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