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. BIG PAYLOAD The 1000th Boeing B47 Stratojet built at Wichita is shown in flight
over Kansas before being turned over officially to the U. S. Air Force Dec. 17. Num
ber 1001, an RB-47E reconnaissance Stratojet is in background. When number 1000
emerged from the plant it was decorated with $12,000 in coins and bills donated by
Boeing employes for the March of Dimes. '
Miim Armiiied Forces,
Large Reserve Listed
Ddd EVDairapower IPDaini
Washington (U.R) The De
fense Department today unveil
ed a new military manpower
program designed to hold active
armed forces down to a reason
able" size and build up a min
ute-man reserve force of 3,000,'
000,000 men.
- The program is designed, the
administration feels, to prepare
the armed forces for the long
pull of the cold war or the sud
den onslaught of global atomic
war.
Under the program virtually
all the nation's physically fit
youth could expect to undergo
some form of military service-
as enlistees, draftees, or specially
trained reservists.
1 The program will be submitt
ed for approval to the next Con
gress which meets in January.
. The administration - has put a
priority tag on it.
- The most important, and most
controversial point in the pro
gram, is the- proposed establish
ment of a modified form of uni
versal military training. This
would provide that a limited
number of youths could volun
teer for six months . of . active
training and then be compelled
to serve . 9 i years in the re
serves. A key feature of the program
Is to make mandatory the re
serve obligation of draftees.
Failure of draftees to participate
6-47 Crash Report
Said False Alarm
: McChord AFB, Wash. (U.R)
Officers of the 43rd air rescue
squadron said today they con
aider a report of a B-47 crash
in the rugged Blue mountain
area some 32 miles west of
Baker, Ore., a. "false, alarm.','
Capt. Gene Lynch of the air
rescue squadron said his unit
sent a plane to search the area
yesterday afternoon when first
reports of a crash were received
here. '
; The plane was unable to find
anything, he said, and checks
of all Air Force fields and civil
ian air fields in the region show
ed that no plane was missing.1
Oregon state police still had
received reports of a possible
crash near Baker.
The first report was given by
Lon Krise, operator of the Free
mont power plant, who said he
spotted a plunging vapor trail
at about 2:20 p.m. yesterday and
then a big puff of smoke about
three miles from the power
plant. Smoke rose for three
hours from the spot, he said.
Checking of Voter List
Under Way, in County
; A check on non-voting regis
tered voters in the last election
is now underway in the county
clerk's office and is expected to
be finished in about three
months.
. Persons who have failed to
vote in the last two years will
pe notified by the clerk's office
and given 90 days in which to
. renlv before their names are
Stricken from the poll books.
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in the reserves after release from
active duty would mean loss of
veteran's benefits and a "dis
charge other than honorable.
The broadscale reserve pro
gram is called the "national re
serve plan." It is the product of
more than a year of study within
the administration. It was un
veiled at a Pentagon news con
ference by Wilson and Carter L.
Burgess, assistant secretary of
defense for manpower.
No Major Damage
Listed in Bay Area
As New Quake Hits
San Francisco (U.R) A jar
ring earthquake rocked the San
Francisco Bay area last night
with an up and down motion
that rattled dishes and wakened
thousands from sleep.
The quake, centered in. south
ern Alameda County on the east
ern shore of San Francisco Bay!
was felt at 11:09 p.m. P.S.T. It
was followed five minutes later
by a second shock. No major
damage was reported.
W. C. Marion, assistant seis-
moogist at the University of
California, said it was probably
centered on the old Hayward
Fault near San Lorenzo. He said
it was probably not connected
with the quake that shook Ne
vada, California and three other
Western states early yesterday.
Marion estimated the quake
had a force of 3.8 on the Richter
scale of 10. Yesterday's earlier
quake measured between 6.75
and 7.
Don Sperry, who works in the
114-foot-tall . control tower at
Oakland Airport, said the tower
seemed to bounce up ar.
down" in last night's temblor.
The most serious damage in
yesterday's quake apparently
occurred more . than 200 miles
from the center in Sacramento,
Calif. The shock caused an esti
mated $20,000 damage to . a
9,500,000-g a 1 1 o n underground
water tank at the city's filtra
tion ; plant . when supporting
columns snapped and the roof
settled to the water surface.
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Fast Pulse Imposes
Hew Strain on Pope
Vatican City (U.R) An
abnormally fast pulse imposed
new strain on ailing Pope Pius
XII today. His doctors openly
expressed concern because he
has been weakening steadily for
the past few days.
Dr. Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi,
the papal physician, said the
pulse rate of the Pope jumped
to 104 beats a minute this mor
ning. A rate of about 72 is con
sidered normal.
