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TEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuttday, March 15. 1955 Air Force Unveils Supersonic Guided Missile Which 'Thinks' for Itself Six-Fooi Rocket Available Soon; Destroys Bombers Br CHARLES CORDDRY United Presi Correspondent Washington (U.R) The Air Force unveiled a supersonic guided missile today that can "think" for itself and soon will be available to destroy enemy bombers at great distances from American targets. Making public first official de tails on the Falcon Guided Air craft rocket, the Air Force des cribed it as "the smallest guided missile in production and the only air-to-air missile with a 'brain' of its own." The slender, 6-foot, blunt nosed rocket will be carried beneath the wing of such high-speed in tercepter planes as the new F 102 and possibly the present F 89. Both are long-range, all wea ther jet fighters. The Falcon, under develop ment by Hughes Aircraft Co. since 1947, soon will become a part of the regular armament of some interceptor units, the Air Force said. Destroys B-17 Movies shown reporters re vealed how the guided rocket, pointed on its way by the launch ing airplane, pursues its target despite effort by the bomber to evade it. World War II B-17 target drones disintegrated as the Falcon plowed into them. The Air Force aid similar re sults have been achieved against jet propelled targets. Announcement of the new mis sile and details on its electronic brain" were timed to coincide with a speech in Dayton, O., by Assistant Air Secretary Trevor Gardner. He told an Air Force Institute of Technology graduating class that the Falcon will be one of the most important air defense development since radar. "What the American people will perhaps take greatest com fort in knowing is that the Fal con Is designed for use in Air Force interceptors at bases in far off arctic regions and other locations many, many miles from our centers of population," Gardner said. Homing Device how the missile guides itself af how the misile guides itself af ter leaving the parent plane. It said simply that the Falcon "seeks the target which has been pointed out to it" and can hold its course despite evasive ma neuvers of an enemy bomber. The missile apparently em bodies a complicated electronic homing system which takes in formation from its target and can sense changes in direction in order to correct its own course. Most current guided missiles are directed from their launch ing platforms or are unable to altar their courses after they are sent on their way. Gardner said that the Falcon development helps to push American defenses far from cities and thus increases the probability of killing attacking bombers. v Hughes developed the missile at Culver City, Calif., and is producing it in an Air Force plant at Tucson, Ariz. Hornbrook Hornbrook, Calif. (U.P.) Visiting at the George Wright home this week are their daugh ter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Sweet of Marcos, Calif., and Mrs. Martha Rogers of San ta Ana, Calif., sister of Mrs. Wright. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chapman attended the annual Saint Pat rick's Day dinner at the Sacred Heart church in Medford Sun day, March 13. Mrs. E. R. Burtner and four children sailed March 14 from Seattle. Wash., to join her hus band, M-Sgt. E. R. Burtner in Japan. He is with the air force. Mrs. Burtner was formerly Mad lyn Chapman, sister of Mrs. Herb Dungey. of 1301 Winchester st., Medford. 1 TVTV -inrl TVf re T-Torriort fhinpov ' av j were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Chapman, March 12. Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Walsh, daughter Sherrie and Miss Wil ma Parker of Yreka, drove to Riddle, Ore., on business March 12. Thomas Watt and Walter J. Nelson drove to Tillamook and Portland. Ore., on business the week end of March 12. