Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 02, 1960, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text1 o . i, I 1- 111 Majority of Weof Side Residents Opposed to Zoning A majority of the residents in tne west aide area are against any type of zoning, and most of those favoring zoning do not like the pro posed interim zoning ordin ance. ' This was apparent after a count of hands at a public hearing last night on propos ed interim zoning for the West Side area for single family dwellings and agricul ture. Of those who filled the West Side school gymnasium, 109 persons indica(jd they opposed any zoning in the Three Hearings on Council's Agenda Three public hearings are on the agenda for. tonight's Medford city council meeting at (3:30 o'clock, including .a hearing on a request for a change of zone fortwo lots located within the" proposed boundaries of the Civic Cei ter. The lots are located on Eighth St., between Holly and Ivy sts., across from West Side park. The owners want the zone changed from mul tiple family to class IIIB com mercial. They would con struct a service station on one of the lots. The planning commission recommended to the city council that the request be de nied, mainly on the grounds thjt to permit the change would mean the beginning of a commercial, strip along Eighth St., at this location. The owners have appealed the-, commission's recommen dation to the counicl. Other public hearings are on the proposed construction of a ajc-inchCforater main on 10th St., from Cottage st. to Portland ave., and for a re , quest to name a street in the Medford Heights 0ddition. The street is the one leading to Sacred Heart hospital and would be named Medford Heights lane. Other business to be con sidered at tonight's meeting Includes the approval of plans for partial paving of Summit ave.. from Mary place to Clark st., and a call for a pub lic hearing for a 10-inch wat er main on Juanipero Way from Mira Mar ave., to Mur phy rd, t - Mm ' . i31 -J- tSP rift r'ri i , rJiH rir . Mil" 1 ' ' S -'k 1 I f , : t. ? " 'V i ' "' " ' ft " U aaMMMMMiiaM'ii at-a. -,wy, jJSStdlm JLiMatiuSd DEATH PENALTY PROTEST Several dozen pickets paraded in front of the Fair mont hotel In San Francisco Wednesday where California Governor Pat Brown and Senators Stuart Symington and John Ken- area, and 28 favored It. Of the 28. only two were in laV- or of the interim zoning ordin ance as proposed. - jfcubody seemed to favor zoning even a portion of the area, as suggested by the meeting chairman and Jack son county planning commis sion president, Ron James; On Agenda James said the matter will be on the agenda oflhe plan ning commission meeting Wednesday, June , 8. James said he will ask for a op tion to recommend or not to recommend zoning for the West Side arw- The next step, he said, would be to make recommendations, and refer the matter to the county court. Mflford lawyer Melville Heisel presented petitions con taining what he said were 300 signatures of area residents who asked "that no further consideration be given to zoning ordinance- for thf jSmevexplathci that-a vote could be petitioned for after the interim zoning ordinance is established. Then the ordin ance could be voted out. Peo ple would not have to wait three years, he said. Petitions calling for such an election must be signed by 15 per cent of the registered vot ers of the area while 10 per cent can petition for a zon ing ordinance. The percent ages were established by the state legislature, it was ex plained. Speak for Group Heisel, speaking for a group of the area's residents, said they object to zoning In the area .q The current proposed form of the interim zoning ordinance is "something like the ordinance which will be adopted," he said. "Zoning for three years does not fit into the basic overall plan. And the basic plan has not yet been worked out by the planning commis sion," he said. "Area residents should know that each year the Qounty court must ap prove licenses for wrecking yards, Jqverns, night clubs and similar business." The planning commission head explained that the com mission members have agreed tentatively to exclude the granite pits operated by the Lulls. However, the hearing is being held on the area as ouCftned-in the original peti tion, he added Regional Edition 36 Pages Medford Budget Gets firjDfoval By Com At its third and final meet ing last night the Medford cit izen's budget corrAittee ap proved the city's 1960-61 budget. The committee made w- eral minor changes in the pre liminary budget and approved a final budget total of $3J23,- 080. The general fund tcrol is $903,686, an increase of $5,- 185 over the preliminary budget. O A public hearing on the budget was called for July 14. It vte decided to allocate 67)0 for a city managers (both for present and future officials) retirement program, after it became known there would be $2,344 in unallocajpi cd funds. ThQrest was placed! in the