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Newspaper Page TextIk M JVL Ul Work Completed On Budget for Jackson County .After the equivalent of 14 full days, the Jackson county budget committee Thursday -afternoon completed work on the proposed county budget -for the 1961-62 fiscal year. The . budget totals $4,177,- 4V!y.HU. Tne anticipated re ceipts for the year are set at $4,287,890.12. This will be the fifth consecutive year that county operations, will not re quire a county tax levy. - The budget includes $349, 170, or $15 per child, for the .county school fund, based on the census count of 23,278 children. For the current fiscal year the county had budgeted $35 per child. This amount had been . possible since the O and C money was about $430,000 higher than anticipated. An amount of $10 per child is required by law. To Be Certified ;' The budget will be certi fied, audited and signed by members of the committee May 22, with publication dates set for May 24 and June 7. The public hearing will be held Tuesday, June 27, at 8 p.m. in the county courthouse auditorium. ; In action -yesterday after noon, the committee increased the amount of county assist ance to the family and child guidance clinic by $1,000, and added $2,100 to the county court's budget for a new, car for' Commissioner Ed Taylor, at his request. The budget for the opera tion of the parks and recrea tion commission' totals $68, 581, but shows only part of the picture of the increased parks program in the county, Judge Earl, Miller said. Other items budgeted for this use include $49,000 for the concessionaire building at Howard Prairie and. $15,000 for a similar structure at Emi grant lake. Equipment .- and supplies for this commission's Use total $12,000.:. In Miscellaneous Fund ' New with' the proposed budget is the lump sum of $166,861.18 within the miscel laneous general fund for de partment supplies and equip ment. The county expects to show a saving through the years with the central pur chase setup. Another item in the miscel laneous general fund is $5,000 for special prosecutor. The county will end the year with a $110,460.22 safety fund, which is used when re ceipts are not as high as an ticipated, and $104,435.75 in the cash working fund, which is not a part pf the budget and is composed of the cash on hand. Largest department budget is the county's general roads fund for $1,766,372.25. The welfare budget totals $221,- 480. Third largest is the sher iff's department budget of $150,636. This is broken down Into divisions for criminal $75,800. tax $24,300, civil $15,214. and jail $35,292. Other departments and their budgets include: Other Items County court and commis sioners $30,643, circuit court $36,578, district court $4,290, justice court Ashland $7,8.19 justice court Gold Hill $3,670 county clerk $81,161, elec tions $19,210, treasurer $12, 573.70, assessor $145,886 courthouse $48,396, Jackson county farm home $105,014 miscellaneous relief $70,000, county compensation $360, Red Cross $1,500, indigent veterans $2,800, coroner $2,285, Juvenile department Eagle Point Over Not Hearing From Medco Officials on Letters "Not a single word" has been received from Medford Corporation since Eagle Point organizations wrote the cor poration and its board of di rectors to protest a possible conversion of its log train route Into a private heavy dutt logging road. Mrs. Burton Jensen, presi dent of the Jackson .County Home Owners Protective asso ciation, said today that all letters mailed to Medco bffi cials In Medford and Chicago before their April board meet ing have as yet remained un answered. Letters were sent to Chi cago in late March and early April by the Home Owners association, the Eagle Point Junior Chamber of Com marce. Parent-Teacher associ ation, Parent-Teacher-Student $43,028, juvenile detention home $23,270, health $105, 100, surveyor $9,436, water master $24,525; district attor ney $24,117, fruit inspection $1,750, miscellaneous general fund $402,214.34, mosquito control $9,500. . Others include veterans service office $10,258, board of equalization $500, constable $11,076, planning commission $20,570, library $65,678.04, emergency fund $50,000, civil defense $7,856, building con struction and maintenance $47,500, agricultural and hor ticultural experiment station $6,860.57, Jackson county his torical fund $32,519 and coun ty agents $28,238. Troops Ordered Into Southern Illinois Region By United Press International The state of Illinois rushed new aid today to southern towns battling some of the area's worst floods on record. Gov. Otto Kerner ordered National Guard troops, into White county, which was 40 per cent under water. Forty boys from the Union Forest State Boys Camp were dis patched to join 500 troopers, policemen and civil defense workers manning the embat tled dikes at Carmi, 111. More floods swirled through eastern Missouri and southern Indiana. The Midwest's watery ordeal was a week old but the threat to