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Newspaper Page TextOTSB (P MA Ml?) Mini Medford 42 PAGES 1 TTM!lS STUDENTPROJECT As -part of their regular geography studies -and to help stimulate interest in Medford's sister city ptfojtfct; students of Mrs. Myrtle Peterson's fourth grade claft at Washington school ' recently completed a bulletin board display of .material pertaining to Alba, Italy. Included in the .display are books, magazines, postal cards and posters that"sX(dVnts helped find. The class "will send Mayor Snider To Represent U;$; at San Diego Event Medford . Mayor . John W. Snider will . represent the United States as. ah official delegate to the VIII Inter American Municipal Congress when it meets in San Diego Oct. 16 to 21. Mayor Snider was commis sioned by the government to represent the American Mu nicipal association and the Committee for International Municipal cooperation. Theme of the conference is "A Case Approach to Munici pal Government and Admin istration in the Americas." The Mayor of Rio de Janerio, Argentina, will preside at the plenary sessions, and there will be simultaneous transla tions of the speeches into Spanish, Portuguese and Eng lish. President , Eisenhower is scheduled to address the con gress at its closing session. More than 100 mayors repre senting cities throughout the U.S. are' expected to attend in addition to representatives of cities in Latin America countries. TO APPOINT ADVISERS Salem. - IUPII - Gov. Mark Hatfield said today he will appoint an advisory council to help the State Highway Department in a study of Oregon's park and recreation needs. Duncan, Dellenback Discuss Views on State Finances During Debate at SOC Ashland - OIPD - Robert Dun can, Democrat, and John Dellenback, a Republi can, candidates for state represen tative frbm Jackson county, clashed sharply on state fi nances during a two-hour de bate last night. - Speaking to about 60 people in Britt ballroom on the Southern Oregon college cam pus, the two candidates show ed conflicting opinions re garding measures which would make more funds avail able for improvement of state facilities of as types. The meeting was arranged by the American Association of Uni versity Women in Ashland. . The candidates started out to explain the implications of 15 proposals on the November ballot. Things were relatively calm through explanations of the first seven ballot pro- MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1960 Hearing on Zoning For Sams Valley Area Is Planned A public hearing on pro posed ; zoning for the Sams Valley area will 'be called some time in November, the Jackson county planning com mission said last night. Petitions have been pre sented by area residents re questing zoning, primarily for agriculture and residential purposes. The planning com mission also has agreed to provide for classification of existing commercial and in dustrial buildings within the zoning. The planning commission also agreed to postpone con sideration of a White City building code until the pro posed county building code is established. Planning com mission members were direct ed to study the county code, and make recommendations at the Nov. 9 meeting. The commission discussed possible creation of an agriculture zone, but took no action. Code Enforcement Following recommendation by the planning commission; the county court would be charged with putting the building code in effect fol lowing a possible public hear ing. The commission general ly agreed that the code en forcement should support it posals. However, when pro posal eight was reached, au thorizing bonds for state building programs, two diver gent opinions became evident. The proposal would permit issuance of state bonds for construction of buildings for state institutions, office build ings and higher educational facilities. Duncan, who is speaker of the house of repre sentatives, explained the pro posal and said it was needed to meet Oregon's growing needs. ' Deljnback disagreed with the bonding plan. "It would destroy the pay - as -you - go policy Oregon has always had in financing state institu tions," he said. He termed the bonding program as a dangerous method to use in financing state facilities. The