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O o o o o 5Ist Year !- 10c Subscriber o o Recommended ft cr c t- To repart Improper or noo ery oi the MaU rrib&i PhqA? 2-6141 Dere 6:45 p m daily and 10 30-. a. m Sunday C If regular delivery arrive ah on ly after vou call oae notify office thus eliminating apeciaJ mess-afcjWr o o ; torT describing the pro posed airport zoning reiula- ilws appears on page 19 of to day's Mail Tribune. o o ervlce to 5 .eased Wire - 'gii 32 Pges MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1956 No. 199 o O ' A TT MEDFORDlkTRTF United Press Full Leased Wire xjZ0r """j 1 Republic of Korea Reports Military Buildup in North -UacUrs Hold Meeting To Discuss Threat Seoul U.R) The Republic of Korea reported a Communist military buildnp along the truce line in North Korea Saturday and government leaders met in emergency session to decide whether a new attack threatens. Gen. Lee Jlcng- Kun, South Korea's Army chifcf of staff, re ported trucks had been moving southward in North Korea for two weeks carrying weapons and ammunitum.for the 700,000-man Chinese-North Korean Army. Smith Korea's Army, Navy and Air Forte stayed on war alert fur the fourth successive Say. All leaves have been can celed tor the armed services and national police. Study Reports The republic's statt council met with tbe chiefs of staff to tudy intelligence reports. They refused to comment afterward but high officials took' Saturday afternoon "off," apparently indi catiTig"they did not expect an im mediate attack. A spokesman at U, S. Eighth Army headquarters said he had no official information of the North Korean . buildup reported bjt the IS.OK Army. In Tokyo', a spokesman (or the Far feast and United Nations command said no special alert orders had been issued and regu lar work schedules, holidays and leaves are continuing. Navy Flying Boat Missing at Sea Hamilton, Bermuda iU.Ri , A U. S.'navy flying boat carry ing a crew pf 10 and powerful enemy detcctio.n equipment was reported missing over the At lasflc Saturday. The Navy said it "assumed" the plane- waa the one seen crashing in flames last night, by the crew of a freight er. Six- naval ' planes, two coast guard planes, two desti overs, and a coast guard cutter were sent out to search for the miss ing Martin. Marlin twin-engine P5M, -which carried seven en listed men and three officers on , a routine night .patrol. '3 Naval officials said the plane, based on Bermuda, sent out its last radio message at 8:30 p.m. from a point about 350 miles north of Bermuda. The LiberiaiY freighter Cap tain Lyrras messaged the Coast Guard at 9:01 p.m. Friday that it had s"en a plane explode and - fall in flames about 400 miles north of Bermuda and 450 miles east of Ocean City, Md. 'Light Damage' From Mexican Earthquake Mexico City :U.R Officials mid Saturday that an earth tem blor Friday caused "light dam age" in several towns in south ern Mexico. Seismologists at the govern ment observatory here esti mated the center of the distur bance at 320 miles southeast of Mexico, City. FOOTBALL SCORES Oregon, State 20, Stanford 19 UCLA 13. Washington 9 Oregon 7, Washington St. 7 Humbolt State 26. Nevada 18 Utah 49. Colorado ASiM 27 Wyoming 34. Montana 13 Idaho 42. Utah State 20 Southern Cal 20. California 7 Lewis and Clark 46. Portland State 19 Dartmouth 14. Columbia 0 Pittsburgh 26. Notre Dame 13 Colgate 28. Bucknell 12 Brown 13. Cornell 6 Syracuse 41. Holy Cross 20 Princeton 35. Harvard 20 Yale 40. Pennsylvania 7 Army 34. William and Mary 8 Delaware 22, Rutgers 0 Ohio State 35. Indiana 14 Michigan 17, Illinois 7 3 Michigan State 12. Purdue 9 Missouri 14. Colorado, 14 Nebaska 26. Kansas 20 o Kanaas State 41. Marquette 14 Oklahoma 44. Iowa State 0 Northwestern" 17. Wisconsin 7 Iowa 7. Minnesota 0 Tennessee 6, Georgia Tech 0 Dufce"?. Nvy 7 -North Carolina 21, Virginia' 7 VPf 13. Wake forest 13 Alabama 13, Tulane 7 FloridacS8. Georgia 0 Maryland 6, Clemson 6 Arkansas 27. Rree 12 ' Texas ASM 33.' Southern NMthodist 7 Baylor 10, Texas 7 Bates 38. Colby 13 Texas Tech 21. Texas Chris tian 7 Hungary Reds Turn Back Supplies From West For Wounded Vienna (U.R) Hungarian Communists Saturday turned back a shipment of western food and medicine for wounded and starving in Budapest. The puppet Hungarian regime set up "terror courts" to deal with captured rebels whose 18-day-old revolt was dying out amid starvation and chaos. A Swedish newsman who ar rived in Vienna from Budapest Saturday said some sniping con tinues in the provinces, but all Hungarian army barracks now are in Russian hands. Flee to Austria Thousands of Hungarians from southern and central towns fled through bursts of bullets at the border to find haven in free Au stria. Entire