downstream com munities was far from over. Dangers of a far different natures-high winds and fires beset other Midwest areas. : A roadside spark and winds up to so miles per hour touch ed" off a forest fire which raged over 4,480 acres at the Camp McCoy, Wis., military reservation One thousand troops and volunteers bull dozed a fire break around the flames and brought them un der control late Thursday. At Elk River, Minn., two teen-age boys admitted they started another forest fire by exploding a cherry bomb. The flames raced over 320 acres of woodlands in San Dune State Forest before 100 volunteers halted them. , Slight Decline Noted In Lumber Index Portland 0JPB A weakness in green fir lumber resulted in slight declines during the two week period ending Thursday, Crow's Lumber Market Newfe Service said to day. Crow's added, however, there is evidence the weak ening trend may be leveling as some added buying drive has shown itself . coming from the Midwest in the last two days. WEATHER FORECAST: Occasional clou-! dlneiti b t generally fair to- nlght and Saturday. Low to night 38. High Saturday 10. Temp. Highest Yeiterday Ml Lowest this Morning 36 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today. 02 Our Skies Tonight Sumet today 7:23 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow ..- 4:52 a.m. Moonrlse tomorrow .. 4:40 a.m. Npw Moon May 14 PROMINENT STAR Vega, low In north east 7:J5 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, sets .. 12:07 a.m. Saturn, rises ...12:42 a.m. Jupiter, rises ........... 1:02 a.m. Venus, rises 3:31 a.m, Organizations association, the city council and the planning commission. More than 100 residents signed the association's let ter and all the documents were mailed to corporation headquarters in Chicago and to individual board members, some by airmail, special de livery. The letters stressed the "serious detriment" which conversion of the railroad to a heavy duty private log truck road would cause prop erty in the area from Butte Falls to Medford. Eagle Point officials said the city would suffer from loss of property values be cause of noise, dust and un regulated traffic on such a route. School groups stressed dangers to the health of chil dren because of air pollution land disturbances from the 328-Foot Dam on Lost Creek Now Being Considered Public Meeting Set In GP on Wednesday A 328-foot dam at Lost Creek on the Rogue river higher than the original plan is being considered by the U. S. Corps of Engineers. . It would . impound water sufficient to: 1. Provide more than 3 times the normal . summer stream flow and at cooler temperatures, as a benefit to fish life. 2. Provide more power, and 3. Provide greater protec tion against floods. Originally the dam had been planned for 265 feet. The new height would bring the stor age capacity of the dam up to 400,000 acre feet, according to Ben Hilton, president of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Resources assocl at'on. Hilton and Ben Day, attor ney for the association, re turned this week from Port land where they met with rep resentatives of the federal fish and wildlife service. Travis Roberts of the1 serv ice, with Henry Stewart of the engineers, will discuss the higher dam at a public meet ing to be held in the old li brary building, Grants Pass, at 8 p.m. Wednesday. The two governmental agen cies have been making studies on the Rogue. The fish and wildlife service representa tives believe that by building the higher dam, cooler water can be released to keep the temperature of the Rogue in summer below 60 degrees. The normal summer stream flow in recent years has been 600 cubic feet per second. The higher dam, it is estimated, would make possible the re lease of sufficient water so that the flow would be at 2,000 cfs or more..': Hilton said the general plan was to use the Elk Creek dam water primarily for Irrigation purposes. This water ia warm er than that which- will' be stored at Lost Creek.-, Articles filed For Foundation . Articles of incorporation were filed in Salem Tuesday for Pacific Convalescent foun dation, Medford, signed by Al fred L. Paulson, Ashland Gen eral hospital administrator, Mary E. Paulson, his wife, and Leland J. Knox, head of a Medford accounting firm. According to Knox, the foundation hopes to construct several convalescent or retire ment homes on the West Coast for elderly persons and those convalescing from hos pital treatment. Construction of the first home has started in Springfield. Knox said the possibility of locating a home in Ashland is being investigated. However, he added that nothing defin ite has been decided. "It will depend on demands and needs of the city," he explained. Paulson will ' be adminis trator of the Springfield in stallation, to be known as MacKenzie Manor. The foun dation will rent all homes to individual operators. Knox emphasized that the convalescent homes will not be operated as cooperatives. Patrons will rent apartments in each