emergency luncj. (J Councilman Al Bradford Congressmen Asked to Account For Expenses i Washington - IUPD - The chairman of a House - watch dog committee proposed to day that junketing congress men be required to account publicly for their government paid expenses so taxpayers can be sure their money does n't go for whiskey, f, night clubs, and other htghiving. Rep. Omar Burleson (D- Tex.), who heads the Com mittee on House Administra tion, said he believed prompt reporting on outlays for offi cU travel in and out of the country would safeguard the Treasury against most abuses. He said he doubted that abuses were common anyway. No Immediate Rush O There was no immediate rush among his fellow law makers to get behind Burle son's proposal. Many mem bers felt they had been treated unfairly in published charges of legislative hi-jinks on investigative missions in the U.S. and abroad. In similar copyrighted acrt. counts Dy a icam oi two re porters, the Knight newspa pers and Life magazine said a look at 25,329 vouchers filed by House members prior to last June 30 revealed some "shocking" abuses of the con gressional expense account. Burleson, one of the targets of the charges, was directed immediately by his commit tee to "reiterate in the strong est terms" to other House members the ground rules on what they may and may not charge off to the taxpayers for official travels. Portland-(UPD -Stata Rep. Beulah Hand (D-Milwaukio) said today she would not be a candidate to succeed herself hs vice-cjiuuiiiHu ui me ueinu cratic party of Oregon. nedy were attending a 100-a-plate cam paign dinner. The signs are all against cap - Ilal punishment rjd refer to the recent execution of convict-author Caryl Chest man. , (UPI Telephoto) Medford iiittce pointed out that all city em ployees' salary were being raised this vearexceDt for the city manager's, and wonderedjjhat "stormy weather is ahead if it miEht not be a good idea P0' housing" inMiie nation to raise that salary also. The committee then went into a jcoecial closed-door meeting tirdiscuss the matter, and decided thQ rather than raise the city manager's sal ary, (which is now $1,000 a month) it would be better to allocate funds towards a re tirement program. Qsueh a retirement program vftuld be worked out in detail at a later date. Mayor John W. Snider pointed out during the special meeting that many cities have retirement programs for city managers. It was noted that there are already some retire ment benefits for a city .mana ger, as for all city employees, but it is not in keeping with the higher salary ike city manager makes. The comriKtee also ap proved the ter depart ment's 1960-61 budget total of $596,463.50. O ; Commends Commission -' Councilman Stanley Stark commented that the water commission should be com mended for allocating a tokejtl amount of money for studies of an additional supply of wa ter for the city. :' The budget allocates $3,850 to investigate a new supply of water trom tne HOgue .river, Wntpr Simertnt.nnr1nt. TtfiMrt. Lee said the Rogue appem'S 'to be the best source of a new supply. . One of the committee mem bers said he was of the under standing in 1950 that a bond issued approved by the voters that year, for a second pipe line from Big Butte Springs, was supposed to give Medford an "indefinite water supply." This bond issue will not be -allVAJ until IQRn (1 T r.niA that . w Mini. noa ..gu.t The water department at that time had felt that the second pipeline would give the city an indefinite supply, but their 1950 forecasts of Medford s anticipated population growth were way off. He said the city had doubled the anticipated increase. Float Another Issue There is "no doubt," Lee said, that the city will have to float another bond issue for Mte new source of supply. He estimated that cost of de veloping a Rogue river supply would be about $2 million. Administrative Assis t a n t Gil Gutjahr pointed out to the committee that the two an nexations recently approved by the voters, have added $68,630 to Medford's assessed valuation. This will give the city an increase of $844 in property tax revenue, he said. Most of the general fund changes were the result of a recomputation of fringe bene fits. It was noted that the state industrial accident com mission raised its rates since the preliminary budget was prepared. In the case of the fire department the rates in creased from $1,300 to $2,300. The fire department also asked for, and received, a $512 additional gppropriajyn for two new gas masks. Increase Eogineers The committee Increased the number of civil engineers in the engineering division from 3 to 3i. City Manager Robert DuX said the addition al half-man would be needed to negotiate for right of way and serve as a liaison between the city hall and courthouse engineering departments. The appropriation for this depart ment is now $102,262, an in crease of $3,328 over the preliminary budget. An $800 increase in the