Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 31, 1960, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texte I t Max V Ion' Wans :r J KJj NT4 ; : ' 1 CONTEST WINNER Miss Shirley Sattcrfield, right, is shown with Karlyn Matlson, Miss Oregon of I960, who par ticipated in ceremonies at Ashland Saturday night. Miss Satterfield will compete in the Miss Oregon contest in Sea side this summer, with the winner of that contest competing in the Miss America contest, (Knackstedt Photo) Medford's Proposed Budget Said Sound By GREG NOKES Mail Tribune Staff Writer Realistically speaking, Med ford's proposed city budget for the 1960-61 fiscal year is a sound one. The city will stay within the 6 per cent limitation, yet will be able to offer city serv Icei in approximately the Beaufification Planned on Creek Medford Parks and Recre ation Director Robert Ha worlh announced today that the parks and recreation de partment will do some beauti ficalion work along Bear creek during the summer or early fall. The area to be beautified is located on the east side of Bear creek between the Eighth st. and Main st. bridges. Work will consist of plant ing trees and shrubs which are suited to the creek bank and removing the existing trees and undergrowth which are overgrown or have been damaged. Haworth said the new free way should not interfere with the river bank at this point because the freeway will probably be constructed far ther up in Hawthorne park. He said the city decided to beautify this specific area as soon as possible because it is readily visible to motorists crossing the two bridges. Further development and beautification of the creek bank will not be possible until the state lets the city know just where they intend to construct the freeway, he said. The city has been hoping that the state might assist them in the basic development of Bear creek as a park site while it is constructing the freeway. WEATHER FORECAST: Fair tonight an4 Wednesday, Variable cloudi ness Wednesday afternoon and evening. Low tonight SO. High Wednesday 85. Temp. Highest Yesterday 84 Lowest thii Morning 51 Our Skies Tonight Sunset today 7:41 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow .... 4:37 a.m. Moons t tonight Midnight First Quarter Thursday The Moon circles the Earth every 27 days. This motion causes it to appear among a different group of stars each night. Tonight it is to the right of Keg ul us in Leo. Hatfield Encouraged by Record of Oregon Traffic Safety on Salem -CPU- Gov. Mark Hatfield, who ordered special measures taken to prevent traffic deaths in Oregon over the past holiday, said today he Is "encouraged by the record of traffic safety in Oregon over the long Mem orial Day weekend." Highways Patrolled The state recorded two traffic victims the past week end compared lo five traffic deaths for the same holiday in 1959. This year's Memorial Day week end was longer Ulan that of last year. The Interallied precautions same amount and quality as it is offering them this year. Any increase in city serv ices would be too much to hope for. City administrators have estirrlited that general fund working revenue will in crease some $50,000. But this increase will be more than absorbed by higher costs and a one-step pay hike for all city employees. Figure Deceiving i Total city revenue and bud- get for the 1980-81 fiscal yeari is estimated at $3,117,893. But this figure is deceiving. j It includes such revenues as bond income, sewer assess ments, state liquor tax re funds and other government aid. All of these are either spent before they are even received or otherwise allocat ed for specific purposes. The only money which the city can spend as it sees fit is ! the $895,805 in the general fund. Out of this come the departmental budgets. Although general fund working revenue will de crease slightly next year, the total general iund revenue will decease from this year's $934,361. This is due to the fact that a $75,000 gift from the Jackson County Housing authority this year was for the Jackson park swimming pool and wiil not be forth coming next year. Offer More If the city could get more money it could undoubtedly offer more and better serv ices. But, the city is restricted (as are all other Oregon ci ties) by the 6 per cent in crease limitation on its prop erty tax levy. The total property tax levy this year was $352,766. With the allowable increase of 6 per cent it will be $373,932 during the 1980-61 year. Although Jackson County Assessor Ray Schumaker claims he never said it, City Manager Robert Duff has said (and still does) that Schu macher told him the