facility, he said. Population of the area and whether or not the need is prevalent will be determining factors in location of the homes, Knox commented. He indicated there are no foun dation plans for construction of a home in Medford. Express Disappointment heavy uncontrolled traffic, and the hazards to pedestri ans and school buses. Property owners expressed fears that their homes and farms would suffer for similar reasons. City councilmen ex plained earlier that Eagle Point has planned for an ex pansion of population because of good schools and general living conditions in the area. The increased population is also necessary to help meet costs of the installation of a municipal sewage disposal sys tem now under way. The council wrote the cor poration directors that con struction of a private log truck road through the town, from the east to west city limits, would greatly damage the future of Eagle Point and surrounding area. L'-p for Medco operations Regional Edition Medford 22 Paget Pernnitt Oreg on I aE" f. "-s INSPECT UNIT Officers from headquarters of the 13th Naval district, Seattle, Wash., are shown above as they made an Inspection of personnel of the Naval Reserve Electronics division 13-5 in Medford last night. Out of 200 such divisions in the United States, the Jackson county : unit is now rated among the top four on the basis of gen eral preparedness and training, according to Lt. Richard Record Spending in Next Two Years Voted by 196i Legislative Session Cditor'i Not; Thli li tha flnt In rive-Dart aariei lummlnr vn ae- l compiiinmeota or in mu uregon I l,esflatura. By DOUGLAS GRIPP and A. H. PEARSON . Salem-dlPD-The 1961 legis lature gave nearly unanimous agreement to record spending plans worth $366 million in the next two years-$7 million more than Gov. Mark Hat field called for. But like mules tugging stubbornly in opposite direc tions, members of the legis lature canceled out nearly a dozen different tax plans, leaving all major taxes exact ly the way they were except timber. The timber tax was reform ed to shift more of the levy to fast cutters, giving some encouragement to a sustained yield cut. Endless hours were spent struggling over sales taxes, a three-cent cigarette tax, in come tax cuts, taxes for low bracket earners, business in come tax, tax relief for the elderly, and quarterly with holding tax. Some Tax Breaks These were lumped in all sorts of combinations in ef forts to lure votes, or even fool the opposition. Some were aimed at doing away with inequities, others at' raising or cutting the amount of mon ey the state takes in. They all went down the drain. Tax breaks were granted for fraternal groups, city-surrounded farmers, fallout shel ters, out-of-staters working in Oregon, and certain construc tion projects. Numerous are being carried on regular- sized trucks on public roads since the log train stopped hauling logs several weeks ago, residents reported. Rails on the right of way have been removed on much of the route, they said, and survey ors have been seen along the railroad Mrs. Jensen said the asso ciation and the community "are disappointed" in Med' co's lack of response, because "our letters were written in good faith, with friendliness asking for cooperation from the corporation regarding our own land and community." Petitions expressing opposi tion to the possible conversion continue to be circulated in the are and fearful residents have planned a concerted ac tion to oppose tha private rojtte, sha reported MEDFORD, Sought To Tidelcamids slpwt!WTfw! vtu i u Maaaaia v -", o housekeeping measures . were approved. "..- " v : : The legislature created a one-man state tax court to hear direct tax appeals, elim inating now lengthy hearings before the Tax Commission. Actually, in spite of all the talk about raising and cutting taxes, the $366 million budg et was a vote of confidence for tax laws as they are. ' I Two Reports From Small Animal Group Submitted to Court Two reports, one from the minority, on the findings and recommendations of the Small Animal Control Advisory committee were presented to the county court last night. The committee was ap pointed by the court at the request of a number of resi dents to evaluate the problem of stray animals, particularly cats, in the county and to make recommendations. The court tentatively sched uled a meeting at 2 p.m. May 31, when they will announce their recommendations. Cats In County The committee, in its brief submitted to the court, said that one out of five cats in Jackson county are taken to a veterinarian for medical treatment, based on national averages. Using these figures, It is estimated there are 84,000 cats In the county. The recommendations In cluded one that the county court appoint a non-salaried four-member cat control board comprised of Frank Christian, chairman of the small animal committee; Dr. A. E. Merkel, public health officer; Mrs. George Schwieg cr, one of the original peti tioners: and Dr. W. W. Wcl