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Newspaper Page Texti y II II II II II II I I I 1 II II IX UUVVU LJJ-'-VrUAJ MedfordTribune United Pri 49th Year 12 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER-30, 1954 Peace Officers Plan Enforcement Of Traffic Safety New Yea' Holiday Patrols Expanded Jackson county law enforce ment agencies' will make a con certed effort New Year's eve and Jan. 1 to keep traffic ac cidents at an absolute minimum. ; Officials of the state police, city police, and Jackson county sheriff's office, said this morri- The Mail Tribune's business . office , will be closed during 'the New Year holiday Satur day. Deadline for submission of classified ads for the Sun day edition of the paper will .be 5:30 pan. Friday. ing that extra patrols are plan ned and officers have been in structed to keep a close look out for drunken driving and oth er moving automobile viola tions. ' City Police Chief Charles Champlin said this morning that all available officers will be on hand to drive home those who have had too much to drink. In addition, three extra city patrol cars will "be on city streets dur ing the evening and early mor ning. Sheriff Howard Gault said that he plans extra patrols, and an office force will be on duty throughout the evening and on New Year's day. Champlin expressed the sentiments of local law enforce ment agencies when he said The general trend in accidents is down, and we want to keep it that way., We're still not sat isfied." Champlin has - instruc ted all city officers to stop all cars which are operating in an erratic manner. Offices To Close All city, state, county and. fed eral offices will close -for the holiday, and business places, with the exception of a few drug and groceries stories, plan to be closed during the day. All county schools closed since a few days before Christmas, will reopen on Monday, Jan. 3. Hammarskjold Leaves For Peiping Meeting United Nations, N. Y. U.R) Secretary General Dag Hammar skjold leaves today for Peiping on a 14,000-mile flight to de mand the release of 2,850 United Nations prisoners held by Red China in violation of the Ko rean armistice .agreement. The face-to-face meeting with Chinese Communist Premier Chou En-lai was ordered by the General Assembly in behalf of 11 American airmen imprisoned on spy charges. But Hammar skjold also will seek the release of 2,850 others, of which 526 are American and 2,000 are Ko reans. Shipments of Diamonds Missing in Plane Crash " London (U.R) A big ship ment of diamonds has vanished from the wreckage of a New York-bound airliner that crashed on Christmas at Prestwick, Scotland, it was disclosed today The London Evening News said the missing gems were worth "nearly $1,400,000." Chicago (U.R) Fort Wayne, Ind., has been chosen as the site for the 1955 conven tion of the AFL American Fed eration -of Teachers. Still-Unnamed Offers of Ai The Rolls triplets, still un named, were doing fine to day, i The tiny boys, born at Sac red Heart hospital yesterday morning, were weighed this , morning. The smallest (who is also the friskiest) weighs 3 pounds 13 ounces; the next weighs 4 pounds 6 ounces, and the largest, who was the .last to be born and who gave ; doctors and nurses a few worrisome moments y ester . day, . 'weighs 4 pounds 8 ounces. Together they weigh 12 pounds 11 ounces. ; They are the sons of Mr.v ess Full Leased Wire united .press- 632 M.P.H. AND THEN . . . WHAM! Two black eyes a few blood blisters were only ill effects suffered by Air Force Lt. CoL John P. Stapp being jerked to a dead stop (above) in one and a half seconds from a 632 m.p.h. -ride in a one-ton rocket sled. The test was made at Holloman Air Development Center at Alamagordo, N. M. to test effect on air men who bail out of planes at supersonic speeds. t i New City and County Officials Scheduled To Take Office Soon New city and county officials, including a new mayor of Med ford and a new county commis sioner, will assume their duties next week. New county officials already Wild Party Ends In Youths' Arrest A 25-year-old Ashland man has been arrested and several juveniles have been taken into custody as the result of a wild prfc-Christoiaa'pafiy lffst v:Ssh land, according to Sheriff How ard Gault and District Attorney Walter Nunley. Jailed on a charge of giving beer to minors was Aaron Frances Gentry, 25, of 42V4 Third st., Ashland. Several of the younger juve niles now in custody have been turned over to juvenile authori ties, and 'the older juveniles will probably appear in district court, the district attorney said. About 15 to 20 young people broke into a house at Klamath Junction Dc. 23, Gault said. He added that the house, owned by Floyd Winner, had been un occupied about a week. Several of those picked up have admitted having beer and whiskey, according to the sher iff . He added that damage to the house included a broken door and several broken win daws. The damage reportedly