general fund transfer to the Public Library of Medford and Jackson county also re ceived committee approval. Total general fund transfer to the library is now $27,327. It was noted that the state has increased its giant to the II btjiry during the next year from $20,000 to $22,000. The budget will no be ad vertised prior to the pubftc hearing on July 14. ivLA T T MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1960 Porter Warns Congress on Housing Future By A. ROBERT SMI'fi) Mail Tribune Washington Correspondent Washington -(Special)- Rep. Charles O. Porter (D-Ore.) warned Congress Wednesday unless corrective action taken at once." Congressman Porter noted that more than 5,000 lumber workers have been laid off in Oregon recently, which he said ii"an accurate barome ter ayTo the condition of hous ing throughout the nation." Porter urged swift passage of the emergency home own ership act, which was ap proved April 28 by the House and is now awaiting Senate action. A Senate hearing is scheduled for JunwA inis bill would add $1 bil lion in funds for Fannie Mae (the federal national mortgage association) and the whole point is it would help the mortgage market," Porter said. '. He said he agreed with the analysis at housing and (lie lumber market have slumpjed because mortgage credit ' is tight. He noted that housjg starts in April were 22 per cent below April of last year. The barometer readings are unmistakable," PnWer told the House in a speech. For the sake of the unem ployed in my district and elsewhere and for the sake of families who want an oppor tunity to own their, own homes, I hope positive action on this legislation will pro; ceed on an emergency basis.' O - - Congress Okays ' Plan for Range Washington-flJPD - Congress late Wednesday gave final ap proval to a measure which grants the Boardman bombing range in north-central Oregon to that state in exchange for equal land located in Lake county, Oregon wants the land to develop an industrial park. The Boardman range meas ure was contained in the mili tary construction authoriza tion act. Sen. Hall S. Lusk (D-Ore.) said presidential approval is expected within the next 10 days. The Navy Tias been using the Boardman range for bombing practice. It would use the land in Lake county instead. Students' Bodies Found in Turkey Ankara, Turkey (UPD Dis covery of mass graves of stu- dents who touched off the I Turkish revolution raised the odds today that oi9ted Priouv Minister A d rDi n Menderes nnty some of his aides will face the death penajy. ine graves were found in Istanbul and Ankara. The stu dents had been killed in anti government demonstrations which started April 28 and eventually led to arK army coupe that toppled Menderes' government last Friday. There were reports as many Q 70 bodies had been found some of them In rV frigerator boxes but the nw government of Gen. Ce- mal Gursel declined to dis close the exact figure. Hatfield Wants to Change Salary Law Salem (OTD Gov. Mark Hatfield plans to ask the 1961 Legislature to take off the books laws whichOeslablish salaries for state officiPis. Practically all of the state salaries now are set by law. A move to wipe out set salary figures of heads of state In stitutions died in the 1959 Legislature. Hatfield said salaries of officials who are appilcd should be flexible and "com- i meiuurate with their duties," BROTHERS KILLED Two runaway broth ers, Thomas (mid James McDonald, aged 12 and 14, respectively, and their pet dog were killed in Pomona, Calif, today when a single-ense plane they stole smash- MHS Graduation Scheduled June 7 ne 440 Medford High seniors are scheduled rticipate in the annual laureate and commence. mentlgervices June 5 and 7, respectively. ' Bacfcalaureate will be held Sunday at $Vm. in the Hgl- ricK Junior Tiign school audi torium with all students, par-: ents, and friends and relatives invitefl. Guest speaker for the serv- Kpy Recerded As The month of May was j cooler -ana woiwr man ' nor- Qmal in. the. Medford vicinity. the weather, bureau report! nn its summary of the month. me wetness was leit main ly in the hills, the bureau sagl, since Tie precipitation kept loggers out of the high country. Rainfall during the month totaled 1.97 inches at the Medford station at the air port. This was .75 more than normal. Heaviest precipita tion for a 24-hour period was .42 of an inch May 1. A total of .39 was recorded May 29 and .24 May 26. Average monthly tempera ture was 55.1 degrees which is 3.6 less than normal. High est temperature was 84 de grees on three days, May 9, 30 and 31. Lowest thermome ter reading was 35, also on three days, May 5, 19 and 22. May had three clear days, 11 partly cloudy days and 17 cloudy days. Averages are nine, nine and 13, respective ly. Hail was recorded at the airport station on May 21 and 22. June Farted off yesterday with a &o-degree maximum temperature. Temperature of near 100 was anticipated to day with a 95 reading fore