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Watt Jr., brought their son Tommie, 7, back from Portland and en tered him in school here. While there they visited their respec tive parents, Mrs. Thomas Watt and Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rue bisch. ASHLAND FIRM FILES' Salem (U.R) Articles of incorporation were filed here today for Stirling Brothers Corp., Ashland motel and hotel firm. They were signed by Tom, Wallace and Charlott H. Stirling. Go Progress Confessed Liar May Be Trapped For Contempt By LYLE C. WILSON United Press Correspondent Washington (U.R) No less as tonishina than Harvey Matu- c..,-- ,-i-;rv,frt invention of a stringless yo-yo is the fact that he has succeeded in lying pub licly under oath without any certainty of being indict ed for perjury. Matusow is the turnabout Lyle C. Wilson informant who swoit- as a government witness that several persons were Com munists, only to recant with a public confession that he was lying. He may be trapped on charges of criminal contempt of court for that. But there has been no progress so far on per jury charges and perhaps none will be made. The self-confessed liar will ap pear Wednesday before U.S. District Judge R. E. Thomason in El Paso, Tex., for a hearing on criminal contempt charges. Thomason upheld last week the conviction of labor leader Clin ton Jencks (Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers) on affidavit required by the National Labor Relations Board. Jencks had sought a new trial by reason of the Matusow switch. Matusow had been a witness against him. Which Were Lies? The Justice Department has been unable to proceed against Matusow on charge of perjury because an indictment and con viction would require more than mere proof that the witness lied. He has acknowledged that he lied. To make a perjury charge stick, the department would have to prove which of Matusow's conflicting state ments under oath was a lie, and, therefore, perjury. Matusow's Book Goes on Sale New York U.R) Harvey Matusow's book "False Witness" went on sale today, but the turn about former Communist may be too busy explaining its con tents to take much notice of the reviews. . The 28-year-old former FBI informer must appear before a federal judge in El Paso, Tex., tomorrow to show cause why he should not be sent to prison for lying in testimony about a left wing union leader. He also is at the center of an attempt by 13 convicted second string Communists to win a new trial on Smith Act charges on grounds that Matusow lied in testimony that helped send them to jail. Matusow's 225 page book con tains lengthy discussions of court testimony he gave in both of those cases, testimony that he now claims was a lie. Matusow pictures himself in the book as a publicity hungry ex-Communist who told lie after lie just to make money and get his name in the newspapers. Grange Griffin Creek Grange HEC of Griffin Creek Grange will meet Thursday, March 17, for a 12 o'clock potluck lunch at the Rupert Maddox Sr. home on Sterling rd. Those attending are to bring their own table service. There was a good attendance of members and visitors at the Grange meeting last Thursday. Pearl and Cyril Farnsworth were welcomed back from Iowa after an absence of two years. Visitors from Roxy Ann Grange were Master and Mrs. Orrie Moore: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bish, Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Ritchie, Mrs Marguerite Shaw and Mrs Alice Shober. During lecture hour there was group singing, readings by Mol lie Casey and Roy LeVander and some cute Irish stories. The Glocklers and Luchter hands served doughnuts and cof fee during refreshment hour. GQ2K Chest X-Ray Program Tomorrow Afternoon The weekly x-ray outpatient program at Community hospital will be from 3 to 6 p.m. tomor row, residents were reminded today by officials of the Jackson County Public Health associa tion. The program, which provides chest x-rays for only the cost of the film, is sponsored by the as sociation in cooperation with the hospital and the medical society. It has proven valuable in detect ing early cases of tuberculosis, as well as other chest conditions. Association members pointed out today that the type of equip ment at the hospital permits x rays to be taken without undress ing. Only heavy top clothing need be removed. Provoo Release Waits Signature Of Ruling Judge .. Baltimore (U.R) John David Provoo waited today for release from almost five years' confine ment as an accused traitor. Provoo, a former Army ser geant who was charged with aiding the Japanese during World War II and causing the execution of a fellow prisoner, was ordered freed yesterday