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i 5 I . - - .V.' "lk , rs I I ! 1 if " c"! " . " , ? - i 't I DUNKED CAR POSES PROBLEM -Tow car out of Golden Gate Park's Stow Lake, truck driver Jack Grosch ponders the situa- Police said juveniles apparently took the tion at San Francisco as he wonders how to car for a joy ride before ditching it in the get Attorney Jerome Berg's shiny red sports lake. , (UPI Telephoto) Executive Committee Will ir Problems of Stockmen Broad - brimmed Stetsons brought up during the gener and cowboy boots will be Dart al sessions, too, to find some of the dress of the day as cat tlemen from all over the state register at the Medford hotel today for the four-day Oregon Cattlemen's association con vention here. Registration starts at 1:30 p.m. The executive committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. tomor row in the Medford hotel. Chairmen of the 12 standing committees will present their resolutions. Probably due for considerable discussion will be Jackson county stockmen's concern over lack of action on resolutions passed at the last convention and presented to the state department of agriculture, a local cattleman said. Not Enough Time During a meeting in Prine ville in August, representa tives of the state department of agriculture indicated there will not be time to properly draft proposed bills based on the resolutions for the next legislative session. This would mean the resolutions will be tabled until the state legisla ture convenes two years from now, the cattleman explained. Members of the committee on revision of the brand law were particularly discouraged. This matter will probably be way by which these bills can be presented and resolutions passed by the convention can be followed through to com pletion, it was explained. Another matter which will be presented will be revision of the state association's finan cial structure. Natural History Club To Be Formed Ashland - Those interested in any phase of natural his tory are urged to attend an organizational meeting for a Natural History club of the Rogue River valley at the Red Cross chapter house in Medford, Nov. 10, at 7:30 p.m. According to Dr. Franklin Sturges of the Southern Ore gon college science-mathematics division, the program will include a talk on the Rogue River valley as an area rich in natural history potential. Possible activities for such an organization were listed as: the study of animal life; bird study; botanical observations; and other association projects Anyone wanting further in' formation should contact Dr Sturges at SOC, MUrdock 2-4611. ' FREE TRIAL COUPON - - - 1 would like a One Week FREE Trial of a General Electric Dishwasher, Medford .Tribune SECTION B MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9. 1960 PAGES I to 10 Stiffening Brand, Theft Laws May Be Important Discussion Possibly one of the most important committee sessions of the Oregon Cattlemen's as sociation convention here this week will be discussions on stiffening brand and theft laws. A report from the state de partment of agriculture cov ering 1959 operations shows that of 23 reported livestock thefts during 1959, eight ani mals were recovered without going to court. Reports cover ing I960 will probably be sum marized in March. Of seven larceny com plaints filed, five resulted in convictions and suspended sentences, two were convicted and sentenced. Josephine county stockmen suffered five livestock thefts. No recoveries nor convictions were reported. Klamath county stockmen had five livestock losses. One case was cleared, which was not larceny. No convictions were reported, according to state records. However, the cases of Paul Robert Wilson and Eldon Lyle Shafer in Klamath county re quired extended trial time in 'The ever increasing costs of operation of any business today along with all organiza tions presents grave prob lems, a local spokesman said. 'The county association 1 1959. According to the news does not snend its money di-IPi'Per stories puunsnea, me rectly on cattle problems to any degree," the spokesman said. "The bulk of the prob lems confronting the cattle industry are on the state or national level. Because of this the existence of the state or ganization is highly necessary. Financing of the legal work, leg work, mailing charges, clerical work, becomes great er on the state level than in the county organization. Sev eral counties are concerned over the rising costs of the state operation." Probably an increase in dues, curtailment of expenses or readjusting methods of ad ministration will all be dis cussed, it was pointed out. Such proposals would put the state organization on a sound basis financially and in po sition to administer and fol low through on items that are discussed and passed at the convention. Name Address City .; '.. Phone Mail to HAPCO, 115 E. Main, Medford til 88 J78 (Illustrated) Dishwashers Cost So Little... DO SUCH A BIG JOB! A DAY and that is