amounted to about $100. About five servicement home on leave, are involved. Action Not Yet Taken On Doty Case Motion District Judge Rawles Moore said this morning that he has not yet taken action on a mo tion to remand the case of Lyle Vernon Doty, 16, of 1125 Maple Park dr.,' to juvenile court. The motion was made yester day by District Attorney Walter Nunley. The Doty youth has been arraigned on a charge of assault and robbery while armed with a dangerous weapon. Maxi mum sentence, on the charge is life in the state penitentiary. The Doty youth was arrested last week after Wallace Stearns, a Grants Pass merchant, was robbed of his delivery truck after being threatened at gun point. Rolls Triplets Given; Father and Mrs. James W. Rolls, 512 Summit ave. - A completely spontaneous movement got under way this morning to give the young couple a bit of help with their new responsibilities. - One anonymous woman of fered to do sewing for the babies. Diamond L. Flynn, Medford's retiring mayor, got to thinking about the finan cial, burden of three babies, and decided to make a cash gift to them on his own. He also called at City Sanitary Service Co., where Rolls is employed, and the proprie- have been sworn in by County Clerk Bereth Hopkins. They include Chester Wendt, county commissioner, and Carlos Morris, coroner. Also sworn in was W. P. Tucker, who has been reappointed by the county court to serve as county constable. Wendt, who was elected at the November election, suc ceeds Robert . Lytle, Valley View, on the county court. Mor ris, who previously has served as coroner, succeeds Dr. Merle Foland, who was appointed by the court after Dr. M. P. Vogel resigned to accept . a medical practice at Lakeview. New city officials will be Mayor Earl Miller, succeeding Diamond Flynn, who was not a candidate for reelection, and Councilmen Fred E. Robinson, Paul Meyers, and Don Hansen. Miller will take over as mayor following a special council meet ing set for tomorrow noon at the city hall. The councilmen elect also will attend the meet ing. Outgoing councilmen who will be attending their last meeting will be Paul Selby and Frank Runtz. Runtz was not a candi date for reelection, and both Miller and Selby gave up their council posts to seek election as mayor. Invitation Seen Communist Victory Bogor, Indonesia (U.R) Dip lomatic observers said today the invitation of Red China to the Afro-Asiatic Conference sched tiled in this country next April was a prestige and -propaganda victory for the Communists. They said the presence of Red representatives at the projected 30-nation meeting in Bandung would strike a- series blow at the U.S. policy of excluding the Communist conquerors of China from world councils.. The premiers of Indonesia, Pakistan, India,. Ceylon and Burma-sponsors of the confer ence displayed bewildering in consistency in making up their guest list. They excluded Nationalist China "We can't have two Chinas there" and did not in vite North and South Korea "be cause Korea does not have a unified government." Invita tions were sent, however, to North (Communist) and South (free) Viet Nam. Doing Fine; Gets Raise tors, Anthony J. Boitano and. Charles W. Bottjer, said they too wanted to help. The result was a $100 cash gift, plus a raise for Rolls of $1 per day. Mayor Flynn said this morning that, a lot of people have shown interest in lend ing a hand. The Rollses are not destitute, he explained, but with three tiny babies, "they've got problems." "It's an honor to the city to have three new citizens born at once," the mayor said, and if anyone else wants to help, I'll be glad to see that gifts get to the young couple." Full Leased Wire Price 5c, No. 243 Sharp Earthquake In Eureka Region Adds To Damage Eureka, Calif. U.R) A sharp earthquake rocked the Eureka area today, breaking windows and widening cracks in build ings jolted by a strong temblor just before Christmas. The quake, which was felt about 1:18 a.m. (PST) was strong enough to rouse thousands of residents in Eureka and sur rounding communities. Police and sheriff's deputies said they were "swamped" with calls. Residents in Areata, a small town about seven miles north east of Eureka, reported the quake broke windows that they had replaced only a few days ago because of -theDeCi ,21 quake. ' ' Police in Eureka and Areata said there appeared to be no new damage to their cities' wat er systems, which were damaged in last week's quake. Officers said water appeared to be "nor mal." Phoenix high school basket ball team - is in Areata, Calif ., which was shaken this morning bv an earthquake.' The team is playing a two-game seriesl First game was last night. . Photosynthesis Said. Trapped by Scientist Berkeley (U.R) A. Universi ty of California scientist an nounces he has trapped the mech anism by which plant cells con vert the energy of the sun into food. Dr. Daniel I. Arnon, professor of plant physiology, reported to the American Association for the Advancement of Science yester day that he has duplicated one of nature s most important chemi cal processes photosynthesis in the laboratory. Arnon evaluated his findings with a degree of optimism rare m science: "The importance of having achieved complete photosynthe sis outside living cells lies in the firm hope it gives for discover ing in detail the mechanism of the process." Air Force Beginning Crash Cause Studies Huntsville, Ala.