ler, veterinarian, which would serve in an advisory capacity. It was suggested that the small building at the county pound, with the addition of some cages, be used to house cats, and that the pick-up of cats be scheduled to fit In with the regular runs of the dog control officers, or have two days a week designated for this service. Rtcommtndad Charge They recommended that 25 cents be charged for each pickup and that cats be held for a five-day period for re claiming or placement witn the exccDtlon of diseased cats. No more than two cats will be jiven to ont person, or OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY r r 3 SI 4Kt an I i II I r v it Kl - 2 I J -j ",iit; ; ' ? ; s s. ' ..... ; - , Schuchard, commanding officer of the local unit. Making the inspection, which included a check on personnel, lead ership, administrative and training methods, were Capt. H. C. Duff, assistant chief of staff for Naval Reserve and training in the 13th Naval district, Cmdr. D. S. Parkinson and Lt. A. D. Quisenberry, Seattle, ; , r The $7, million hike over) Hatfield's request was based I on the assumption tne Tax Commission was gloomy in forecasting the general tax in-, take in the next two years, It also was based on a 10- cent-a-bottle liquor price In crease, and the legislature predicted there will be plenty of money. The budget will spend the given for purposes except as a farm or household pet. A record is to be kept of the peo ple reporting a cat to be picked up, and of those tak ing a cat from the shelter.' In a minority report sub mitted by Mrs. George Stacey of the Southern Oregon Hu mane Society 13 recommen dations were also made. The report was signed by five members of the nine-member committee. They were in ad dition to Mrs. Stacey, Dr. Weller, Dr. Merkel, Homer Jeffries, and Mrs. Tony Beebe. Reason for Report According to the minority report "four meetings have been held, and while a quor um ,was present at each meet ing, unfortunately there was not a full committee member. ship at each meeting, there fore, the situation presents it self that a majority of the members of the committee are signing this minority re port, and conversely the ma jority report represents the opinion of a minority of the committee members. "Of the 12 recommenda tions contained in the major ity report nine were adopted at the meeting of April 26, 1061, with only five members present out of the nine ap pointed, being passed with a four to one vote. It Is for this reason that this minority re port Is presented and con tains five signatures." The recommendations were similar except that a five member board be appointed which would Include the tame persons with the addition of W. O. Herring, humane offi cer for the Southern Oregon Humane Society. Instead of the use of county equipment, they recommended the use of the society's vehicle and that the cats be taken to the so ciety's' facilities. Any fees charged would be on volun tary donation basis. Tribune 12, 1961 Survey for Oil ' u yu ti o present $33 million surplus, leaving just about $1 million in tne tin in l03 - unless the I Tax Commission again ia way I off, ' The $339 million budget is only what comes from gen eral tax levies. Overall, counting gas taxes, grants and federal aid, the state will spend more than $1 billion - the first billion dol lar budget 'in state history. This includes $192 million for roads. I $127 Million for Schools From general funds the big items will be $127 million for schools, $61 million for high er education, $40 million for welfare, $15 million for col lege and state building, plus salary raises for everyone working for the state except legislators. The lawmakers gave them selves expense money, and will ask the voters in 1962 for permission to set their own pay too. The rest of the general fund money goes to run state agen cies and programs ranging from agriculture to veterans. Talk about extensive budget-cutting and saving more money hushed fast early in -the session. There was agree ment, however, that spending got an unusually thorough overhaul from the Ways and Means Committee. The extra $7 million Includ ed items for which Hatfield didrl't budget. Among them were community colleges, Boardman Industrial site, sur plus food distribution, salmon run rehabilitation, and stu dent loans. - Hatfield already has casti gated the legislature for "spending millions more" than he proposed, but he himself endorsed the biggest extra items. The tax proposals variously were the brain children of the Interim Tax Committee, Hat field, and individual lawmak ers. Many of them grew Into admitted monsters under tute lage of various legislative com mittecs. They were subjects of some bitter battles, and likelihood is many a legislator-politician will claim a pat on the back in campaigns to come for de defcating the tax proposal ne detested most. Next! Education, Health and Welfare, ' NFW PAPER APPEARS Eugene -IUPD- A 32-page edl tlon of Oregon's newest news paper - the Emerald Empire News-hit the streets here this morning. The weekly newspa per, with an initial circulation of more than 8,000 is printed by yie offset method. 