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3 S 5 TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, August 7, 1955 5130,000,000 Merger Of Sears, RCA Given Government Approval Washington (U.fi) The Department of Justice has given its blessing to a proposed $130, 000,000 merger involving some operations of Radio Corporation of America, Sears-Roebuck and company and two large appli ance manufacturers, it was an nounced Saturday. Assistant Attorney General Stanley N. Barnes, said an ex tensive study proved that the transaction will have na major impact on competitors in the markets involved. Suit Pending 0 The department has an anti trust suit pending against RCA charging the huge concern with monopolizing the radio-television patent licensing business. But the current deal involves differ- 0 Expert Says Space Flight Obstacles Will Be Overcome QWashington (U.R) The director of the Army's guided missile program is confident that (Obstacles to space flight will be o (Overcome "in our time:" c Dr. Wernher von Braun, Prus sian-born scientist and guided missiler expert, said "Let there be no doubt that we still have a lot to learn before manned flight to an orbit of the earth let alone voyages to the moon or w Mars, will become possible. Voice Confidence O But he voiced confidence that , (the problems which now hold man to the lower levels of the earth's atmosphere eventually . will be solved. Von Braun is a pioneer missile expert who developed Ger many's V-2 rocket in World War Oil. His statements were made in connection with plans by the United States to launch a small, unmanned satellite during the 1957-58 International Geophysi cal Year. He said this "logical first step across the space frontier" will be followed by "more elaborately equipped orbiters" until "ulti- mately man himself will attain - orbital flight." Von Braun's statements were released by the Defense department. 3 O The greatest river of Australia Is the Murray which is about 1,520 miles in length and which drains approximately one-seventh of the area of the entire D continent. O Dead line for Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday. ent fields and will work this way: The Whirlpool Corporation of America, manufacturers of a home laundry equipment line, and the Seegar company, manu facturers of refrigerators and freezers will pool their assets. RCA and Sears then will acquire part of this new company, with RCA contributing 'its entire stove and air-conditioner lines. Sears already owns stock in both Whirlpool and Seegar, but plans for the merger state that Sears and RCA together will have "less than 50 per cent" control in the firm. Approval Requested Plans for the merger were made public recently by Whirl pool in a letter to stockholders. Whirlpool officials later told the United Press that all parties to the agreement had sought Jus tice department approval. Barnes was then asked about the antitrust implications. He said Saturday that all as pects of the deal were consid ered. First, the department gave weight to the prospect that par ticipation by Sears and RCA jointly "might develop into something like the Dupont and General Motors combine in the white goods line." This was no serious cause for concern, he said. "Further, we received assur ances from RCA that it will not use its position to supply Sears with its radio, television or phon ograph products." He said that since Sears and RCA both have stove lines now, the department also took up the possibility that competition be tween the two would be eliminated. Tim w ....Tagzg 'mwmgm&r&m, ..- t-tv.'.T,l.Mr 3 f Jiis REJECTS EISENHOWER PROPOSAL Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin (on rostrum) speaks in the hall of the Kremlin in Moscow before an audience of the combined Houses of the Supreme Soviet. In the left rear box sits former Premier Georgi Malen kov. At his left is Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, and at his right is N. Khru shchev, first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. Bulganin has stated that Presi dent Eisenhower's aerial inspection plan has no real significance because the terrain and topography of both countries "would permit camouflage of anything .desired. Residents of Hiroshima Observe 10th Anniversary of First Atomic Attack Jury Verdict Favors Freight Line at KF Klamath Falls (U.R) The U. S. District Court returned a ver dict here Friday in favor of Consolidated Freightways in a $10,000 suit. The suit was filed against Converse Trucking Company for damage suffered in April 1954 when two vehicles operated by the companys collided five miles south of here. The jury deliberated 40 min utes in the case which was tried before Judge James Alger Fee of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Action was expected to be completed Saturday on another suit filed against American For est Products Corporation by Willard J. Williams. Williams claims he was injured while vorking as a timber faller for the corporation in the Lakeview area last August. Hiroshima, Japan (U.R) The 250,000 residents of Hiro shima bowed their heads in pray er Saturday at exactly 10 years to the minute after the first at omic bomb ever used in war nearly wiped their city from the face of the earth. A minute later 500 peace doves were sent wing ing over the exact spot where the bomb fell. At 8:15 a.m., the exact mo ment when the bomb fell