-flJ.R) An Air Force investigating team today examined scattered wreckage of a CI 19 Flymg Boxcar that broke open in turbulent air and crash ed into a mountain, killing 9 of the 11 persons aboard. ' The cargo plane smashed into the side of Shin Point Ridge and burned some 26 miles southeast of here yesterday. - The investigators arrived in three helicopters from the plane's home base at Sewart Air Force Base, Nashville, Tenn. : Charlotte, N. C (U.R) The Charlotte Observer, 1 a rg e s newspaper in the state, has been bought for $7,000,000 by the Mi ami - Herald Publishing Co of Florida. - - DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indust rials 401.97, unchanged, 20 rail roads 145.73 off 0.50; 15 utili ties 61.85 up 0.07, and 65 stocks 149.45, off 0.12. Sales today were about 3,590,000 shares com pared with 4,430,000 shares trad ed yesterday. : ' JdflDUlk Distribution To Discontinue at Midnight March 31 Objectives Not Satisfactorily Met 'Washington (U.R) Post master General Arthur E. Sum merfield announced today that postal distribution of so-called "junk mail" will be discontinued at midnight next March 31. The so-called "junk mail" was started on an experimental basis 15 months ago. It permitted third class advertising matter to be sent without names and ad dresses in cities and villages. The advertising matter could be marked merely "boxholder," householder" or "patron." Summerfield said the practice was started in an effort to, reduce losses incurred in handling third class mail and as a service to the public. . The results have not satisfac torily met these objectives and the only possible solution is in creased postage rates which will be sought in the next session of the Congress,',' Summerfield said. The unaddressed mail brought a flood of protests. Sen. Frank Carlson (R-Kan.), retiring chair man of the Senate Post Office Committee, recently recommend ed that Summerfield scrap the order. : Boxholders Uneffected The Post Office said that dis continuance of its order will not effect delivery of unaddressed mail on rural routes or to post oitice boxholders where no city or village delivery service is available . This service has been in effect for 20 years. - Also continued will be deliv ery in cities and villages of mail addressed to "occupant" but bearing a proper street address. This service also has been in effect since 1934. To Fire is Upheld Washington ; (U.R) Federal District Judge Charles F. Mc Laughlin today upheld the right of a company to fire union em ployees who refuse to answer questions of " congressional inves tigators about Communist ties. He made the ruling in a case involving the left wing Inde pendent United Electrical Work ers and the General Electric Co. The union had charged that G.E.'s policy of firing workers who invoke the fifth amendment was a violation of its collective bargaining contract. McLaughlin said such dismis sals were for "obvious cause," and therefore no violation of the company-union collective bargaining agreement. Historian Says Reds Use Panamanian Ships Los Angeles . (U.R) A uni versity historian says Russia i$ using many of the 740 merchant ships flying ; the Panamanian flag to train Soviet personnel in unfamiliar waters. Dr. Walter C. Hucul of the University of California at Dav is said many of the supposedly Panamanian merchant ' ships really were Russian. Hucul told the . 50th annual meeting of - the Pacific Coast branch of the American Histor ical Association yesterday that Russia also is building 1,000 long-range submarines and an unknown number of fast cruis ers "as their principal naval weapons of world revolution.' Washington The U. S. Court of Military,. Appeals has upheld the murder conviction of Mrs. Dorothy K. Smith daugh ter of Army Gen. Walter S. Kreuger. in the stabbing of her husband, Col. Aubrey D. Smith, in Tokyo the nigjit of Oct. 4-5, 1952. Portland (U.R) More than $100,000,000 in highway con struction was administered by the U. S. Bureau of Public roads in the four Northwest states and Alaska during 1954,- Division Engineer F. E. Andrews said today- Weather FORECAST: Occasional raiA in valleys and - snow in higher - mountains through Friday. Little temperature change. 