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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1960 Youngster Dies In Attempt To Save Stuffed Toy in Fire San Bernardino, Calif. (UPU- A 19-month-old boy lost his life Tuesday when he rushed Gregory Raloffr Producer-Actor, Dies at Age 63 Solothurn, Switzcrland-IUPD Gregory Ratoff, zany Holly wood producer-director-actor whose antics kept friends amused while his movies en thralled millions, died today . at the age of 63. The colorful Russian-born moviemaker struggled to the end against a leukemia - type . Illness described as a ' grave bone marrow deficiency" th hospitalized him three months ago. Kay Kendall, one of the stars of Ratoff's recent movie "Once More with Feeling died last year of leukemia. "I'm fighting still," Ratoff told United Press Intcrnation- al last week from his bed at the filmed clinic here. "It's a tough fight but I still have hope ... I hope to return to Work some time." Ratoff, besides acting, di recting, producing and writ ing many movies in his long career, was a sympathetic man who helped other enter tainers to stardom, including ingrid Bergman, Linda Dar nell and Susan Hayward. Known for his heavily ac cented speech which was sprinkled with illogical - but amusing - grammatical con structions and the misuse of words, Ratoff loved to clown off-screen. "I speak French, German and Russian," he once said. "I murder Italian. English, I only manslaughter." Into his burning bedroom to save his dearest possession a toy rabbit. He died clutching the toy In his hands. The blaze had been started by one of the boy's brothers who was playing with fire, firemen said. Hurried From Room Terry Lee Pruitt, his three brothers and one sister all were hurried from the room when their mother, Mrs. Lilly Pruitt, smelled smoke. She got the children outside and ran to a neighbor's to call fire men. While Mrs. Pruitt was gone, Terry, two of his brothers and his sister rushed back into the blazing bedroom to rescue tneir toys. They all returned except Terry. Mrs. Pruitt and neighbor Richard Calloway raced into tne house after the bov. Thev saw mm lying on the bedroom tloor, clutching his stuffed rabbit. But they were unable to help him because of flames. Slept With Toy She said Terry sleDt with the stuffed toy the nieht be-1 lore. Firemen said Terry's broth er uennis, 5, started the fire when he pushed a piece of paper in a floor heater. The blaze spread to his bed cloth ing which he quickly tore off and threw into a closet which soon ignited. The other children Stephen, 8. Mark. 3 Cheryl, 4. 115 Major Crimes Reported in City Included In the list 115 ma jor crimes reported to Mod ford city police during No vember were 22 burglaries and 88 larcenies, according to roiice Chief Charles Champiin's monthly report. Of tile major crimes, city ponce cleared 4j of them for a 35.7 per cent cleared aver age. This was higher than the 31.7 per cent average during November, 1959, when 32 of 101 reported cases were cleared. There were no murders, mansluaghters, rapes or rob beries reported last month. A total of 631 minor of fens ses were reported to city po lice, including one sex offense and two violations of narcotic drug laws, Police cleared 524 of the minor offenses for an 83 per cent cleared average. There were 67 traffic acci dents resulting in 12 inlurles during November. There were no traffic fatalities. During the same month In 1959 there were 68 accidents resulting in nine injuries in the city. Police issued a total of 391 traffic citations and 3,316 parking meter tickets last month. In November, 1959, police issued 501 traffic cita. tions and 3,350 parking meter UCKOIS. ' II are and Hemp! To Orbit Moon Postponed Cape Canaveral- IUPII -The Federal Space Agency today postponed an attempt to nut the first artificial satellite into orbit around the moon. A 10-story Atlas-Able rocket remained poised for the shot wnich could be rescheduled as early as Thursday morning. ine Alias-Able, fourth and last of a hardluck rocket fam ily with a record of two moon shot failures and an on-the-pad explosion, carries a 338 pound "space laboratory" in its nose. Scientisls said onlv Hint "technical difficulties" pre vented Hie shot today. JOHN CHARLES THOMAS Succumbs to Cancer Renowned Opera, Radio Star Dies In California Apple Valley, Calif. -IUPD- John Charles Thomus, 69, re nowned singing star of opera ana radio lor nearly 50 years, died Tuesday with his wife at his side. Death was attributed to in testinal cancer. The baritone with the rich, deep voice had undergone cancer surgery in March, 1959, and for the past six montns was bedridden. -His wife of 36 years, Dor- omy, said ne was in a coma for about the last 30 hours of his life. Up until he entered tne coma Monday, he had been able to receive guests at his desert ranch home in this resort area about 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. Funeral services will be held Friday at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church. Appeared in Movies For years Thomas was a star at New York's Metro politan Opera Co. and also featured singer on the Bell Telephone Hour radio show. He appeared in several movies and on radio up until the last few years when he took over as managing director of radio station KAVR. A native of Meyersdalo, Pa., Thomas gave up his early de sire to be a medical doctor and left the Mount Street College of Homeopathy in Baltimore to study under a scholarship at Peabody Conservatory of Music. He made his' professional debut in Canada in October, iI2, singing the part of Pas sion in the Savage Opera Counties Association Expected To Support Change in Tax Plan The' Association of Oregon Counties is expected to sup port a proposed amendment to the Oregon constitution to