on Aug. 6, 1945, a siren sounded and bells began to peal throughout the city. The 250,000 present residents stopped for a minute of silent prayer in memory of the nearly 100,000 persons who died when an American B-29 dropped the bomb. Dovei Released When the prayer was ended the 500 "Peace Doves" were re leased to fly over the white cen otaph erected in the center of the ruins which mark the point where the bomb landed. The day's events were climax ed at night with the traditional floating of 10,000 lighted lan terns down Hiroshima's seven rivers in a gesture of solace to the spirits of the dead. Some of the anniversary's somberness was lost in the post ling of curiosity seekers who roamed throught the skeltons of bomb-blasted buildings left stan ding as a mute reminder of the atom's holocaust. Other visitors bustled through the flag-decked shopping center. Messages Read During the half hour daytime ceremony, held annually by the City of Hiroshima in its peace 'Dogfighler' Goes Free on $500 Bail Bakersfield, Calif. (U.R) Steve Straub, one of the par ticipants in an alleged aerial dogfight between two rival crop- dusting planes, was free on $500 bail Saturday. Straub, co-owner of an Arvin, Calif., cropdusting firm, was re leased on bail Friday following his arrest on reckless flying com plaint filed by Ruben Rorhback, a pilot for Atwood Cropdusters here. Civil Aeronautics Board of ficials, who investigated the in cident along with sheriffs' dep uties, said they would withhold any decision in the matter until after Kern County authorities take action. Rohrback, an ex-Marine pilot, accused Straub of making "sev' eral fighter passes" at him. Wit nesses said the two crop dusting planes dove and swooped at each other earlier this week in an apparent dispute over which should dust a cotton field. CALLING ALL PARENTS! YOUR IS YOUNG ONLY ONCE! Preserve his endearing expressions . ... his precious antics ... his love able ways FOREVER on film with your own HOME MOVIES. You can enjoy a name brand O HOME MOVIE OUTPUT f fi I I r V si COMPLETE For MLY S1 Down Monthly Payments As Low As $10.73 Includes: Keystone Capri Movie Camera & Case, plus Keystone K70 Projector & Case Radiant Beaded Screen 3-Rolls Kodachrome Film Don't Wait . . . Buy Now on These Easy Terms and capture Your Children's Sweet ness and Charm to Treasure Now and in Future Years. LANDIS-SHANGLE. STUDIO West Main-Corner Grape Phone 2-4242 memorial park, messages of en couragement were read out from Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama and the speakers of the two houses of Japan's parliament. Hatoyama said the symbol of Japan's rebirth from the de struction of war was epitomized in the "sight of the people of Hiroshima sweeping away the dark clouds of suffering of the past and participating boldly in the task of peaceful construction." Closure of Paper Threatens Revival Of Columbia Unrst Bogota, Colombia (U.R) A revival of active political oppo sition to President Gustavo Ro jas Pinilla threatened Saturday as a result of the closing down of the Liberal (opposition) news paper: El Tiempo. A spokesman for the Liberal National committee said the forced suspension of El Tiempo, Colombia's leading newspaper may result in an open breach be tween the party and the govern ment with the Liberals reassum ing their role as the leading opposition group. Pledge Support The Liberal party pledged its support to Rojas Pinilla when he assumed control through a military coup in 1953 with the avowed purpose of ending five years of virtual civil war in Col ombia and establishing a govern ment of national reconciliation. El Tiempo was ordered closed down indefinitely Thursday night for refusing to publish a retraction dictated by the gov ernment. As a result, Labor Minister Castor Jaramillo Arrubla sub mitted his resignation Friday to Rojas Pinilla. Dr. Alberto Lleras Camargo, former secretary gen eral of the organization of the American states (OAS), resigned as member of the Foreign Min istry's Advisory commission. Impose Censorship The government imposed mil itary censorship on all outgoing cables concerning the closure of El Tiempo. News agencies were notified that outgoing dis patches must be submitted to military censors for approval before they were handed to com munications companies. The printing shops of the 44- year-old newspaper owned by former President Eduardo San tos were virtually taken over by the army. Troops barred en trance and exit to all lacking special permission. Censorship on newspapers throughout Colombia was reim- posed by the government last week, ending two years of com parative press freedom. Washington (U.R) Secretary of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson is going to Europe this fall in a personal effort to sell some of this country's huge farm sur pluses. Control is complicated be cause the sawfly spends most of its life cycle from egg to adult within the hollow stem of the wheat plant. Soles Rentals folding VHIIL CHA1XS Open Sundays and Holidays 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Weekdays 8:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. HUDSON'S PHARMACY 613 E. MAIN PHON 3-5345 1 Block East of Hawthorne Park No Shortage of Coffee in Sight Washington CJ.R) The Agriculture Department reports that coffee supplies are going up, not down. There is no cof fee shortage in sight. The statement was expected to