SUNDAY. JANUARY 22, 1961
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Praised
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Planners Criticized
By Councilmen for
Action on Request
i Two members of Medford's
jcity council levied a blast at
The city planning commission
.'fhursday night lor turning
ndown a request for a change
of zone for the reason that
,1he property was In a "pro
posed" park site.
'. The commission at its Jan.
12 meeting had recommended
.denial of a request from Dr.
iim Bayliss to change the
Jtone of some property located
north of Barnett rd. and east
xf the proposed freeway from
"commercial to light industrial.
.- Dr. Bayliss said he wanted
-to erect a new veterinary hos
pital on the site, since his
-existing hospital The Siskiyou
-Veterinary hospital, was going
,to be destroyed to make room
;Jor the new freeway. The re
quest had been before the
commission for nearly a year,
'before final action was taken.
3 The commission, while apol
ogizing for the delay in its
.decision, turned down the re
quest because the property is
l.wnipr! in an area suggested
by a planning department
rparks plan for a park-site.
Back to Communion
Councilman R. L. Van
Sickle said the council should
Send the matter back to the
commission because: "I don't
think we should tie up a
man's property because we
mlirht tout a Dark there."
Councilman Stanley Stark
agreed with Van Sickle and
pointing to a planning com
mission report, which said
"the property including and
surrounding this request for
a change of zone is reservea
as a site for a major city
park . . . ," he said: "I think
it is very much out ot line
to make a, statement like
thill "
He added that the city does
not own the property, ana
said there isn't even a price
set for the property.
Councilman Donald Han
son came to the commission's
rpsoiio and said the planning
mm mission's recommendation
is proper planning. He said
ii ic thi, function. of the plan
ning department to Indicate
uhal I hfv think should be
rtnnp with certain property.
No action was taken on the
matter, but Van Sickle di
rected the city manager to
make sure that Dr. Bayliss
knows he has the right to
appeal the commission's rec
ommendation to the city coun
cil. ,
Positive Results
Seen from Recent
Lights' Program
TV. Leonard B. Mayfield
Superintendent of Mcdford
public schools, said he believes
Jlic recent "Lights On for Ed
ucation" program has had pos
itive results.
He commended Mrs. Tom
tfless, chairman of the pro
gram here, other Parent
teacher association members,
school principals and laymen
"who participated in the pro
gram. '
- Dr. Mayfield said he be
?ivcd that many people who
attended and participated in
the sessions now have more
Interest in legislation which
.has been introduced In the
pregon legislature concern
ing education,
logislaiion Considered
Legislation, he noted, Is
iiow being considered on many
pf the problems concerning
Oregon schools which were
discussed at various "Lights
On for Education" programs.
J One of the main purposes
pf the program was to stimu
late Interest in and determine
feoals of proposed school legis
lation as well as other legis
lation relating to the welfare
pf children In Oregon. Organ
izations sponsoring the pro
cram Included the OrcKon
Congress of Parents and
Teachers, the Oregon Educa
tion association, and the Ore
gon School Boards association,
Mr, ihnn 750 nersons at
tended or participated In the
program In the 17 schools in
hn Mprifnrrt district. Attend
ance ranged from small groups
In about, lau at one scnooi.
4roaram Well Received
i Th nrnffrnm nprnrriinff to
jn evaluation made by school
officials, was wen received
Sheldon Business
Leaders Ready To
Go Ahead As Usual
Russians Print,
Broadcast Full
Text of Speech
London - HJPU - Europe Sat
urday hailed President Ken
nedy's inaugural address as
one of the greatest of modern
times and there were inaica
tions in Moscow it had already
begun to thaw out the cold
war.
London newspapers likened
the Kennedy speech to Presi
dent Lincoln's second inaugu
ral address. The Paris news
paper La Croix compared it to
those of Pericles who led an
cient Greece to greatness.
The speech brought an
prnntlnn of editorial praise
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By DAVID SMOTHERS,
FREDERICK MOHN
and ROBERT HOIG
UPI Special Reporting Team
Sheldon, Iowa - IUPH - The
town of Sheldon, where the
most reupected business lady
in town stole a record-breaking
$2 million, shook off its
fears today and faced the fu
ture.
The town's business leaders
said they were not scared and
Sheldon was not broke.
Nineteen of the business
leaders of Sheldon, a town
, whlph hns ttrnwn rich on corn
and soybeans, gathered Thurs-
Most of the programs
sistcd of a panel discussion of
school nroblems. and possible
solutions. In some schools, one
speaker was engaged.
One group expressed par
ticular Interest in items con
cerning youth and a "blue-
nrlnt . fnn education." while
another expressed approval to
keen O and C funds as is and
increase basic school support
to 50 per cent on a state level.
StrenetheninB iuvenile codes
received favorable comment
from another group.
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Cuba Executes
Two 'Terrorists' "
Havana -IUPII- Premier Fi
del Castro's firing squads Fri
day executed two more Cu
ban 'terrorists" convicted by
military tribunals in mass
trials, at Cabana Prison in
Havana.