city could expect an "indicated" $1 million increase in assessed property valuation during the 1960-81 year. (Continued on page 9) Western Union Strike Threatened Washington-a'PO-Union and management negotiators met in eleventh-hour bargaining sessions today to try and avert a threatened midnight strike against Western Union Telegraph Co. Salem WP0 The board of control will hold its weekly meeting Friday. - not announced before th holiday - included patrols on primary highways spaced at not more than 18 miles apart. In other words, drivers tra veling border-to-border in all directions came under obser vation at least every 18 miles. Greatest Cencentretion State police headquarters said today it wis the greatest concentration of state police patrolling in Oregon history. Administrative and investi gative officers were pressed into accident prevention pa trels. n During the week end's 19 hours, slat pollua Investiga Oregon Traffic Takes Two Lives; Four Others Drown Portland Student Drowns in River By United Press International Six persons were reported 1 dead from accidental rausc! today after Oregon's three day Memorial Day week end, two in traffic and four by drowning. Norman M. Niimi, 18, a sen ior at Grant high in Portland, drowned in rapids of the Sandy river after a raft cap sized iate Monday. Mons Bjorce, 78. Portland, was dead on arrival at a Redmond hospital Monday By United Press International Memorial Day week end traffic crashei killed 366 persons between midnight Friday and midnight Mon day, according to a survey by United Press Interna tional. The National Safuly Council had estimated 375 persons would be killed, Ohio led the list with 27 traffic deaths. California showed 23, New York and Pennsylvania 22, Illinois 20. and Alabama and North Carolina, 18 each. afternoon after a pickup truck in which he was riding was involved in a three-vehicle accident. Ivan Sisiov, 19, Woodburn, was Killed in a one-car acci dent near Independence early Sunday. Leroy Faupel, 16, Portland, was drowned when he tell from a log raft while swim ming in the Willamette river near the St. Johns bridge Monday. Judith Ann Pearl, 18, Al bany, perished in the surf at Newport Sunday when a strong undertow pulled her and her two companions out to sea. Three youths were able to pull in the other two girls, but could not reach Miss Pearl before she drowned. And, near Medford, 10-year-old Roger Timmerman drowned when he fell Into a hole while wading in Hoo ver lake. His father was fish ing at the time. Dog License Funds Used for Control All money collected from the sale of dog licenses is earmarked for dog control en forcement expenses. County Treasurer Karl Janouch said today. However, if some of the money is not spent by Jan. 1 then that amount over $1, 000 is placed in the general fund. So far, we have not had anything in excess of S1.000 to return to the general fund," Janouch commented. As of today the county has spent $18,523.53 for dog con trol over an 1 1-month period, Janouch explained. However, there is no limitation on the amount of expenditure in this category, he pointed out. The money the county re ceives from the state marine board as its share of the boat ing license fees can be placed in the general fund. This money could be used for dog control enforcement, too, he pointed out further. The state marine board has recommended that boating license money be used for de velopment of marine recrca (ion facilities and enforce ment of boating regulations, but the law does not require that the fund be so earmark ed. Jackson county has been placing the money in the county general fund, al though County Judge Earl Miller said the money can be expended from the general fund for recreation develop ment and boat law enforce ment. Week End ted 42 accidents in which 28 persons were Injured, and two killed. A total of 1,242 cita tions were issued. Hatfield said this was "no doubt a contributing factor through rigid enforcement , . . we shall continue to press vigorously for legislation which will tighten traffic en forcement." Water Program Needed Hatfield also said that from the week end's statistics, "it is apparent we must a so de vote increasing attent on to water safety." four persons drowned in Oregiso during the holiday, Rogue Valley Edition Medford 14 Pages BORIS PASTERNAK Illnesses Fatal Boris Pasternak, Russian Author, Taken by Death Moscow - HOT - Non-conformist poet Boris Pasternak, 70, died Monday night in a Communist Kussia that reluc tantly was beginning to ac knowledge his greatness. The gaunt, while - haired man of letters - who in 1058 was awarded