56th Year Price 10 Cents No. 44 Shell Company Request Will Be Discussed May 23 Way Cleared by Legislative Action Salem - IUPD - The Oregon Land Board announced today that the Shell Oil Co. has made application for a permit to survey the state's entire coast for the possibility of prospecting for tidelands oil. If granted, the permit would cover about 550,000 acres of off-shore lands and, by law, would be non-exclusive. This means any other firm could apply for similar survey per mits for the same acreage. E. T. Pierce, land board clerk, said the board would consider the application at its next meeting May 23. Shell is requesting a one-year per mit. The legislature recently ap proved legislation permitting the state to lease her tide- lands for private oil explora tion and drilling operations if oil is found. . The application was Wed by Durland Clark ot Shell's Los Angeles office , ine uaelands oil lealsla- vv ,e ff f ,ur" vey permit but any state ex- rV.,?iT?w !? r?ust .?! HfuHiow ujr v,ii3 penult wm-1 lfrajript The application sayg -Shell!"1 Tattoos . , .. plans no surveying in any in let or bay other than Astoria bay. The permit would allow the firm to take samples of me ocean Bottom by drilling aown as Jar a 800 feet. The geological, seismic and geo- pnysicai probe is to help de termine the likelihood of oil. Wafer Year Runoff; Forecast Is Down Water year runoff forecasts for the southwestern section of Oregon -have been revised downward slightly from last month, Anthony J. Polos, hy drologist in charge, river fore cast center, Portland, said to day. The downward revision was made by the weather bureau center because of a deficient precipitation during April. The bureau noted, however. that because of the cool tem peratures the residual flow forecasts have improved slightly because early season runoff was retarded. The water year flow on the south fork ot the Rogue is forecast at 1,240,000 acre feet as of May 1, which is 84 per cent of average. Water year flows on other rivers In southwestern Ore gon range from 79 per cent of average upward to 84 per cent, the weather bureau said. "Careful You Don't Set The Whole . Dormitory On Fire" , 9$' &S aitw2S?3e Russia Demands Pro-Communist Group Be Seated Dispute Over Delegations Flares ' Geneva -flJPD The 14-natlon conference on the future of Laos was postponed today until Saturday or Monday, and Russia threatened to cause further delays with a demand that the pro - Communist Pathet Lao rebels be seated with full rights at the confer ence sessions. An East-West dispute over which . Laotian delegation to seat at the talks caused tha conference to be postponed only an hour before it was scheduled to open today. Rutiia's Views The Soviets disclosed their views on seating the rebels at an Improvised news confer ence in the bar of the Press House. Soviet Foreign Min ister Andrei Gromyko's chief spokesman said three separata delegations from Laos would . be seated with equal rights. A report from the Interna tional Control Commission in Vientiane confirmed that a cease fire exists in Laos. ; Receipt of this report clear ed the way for United States and British participation here, since both .Washington and London had Insisted they would not take part in tha Geneva parley unless a ceasa fire Was certified by the com mission. Struggle Start But no sooner was that is sue resolved than an East-West struggle started on the seating of tne Laotian representatives. The minutes ticked by with out any resolution of this question until a British spokesman announced tha postponement without explan ation.- -; . . : This-delay was disclosed following a meeting between n . 1 1 1 . u' i o . Lort tldme land Soviet For- Uign Mlnl.tac Andrei Gromy- . coehairmen ot th. con- , Thr art three Laotian fac tions -''the pro-Western gov ernment: of , Premier PrJnca Boun Oum, the "neutralists" of former Premier Prince Soiivanna ' Phouma and tha Communist - backed Pathet Lao Rebels. ' The Soviet Union wants to ' seat all three factions. Tha United States wants to seat only the government delega tion, which still has not ar rived. . Britain is seeking compromise. . Part of Bridge To Be Closed for Work The northernmost lane on the Eighth st. bridge will ba closed to traffic next week during construction of a con-, crete support for the overhead freeway structure at that lo cation.. City Public Works director Vernon Thorpe said Pater Kiewlt and Sons company, the contractor for the struc ture, will start work on tha support Monday and hope to have it completed by Friday. The support will be erected in an area between the east end of the Eighth st. bridga and the Main st. bridge. It is one of a number ot supports that will be neces sary for the freeway struc ture. Excavation for other sup ports has been under way this week in Hawthorns park. v.