Tim shootings raised to 10
the total of antl-Castroite Cu
bans who have died before
firinii squads this month.
More than BOO have been
executed since Castro gained
power in January, luou.
TIir two 'men were convict
ed of hiding weapons and ex
plosives at a farm ne- a
vana. An appeals court c
the tribunal s scntenc ut
commuted to 30 years the
death penalty asked for
third "terrorist."
Cuban militiamen began
stripping antiaircraft guns Fri
day, ending a national alert
against the U. S. "Invasion'
the Castro regime predicted
would come before Eisenhow
er left office.
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broadcast and printed in the
Soviet press.
The diplomats watcnea
Moscow where Premier Nikita
S. Khrushchev called in U.S.
Ambassador Lewellyn Thomp
son for two hours oi laws
aimed at improving Soviet-
American relations.
No Statement , - . y .
Thoro was no formal state
ment but Khrushchev's action
followed statements by Com
munist diplomats in London
that Khrushchev wants ; an
"early direct diplomatic .'ap
proach" to Kenned.
Thp reaction was remark
ably similar; throughout all of
western Europe. There was a
irrpnt ftweiiing of continence
in Ihp new American lcader-
shiD and hope for the future
of the world.
The speech won praise, too,
in Cairo whe're Egyptian
newsDaoers that have been
critical of Kennedy in the
nast called his words a posi
tive ... an ardent appeal for
nnnpp " Thp naDers made no
mention-of recent, fears that
Kennedy s policy might court
Israeli friendship at expense
of the Arabs.
From the Vatican there
were congratulations from
Pope John XXIII and the Vat
Irnn CMtv nowsnaDer Osserva-
tore Romano said the speech
was that of a Christian and a
free American.
Should Not Refuse
". . . in the meantime," it
said, "no enlightened man in
the world will refuse sympa
thy and encouragement to the
man and to the principle on
which such a noble program
rests."
The East German Commu
nist newspaper Neus Deutsch
land said Kennedy, "without
tying himself down in any
way, indicated he would not
reject East-West negotiations."
Across the border in west
Berlin the newspaper Span-
dauer Volksblatt said "Sel
dom in American history has
an American President made
such an impressive inaugural
speech."
Underlining the Commu
nist hope that Kennedy would
restore East-West relations to
pre-U2 days was a dispatch in
the Soviet government news
paper Izvestia from Washing
ton:
Never Return
America hopes that with
Eisenhower's exit all that is
old. that has outlived its time
all that Is unreasonable, that
prevented not only the Amcri
can people but also the peo
nles of all the world from liv
lng a peaceful and tranquil
Hfp will pp. never to return
America pins her expectations
and hopes for a peaceful life
upon me new t-resiocni.
The Times of London call
ed the speech "dynamic,"
"youthful" and "historic" and
compared the speech to Lin
coln's. The Daily Herald
wrote of "Lincolncsque elo
quence." Paris' Lc Figaro reacted
with unreserved approval of
a kind seldom seen in the edi
torials of the staid ptiblica-
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"vcrile language . . full of
dynamism not explainable In
terms of youth alone."
"Great Inspiration"
The , London Daily Mail
labeled the speech of "historic
importance and great Inspira
tion" and published the text
In the front page space usual
ly reserved for editorials.
Madrid's AUC called the
speech "perfect In form and
depth." It said Kennedy up-;
peared to be speaking as the
head of the Free World rather
than President of the United
Stales.
Lisbon's Diarlo da Manha
labeled it as a "Just promise
and a motive for confidence."
A dissenter was the London
Communist Dally Worker
which apparently had not yet
received the latest peaceful
line from the Kremlin.
"You're all wrong, Jack
it said.
of Sheldon's community build
ing. They had to talk, loud be
cause a square dance was in
full swing downstairs.
There was only one real
suhiect of conversation - Mrs.
Burnice Iverson Geiger and
the $2,126,859.10 which she
embezzled from the bank
where her father was presi
dent. Bank Examiners Busy
The bank, the Sheldon Na
tional, was just down 9th st.
and federal bank examiners
were busy behind locked
doors figuring out how Mrs.
Geiger, the assistant cashier,
stole the money.
Afterwards, Chamber of
Commerce President Mason
Skewis issued a statement.
"This is a wealthy com
munity," he said. "It's not a
scared town. We're just com
pletely shocked,
"But Sheldon is still doing
business as usual. We're not
broke. We've had these ex
periences before and we're
ready for more industries to
come to town."
On the face of it, these
were Chamber of Commerce
platitudes. In reality, they ex
pressed the determination oi
sturdy Dutch, German and
Irish Iowans to' win out
against shame and disaster.
Their calamity had been
brought upon them by a trim,
matronly woman who sat with
her secret - what she had
rlnnp with the money - in the
Woodbury county jail at Sioux
City, 60 miles away.
Mrs. Geiger, 58, refused to
let her husband visit her. But
she allowed her cell door to be
opened to the wife of the i
second most talked about per
son in Sheldon, Harold Kist
ner Jr., president of Sheldon's
Northern Biochemical Cor
poration. .