Get-'Em-Yourself Christmas
Be Cut on BLM, National Forest Lands
. Many Rogue valley residents
have a family "tradition" of go
ing out each ' year to cut their
own Christmas trees. With prices
of commercially- sold trees
ranging up to $1 per foot this
year, many others feel there's
added reason to do so.
The Forest Service and the
Bureau of Land Management,
the two federal agencies which
have control of much of the
forest . land in - Jackson county,
both permit the. gathering of
trees by individuals1 for their
own use. Both, however, require
that permits be obtained before
the trees are cut, so that they
can. control cutting and protect
USAF General's
Statement Draws
Fire From Russia
London U.R) Russia today
registered a formal protest with
Britain against statements by
U. S. Brig. Gen. John D. Steven
son that his British-based Thun
derstreak fighter-bombers are
Washington (U.R) The
United States is considering a
new protest to Russia over the
Nov. 7 shooting down of an
American B-29 near northern
Japan, officials said today. No
final decision has been made
yet and may not be for weeks.
ready, at a moment's notice, to
hammer targets in eastern
Europe.
- A Russian . protest over .the
matter had been handed to the
U. S. state department in Wash
ington Thursday evening.
Some quarters interpreted the
protest as a propaganda effort to
influence the Paris conference
on European defense. .
In Washington, a State De
partment spokesman said the
Russian note protested state
ments made ; Dec. 10 by Brig..
GenJohn D. Stevenson, com
mander of the 49th Air Division
hx.Britain. The spokesman re
fused to discuss the alleged
statements "until . we have . a
check" and the Soviet Embassy
would not reveal what they
were.
Retaliation Statement
It was learned through the De
fense Department, however, the
protest was over Stevenson's
comments that this country is
capable of "very rapid retalia
tion with A-bomb -attacks from
Britain in the event of Commu
nist aggression.
A dispatch quoted Stevenson
as saying that "very rapid re
taliation" could be carried out
by his air division within "a
matter of hours." It reported
that Stevenson declined to say
whether any A-bombs actually
had been transferred, to Britain.
Jackson, Grape Stop
Signs Being Installed
Stop signs to make Jackson
and Grape sts. through avenues
of travel are now being placed,
according to city officials.
Placement of signs on Jackson
st. is almost: completed and
wor is now in progress on Grape
st., they said."
Jackson st. will be through,
except where there is signaliza
tion. Grape st. wil be stopped
only at signalized intersections
plus Fourth and 11th sts., which
are through east-west thorough
fares. Action on the new traffic
regulations was approved by the
city council at the Dec. 7 meet
ing, and is in line with the rec
ommendations' of the " recent
state traffic survey of Medf ord.
Salt Lake City (U.R) Diane
Carmen, Miss Oregon of 1954,
was married in the Mormon
temple here today to George W.
Pace, Burley, Ida..
growing stands of potentially
valuable timber.
The forest service reports that
the fastest and easiest way for
families to find a tree of their
own is to go to one of the five
ranger stations in the Rogue
River National forest, located
in Ashland, Butte Falls, Union
Creek,. Applegate and in Klam
ath county. Rangers will give
advice to those seeking trees as
to the best places to look, and
will issue permits for individ
ual tree cutting without charge.
On Bureau of Land Manage
ment territory, trees can be cut
with permission from the BLM
office in the Medford city halL
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World Facing
Laughead Say
Chicago (U.R) The world
quakes, tidal waves and volcanic eruptions next
Tuesday, ousted college physician Charles Laug
head said. But it won't exactly come to an end.
Laughead, who was fired from his post with '
Michigan State college on grounds that he was
predicting the end of the world, made this reas- '
suring forecast here on Thursday as he consulted
with a fellow believer in imminent doom.
Next Tuesday, he said, will be merely a
"turning point toward catastrophe in this part
of the world." Chicago will be hit by a tidal
wave, the ground from Hudson's Bay tb the Gulf
of Mexico may rise and the legendary continents
of Atlantis and Mu may emerge from the seas,
Laughead said.
He warned that the Eastern and Western sea
boards should also be on the lookout for "cata
clysmic" upheavals.
To Get Worse in '55
But things won't get really bad until 1955,
the tall, ascetic-looking physician said.
By that time, he said it's quite likely that all
the land masses as they now exist will sink be
neath the oceans and be replaced by new con
tinents. Men from other planets may rescue a
few of the earthlings in space ships, he said.
U.S. Orders
Against Greek Riots
Over Cyprus Decision
Athens, Greece (U.R) The
United States ordered the Am
erican Consulate in Salonika to
day to protest against anti-American
rioting in which 5,000
students smashed the U. S. In
formation Center and battled
police.