just for the first 2 years FIVE G-E DISHWASHERS to choose from fo $24995 Portland Woman Found Near Death Portland -MPN- Mrs. Bessie Chadwick, 58, Portland, bed-ridden housewife, was found near death at her home Tuesday. The woman's husband, David H. Chadwick, 55, was found dead in the home of an apparent heart attack. The sheriff's office said Mrs. Chadwick, who is para lyzed, had attempted to leave her bed and summon help. She was found on the floor. Authorities were alerted by worried friends. Mrs. Chadwick was taken to the Multnomah County Hospital where her condition was reported as satisfatcory. Wilson and Shafer cases are probably the most interest ing the state livestock officers have encountered for some time. Both men have appealed the seven-year convictions to the state supreme court. Both Wilson, 28-year-old Fort Klamath rancher, and Shafer, his 35-year-old assist ant, were indicted for the theft of a black, white-faced cow from Chiloquin rancher Lorenz G. VanderKamp last spring. The two defendants were in dicted also for the theft of three white-faced Herefords from rancher Adlai Johnson Shafer was charged with a third theft, a Johnson calf Complicates Case To make this even more complicated the defendants were tried the summer of 1951 on a cattle theft charge. This resulted in a 3-day trial. The judge declared a mistrial because of prejudicial testi mony from a state witness. "The state subsequently dis missed the charges against Wilson and Shafer because the court would not accept the state's mothering - up process of identification," according to news accounts. Cattlemen have felt that if a calf goes to a certain cow this should at least indicate it belongs to that cow and the owner of the cow. Generally, courts do not consider tljis evidence. A charge made in district court in Klamath Falls at the time of the pending charge was dismissed because a rancher who had signed a complaint refused to acknowl edge ownership of the cow in volved. File Civil Damages While this was, going on, Wilson and Shafer, through Ramirez, filed civil damage suits against Adlai Johnson and two state livestock inspec tors on grounds of harass ment and persecution. These suits totalling more than $200,000 are still unsettled, according to earlier accounts. During the lengthy trial in February, Wilson and Shaf fer's attorney tried to have the trial shifted to another county. He claimed that ad verse publicity had been widely spread by news papers, radio and television and that state brand inspectors had personally contacted the majority of stockmen, farm crs and ranchers and told them Wilson was guilty. The motion was denied. The judge said he saw nothing in the motion to prove such statements. He added that he had failed to find any such inflammatory newspaper ac counts. Jackson County Cases What happened in Jackson county in 1959? Ralph Eugene M u r p h y, Medford, was charged Dec. 30, 1958, with larceny of live stock. Bound over to the grand jury on Jan. 2, 1959. he was jailed in lieu of $2,000 bail. A court order of April County Livestock Association Host For 4-Day Session When the Oregon Cattle- Jackson county delegate work 27, 1959, suspended his three year sentence and placed him under direction of state board of parole. Ralph Bruce Keys, Central Point, was charged Dec. 3U, 1958, with larceny of live- stock. Bound over to the grand jury on April 27, he was sentenced to three years in the slate penitentiary. DeWayne Earl Keys, Med ford, was arrested May 5, tasa, and charged with lar ceny of livestock. He was jail ed in lieu of $1,500 bail. A court order June 11, 1959 suspended a two-year sentence and he was placed under di rection of the state board of parole. John Wesley Perkins, Rex hotel, Medford, was charged with larceny of livestock Nov. 17, 1959. He pleaded guilty in district court Nov, 19, and received a six-month suspend ed sentence Dec. 4, 1959, after the charge was reduced from grand larceny to petty lar ceny. Cecil Jefferson Worthing ton, Central Point, was arrest ed Nov. 17, 1959, and charged with larceny of livestock. On Nov. 18, probation was re voked and he was sentenced to one year in the county jail. Charles William Marshall, Medford, was arrested Nov. 18 of charges of larceny of livestock. He pleaded guilty Nov. 19 in district court, and received one-year suspended sentence after charge was re duced to petty larceny. A complaint charging lar ceny of livestock was filed against Lc Roy Hancock Sept. 28, 1959. He pleaded guilty Oct. 5, 1959, and on Nov. 4, 1959, he received a suspended three year sentence. men s association meeis nere for its four-day convention stinting today it will be greet ed by the Jackson County Livestock association, the host. This comparatively small group led by Jack Reid, Lake Creek, continues to set a stiff pace, and has proposed many of the resolutions considered each year by the stute organi zation. Besides Reid, the president, others include LeRoy Offen