candidates also dis- agreed on ballot proposal 14, Tribune individual letters and other material when Mayor John Snider ships the next friendship pouch to the mayor of Alba, Mrs.' Peterson said. Working on the display, above, are, left to right, Raymond Colvin, Linda Oudhoff, James; McMeen and Delores Johnson, members of Mrs. Peterson's class. self through collection of building fees and not through tax money. Unless well-qualified personnel make thorough building inspections, the code would be worthless to proper county development, mem bers emphasized. However, members of the building code committee con sisting of Bill Duggan, Gerald Latham and Victor Birdseye could not agree on whether the uniform building code or the national building code should be adopted. The uni form building code requires inspectors with technical con struction knowledge to en force it, whereas the other does not, it was explained. Some members of the com mission felt that the building code should apply to the en tire county, and not just to the more populated valley floor. Duggan opposed the all-county proposal saying people who cannot afford to build first class residences should not be forced to do so if they would build "up in the hills." Latham said a county-wide building coed would not pre vent construction of log cabins. Duggan replied that a code would require concrete foundation which is hard to have in the hills. lowering the state personal income tax while eliminating federal income tax deductions now allowed. In explaining the bill, Duncan said that it would bring In more revenue from the personal income tax. "We need the increased reve nue the tax will bring," Dun can said. He pointed out that by 1961 the demands for new state programs and added fa cilities will have outgrown current revenues. Dellenback was strongly op posed to the proposal, label ing it "piece meal tax legis lation." He claimed that the state treasury is going to have a large fund surplus left over from tax income this year. "The proposal will increase the tax surplus In future years," Dellenback said. "Sur pluses lead to reckless gov ernment financial policies," he added. 55th Year Price 10 Cents No. 177 Thornton Hurls To Gov. Haifielil Salem - (UPI) - Attorney Gen eral. Robert Y. Thornton to day challenged Gov. Mark Hatfield to a public debate over what Thornton describes as "irresponsible charges" against Thornton by the gov ernor. , . Hatfield said he was not interested. Thornton, a Democrat seek ing reelection, said "for the past several weeks you have been carrying on a systematic smear campaign in every corner of the state against Democratic candidates, against the attorney general's office and against me per sonally." ' Gymnastics Disgusting "I am not running for at torney general," Hatfield said, "but I am sure Sen. Carl Fran cis, who is, would welcome the opportunity to discuss the incumbent's record in a face-to-face debate." "It is disgustingj" Hatfield added, "to watch the attorney general's verbal gymnastics as he tries to transfer the blame for his political finagling to his fine staff. This grand stand play is an attempt to divert attention from his miserable record but it will not fool the voters come Nov. 8." Campaigns for Francis Hatfield has been campaign ing for Francis, a state sen ator from Dayton. " Thornton's challenge to Hat field was in the form of a letter saying the, debate should be held at the "earliest possible date." Hatfield has criticized Thornton's legal opinions, and since he became governor has refused to use Thornton as his legal counsel. Hatfield hired an attorney of his own choice to do the work, and added him to his staff. - Property Tax Bills Being Mailed Here Tax department officials to day expect to complete the mailing of approximately 38, 000 real and personal prop erty tax statements to Jack son county residents. The mailing was started Wednes day. Deadline for tax payment is Nc0 15. O County Assessor Ray Schu macher said that generally the taxes will be lower this year due to a lower mil la go. He described the lower amount as mfinucsimar ifsmany cases. MAZEROSKI'S BLOW BRINGS 10-9 VICTORY Pittsburgh -WPD- The Pitts burgh Pirates won their first World Series