nip a baby boom in retail coffee prices set off by reports of a freeze in Brazil last Monday. Price rose sharply early this week in trading on the New York coffee exchange, and re tail price increases of five cents a pound were reported in some stores. . But officials here said Firday after receiving a report from the U.S. agricultural attache in Rio de Janeiro that the freeze in the state of Parana did only "minor damage" to the 1955-56 crop the crop now being har vested for use during the year beginning last July 1. World coffee production next year will probably be greater than in the current year, the de partment said. The losses in Par ana will only "tend to limit a potentially larger surplus." Commander Directs Wrath at Canines Frankfurt (U.R) Col.' John H. Dilley, the Frankfurt sub-area military commander, is at it again. This time his wrath is directed not at fat women in shorts but at unruly dogs and other pets of U. S. servicemen in his command. The Kansas City combat vet eran who became a controversial figure by banning shorts and slacks in public for wives of U.S. servicemen, warned owners their pets would be evicted within 36 hours if they misbehave. Dilley, a dog owner and a dog lover, directed his wrath at the careless few among the Ameri cans who have 1,138 dogs reg istered in the Frankfurt sub-area alone. Primarily he directed it against "dogs evacuating in hall ways." He listed four major causes of complaints he had received the deposit of filth in doorways and buildings, unprovoked at tacks by dogs, interference with childrens' play and disturbances at all hours of the day and night by barking and whining. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. QUEEN MOTHER IS 55 Queen Mother Elizabeth cele brated her 55ih birthday Aug. 4 quietly in her Clar ence House residence with Queen Elizabeth II and Prin cess Margaret Attorney To Seek Pardon forVhife o Steel Wage Hike Agreement Gained Chicago (U.R) A Reynolds Metal Company spokesman said it had reached agreement early Saturday with the CIO United Steel Workers on wage increases covering 9000 USW members in eight plants in the Midwest or West, and mines of the Reynolds Mining Co. at Bauxit, Ark. Federal mediators had been called in when the company and the union could not reach agree ment on terms under a wage reopening clause. The clause ex pird July 31, and talks on it began three weeks ago. The spokesman said the new. agreement provided 1VA cents "across the board" raise, plus an average of 3Vi cents per hour distributed progressively from the lowest to the highest plant rates. Covered by the agreement are steel workers in plants at Mc Cook and La Grange, 111.; Trout dale, Ore.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Jones Mills, Hurricane Creek and Ark adelphia, Ark.; The Reynolds San Patricio plant at Corpus Christi, Tex., and the mines at Bauxite. Ukiah, Calif., (U.R) Attorney Dewey Turner said Saturday he will petition the governor of Washington for a pardon for Booth R. White, 40-year-old father of three children who was released from custody when Washington officials failed to re quest his extradition to face a 22-year-old escape charge. White, a successful commerc ial fisherman and respected cit izen of Fort Bragg for several years, was released from jail without bail Friday after Wash ington authorities said' "legal technicalities" prevented them from taking custody of him. White was arrested Tuesday when a routine application for a pistol permit disclosed he was wanted for escaping from a Washington state reformatory-in 1933 when he was 18. He was serving a term for second de gree burglary. White said he 'just "walked away" from the reformatory six months after he entered. He rode a train to Coos Bay, Ore., where he worked as a longshore man and later shipped out on a costal steamer. He married his wife, Lois, in San Francisco .in 1940. They have two daughters, 13 and 10, and a son, 12. The American Legion's nation al charter was granted by con gress in 1919. O The total national production of cantaloupes in 1954 was 1,322 million pounds. v for 1 Every Occasion Funeral Sprays Table Arrangement Wedding Flowers Bouquets & Potted Plants Hopp e's Greenhouse & Florist TELEGRAPH DELIVERY SERVICE 305 Leiier Lane - Phene 2-6378 "MflfMyJT US T "A Certain Voice in These Uncertain Times" 4The New Testament speaks of an hour when there "shall be time no longer." Where do we stand in the stream of time? "But four or five years left," says one statesman. H. G. Wells, noted historian, claims civilization stands on "the brink of the abyss." The hour is late. Jesus said: "When these things begin to come to pass then look up . . . for your redemp tion draweth nigh." FINAL SERVICE G This powerful farewell message of Evangelist Gordon Dalrymple contains a message for you per sonally. Attend the closing meet ing in the Crusade for Christ series tonight. Don't miss this closing meeting in the Crusade for Christ series. This will be your last chance to hear Evangelist Gordon Dalrymple at the Esqujre Theatre. , ALSO SEE THE GREAT FILM: "ASSIGNMENT JERUSALEM!" ' ' Tremendous 40 minute color picture of the Holy Land. See Jerusalem, the wailing wall, site of the Crucifixion and many other great scenes of the Bible Lands. Enjoy Audience Singing With E. F. Coy, Tenor TONIGHT-AUGUST 7 ' . ... - 7:15 P.M. CRUSADE FOR CHRIST ESQUIRE THEATRE 416 EAST MAIN o o o 1C o