. The rioting in Salonika,
Greece's second largest city, was
Lewis G. Pickell
Dies Unexpectedly
During Goose Hunt
Lewis G. Pickell, 65, of 823
Taylor st., a Medford real estate
man since 1929, died unexpect
edly near Tule Lake, Calif., yes
terday while on a hunting trip.
A Tule Lake physician said
that Pickell apparently died
from a heart attack.
Pickell's wife, Lena, accom
panied him on the duck and
goose shooting trip about eight
miles south of Tule Lake. They
drove to the hunting area yes
terday morning and Pickell took
his gun and disappeared behind
an irrigation ditch embankment.
When eventually he failed to re
turn to the car, Mrs. Pickell in
vestigated and found her hus
band. He reportedly died as he
was aiming at geese.
Born in Kansas
Mr. Pickell was born in Kan
sas and entered the real estate
business at The Dalles. He later
was in the same business nine
years at Weiser, Ida. The agency
here is at 40 South Bartlett st.
He was a member of First Chris
tian church.
Survivors, in addition to his
wife, include a son, Douglas,
Medford.
Conger -Morris funeral home
will have charge of the funeral
services here. They will be at '11
ajn. Monday, with the Rev. D.
E. Millard officiating.
Portland (U.R) Bernard
Walden, 48, , Portland, was in
jured fatally early , today . when
his car crashed ; into a tree on
the Lower Columbia River high
way north of Burlington.
Trees May
The land involved is O&C re
vested lands and public domain.
The permits are issued for spec
ific locations. Those cutting
trees must be sure that they are
on BLM land, and should cut
trees not less than 100 yards
from any public road. BLM for
esters cannot give help in lo
cating trees or BLM areas, they
explained.
Many trees suitable for Christ
mas use grow on private land
in Jackson county, but thosei
wishing to cut them were cau
tioned that they must make ar
rangements with the owners.
Otherwise they may become li
able for prosecution for trespassing.
IS
Rough Day Next Tuesday,
si But End Not in Sight
is in for earth
Laughead
Protest
the worst reported, but delayed
reports reaching Athens said
anti-American and anti-British
demonstrations swept most of
the country's major cities.
Reds Try To Cash In
Communist party leaders al
ready were trying to cash in on
the anti-American and anti-Brit
ish sentiment and called for
Greece to pull out of NATOL and
to abrogate " the EQikan p a c t;
with Turkey and Yugoslavia.
The riots were touched off by
the United States' decision to
oppose union of the British-ruled
island of Cyprus with Greece.
The United States announced its
support for Britain at the Unit
ed Nations on Monday when
Greece demands for a plebiscite
were shelved.
40 Students Injured
Some 40 students were in
jured in the hours-long fighting
with club swinging police . in
the streets of Salonika when
police beat back an attempt to
march on the U.S. Consulate.
Some 60 persons were injured in
Athens earlier this week.
The students ripped and burn
ed American and British flags,
smashed a small Statue of Lib
erty, burned a photograph . of
President Eisenhower in nearby
Katerini and stoned the car of
the American consul, shatter
ing the windshield. , "
Central Point Now
Has 1,909 People
Central Point This city's pop
ulation is now 1,909, according
to a preliminary tabulation an
nounced by the federal census
bureau.
. The total is an increase of 242
persons over the 1950 census
total of 1,667. The special census
was conducted at the request o'f
the city, and was conducted dur
ing the first three days of the
week under the direction of E.
B. Lewis of the Los Angeles reg
ional census office.
The final, and official, popu
lation count will be announced
before the end of the year.
Apportionment of cities'
shares of gasoline and liquor tax
revenues are made on a per
capita basis,, and Central Point
stands to gain additional state
revenues through the increase. ';
" Estimated cost of the census,
to be paid by the city, is $645.
State's SD Day Record t
82 Mishaps, 12 Injuries
- Salem' U.R) The court of
Oregon . accidents and injuries
throughout S-D day Wednesday
proved impressively the effec
tiveness of Oregon's recently in
stalled teletype system, Assist
ant Secretary of State . William
E. Healy aid today.
The system hooks up sate po
lice, sheriffs and city 'police of
fices in several parts of the state,
and triese reported so promptly
that the count of 80 accidents
and ; 12 . injuries, ' at 1:30. a.m.
was corrected today by only two
accidents involving no injuries.
The final count: 82 accidents, 12
injuries and no fatalities.
refused to say whether he's going
to stick it out in Chicago next Tuesday or go to
some drier city.