in 35 years to day when they defeated the New ork ankces, 10-9, in the seventh and deciding game on Bill Mazeroski's ninth-inning home run. Mazeroski's home run on the first pitch thrown by right-hander Ralph Terry cli maxed one of the most dra matic, games in World Series history. A three-run homer by catch er Hal Smith of Pittsburgh highlighted a five-run eighth inning rally which had given the Pirates a 9-7 lead before a crowd of 36,683 at Forbes Field. . Yankees Rally However, the Yankees ral lied to tie the score at 9-9 in the top of the ninth on singles by Bobby Richardson, pinch hitter Dale Long and Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra's in field out. , Mazeroski then decided matters in the last of the ninth w tihone swing of his bat. This was Pittsburgh's first world baseball championship since 1925 when the Pirates beat the Washington Senators in seven games. The defeat ruined Yankee Manager Casey Stengel's hopes of winning a record eighth World Series in what probably is his final season in baseball. Overcame Deficit Before the pirates rallied in the eighth, the Yankees overcame a three-run deficit to go ahead 5-4 on Yogi Ber ra's three-run homer in the sixth. They added two more runs . off Pittsburgh reliever Elroy Face in the top of the eighth and appeared headed for victory behind little Bob by Shantz' brilliant relief pitching. . Harvey Haddix, the little left-hander who was the Pi rates' fourth pitcher in the game, was credited with the victory. Haddix came to the relief of Bob Friend, who took up the Pittsburgh pitching in the ninth but ran into trouble. Play-by-play: YANKEES FIRST; RlrhnrHsnn lined out. Kubck notmed out. Mn- rU fouled out. No rum, no .hits, no errors, none left. PIRATES FIRST: Virdon filed out. Croat popped out. Skinner walked. Nelson hit a home run. scoring Skinner. -Clemente popped out. Two rum, one hit, no errors. none left. . YANKEES SECOND: Mantle filed out. Berria and Skowron grounded out. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left. PIRATES SECOND: Burgess sm iled. S ten eel took out Turlcv and brought in Stafford. Hoak walked. Mazeroski singled. Law grounded into a double play. Virdon sin gled, scoring Hoak and Mazeroski and when Maris fumbled the ball Virdon went to second on the error. Groat grounded out. Two runs, three hits, one error, one left, YANKEES THIRD: Blanchard rounded out. Boyer popped out. opez batted for Stafford and singled. Richardson lined out. No1 runs, one hit, no errors, one left. PIRATES THIRD: Shantz went in to pitch for the Yankees. Skin ner grounded out. Nelson walked. Clemente hit into a double play. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left. YANKEES FOURTH; Kubek Donned out. Marls lined t out. Mantle singled. Berra filed out. No runs, one nit. no errors, one left. pirates fourth: Bureess and Hoak grounded out. Mazeroski popped out. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left. YANKEES FIFTH: Skowron hit home run. Blanchard filed out. Boyer lined out. Shantz popped . n- - run. one nu. no errors. none left. nr m: Law ana vir don grounded out. Groat lined out. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left. YANKEES SIXTH: Richardson alnelcd. Kubek walked. Murtnueh took out Law and called in Face. Marls fouled out. Mantle singled, scoring Richardson. Berra hit-a home run. scoring Kubck and Mantle ahead of him. Skowron fouled out. Blanchard grounded out. Four runs, three hits, no er rors, none leu. PIRATES SIXTH: Skinner filed out. Nelson grounded out. Cle mente grounded out. No runs, no hits, no errors, none left, YANKEES SEVENTH: Boyer filed out. Shantz singled. Richard son forced Shantz. Kubck lined out. No runs, one hit, no errors, one left. PIRATES SEVENTH: Burgess singled Christopher 'ran for Bur gess. Hoak, out. Mazeroski ground ed Into a double play. No runs, one hit, no errors, none left, YANKEES EIGHTH: Smith went WEATHER PORKCAST: Clear to partly cloudy tonight and Friday. Valley fog patches again Fri day morning. Low tonight 34. High Friday near 60. Temp. Highest Yesterday 59 Lowest This Morning 31 Our SkiesTonighr Sunset today ....... 