43-45. Low tonight 37. High Friday Temp. Highest Yesterday 40 ! Lowest this Morning 37 Prec. to 4:30 a.m. Today 62 Second fly-Sheath Plant Plans y Companies Plans for construction of a I plywood sheathing plant in the Medf ord area were . announced today by a spokesman for a group of local lumber manuf ac- j tors. The new concern has no con nection with Fir-Ply, Inc., which recently announced its own plans for a similar type of mill, to cost some $500,000.' , $300,000 at First The spokesman, who said he and the backers do not wish to be identified as . yet, said suffi cient capital has already been pledged .to get the concern started. The plant initially will cost an estimated $300,000, and future building plans call for the expenditure of an additional $1,500,000, he said. Arrange ments are now being made for aquisition of a suitable building site in the Camp White area, he added. According to the announce ment, starting capacity of the plant will be about 3,500,000 feet monthly. About 150 men would be employed, and it is planned to have the most mod ern machinery . available to make it one of the most effi cient operations in the industry. Marketed Through Backers , Production will be marketed primarily through the lumber manufacturers who are partici pating in the plan, who can then make mixed-car shipment of construction lumber, panel ing, flooring, siding and, even- ually, mouldings and miscel laneous products. Legs and tim ber will be obtained by purchase on . the .open market, as well as through contributing efforts of the lumber firms participating, The announcement said the Winter Storm Moves Into Northeast Area By UNITED PRESS A furious winter storm which paralyzed parts of the South west roared into the nation's heavily populated Northeast to day with blasts of snow and sleet. . . -.' - ' The vast storm system laid down an advance barrage which penetrated as far east as New York, where driving rain and poor visibility caused at least eight traffic deaths. r Rescue crews had freed thous ands of motorists who were ma rooned - by six-foot snowbanks in Texas and Oklahoma. But a numbing cold wave was moving into the West arid Midwest in the storm's wake. The winter's first and most vicious . storm - was already blamed for a total of 49 deaths Crops and Livestock Prices To Farmers Down Washington (U.R) Prices farmers received for crops and livestock fell two per cent dur ing the month ended Dec. 15, the Agriculture Department report ed today. The drop was led by lower prices on hogs, lettuce, cotton, milk, and eggs. . - The department said the cost of things farmers must buy re mained unchanged during the month. Family Finds Pipes Broken, Home Soaked Mr. and Mrs. Clark Walker. 1765 Stewart ave., returned last night f r om ' Van Nuyi. Calif.,.: where they spent the holidays with their daughter and i on -in-law, Mr. and Mrs. .T. N.- Barber. When they entered their home, they found the upstairs water pipes had bVoken, ap parently from freezing, while they were away. The home was flooded.: Floors downstairs were about two inches. deep in water, and holes had to be punched in the ceiling to release water trapped -there, which had caus ed the ceilings to sag. t Linens and clothing in the closets were soaked. So were the rugs and the " curtains. ! The amount of the damage has not yet been estimated, but Walker reported he has learn ed his insurance will not cov er it. Told leire plant will be managed by an experienced plywood producer, and that the organization will be in a position to withstand vig orous competition, by being in sured of top efficiency, estab lished market outlets, and a stable log supply." Eisenhower Sees French Action as Signpost To Peace Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower today hailed "French assembly approval of West German rearmament as a decisive" signpost to "world peace. .- 1 Mr. Eisenhower, after a series of tense days here at his holi day headquarters, issued a for mal statement praising the As sembly for holding firm to the Western pattern of defense against the threat of Russia. Prospects Improved As decisive cooperation sup plants age old antagonisms," the President said,' "the prospects for a general and lasting peace will be definitely improved and ameasureof encouragement may therefore even now toe felt by-all who are earnestly striv ing to maintain and improve the unity and harmony of the world." . - - The President flew here week ago for a vacation of golf mixed with final work on his three messages to. Congress, planning to return to Washing ton after Jan. 2. Consulted with Dulles During the week he has con sulted almost hourly each dav by telephone! with Secretary of State Dulles in Washington. Wednesday Dulles called the President three times and later talked with Hagerty. - ASC CommifteeNames Officers for 1955 Albert Straus, Sams Valley has been elected chairman of the Jackson county Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation committee, it was announced to day by ASC officials. Other newly elected officers are Delmar Smith, Central Point, vice - chairman; Charles White, Rogue River, regular member: Merton Bra'dshaw. Brownsboro, first alternate, and Joseph Rapp, Talent, second al