"I myself expect to be In the world in the
shape r now represent on Dec. 22," he said. "But
what changes I am making in my life as a result
of this prophecy are matters of my own personal
conviction not for public explanation."
Laughead, 44, and his wife received newsmen
in the home of Mrs. Dorothy E. Martin of sub
urban Oak Park. He gave Mrs. Martin full credit
for the predictions and said she had received
the news from friends in outer space.
Takes Dictation
Mrs. Martin agreed that last March she was
sitting in her living room when "suddenly there
was a buzzing in my head, like a signal, and I
picked up a pencil."
"I started writing,, but there was no thought
involved," she said. "The pencil just wrote mes
sages. One of them was that there would be this
tidal wave hitting Lake Michigan Dec. 21 and
then spreading to other cities." -
The messages, she said, came from "connoi
ters" who live on an undiscovered planet called
"Clarion." "Connoiters" often check up on the
world in flying saucers or "discs," -she said.
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RELEASE RUMORED The
Austrian Catholic News Serv
ice said it received a i eport
from "Usually reliable
sources at Budapest" that
Hungarian Communists have
freed Josef Cardinal Minds
zenty from prison. He is
shown above in photo made
when he visited New York in j
June, 1947. '
Liquor Officials'
Portland (U.R) Oregon At
torney General Robert Y. Thorn
ton yesterday questioned : state
liquor, commissioners before
newsmen and then asked to talk
to them in private as he con
tinued his probe into acceptance
of gratuities by commission offi
cials. ' " ' -;; .
Thornton ' said . he considered
commissioners as witnesses in
the investigation as well as em
ployees he will question.
His ' questioning uncovered a
so-called "Plum Affair" that was
not explained during the public
questioning but was referred to
as an earlier investigation by the
commission itself of acceptance
of favors by commission em
ployees. '
Administrator W. H. Baillie
indicated it was an investigation
conducted previous to one into
similar charges against Assistant
Administrator Thomas Sheridan
and Stores Supervisor . Floyd
Burton. ... ; , ,
Premature Baby of Young
(Vtarine and Wife Dies Here
Marine Corps Pfc. and Mrs.
Frank D.. Martin - aren't - com
plaining, , . but they just went
through a heart-wringing ex
perience this - week,, far from
home, family and friends. 4 .
The young couple was en
route to the El Toro Marine base
at Santa Ana, Calif., where he is
to be stationed, this week. They
stopped at the Bear Creek motel
Tuesday, night: Early Wednesday
morning Mrs. Martin was taken
to Osteopathic hospital where a
baby was born, two months pre
maturely. -
On Thursday, the baby died.
Private funeral services were
held this morning at, Siskiyou
Memorial park for the baby, a
girl, who was named Connie
Jane. Burial will be at the young
couple's home in Montana.
Security of West
Europe To Be Based
On Nuclear Arms
U. S. To Provide
Atomic Arsenal
Paris (U.R) The foreign min
isters of the 14 member nations
of the North Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization NATO agreed today
to defend West Europe with
American atomic weapons.
Threat Still Great
The decision to base Europe's
defense on the U. S. atomic
arsenal was rushed through to
day's restricted meeting after
a review of world conditions
convinced the ministers that the
Soviet threat to the continent is
as great as ever. : . '
The ministers approved a re
port by top generals of the
NATO nations recommending
that the defenses of Europe
against possible Red aggression
be planned "along new-look
atomic lines." .
It Was stressed that .the de
cision to base Europe's defenses
on the latest atomic and other
weapons and tactics is in no
sense a decision to start lobbying
atomic shells.
But the decisions taken will
gradually change the entire pat
tern and organization of Eu
rope's defenses.'
The report agreed that, in
principle, civilian governments
rather than the military generals
should decide when and where
atomic weapons are brought into
use. . ; -
But the United States made it
clear yesterday that it does not
believe-full r consultation with
every NATO government would
be practical in event of an
atomic war.
The assumption In Washing
ton is that the United States has
cached atomic bombs and atomic
shells at appropriate places over
seas from where they could be
quickly supplied to the American
units equipped to deliver them.
But no responsible official in
Washington has said so. U. S. air,
sea, and ground commanders in
the European theater have often
proclaimed their ''atomic capaci
ty." : But on the record they
evade questions as to whether
they have a stockpile of atomic
weapons directly at hand.
. The United States already has
equipped one NATO division in
Europe with tactical atomic
weapons.
French Premier Pierre Men-des-France
grimly pledged to the
other 13 nations that mounting
"will not modify in any way
Russian threats against France
the determination of the French
government to obtain ratification
of the German rearmament plan
as speedily as possible.