5:33 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 8:23 a.m. loonrlse tomorrow 12:24 a.m. T'ew Moon Oct. 20 PROMINENT STAR Aldebaran, rises 1:31 p.m. VIKIBLE PLANETS Venus, sets iZI p.m. Jupiter, sets - 8:33 p.m. Saturn, sets 9:39 p.m. Mart, due east 1:21 a.m. in to catch for Pittsburgh. Marls grounded out. Mantle lined out. Skowron singled Blanchard singled, scoring Berra. Boyer doubled, scorrlng Skowron. Two runs, three hits, no errors, two left. PIRATES EIGHTH: Cimoli bat ted for Face and singled. Virdon's ground ball took as harp bounce and hit Kubek In the face. It felled Kubek but Richardson re covered the ball,' Cimoli stopping at second. It was scored as a base hit for Virdon. Kubek was taken out and DcMaestri went in to play short. Groatt singled, scoring Cimoli. Stengel took Shantz out and replaced him with Coatcs. Skinner sacrificed. Nelson flicd out. Clemente singled, scoring Vir don. Smith hit a home run. scor ing Groat and Clemente ahead of him. Terry replaced Coates on the mound for the Yankees. Hoak flicd out. Five runs, five hits, no er rors, none left. YANKEES NINTH: Friend went in to pitch for the Pirates Rich ardson singled. Long batted for DcMaestrl and singled. Murtaugh took out Friends and called in Haddix. Maris fouled out. Mantle singled, scoring Richardson. Git McDougald ran for Long. Berra slashed a ground ball to Nelson, who stepped on first too late to catch Mantle diving back into the bag, McDougald scoring. Skowron forced Mantle. Two runs, three hits, no errors, one left. PIRATES NINTH: McDougald went to third with Boyer shifting to short for New York. Mazeroski hit Terry's first pitch over the left center field wall. One run, one hit, no errors, none left. The box score; NKW YORK AU Richardson 2b 5 Kubck ss . 3 DeMacstrl ss 0 d Long 1 e McDougald 3b ..0 Marls rf a Mantle cf 5 Berra If 4 Skowron lb 5 Blanchard c 4 Boyer, 3b-ss 4 Turley p 0 Stafford p 0 II RBI 2 4) a Lopez l Shantz p 3 Coates p 0 Terry p 0 Totals 40 ITTSBURUH AB li bbi Virdon el 4 uroai ss i Skinner U ... 2 Nelson id Clemente. rf 4 Burgess c j D nnsiopnvr u Smltn Hook 3b a 4 2 o l o ..... o Mazeroski 2b ... Law p ,', Face p ' ' -. c Cimoli Friend p Haddix p Total, 31- 10 . u 10 . cir,nif rni Stafford In-3rd: h mn for Bureess in 7th; c sinslcd for Face In 8th; d slngled- for DcMncjtrl in Bin ran lor Long in 0th. ... New York Pittsburgh , 000 014 022 0 , 220 000 051 10 E Maris. PO-A New York 14- 15 (none out when winning run scored In 0th). Pittsburgh. np Stafford. Blancherd and ci.n....A. Rl,.hnrrii,n. Kubek and Skowron; Kubek, Richardson and Skowron. ,...u..,i. i 2B Bover. HR Nelson, Skow ron, Berra, Smith, Mazeroski. a SKinner. it' ii Kit BB SO Tin-low ' I 2 3 10 Stafford .... 1 ' 2 11 chBni, R 4 3 3 1 O 1 0 Cnatcs '3 I Terry (L) .. li 1 1 ' Law 4 3 3 Face n Friend o Haddix IW) 1 1 0 0 Turley pitched to one batter in 2nd; Law pitched to two Daiiers In 6th; Shantz Pitched Jo three batters in 81h; Friend pitched to two batters In 0th. U Jackowski (N), plate; Chy lak (A), first base; Boggess (N). second base; Stevens (Al third base; Landcs (Nl and Honochlck, foul lines. T 2:36. A 38,683. Medford Man Killed In Logging Mishap Yreka - A 63-year-old Med ford man, Ernest C. Berry, was killed Wednesday in a logging accident about 18 miles west of here on McKin ncy creek. The Siskiyou County Sher iff's office said Berry was setting a choker on a log when it apparently rolled over on him and crushed him. Deputies said Berry was dead on arrival at the Siskiyou County General hospital. Berry, who resided at route 4, box 410, Medford, was working for his son-in-law, John W. Bratton', also of Med ford, when the accident oc curred, deputies said. The body will be transferred to Siskiyou Funeral Directors, Medford, for services. Accident Victim Dies in Yreka Yreka John William Jer ry, Ft. Jones, died in Siskiyou General hospital yesterday of injuries received in an acci dent last Sunday on the Ft. Jones mountain road. He was a passenger in car driven by Alfred Amos Albcrs, Hornbrook, who was killed almost immediately. The car in which the men were riding rolled over sev eral times along the south side of a mountain road. Marks and debris from the car were visible about 235 feet in the dirt along the road, California highway patrolmen said. BALL GETS BY SKOWRON Yankee