ternate. County ASC committees are responsible for the administra tion of a number of federal farm programs pertaining to agricul ture. These programs include the wheat allotment and mar keting quota program, price sup port and storage facility loans, and the agricultural conserva tion program. ' ; Road Conditions Both Siskiyou and Green springs mountain passes were clear of snow early this after' noon, state police reported. It was raining, but officers ad vised motorists to carry chains . in case snowfall resumes. Elsewhere in the .state, ehains were advised on most mountain highways. . Government Not To Blame For 1948 Portland Flood San Francisco U.R) The Ninth U. S. : Court of ' Appeals yesterday upheld a decision that the federal government cannot be held responsible for' the flood ing of the Vanport housing proj ect on the Columbia river near Portland, Ore., in May, 1948. Large Property Damage The flood, resulting when an embankment collapsed, caused 14 deaths, large property dam age, and forced 15,000 persons to flee their homes. Residents' later filed suit against the government for more than $6,000,000 in . damages charging that the flood was caused by federal negligence in maintaining the embankment. Th6 suit named the 'Army en gineers, the Portland Housing Path Cleared for United Front To Fight Aggression Assembly Votes 287-260 For German Rearmament Paris 1 (U.R) France today finally approved the West Euro pean Union which will put 500,- 000 West German troops under arms. The vote saved the govern- 7 ment of Premier Mendes-France and cleared the way for a united . Western front against possible Communist aggression. The official vote was 287 to 260.' Agonizing Decision France reached its aeonizine decision four years and . eight governments after the Allies first decided to invite the West Germans into a 1 defensive alli ance. Today's vote mittine new mus-1 cle into the Western alliance which now will stretch unbroken from Turkey to the Baltic cli maxed 11 days of debate1 in which the torn and fearful French Assembly demonstrated repeatedly its fears of any alli ance with its ancient enemy. Debate had been scheduled to last four days. Instead, it dragged on for 11. Communists Against Premier . Arrayed aeainst the Premier was a solid ibloc of 94 Com munists committed to a bitter end fight to prevent a Western front against Russia and her sat ellites. Strange bedfellows but votinir with the Reds were the extreme rightists represented by the fol lowers of Gen. Charles de Gaulle. Others voted against the Premier either because his roughshod tac tics had antagonized them nr nut of irritation because he had re fused to support their earlier tight for EDC. , Great Britain alread-r ha an. proved the union, as has the Ital ian Chamber of Deputies. It has gone tnrougn an early reading in the German Bundestag and is in various stages of approval in the Netherlands end Belgium. Luxembourg" will approve after its Benelux neighbors. ' 12 German Division - r Final approval by all nations early in 1855 now is regarded as certain. ; It adds 12 German divisions to Gen. Alfred Gruenther's NATO land forces, now training on the basis of atomic weapons. It premits for the first time the Western allies to negotiate without uncertanty with the Rus sian bloc possibly as earlv an next May in a four power meet ing already proposed by Mendes- France. Heuberger To Back Democratic Policies Washington -jOJ.FJ Sen.-Elect Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) said today "he expects to support Democratic policies "most of the time" in the Senate, but will not vote for them "when they are wrong." ' Neuberger told a- news con ference the same thing goes for President Eisenhower's pro gram. - "Where I think the President is right, I will support . him; where he is wrong I will oppose him." Neuberger, who was 42 on Dec. 26, also said he expects to support Sen. Wayne L. Morse (Ind.-Ore.) for reelection in 1956 even if Morse does not run as a Democrat. ' (See story on Page 2) " ; Production Controis On 1 955 Rice Crop , Washington 4U.R)r-Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson today moved to curb a mounting surplus of rice by imposing mar keting quota production controls on the" 1955 crop. It was the first time since 1950 that government restric tions had been placed on rice. - Authority and two railroads which had tracks on the em bankment. - ' The project was built by the government during ' World War II. The government leased the development to the Portland Housing Authority. Fee's Ruling Upheld . The 'court upheld the ruling of former Federal District Judge James Alger Fee on Jan. 29,. 1953. ' , . " ;". . y. - The appellate court said that extensive investigation after the tragedy ' failed to reveal why, the embankment collapsed. It said the . structure had been, erected in 1918 and withstood numerous floods and that - the' collapse was "unprecedented and unforeseeable."