Kistner, 34, is a man with
troubles. His livestock and
poultry feed additive firm had
mushroomed under the Iowa
sun since its founding 14
months ago. Elliott Roosevelt,
son of the late President, was
its financial adviser. But Mrs.
Geiger's arrest and the closing
of the Sheldon Bank had put
Kistner and his company into
a painful spotlight.
Roosevelt, in a brief Shel
don visit, revealed Mrs. Geig
er was Northern Biochemical's
principal stockholder and had
paid for her $130,000 - plus
holdings with cold cash. All
Mining Engineer To
Visit BLM Office
Stanley Y. Shepard, mining
engineer from the Oregon
state office of the bureau of
land management, will be in
Medford Jan. 23, according to
District Manager Koss A.
Youngblood.
Youneblood said Shepard
will be available to supply in
formation concerning the mln
ing laws to interested persons
According to current plans, a
mining engineer will be in
the Medford district office on
alternate Mondays to assist
the public and district per
sonnel. The Medford BLM office is
located at the intersection of
Barnett rd. with Highway 99
at 1133 South Riverside ave.
Major Crimes On Increase in City
of the company's ready money
is under federal seal. Satur
day the company must meet
its payroll.
Major crimes were on the
increase in Medford during
1960, with 16 more crimes be
ing reported last year than
the year before, according to
Pnlirp Chief Charles P.
Champlin's year-end report.
Police received reports oi
1,257 crimes during the year,
including two murders, 16
robberies, 216 burglaries, 940
larcenies and 81 cases of
auto theft. Of this total, police
were able to clear or solve
332 of the reports for a 26.4
per cent cleared average.
Both murders were solved.
The average was below
that nf a vear ago. when po
lice clcard 342 of 1,093 major
crime reports for a 31.3 per
cent cleared average.
Chief Champlin attributed
the lesser average to the in
creasing case load. The more
cases there are, the less time
the department is able to
spend investigating each one
inrliuirltlHllV. he Said
Tho rfpnartment now nas l
officers. They added one po
licewoman during I960.
Police received reports of
8,469 miscellaneous offenses
during 1960, including 44 sex
offenses and four violations
of narcotics laws. Police clear
ed 7,413 of these offenses for
an 87.5 per cent cleared average.
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SPECIAL NOTICE
American Legion Auxiliary
No. 15 in Medford
Are conducting their annual subscription cam
paign to purchase additional sick-room equip
ment. ., ,
This Equipment is for
FREE HOME USE
To All Residents in Jackson Co.
A representative, with a letter of identification,
will call on you. Please request to see this letter.
Jeanne F. Barlow
PRESIDENT
Thelma Williams
CAMPAIGN CHAIKMAN
Eva Brittson
TREASURER
Dorothy Gifford
SECRETARY
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2nd VICE PRESIDENT
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OPEN EVERY MONDAY UNTIl 9 P.M.
GUEST SPEAKER
Dr. W. D. McGrnw, Port
land, district superintendent
of the Oregon Pacific District
of the Church of the Nazarenf.
will speak at the 7 p.m. serv
ice Sunday at the Mt. Pitt
avcnueoChuriSi of the Nazar
enc, 1332 Ml. Pitt ave.
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YMCA Week Schedule
MONDAY Jan. 23
Beginning Square Dances-7:30 to 10:00 P.M.
Doug Fosbury Social Hall
High School Church Basketball-7:00 to 10:00 P.M.
Dick Kuschel
Swim Team Exhibition-6 to 8 P.M.-Ken Lions, Pool
Jr. Hi-Y meeting-7 to 8 P.M.-Bud Geren-Lobby
TUESDAY Jan. 24
Co-Ed Adult Vollyball Tournament-7:30 to 10 P.M.
Gymnasium
Big Y Program-9:30 to 11:00 P.M.-Entire building
WEDNESDAY-Jan. 25
Rogue Hi-Y Meeting-7:30 to 8:30-Social Hall
Free Throw Contest-7 to 9 P.M.-Gymnasium
Camp RE-Union-7:00 to 8:00 P.M.-Game Room
Tiny Tot Minnow Class-3:30 to 4:15 P.M.-Pool
Family Night Guest Swim-6:30 to 7:30 P.M.-Pool,
Fran Bullard
THURSDAY-Jan. 26
Annual Dinner Meeting 6:30 to 8:30
Kim's Resturant
Square Dancing Party-7:30 to 1 1:00 Social Hall,
Doug Fosbury
Water Safety Aids Class-5:30 to 6:30-Pool,
Dr. Roberts
FRIDAY-Jan. 27
Family Night-7:30 to 10:00-Building-Fran Bullard
High School Dance-10:00 to 12:00-Social Hall
Chuck Langsten
SATURDAY-Jan. 28
Guest Day for Youth-All Day Program
Jr. High Dance-7:00 to 10:00-Soeial Hall,
Chuck Langsten
SUNDAY OPEN HOUSE-(Exhibitions, Demonstrations,
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Camp and World Service movies in the Lobby, Gym-
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