the Nobel Prize but renounced it under bilter political pressure - was con scious at the end. He spent his last few minutes in the bedroom of his dacha in su burban Peredelkino talking with his three sons. Three-Week Struggle Death came at 1 p.m. (p.s.l.), after a three week struggle against the combined ravages of two heart attacks, a bleed ing stomach, pneumonia and lung cancer. Deemed too critical of the Communist revolution in Rus sia, the book was never pub lished domestically. When Pasternak was named for the Nobel Prize - in large part for "Dr. Zhivago"-the regime was seriously embarrassed and the author paid the pen alty by being expelled from the writers' union and con demned publicly as a "traitor" and "libcler. Returning To Favor Pasternak, a free-willed ar tist who never had been more than barely tolerated by the Communists, faced this chas tisement stoically and appear ed to be returning by degrees to public favor when his last illness struck. The official press, however, carried no immediate an nouncement of his death, ap parently because of his ex pulsion from the writers' union. Menderes, Others Must Stand Trio Ankara. Turkey -(lift- Pro visional Premier Gen. Cemal Gursel said today that former Premier Adnan Menderes and other leaders of the over thrown government will be tried for violating the const itution. He added the army believed they were guilty. Portland -fflPIl- Representa tives of nine states met here today to discuss problems of voting, employment, housing, education and administration of justice for minority groups. it it r 'Here Are The Directiont Go To It, Boy" CIA EM Blamed for I Regarding Spy Plane incident Dulles Testifies On Inquiry Into Summit Collapse I Decision Unwise, Fulbright Declares Washington -fllfD- The Sen ate Foreign Relations Com mittee chairman said today he did not blame the Central In telligence Agency for "ques tionable decisions' which led President Eisenhower to lake personal responsibility for the U2 spy plane incident. Sen. J. William Fulbright (D-Ark.) made the statement after CIA Director Allen W. Dulles testified for almost three hours behind closed doors in the committee's in quiry into events leading to the summit collapse. Secre tary of Stale Christian A. ller ler testified last Friday. Fulbright said he has heard nothing so far in the investi gation to convince him it was wise for President Eisenhow er to take personal responsi bility for the U2 spy plane in cident which preceded failure of the summit meeting. But, Fulbright said, lie did not blame Dulles for the de cision within the government to advise the President to take the responsibility per sonally. Fulbright said that, by "questionable" he meant de cisions properly subject to question. He said he referred specifically lo the assumption by the President of responsi bility for intelligence activi ties. That, Fulbright said, had "never been done before in history" and departed from the "traditional" behavior of chiefs of state. He said there may prove to be a basis for such a change but he, per sonally, sees no "justifiable reason" in the inquiry to dale. Testimony Not Public None of Dulles testimony was made public. But it was j Indicated that he repeated : earlier statements that he was willing to take full responsi bility for the U2 flight over Russia. Fulbright has frequently questioned the wisdom of Eis enhower personally taking responsibility for the high level plane spying. Recommendation for Postmaster Is Made Lynn H. Valentine, Jackson ville, has been recommended for appointment as postmaster at Jacksonville, Congressman Walter Norbfad has an nounced. The recommendation was sent to W, E. Birdjal), direc tor of the postmasters division, post office department, Wash igton, D. C. The vacancy was created when Leon Matheny died April 20, 1959, Norblad noted. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1V60 SWIMMING CLASS One of several physical education classes from Medford High school is shown above as Coach Fred Spiegelberg conducted tests in treading wa ter at Hawthorne pool this morning. For several weeks chilly temperatures made it a littiG uncomfortable for class members, but today was more like "swimming weath er." Hawthorne pool will be opea full time for public use June 7, and season tickets, Frost Season in Valley Hot Cold, Rogers Reports The 1960 fruit frost season was "not a particularly cold one" considering the lowest temperatures for the season and the number of cold nights, according to William (Bill) Rogers of the fruit frost forecast service. : Rogers stated in his end of the season report that