by Federal Judge Roszel Thomsen. Said Denied Richt The judge acquitted Provoo on the ground that he was de nied his cdnstitutional right to a speedy trial. All Provoo needed to regain his freedam was Thomsen's sig nature on a release order. Pro- voo's attorneys said they would submit the order and the former sergeant's chances of being re leased before nightfall were be lieved excellent. An assistant U. S. attorney said it has not been decided whether the government will ap peal the ruling freeing the for mer San Francisco bank clerk. The right to a speedy trial is guaranteed by the Sixth Amend ment of the Constitution. Pro voo had been held in prison for nearly five years and denied bail because he was charged with a capital offense. Inducement Charged Provoo was accused of caus ing the execution of a fellow prisoner of the Japanese, Army Capt. Burton C. Thomson. The government also charged that Provoo, who was taken prisoner after the fall of Corregidor in 1942, donned the robes of a Buddhist priest and attempted to induce other prisoners to give information to the Japanese. it BONUS QUALITY at no extra cost? m Mcaftiusow Inventor of Jet Engine Starter Denied Clearance Washington (U.R) The Doug las Aircraft Corp. testified yes terday that a man who devel oped a vital jet engine starter was denied "secret" clearance to work on his own invention. Bernard F. Fitzsimmons tes tified before a Senate Govern ment Operation Subcommittee which is studying a proposal for a bipartisan commission to re view the government's loyalty security program. Fitzsimmons said his com pany, following its usual policy, fired the inventor when the Navy and Air Force refused him access io secret work at Douglas' El Segundo, Calif., plant. Eventually Cleared However, the man appealed his case and "eventually, they came through and cleared him," Fitzsimmons said. He did not identify the inventor. "If there was any secret, he was the guy who had it," com mented Sen. Hubert H. Hum phrey (D-Minn.V- acting chair man of the subcommittee and sponsor of the security review proposal. Fitzsimmons said he knows of no Communists now among Douglas' 60,000 employees. He said the company has fired 12 since 1947. He said 21 individ uals have been denied security clearance. Six have won ap peals and are still employed, he said. "Acquired lands" are those lands in federal ownership which are not public lands, hav ing been obtained by the gov ernment by purchase, condemn ation, or gift, or by exchange for such purchased, condemned or donated lands or for timber on' such lands. Portland Livestock Portland (U.P.) Cattle 200. Commercial-good fed steers. $18.50-22.50; choice fed steers $23-23.25 with some 1092 lbs. at $23.50: choice 840-lb. fed heifers $21.50 with good heifers most ly S19.50-20.50; canner-outter cows mostly $9.50-11: utility grades $12-14. commercial grades up to S15; light cutter bulls $11.50-13.50; utility-commercial grades $14.50-17 or above. Calves 50. Good-choice grades S23 28: utility-commercial grades S14-21. Hogs 350. Choice one and two butchers. 180-235 lbs.. 18.50-19: choice three lots down to $18: heavier and lighter weights mostly. $17-17.50; choice 315-400 lb. sows $15-16.50. me dium grades and heavier weights down to $14. Sheep 100. Choice grade wooled lambs $21.50-22: medium and good feeders $16-17.50; good-choice slaugh ter ewes S8-9. AVhats this about Wall Street New York (U.R) Stocks to day had their best gain in indus trials since last Nov. 4. The industrials at 2 p.m. showed a recovery of 53 per cent from yesterday's loss; rails, 46 per cent, and utilities 10 per cent. The general average show ed a recovery of 45 per cent. Today's closing prices on se lected stocks: American T & T 1775b Anaconda 51 Chrysler 68 V4 Curtiss Wright 20Va General Electric 49 General Motors . 