bacher, Applegate, vice presi dent; Ed Meeker, Phoenix, treasurer; and Earle Jossy, Eagle Point, secretary. During last year's annual stockmen's meeting in Cen tral Point, ex-president Ar min Richter, reported on the root - plow brush eradication and pasture seeding experi ment which he said has not died. The problem is to get a man who has a D-8 tractor and $4,100 to buy the plow, Richter explained. Pays Own Way During last year's state con vention in Portland every ed hard while at the conven tion and each paid his own way During last year's 4-H and FFA fair here, the livestock association presented a $25 U.S. savings bond to the 4-11 member who raised the most economical beef animal based on the lowest cost per pound of grain. Ben Day, Medford attorney and stockman, chairman of the local association's legis lative committee, said last year he hoped to establish the principle of an assumption of calf ownership. A slick-eared calf (one without identifying ear notches) would show own- Democrat's Vote Missing in Niihau Honolulu-IUPD-The tiny Ha waiian island of Niihau, about 100 miles northwest of Hon olulu, cast 99 votes in Tues day's election, and they all went to Repubican candidates. Tile only unusual feature about the Niihau vote was the fact the usual one Democratic vote was missing. In previous elections there had always been at least one vote cast for the Democrats. It was believed that the lone Democrat may have been among the few recent deaths on the island. ershlp if It suckles the co'v and the cow accepts It, Day explained. To Inipeci Brandt '. Day urged cattlemen to in spect brands whenever own ership of an animal Is chang ed. More branding law chang es are needed, he said. Repre sentatives and senators must be educated as to why stock men want better brand in--pection and livestock theft laws passed, he pointed out. This will probably be re peated at the state associa tion meeting starting today.. ; Jim Miller, Jackson aiid Klamath counties cattleman, reported his brand and theft committee had observed somo brand inspection laws aro not too effective. Both Jack son and Klamath counties have had some good disposi tions of livestock theft cases, he noted. The local association mem bership has more than dou bled since a drive was started in 1959. Membership fees col lected were applied to mem berships in both organizations. The Jackson County Cow belles have been constantly active in beef promotion. 4 WELCOME CATTLEMEN' OREGON CATTLEMEN CONVENTION NOV. 9 Z MIDWAY MEAT PACKING CO. 4775 Table Rock Rd. Near 4 Corners Central Point HAPCO li famoui for fiK Old Fashioned Quality JL VJ u U Service. SIXS?" f lyZ V TT THE HOME APPLIANCE CO. Your Appliance Headquarteri 115 East MAIN Medford Rosellini Wins Washington Vote ' Seattle -IUPD- Gov. Albert D. Rosellini, who counted on Sen. John F. Kennedy's mo mentum to aid his reelection, today found himself returned to office and running far ahead of the president-elect. With more than 90 per cent of the state's 5,200 precincts reported, Rosellini was well ahead of Republican Lloyd J. Andrews, but Kennedy had lost the state to Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Education Clubs Hold Salem Session The Medford Chapter of the Distributive Education clubs of Oregon was repre sented in the state election ac tivities in Salem last week by four Medford High school students. They were Dave Redmond, president of Medford's Tor nado Retailers, employed at Big Pines Lumber company, Bob Rojas, employed at Van Lee's store; Verlenc Sartin, employed at the Tornado Bowl restaurant; and Linda Stickney, employed at White's Accounting. Stale officers for the orga nization were elected at the meeting by the board of gov ernors consisting of one elect ed delegate from each school represented. Bob Rojas was Medford's board member. Elected president was Don Alloway, Forest Grove. Dave Redmond was elected parlia mentarian. The organization will hold its annual convention in For est Grove March 25. WELCOME CATTLEMEN' 9 OREGON CATTLEMEN CONVENTION NOV. 9-a WELCOME CATTLEMEN' Hope You Enjoy Medford! We congratulate your fine group on the excellent progress you've made While You're Here 9 Visit Historic Jacksonville 9 Observe our valley orchards Note our expanding boundaries and COME BY TO VISIT US ALBERS FEED and FARM SUPPLY 330 North Fir Phone SP 3-4503 S3T JfV-v-WM-WyV- srAV" :-- -s Stf fJ,-t tt-v.p ,(('W.!.";V''' r ' , a'-! j( h 7 V To MEDFORD and The ROGUE RIVER VALLEY- All of us, here at Jorgensen's, join with the people of this community in warmly welcom ing you to Medford and the Rogue River Val ley. We hope that the 1960 Oregon Cattle men's Convention, starting here today and lasting through Saturday, will be a complete success that you'll enjoy our own brand of southern Oregon hospitality, and will want to come back again soon. We congratulate you, too, upon your highly important con tribution to the prosperity and economy of Oregon! ( t DAIRY PRODUCTS