the , lowest temperature recorded for the season was 20.4 do-' grees, which has been exceed ed many times in the past. The 18 cold nights was just below the normal number of 20, he added. "However, it was a peculi arly reversed season with the May weather in March, the March weather in April and the April weather in May, and with considerable dam age to unheated fruits in mid- April (April 15-ifl) and with damage to soft fruits like peaches and apricots on the , nights of April 21-22," Rog ers stated. Air Masses "Many times during the ; season air masses moved into the district which could have : produced disastrously cold ; nights, and clouds remained in the valley long' enough to give temperatures which were ' easily held at the sale levels no threatening tempera tures at all, the mcteroiogist said. "It was the third earliest full bloom date on record since 1931 and it is remark able that more damage was not sustained." Warm weather after the first week of March brought blossoms along rapidly, and D'Anjous were in bloom by about March 27. After April 2, when warm weather resumed, the re mainder of the blossoms emerged, with Bartielts gen erally in full bloom after April 4 and Bosc and Cornice April 8 to 11. Development after April 8 was slow, and it was difficult to tell in some orchards exactly the fruit's state of development any giv en day. Rogers explained. "Damage was principally in unheated orchards," Rog ers said. "The only damage in heated orchards was some Bosc marking, and to a lesser extent to Bartlctts. This was only in orchards were the grower did not hav? sufficient heater. ashinaton -ft- President Itiscnhower aill not hold Inem conftei this v"?3ft. 55th Year Price 1 0 Cents Tribune Eisenhower Expands Far Eastern Trip Washington -ft'PD- President Eisenhower will expand his Far Eastern trip to include . , , visits to the Philippines, Na - lionalist China and Okinawa, the White House announced today. The President already had been scheduled lo visit Japan and Korea on the lour start ing June 12. The White House made available a rough outline of the expanded Itinerary short ly before Eisenhower had first Lookouts to Start Tomorrow The first of the slate de partment of forestry's 18 look outs in the southwest district will be placed in operation to morrow, district headquarters on Table Rock rd., Medford, said today. Lookouts are expected lo be placed on Burnt Peak and Taiiowbox. All 16 lookouts probably will be operating by June 12, headquarters sources said. No forest fires were report ed in the district over the week end, headquarters re ported. Meeting Slated on Sewage in Ditches A meeting will be held on problems of sewage in irriga tion ditches In the area south west of Medford at 7:30 p.m., Friday, in the Jackson county courthouse auditorium, a spokesman for residents of the area announced today. Expected to attend are Dr. C. I. Drummond, Jackson county health officer. County Sanitarian Oris Moore, and Jack Koffbuhr, Medford Ir rigatun district manager. Purpose of the meeting will be to discuss elimination of a health hazard caused by too many residents of the area piping septic tank effluent In to irrigation ditches. The area includes Loxier lane, Clover, lane, Peach st, and the Maple Park addtlon. Dr. Drummond warned thai ditches carrying septic tank effluent could transmit ty phoid fever, Infectious hepa titis and bacilliary dysentrry. Bend -ftW- Former Circuit Judge Ralph Scott Hamilton, 80, died today. He served 18 years as a circuit judge here following hie appointment in 1941 by ex-Gov. Charles Sprugua. Ho. 61 ecision which have never been available before, will be for sale, according to Medford PaTks and Recreation Director Robert Haworth. The fee for the season tickets will also include swimming lessons if the individual is prop erly registered. Dedication ceremonies for the lluw Jackson pool have been sul lor 10 a.m. Friday, June 10. Hours for both pools will be from 1 p,ra, to S p.m, daily. j lunch with members of the I Southeast Asia Treaty Organi- 52:,, . ... WlJl s Chiang j c.M( r, r nDnr1v s,1rt 1hn ririitinn nf The Philippines, Okinawa and Taipei - wiiere the President will see Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek - was made possible by cancellation of Eisenhow er's plans to spend nine days in Russia. There was a strong possi bility that Eisenhower would travel from Manila to Taipei aboard the flagship of the American 7th Fleet, the cruis er St. Paul, and accompanied by aircraft carrier Tieonde roga. The President will maintain his previously announced schedule for arriving in Ja pan, via