938 Montgomery Ward 76 V2 Penn. R. R 27 14 Penney, J. C 86 Radio 41 Southern Co 20 Southern Pacific 55 S. Oil of Calif 7614 Texas Gulf Sulphur 39 Transamerica 38V4 Tri-Continental 2534 United Aircraft 76 Vz U. S. Rubber 41 U. S. Steel 75 Youngstown 77 V4 Portland Cash Grain Portland Prices as reported by the USD A market news service: Wheat No. 2 soft white, $79.75 a ton bulk, prompt delivery f o.b. Portland. No. 2 white oats 38c test. Coast delivery $57.50 ton; Portland-delivery. $53 53.50; No. 2 Western barley. $53.50 ton f.o.b. Portland Coast delivery; sovbean meal, S89 ton, cars, prompt shipment. $43.50-44 ton cars prompt delivery Portland; No. 2 yellow corn, $65.75 ton f.o.b. Portland. Wholesale hay prices: No. 2 green alfalfa baled, f.o.b. Portland, $37 trucks, $39 rail. Timothy mixed hay, $36-37 a ton. f.o.b. rail car. Seattle. Portland grain exchange: Monday's close: Bid Soft white .08 Soft white, no rex 2.38 White club 2.38 Portland Produce Portland (U.P.) Eggs To retail ers: Grade AA large. 52c doz.: A large, 50-5 lc doz.; AA medium, 0c: A me dium, 48-49c; A small, 44-45c doz.; cartons. l-3c additional. Butter To retailers: AA grade prints, 66c lb.: cartons, 67c: A prints, 66c: cartons. 67c; B prints. 64c. Cheese To retailers: A grade Ched dar. Oregon singles. 421,i-45',i!c; 5-6 lb. loaves. 46a-49'ic. Processed American cheese, 5-lb. loaf. 39',i-41c lb. Farm Market Local cabbage sold within a wide range with name brand crates going at 3.75 to retailers and ordinary at $2.50 and below today; No. 2 north west potatoes were higher with some wholesalers quoting 50 lb. bags to new seasonal high of $1.50. Poultry, Rabbits Live Chickens To growers (No. 1 quality f.o.b. Portland): Fryers. 2,2 to 4 lbs.. 29c lb. at farm. 28c lb.:roasters, 4 2 lbs.. 29c lb. f.o.b. Portland. 28c at ranch; light hens. 17c: heavy hens, all wts., 19-21c lb.; old roosters, 10-llc lb. Dressed Chickens No. 1 dressed to retailers: Fryers, New York style. 39 40c lb.; roasters, 40-41c: hens, light type. New York style, 28-29c: cut-up, 41-43c; hens, heavy-type. N.Y. style. 32-33c; whole-drawn, 42-46c: fryers, cut-up, all weights, 53-57c; wholesale drawn, 47-51c. Turkeys To retailers, A grade hens ready to cook, 48-50c; N. Y. dressed 44c lb.: Beltsville A grade hens, oven ready to 52c; Beltsville toms. 47c lb.; A grade toms. oven-readv. 41c lb. Rabbits (average to growers, f.o.b. Peirjjyiry . Diradktiinnieinift Value of Festival Told to Roundtable Bill Dawkins, former manager of the Oregon Shakespearean Festival association, discussed the festival and its value to the valley at the weekly roundtable session of the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce yester day noon. In a session which was mostly devoted to questions and answers regarding the festival, Dawkins pointed out that considerably more than half of the 20,000 people who attended the festival each August come from outside the area, and thus spend the night here. He stated that this is a major factor in the motel, hotel and restaurant business. Those attending come from all 48 states and from 14 foreign countries, he said. Next week the roundtable will hear a report on the state's travel informaion advertising program, given by Ken McDonald. Daily Weather Report DATE March 15, 1955 Sunset tonight 6:17 p.m. Sunrise tomorrow 6:21 a.m. FORECASTS Medford and vicinity: Fair through Wednesday with slowly rising tem peratures. Low tonight 25; high Wednesday 55. Western Oregon: Fair tonight and Wednesday except patches ot early morning fog or low cloudiness. Chilly again tonight, warmer Wednesday afternoon. Low 24-34; high 50-60. Northern California: Fair tonight and Wednesday. Little change in temperature. Five-day forecast, through Sunday: Western Oregon Rising tempera tures next few days; averages near normal. Highs mostly in 50s: lows in 30s. Moderate rain mostly Thursday or Friday. Total precipitation .1 to .3 inches. Northern California No appreci able precipitation. Low temperatures below normal; highs near normal. LOCAL DATA TEMPERATURE: - Mean yesterday 36; below normal 11. Record high this date 80 in 1947. Record low this date 19 in 1955. PRECIPITATION: 24 hours to mid night .03 inch. Midnight to 10 a.m., none. Total this month .19 inch.. .61 inch below normal. Total since Sept. 1, 6.73 inch., 6.94 inch, below normal. HUMIDITY: Lowest yesterday 53; highest this a.m. 90. CITY High Low Prec. Brookings 50 32 .04 Crater Lake 22 4 Grants Pass 43 22 T Klamath Falls 35 20 MEDFORD 44 19 .03 Portland 45 28 .02 Seattle 44 31 Spokane 39 26 Yakima . 50 23 Eureka 47 37 Red Bluff 58 42 Sacramento 60 41 San Francisco 56 41 Los Angeles 64 52 Phoenix 82 55 Denver o 28 .01 Chicago 66 52 .22 Miami 81 71 New York 52 35 Washington. D.C 56 43 T killing plants) Live white. 