PUC Files Action
On Tax Non-Payment ' '
Three separate causes of ac
tion seeking a total of $271.41
have been filed in circuit court
against Robert George Corbett
by the Oregon Public Utilities
commissioner for failure to pay
highway use taxes, according to
court records.
The alleged violations are said
to have occurred between July
16, 1949 and May 31, 1950 on
one count; between June 1,
1950 and Aug. 14, 1950, and dur
ing May, 1950 on the third.
The PUC is also asking for
the costs and disbursements as
well as . the judgments, ;
ger-Morris funeral home hand
led the arrangements.
Mrs. Martin was able to leave
the hospital this morning, and
she and her young husband were
planning to stay at the motel
until about Sunday, when they
will resume their journey south.
He is to report for duty the day
after Christmas.
, Hospital attendants, the Rev.
G. H. Hillerman of Zion Luth
eran church, and a newspaper
reporter asked the young Ma
rine if they need anything, but
he said he thinks "they have
enough money to get by, and
that there's nothing anyone
needs to do to help. His wife is
"feeling fine," he said.
His parents live in Scobey,
Con-Mont, and hers in Ft. Peck.
Red China's Premier Chou En
lai today invited U. N. Secretary-general
Dag Hammarskjold
to Red China, presumably to dis
cuss the case of 11 U. S. airmen
imprisoned , there as spies.
Hammarskjold announced he
will go to Peiping as soon as he
Stockholm, where he will accept
his late father's seat in the Swe
dish Academy. He will leave
New York at 6 o'clock tonight
and return Tuesday or Wednes
day. Chou sent two cables to Ham-
marskjold in which he bitterly
attacked the United Nations for
condemning the imprisonment
and giving Hammarskjold ; a
mandate to seek an audience in'
Peiping. But he extended the
secretary general a cordial wel
come to visit Peiping.
Door Left Open
The wordmg of Chou's inflam
matory cable indicated he would"
say "no" to Hammarskjold's efj
forts to win freedom for the air
men.: '. , .
At tfl0 eamA fimft tVnmt an
ently left the door open for dis
cussions of four other U. S. air-!
men and several hundred U. N.
personnel still held as war pris
oners who were not tried by "
Red courts.
A Red Chinese "DeoDles court"
convicted the 11 Americans on
sdv charees after the nrosecii-
tors claimed they were shot
down in China and not in North
Korea as. the United States
charged.
In asking Chou for the meet- ;
ing in a cable dispatched to Pei- ,
ping last Friday, Hammarskjold
suggested a date soon after Dec
zo. ;
Propaganda Victory
Hammarskjold was expected
to set the time and make other
arrangements while in Stock
holm. He has an appointment
there with Communist Chinese
envoy Keng Pao.
The first reaction in. Asia was
that Chou had scored a propa
ganda victory by agreeing to re
ceive on his own terms the head
of a world organization that has
refused membership to Red
China.
Nevertheless, Chou's invitation
to Hammarskjold was expected
to be received in the United
States as good news.
Henry Cabot Lodge, U. S. am
bassador to the United Nations.
said "We hope this will mean
progress in getting our ' men
home."
Red China Condemned
'We wish Mr. HammarsldnM
success "in his mission,M Lodge
said.
The U. N.' General Assemhlv
last Friday voted 47-5, with, only
the Soviet bloc dissenting, to
authorize Hammarskiold to us
his office in an effort to obtain
release of the Americans.
This mandate was given In an
adopted resolution which con-
uemiieu ine unrecoraizen Man
Tse-tung regime for jailing the
Americans instead of repatriat-
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uig mem iii ine war prisoner
exenange at I'anmunjom last
year. ;
Group Supports
New Constitution
Portland U.R) A commit
tee appointed jointly by Gov.
Paul Patterson and the state
Legislature yesterday recom
mended ' revision of Oregon's
constitution. ,
A majority report by the
committee proposed a conven
tion for- July, 1959, to rewrite
the document, which they de
scribed in part as obsolete, am
biguous and objectionable. The
report said 166 out of the 232
sections should either be deleted,
amended or reorganized.
The committee's minority re
port, while agreeing that parts of
the constitution need revising,
favored a gradual revision by
either the legislature or by
voters initiative.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Dow
Jones final stock averages: 30
industrials 394.94 up 1.80; 20 '
railroads 142.47 up 2.28; 15
utilities 61.62 off 0.03; 65 stocks
146.96 up 1.03. Sales today were
about 3,730,000 shares compar-'
ed with 3,390,000 shares traded
yesterday. .
Weather
FORECAST: Fair throne Sat-,
nrday. Low tonight 28. High
Saturday 56.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 46
Lowest this Morning 28 .
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