first baseman Bin SKowron dives for the ball hit by Pirate Smoky Burgess down the right field foul line for a single in the second In 0. H. Bengtson Is Found Guilty in Embezzlement Case A Jackson county circuit court Jury last night unani mously declared O. H. Bengt son, Medford lawyer, guilty of larceny by embezzlement. The jury of seven men and five women were out approxi mately three hours. Circuit Judge Orval Mil lard, Grants Pass, is expected to pronounce sentence Mon day. Maximum penalty . for such a conviction is 10 years in the. Oregon State peniten tiary. . Robert Boyer, Medford law yer defending Bengtson, said last night that he and -Attor o would, appeal the case to the H Rthri. nrtrfm i-nur-r if npr.9. sary . However, he indicated that other legal steps woiud be tried first:. , ;:,, Wart Now Motion - Bengtson's attorneys plan to file a motion in arrested judgment and a motion of a new trial on the grounds that insufficient evidence was pre sented to justify the verdict and because of errors- occur ring at. the trial, they reported today. - Benglson, his wife, and two of the Medford lawyer's form er secretaries, became . emo tionally upset upon hearing the verdict and had to be helped out of the courtroom. At mid-afternoon yesterday It appeared as if the charges might be dismissed following motion by Carney, Bengtson's attorney. .However, after a brief recess Judge Millard de nied the motion. Carnev later moved for-a directed verdict on the same grounds,' but motion was de nied. It Is not a true case of embezzlement, Carney con tended. If Bengtson is guilty then Rachel Peterson Carter, secretary and alleged presi dent of Medford Escrow com pany is guilty as an accom plice in the same charge, Carney Insisted. Her testl? mony has not been corrobor ated. . '. ' Before the case went to trial, charges that Mrs. Car ter was also guilty of em bezzling $3,701.14 from the company were set aside. Mrs. Carter Is now charged with embezzling $224 from the company, according to a later indictment. No trial dato has been set. She has pleaded In nocent to the charges. . , Failure to Prove Carney declared that Depu ty District Attorneys Gerald Scanncll and Brian Mullen failed to prove that Bengtson diverted the money from a trust fund. It might be lar ceny, but not embezzlement, he said. "Evidence shows that Mrs. Carter authorized the loan made to Bengtson," Carney declared. "It was authorized by the Medford Escrow corpo ration." . Testimony revealed that Mrs. Helen McGray told Mrs. Carter that she would leave some $3,300 with the escrow company "to be invested in a contract or mortgage." However, there is no evi dence to show Bengtson knew what was said between the two women, Carney pointed out. The judge interjected that no evidence shows there ever was a contract or morU gage put up by Bengtson. Points Out Aspects Evidence also indicates there was no subterfuge, no wrongful conversion of money and no unlawful taking, Car- -fib : ney said. The whole transac tion was done openly. Also, me Item was not really In escrow, not in trust but in bailment, he pointed out. In summing up his case. Mullen stated that Mrs. Mc Gray had left only $3,500 with the Escrow company. So, more money was taken than was available for the loan. (It was used to pay oft part of a $5,000 personal obligation tary.; w-: . , ., , ' testimony revealed earlier.)! " At the annual' membership1 No proof was presented show-1 meeting,. - held before the ina where , the rest ; of the board session.- Frank p money came from. : ' . Mullen summed up. the lar$anci Robertson .Collins; prosecutlqn's case on five ele- iMeofoJdo were ' elected hew ments: (l) A. trust relationship I directors of the association, was established, (2) money (Directors who were reelected A numbar of obscene tele phone calls were received during the niobt br Mrs. .Hachel. Peterson C at tt, Jacksonville, .Jackson coun- : ty sheriff 'a. deputies report- ; eel ims '.morning. , i The telephone calls, re ceived between 8;30 p.m. Wednesday and 3:45 a.m. today, were reported from two persons, a man and a woman. One of the calls' was tak en by a sheriff's deputy while he was at the Carter home investigating the re port, Sheriff's deputies