34-4 V2 lbs., 19-21C up; 5-6 lbs., 15-17c: colored pelts. 4c under; old does. 9-1 lc: color ed pelts, 4c under; old does. 9-1 lc lb.: a few higher. Fresh dressed fryers to retailers. 55-58c; cut up, 61-64c. M true, and here's fhe shay! Minimum standards for flk are set by law but Lucerne sets its own special and higher standards. And as a farmer's milk meets or exceeds these standards, Lucerne pays him a bonus for the extra quality. As a result, the finest milk comes to Lucerne and to you in quality that is well above legal standards for purity, flavor and cream-content. Lucerne can sell this bonus quality milk at no extra charge because of money saved on distribution!: Lucerne has no expensive door-to-door delivery costs. Rather Lucerne delivers hundreds of quarts at a time to stores only. The money Lucerne saves on distribution goes to get the "Bonus Quality" milk. That's why though it costs more at the farm Lucerne's Bonus Quality costs you no more than any other milk. LUCERNE The BONUS Around Hollywood Hollywood (U.R) Twenty years ago a round-faced child with pigtails reigned as one of the top-money making stars in pictures. Today a grown up Jane With ers is sailing back into movies for her first role in eight years. The one-time boisterous Aline Mosbjr tom-boy, now a gracious mother of three children, decided to re turn to show business following her divorce from wealthy Texan Bill Moss. In the 47 movies she made as a child star only one, "North Star", was an "A" film. Yet the former queen of "B" comedy pictures nosed out Shelly Win ters and other stars ; without even trying for the prize role of the year, oo-stanring with Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hud son in "Giant." "I wanted to do something to keep occupied," she explained. "My doctor suggested I return to work. He said it would give me a whole new life again." Jane had only one condition, she added, that the script not treat Texans as harshly as the Edna Ferber best-selling book about the nation's largest state. "After all, I lived in Texas eight years and I wouldn't want to offend the wonderful people I knew," she said with a smile. Jane's first starring role as a moppet was "Ginger". After her 47th, "Faces in the Fog", she quit acting to marry "Moss, and also "because I wasn't satisfied with my roles." The warm, friendly actress be came a housewife in Midland, Tex., and on the Moss ranch in New Mexico. After the marriage failed she returned to Holly wood, but to lie nearly five months in a hospital. She was crippled from arthritis, but "if I hadn't been4 sick I wouldn't have gotten the role in "Giant. "I became friends with a hos pital technician who studied cinema at UCLA," she explained. "After I left the hospital he took me to his fraternity banquet where George Stevens, the di rector of 'Giant', was the speak er. I had never met him before. The next morning he called me and asked me to take the role." Jane, a hopeful writer, also has been working on two books, one an autobiography entitled, I Grew Up In Hollywood." "I'm writing this because when I was little people said, "You poor little thing, you have to work and slave and can't play with other kids. I'm very grate ful for being an actress. It's been a wonderful life," she said. The other book is "a sort of 'Egg and I' " about her life in MILK QUAIMY MILK at By ALINE MOSBY United Press Correspondent Texas and New Mexico. She also plans to star in a TV comedy series. Before "Giant" begins shoot ing in Texas in May coinci dentally near her former home Jane is busy moving into a 33-room house. I remember when Jane was a child star she had a real soda fountain in her home, the height of luxury. To day she still lives like a star in the Spanish-style mansion with 10 bedrooms, 13 baths, a circu lar staircase, a ballroom with crystal chandeliers, a fountain in the living room and a mir rored fireplace in the dining room. "I need all this room for my three children and my doll col lection which is the second largest in the world," she said proudly. fettM, I "Perfectly Balanced" ' A wonderful blend of GUERNSEY MILK ; for golden richness, HOLSTEIN MILK for added energy units and JERSEY MILK for healthful solids. Snider's GOLD-II-MCI! 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