permit computation Of the tax base on "the last three years in which a tax was levied" in stead of the three "immedi ately preceding" years. The proposal is of interest to Jackson county because it voted out its tax base in 1956. Members of the Jackson coun ty court said there was no opposition to the proposal when it was discussed at last week's meeting of the coun ties in the southwest Oregon district of the association. The district includes Douglas, Jackson, Josephine, Coos and Curry counties. Keason lor the proposal is that taxing units presently lose their tax base if they fail to levy for three successive years. This may increase the property tax burden unneces sarily where non - property revenue can be utilized to cov- expenditures, if levying bodies adopt a "use it or lose it" philosophy, the court noted. General trend behind series of legislative proposals which the counties will pre sent the state legislature seems to be that of "home rule", to return the burden of county governmental activities to the individual counties. Several of the proposals are designed to return some of the tax reve nues paid in the counties to ward state controlled expen ditures. Kenneth Tollcnaar, execu tive secretary of the AOC, ex plained to the group at Rose- burg that the association is requesting more permissive legislation so the counties can act on certain matters in way they determine will be best for them. Another of the more im portant "home rule" proposals to the legislature is to amend Oregon Revised Statutes to permit counties to use Ban croft bond procedure for financing local improvements. This would allow residents to pay for improvements on the installment plan and would apply to unincorporat ed areas. Now, if property owners assessed for such county improvements want to pay installments over a 10 year period, the county road fund must act as a banker to finance the improvement. Legislative permission to use this procedure would make it possible for counties to do more local improvement work at no cost to the general property taxpayer. Other Legislation Other permissive legislation proposed would authorize counties to license businesses located or operated in unin corporated areas. The coun ties feel that reasonable regu lation of business is necessary to protect the public health, welfare, safety and morals through licensing. The Jackson county court has felt for some time that the present law requiring counties to levy at least $10 per census child ($35 in Jackson county) and turn it over to the school does not permit the local tax payer to see the true total costs of his schools. Eola, Tex.-(l)PI)-P. R. Jones a man who likes to stay busy. Jones Is principal of the Eola school, teaches science and mathematics, teaches a grade school class, coaches basketball, drives a school us, raises 125 acres of grains. cultivates 125 acres of cotton, cares for 50 to 100 head of cattle and 50 to 100 head of hogs. In his spare time he built a three bedroom house, barn, shop and garage and dug three water wells. Company's presentation of Everywoman. Success came quickly to the nanasome, ricn-voiced singer wno couia please audiences with a vast repertoire span ning popular favorites such as "Old Man River" to diffi cult operatic arias. 1 Proposed legislation would require the rural school dis trict or county school district to make the levy for the coun ty school fund. The AOC feels also this change would ma terially help the financially weak counties and affect only a small percentage of the school revenues. Welfare Commission At least two of the seven members of the state public welfare commission should be county judges or commission ers, and at least one should be an appointive member of a county public welfare com mission, the AOC is proposing. Counties pay 30 per cent of the state local share of wel fare programs, and their rep resentation on the body mak ing decisions as to the use of this money should be nearly in proportion to their share of the cost, the AOC feels. Two revenue measures pro posed by the counties are pro vision of gas tax refunds to counties on the same basis as cities, and allocating 10 per cent of the net revenues of the Oregon liquor control commission to counties. Counties now receive tax refunds only on gas used in road construction or main tenance. They should be treat ed the same as cities, and re ceive tax refunds on all gaso line used in county operations, the AOC feels. The association also thinks that since counties are respon sible for general law enforce ment outside cities they should share on the same basis as the cities in distribution of state liquor revenues. Cost of po licing for liquor violations in unincorporated areas is sub stantial. Many of the southwestern Oregon counties seemed op posed to proposals for a re tirement system to cover elec tive county officials. Since many of the county officials, particularly county court members, are retired they feel this may be an unnecessary proposal. However, the offi cial AOC position is that an adequate retirement system might encourage able persons to seek county office. . The AOC would repeal laws requiring counties to publish a detailed list of expenditures each month. Another requested repeal is that counties must employ certified appraiser for each $30,000,000 true cash value of locally assessed property. This law, the AOC feels, ignores differences in types of. prop erty among counties and con tains other inequities. County Attorney Among other proposals is' one to permit counties to em ploy a county attorney to handle the civil work of the county government. This is a proposal strongly urged by County Judge Earl Miller be fore the Jackson county home rule committee. 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