Alaska, June 19. He will spend three nights in Japan and then fly to Korea for a one-day visit. To Baal in Hawaii He will visit Alaska the night of June 12 and, en route j home, will spend several days resting in Hawaii. The trip, coming in the face of anti - American riots in Japan, was expected to last at least two weeks, bringing the President back to Wash ington shortly before Con gress quits for the national political conventions. Eisen hower should be back in Washington on or about June 28. Stream Flow Holding Up in Medford District Stream flow due to recent rains ii holding up weli, ac cording to Jack Hoffbuhr, Medford irrigation district manager. The district is trying to maintain irrigation from the ttream flow without using reservoir water whiic it still can. Some of the orchards have been irrigating for a week, and t!ie bulk of them are expected to start this week, he added. Unreliable "At this time of year the stream-flow is unreliable," Hoifbuhr remnrked. "The whole works can drop away in a week. Now we have enough for running full ca pacity in the canal." Due to recent cool weather, the stream flow hs held up better, but the MID does not expect more than another week or If! days of stream flow, itf rim at the maxi mum, Hoffbuhr said. firmness Heeded With Russians, Nixon Declares Future Summit Talks Possible Washington OJ Presi dent Eisenhower warned the Southeast Asia Treaty Organi zation allies today not to re lax their vigilance against any Communist aggression or subversion in the Far East. The President spoke at a White House luncheon for SEATO members after Vica President Richard M. Nixon told them that in future deal ings with Russia there must be "firmness without bellig erence" if "we are to keep our differences from resulting in war . . ." Future Talks Possible Nixon also said Hie Free Vi'orid henceforth probably will put more of its faith in traditional types of diploma tic negotiation, but he did not rule out future summit con ferences. Eisenhower said that on the occasion of the SEATO con ference opening today "we can lake much satisfaction in the fact that our first objec tive of preventing further Commun 1st domination through aggression or subver sion in the treaty area has been realized." "However," E 1 s e n hower added, "we cannot afford to relax our vigilance or slacken our cooperative efforts to fur ther the high principles of the Pacific charter." No Greater Challenq The President told the luncheon "no defensive alli ance of which we are a mem ber faces greater challenge or protects a more vital segment of the Free World than SEATO." Members of SEATO are Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, The Philippines, Thailand and the United States. Hearing Set or WestSidsIonma . A public hearing on a pro posed interim zoning for the West Side area -will be held at the West Side school at S p.m. tomorrow, the Jackson county planning commission said to day. Following the pebhe hear ing th? planning commission will study the proposal fur ther and make its recommen dations to the county court. The county court may call a further public hearing or ma pass on the proposal. Interim zoning means an area can be zoned for three years, after which area resi dents can vote on it. Festival Ticket Sales Are Ahead Ashland - Shakespearean Festival General Manager William Patton said today that Festival tickets and mem bership sales are far above the totals recorded at toe same date last year. As of today, Patton said, ticket sales were at a point not reached last year until July 1. Membership sales to day numbered 510, compared to 273 on May SI last year. Patton added Uwt in addi tion to the fioed of -written requests for tickets, Festival headquarters has received numerous long distance tele phone requests from point as distant as Seattle to Lot Angeles. "The irrigation picture looks a lot better than CO days ago," he said. "The ed materially, however. We should ena up wvui aoous the same amount of storage water-perhaps a little snore than anticipated, due to the cold weather." Freezing Level Rises Hoffbuhr said he should be able to tell in another week what the district will nave in storage. The freezing level has risen to 14,1300 feet, and the warm evenings the area la nniu "naulntf will molt IVlA snow at higher elevations, he said. "Everything is growing well because ot rains," Hoffbuhr added. "No one has been halt dry yet to the point of hurt ing anything. If we could get all the orchards on now,, to take advantage si th itream flow, we could save a lot ot Ijraae." G 0. 0 a O , ' ( ) o o () CO Q 0 ) 0 0 i r.7 (')