allies from West Berlin - which they have adamantly refused to do. City's Valuation Hike 'Indicated' County Assessor Ray Schu macher denied Friday that he had told Medford City Man ager Robert A. Duff that the city can "expect to add about $1 million in assessed valua tion" this year. This amount Is only "Indi cated," Schumacher said. "There Is no way to esti mate this until the tax roll is equalized and the ratio for utilities establised by the state tax commission," the county assessor said. "It will be mid July before we get that infor mation." Duff made his statement to the citizens budget committee at its first regular meeting Wednesday night that there should be a decrease in total mlllage levied on city prop erty for 1960-61, Schumacher noted that Ash land won't be affected as much by utilities as Medford. Depending on state tax com mission action, the ratio on utilities may be dropped 3 points to 25 per cent. This would mean a decrease of as sessed valuation of 12 per cent for utilities. A tax ratio is established by taking the percentage of true cash value at which the property will be assessed. Portland Bomb 'Joke' Involves Medford Man Portland - (UPI) - Donald Da vid Kitch, 48, Portland, who was arrested Friday on a charge of violating the false bomb report section of the statute on destruction of air craft, has been released on his own recognizance, accord ing to the office of U.S. Dis trict Attorney C. E. Luckey. Kitch was at the Portland airport with a friend, Victor Milncs, Medford oil executive, when he made a joking refer ence to a bomb in a suitcase. It was overheard by an air lines employee, and the plane was held while Milnes' suit case was opened for search. The arrest was annouacM Riots Crowd Gathers To Protest Hearing By House Group Patrol Wagons, Nightsticks Used San Francisco -(UPD- Three men were hauled away in a paddy wagon Saturday and a witness was ejected from a hearing of the House Commit tee on Un-American Activities by police massed to prevent a repetition of Friday's riot at city hall. More than 600 persons were gathered outside the big dom ed building. About 400 march ed in a picket line that en circled the block and the oth ers listened to the proceed ings being broadcast over a loudspeaker. Archie Brown, San Francis co longshoreman, was tossed out of the hearing room for the third time in three days when he became Involved in a shouting match with chair man Edwin Willis (D-I.a.) and Richard Arens, committee counsel, because Brown tried to read a statement. As Brown came out of the building he read a statement attacking the hearings as "un American." About 100 persons stood nearby listening though police tried to keep the bulk of the crowd away. When Browri left officers began dragging away a man who re fused to stop taking pictures from the out-of-bounds door way of the city hall. At the same time police -part of a force of more than 100 Including a dozen mount ed officers - began pushing pickets and bystanders back. The bearded, sandal-s hod man being removed from the doorway fought back and was forced into a patrol wagon. Two other men standing near by said something to the po lice and officers hit them on the heads with nightsticks and tossed them into the wagon, too. In addition to Brown's short- lived appearance before the committee three San Fran cisco law enforcement officers told of Friday's violence. Po lice Chief Thomas Cahill, Sheriff Matthew Carberry and Inspector Michael Macguire testified that among those who were stirring up the crowd were several witnesses ques tioned by the committee on as serted Communist activities. Pickets Carry Signs Two hours after the hear ing opened a crowd of about 70 still stood in line trying to get into the building where the congressional subcommit tee had resumed hearings into Communist activities in north ern California. Pickets carried signs read ing "abolish the committee," and "abolish thought control." The line also included a few pickets who were picketing the pickets. One carried a sign ' reading "ycung gullible stu- : dents keep the government as it is." U.S. Protests Cuban Firing on Submarine Washington - (UPD - The United States formally pro tested to Cuba Saturday against a Cuban patrol boat ' firing "without provocation" on a U.S. submarine more than five miles off Cuba May by the justice department In , Washington, D.C. He was the , 13th person arrested' by the FBI in a recent crackdown on bomb threats and hoaxes in volving airliners. Milnes said Saturday he ia "Just sick" over the incident, because It was an unthinking joke, and ti.ere was no ma licious intent of aay kind. He spoke highly of Kitch, who Is an employee of West ern Oil Co., of which Milnes is the head. "It's a shame they have to crucify a fnnn Just because of oae unthlnklat) r m a r k," aueiafen. 0 3 S O 0 i OO o (j 0 OO f7 O