are- -still investigating. Mrs. Carter was one of the witnesses this week in the circuit court trial involv-, ing . embesilement charges against O. H. Bengtson. Medford. She is currently under, indictment for em besilement charges. laken'was $3,701.14, (3) It was the property of another per son, (4) U, came Into Bengt son s' possession In a trust re lationship, (5) he converted .the; properly, or-money to his own use. The trial was shorter than expected, since no witnesses testified for Bengtson. The trial actually got under way Tuesday. B 4 n g t son's attorneys ex plained that "it was just a plain "loan transaction and w feel that there is no.other evi dence to bring before the jury.. We'had a feeling that the jury held it against Bengtson be cause he, didn't testify in his behalf." The attorneys ex plained that Bengtson did not .testify .on -the advice of hii attorneys. Candidates Plan To Attend Fair AU candidates for both par- tics for state and local offices in the November general elec tion will appear at the Med ford League of Women Voters candidates fair In Hedrlck Junior High school gymnasi um Oct. 20, according to Mrs. Thomas Rutter, voters service chairman. The fair will be highlighted by Congressional Candidates Charles O. Porter (Democrat) and Dr. Edwin R. Durno (Re publican). They will debate the subject "The role of a con gressman in foreign affairs." Senatorial Candidates Elmo Smith (Republican) and Mrs. Maurine Ncuberger (Demo crat) will speak on Issues in their campaign, Mrs. Rutter said. - , ... - - Candidates for state office who will speak include How ell Appling Jr., Republican ning of today's final World Series game. Pittsburgh went .on to break a 9-9 tie . in : the ninth inning on Bill Mazeroski's home run, to win 10 to 9. (UPI Telephoto) 1 Moffat Elected Head of Board of Festival Group Ashland - William Moffat, Medford, was elected presi dent of the Oregon Shake spearean' Festival association at a board of directors meet ing here last night. He sue cceds Robert Reinholdt, Ash land; who has' served two terms- as president. Other hew officers are Wil. liam Sammons,-Ashland, vice presiaeni; Rudolf E.- Vent: AshlhnH trnnonn. nn.l -c.!- I W: Allen' Jr., Medford: sccre- r I an fecuik Haines, both of Ash- ware v-uesier jjorry, Asniand, and Sammons, Allen and Mof fat, j '. ! ... ! The ' festival itiembersho , was told a new crice section will be established ior esti. val admissions next veaf. Present Drlce section win . main; William fatton. esti- val general manager, said. The ' new section-will be available for -$3.20 per sea, or through memoersnip of $22.50 per season. Reason for adding the high er price section is to keen the festival operating in . the black, Patton said. Board members felt It was the most quitable way of maintainine 1 operating costs within reve nue sources. - Patton noted that the new price still is below the ad mission price of comparable events in the country and other stage productions. eputies Report hooting Incident Sheriff's deputies today are Investigating a' report Wednesday where a Trail family, was" shot at. while target shooting on the VFW range In Trail Creek.1 Daniel Howard Meyer, Trail, told deputies Wednesday afternoon that Mrs. ' Meyer and their two children were at the range after 6 p.m. when, someone shouted at them to stop. Later, Meyer said, a shot was fired In- their direction. - Deputies questioned' Bob Berry, who lived near the range, regarding the incident. He refused to make a state ment to officers.- . in City seeking reelection as secretary of state; Monroe Sweetland, Democratic candidate for sec retary of state; Howard Bel ton, Republican, and Ward Cook, Democrat, candidates for state treasurer; and Rob. ert Y. Thornton, Democrat, and Carl Francis, Republican, candidates for attorney gen. eral. Candidates for state repre sentative will speak briefly on their qualifications for of fice. Candidates for county offices of commissioner, treas urer, assessor, surveyor, and district attorney will bo intro duced. " - -; Mrs. Rutter said voters may meet and question candidates individually during the cof fee hour which will follow the program. The coffee will bej in the Hedrick Junior High school cafeteria. . 3 .