cast for r riday. Three Appear in Circuit Court men appeared in cir cuit court this morning before Judge James M. Main. Sentenced to one year in jail for obtaining money by false pretenses was Walter Scott McAlister, 10 East Clark st. He entered a plea of guilty to the charge and waived the right to a grand Jury hearing. Paul T. Thompson, River side, Calif., had imposition of sentence suspended two years for uttering and publishing a false check. He was ordered to make restitution Immedi ately. (Also pleading guilty was Junior Lee Hammonds, route 2, bo)O605, Central Point, for burglary not in a dwelling. His case was continued by the court for sentencing. Possibility of IV Park To Be Studied Salem -(UPB- The slate high way commission today author ized Parks Superintendent C. H. Armstrong to make a study of the possibility of state park at the confluence of the west and south forks of the Illinois river near the Red wood highway In Josephine county. 55th Tribune ed fuu-tnrottle into the ground at Emerson Junior High school. The school is In the heart of a thickly-populated residential area in Pomona, a Los Angeles suburb. -O- ice will be the Rev. John D. Reynolds of Westminster Presbyterian church, Med ford. The following Tuesday. June "L commaacemen)exer cises Will be held in the high school stadium. A special plat- lorm and seating arrange ments have been provided. - School officials said that in the event of bad weather an auxiliary plan for having the presentation under the oof of the new grandstand win be put in operation DrV Paul Jacobson, Univer sity of Oregon, will deliver toe commencement address, and--the! Rev. Clayton Cris, man -will be the presiding minister, William Barker, Medford school board chairman, will present the diplomas to the graduates. Seniors will be given four tickets to the commencement exercises, which will allow admfision to the reserved sec tion. Spectators will be seat ed on the east side of thcQleld and will enter on that side. Gates will open at 7 p.m. Only class members will be admitted through gates at the end of the old grandstand; pfc-sons without JJckets may sit anywhere except in the reserved section. O Also -featured in the bacca laureate and commencement services are the Medford High instrumental and vocal music departments. O Water Pump at Phoenix To Be Off, Phoenix - Mayor Arthur MacKintosh has asked Phoe nix residentPnot to irrigate tomorrow because power for the city's water pumping sys tem will be turned off. MacKintosh said the Cali fornia Oregon Power com pany plans to Install a new transformer to handle the city's two new wells, and there will be no power to pump water to the reservoir for six to eight hours. He said there will b a sufficient supply of water for domestic use and for emer gency purposes. Stitrtlng Saturday, June 4, Urrigalion of lawns and gar- Mens in the city of Phoenix will be allowed on alternate days, MacKintosh said. Residents living, north of Third st. may irrigate Satur day, and those living south of Third st. may irrigate starting Sunday, June 5. Thereafter, irrigation will be allowed on alternate days on that sched ule, he said. Fire Reported by Forestry Department Southwest district office of the state department of for estry reported a small fire two miles northwest of Dead Indian rd. and Just over the summit yesterday afternoon A log was burning from hot ashes which had been dumped on It. Patrolmen said that two women, who were hunting mushrooms, discovered the fire, did Oat they could to keep It from spreading then reported it. A warden was sent to the scene. Year Price 10 Cents No. 63 (UPI Telephoto) Tunnel Ceremony Cosponsored by Medford Chamber The board of directors of the Medford Chamber of Com- Unerce this morning agreed to rcosponsor ceremonies at which ground will be broken for te. Highway 199 Oregon muumam lunnet.' The ceremonies for the $3V4 million tunnel, which is ex pected to be completed by 1962. will be held at the tun nel site July 8. They will in- uiuuu tin ouiaoor dinner, . Ttrtal cost of the highway relocation and tunnel nrotect iS estimated at more than 20 minions ine uaiuarnm lagm iature Has approved more than $20 million for the proj ect,- Don McNeil,, chamber manager, noted.. -, . The realignment orolec will shorten the present high way between Gasquet and the Oregon line by 4.1 miles and eliminate 272 curves, includ ing those over Oregon moun tain. The Medford chamber was invited to co-sponsor the cere monies by the Crescent City Chamber of Commerce. Review Proposal Moore Hamilton, Medford postmaster, reviewed a pro posal to build a new federal building in Medford for the chamber directors. The new federal building, for which the General Services adminis tration is seeking a building site, would house the post of fice, providing space fornpx- panslon. Hamilton noted the in creased use of the present (ft office, pointing out that in 10 years stamS) sales have in creased from $268,000 to the 1959 total of $759,000. The number of employees have in creased from 52 to 77. He saie? GSA representa tives from the Seattle office are expected to visit Medford in the near future, alii to consult with community lead, ers and city officials concern- ins the proposed building. rhe proposed building, which would have about 81, 700 square feet of gross floor area, will cost an estimated $2,365,000. The proposal is now being considered by a House subcommittee of the committee orr appropriations. Bail Forfeited in Gambling Case Here Emegcne Wlnneferd Mor gan, 1182 Court St., Medford forfeited $150 ball on charges of possessing nnd operating a game of chance, district court officials said yesterday. The charge was unlawfully possessing, displaying and op erating a plnball machine in the Northside tavern at 1701 North Riverside ave. on May 17. Harold Dean Wise. Nampa Idaho, was bound over to the grand Jury on charges of bur glary not in a dwelling fol lowing his Arraignment yes terday. In district court. He is being held in the Jackson county jail in lieu of $2,500 bail. Wise: was charged ' with breaking into the Grandview market,:- 2330 Crater Lake ave., Nov. 18, 1959. ' Secretary Test WilFLast 'Several Days' Defense Chief Stands Behind U2 SpyfJFIights Washington - (UPD - Defense Secretary Thomas S. Gates ' disclosed today that another . defense alert in the pattern of -that which marked the Paris- " summit collapse began Wed nesday night. He said it will -be "going for several days." Gates, defending both his May 15 alert order and the 1 value of the now discontinued ' t U2 spy plane flights over ' r I Russia, told Senate Foreign - Relations Committee investi- . i gators: " V "As of midnight last nighU ." ' we are having another com-- munications exercise, starting . at 11 o'clock last night, and u is going lor several days." Got Secret Data He said the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as a result of the sum- -mit alert experience, "have recommended to me that we have these alerts on a no notice basis frequently." The defense chief earlier disclosed that the U2 sov plane flights priHided the United States with secret data about Soviet atomic weapons, miAsnes, suomarines, planes and airfields. He said the in formation brought back bvl the planes was "vital informa. tion" which was used hv Iho defense department. Gates testified for three " hours and Chairman J. Wil liam Fulbright (D-Ark.) de clared the hearings ended. " Fulbright said the committee " will begin considering its re port next week. Gates also testified that: -He thinks it is "extremplv doubtful" Russia will make - any agreement on disarma ment. He added, however, that nope lor a nuclear test sus pension agreement seems more likely. 'Different Means' He does not think the Rus- : ntana ,,,,,, r of thpli Tt , , u Ca,lon t..thei' ..stra??eic bases be- f Pjfe dis more likely to use "different means of building new bases" or of dispersing them. -; -The United s t t - . "other means" of . ,. tary information V, t 8 have developed defense plans by no means as well" nwn,. . out the U2 ODoratnn Vital Information Gates testified that fh espionage flights, directed by the Central Intelligence Agency, produced "In tion on airfields, aircmfl tnl.. sites, missile testing and train ing, special weapons storage, submarine production, atomic production and aircraft de ployments" and similar se- -crets. "These were all tvne nf vital information," he said. 'These results were consider ed In formulating our mill- -tary programs. We obviously were the prime customer and ours is the major interest." Roller Skating Rink Is Planned Construction Is expected to start next week on a roller skating rink about three miles -south of Medford off Highway - representatives of the - local organization building it said today, When completed, the struc- - ture is expected to cost in - " excess of $75,000. It is ex- -pected to be in operation by " - the time school starts next fall, the representative said. Ray Reter of Reter Fruit company, who is now in Europe on business, is chair- . man of the board of directors " of the corporation, which is made up of local residents. Test holes for construction already have been drilled on . the site. The rink has not yet been . s named, corporation officials said, and will be named through a contest in which children of the area are ex pected to participate. - ' WEATHER FORECAST! and warm Low tanliht IS. Continued fair through Friday. SO. High rriday Temp. Hliheii Yesterday Lowest tnti Morning SO Our Skies Tonight unit today 1: p.m. Sunrlie tomorrow M 4:36 fc.m, Mnnnut tomorrow - 1:05 a.m, First Quarter today 1:0 a.m. The planet. Mars. ' rises 1:34 and Is about 15S million miles away. The combination of the movement or Mars ana i.ie r firth on their orbits around the iun will bring these two planets 11 million miles nearer to tack other tau montn. -if j . i ! 'V j i i 1 JL t;