villages risked death to flee. No fighting was reported Sat urday in Budapest where appar ently only isolated rebel snipers held out against Soviet tanks. The government of puppet Premier Janos Kadar, who was reported about to be purged for failing to restore order, issued a series of decrees establishing "flying courts." The radio continued to broad cast appeals for workers to end the general strike. Calling off the strike, the radio said, was a condition to the government pro mise to try to arrange for a So viet troop withdrawal. The radio said some Soviet aid was being flown into Buda pest for the needy. Despite the admitted lack of food in Budapest, the Commu nists at Klingenbach on the road between Vienna and Sopron, Hungary, refused to let a con voy of 30 International Red Cross trucks go through with food, medical supplies and doc tors for the city. The guards insisted that all Red Cross aid would have to be Russia Threatens to Send 'Volunteers' Moscow W.R) Russia Satur day threatened to put "great numbers" of trained volunteer pilots, tank and artillery re servists into Egypt unless Brit ain, France and Israel withdraw from the country. A statement issued by the of ficial Tass news agency re peated the Soviet determination to use force if necessary to crush "aggressors" in the Mid dle East. It said "appropriate authori ties of the U.S.S.R. would not hinder the departure of Soviet citizen volunteers" for Egypt if the three powers refuse to heed the United Nations appeal to quit the country- Four-Lane Highway Planned to The Dalles Portland W.R) Completion of a four-lane highway linking Portland and the Dalles by 1962 was announced here Saturday as a tentative goal of the state highway commission. The project, calling for wide ning of the 67 mile river-level route stretch from Troutdale to the Dalles to a four-lane route, would be one of the major ex penditures in Oregon under funds granted by the federal highway bill passed by the last congress. ' Cost of the four-lane Portland to the Dalles route would be about $30,000,000. UN Asks Dutch, Danish To Clear Suez Canal Rotterdam iU.R) The United Nations has asked a group of Dutch and Danish firms to tackle the job of clearing the Suez Canal, it was announced here Saturday. Three salvage experts from each country will go to Egypt as soon as possible to survey the canal and determine what equip ment will be needed to reopen it to shipping. Press Survey Shows Desertion From Reds London iU.R) Disgust with Russian violence in Hungary is causing wholesale desertion from Communist parties west of the Iron Curtain. A United Press survey showed that Soviet military intervention in the Hungarian revolt has con fronted Western Communists with one of their worst internal crises since Stalin sided with Hitler in the short-lived Molotov -Ribbentrop pact oi 1939. channeled through Yugoslavia and be inspected for arms or "Fascist agents." An International Red Cross spokesman said the Hungarian legation at Vienna had agreed to appeal to the Budapest govern ment to change the order. Ship ment through Yugoslavia would require a long detour. Hearing on Flood Control for Rogue Set in Grants Pass A public hearing on Rogue river flood control will be con ducted by the Army engineers at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in the Josephine county library at Grants Pass. Col. Jackson Graham, district engineer for the Army corps of engineers, said all interested parties have been invited to be present or to send representa tives. They include federal, state, county and municipal of ficials. The hearing was originally scheduled for Oct. 27, but was postponed because the engineers could not have a representative present. Oral Testimony Oral testimony will be ac cepted, but engineers have ask ed witnesses to submit written statements with their testimony in the interest of accuracy. Records from the hearings will be forwarded for consideratibn by the secretary of the Army. Opposing interests of fish and wildlife enthusiasts and land owners were emphasized in Medford, Oct.-19, when a sen ate interior and public works committee hearing was held in the federal courtroom of the Medford post office building. Among witnesses at the' Med ford hearing were state, county, municipal and service organi zation representatives as well as individuals. The hearing was conducted by Sen. Richard Neu berger, (D-Ore.). Director Election Scheduled Tuesday Director elections in the Ea gle Point Irrigation district will be held Tuesday, Nov. 13, when voters will choose between in cumbent E. H. Bigham and Ed Greenwood for a three-year term on the board. Voting will take place be tween 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. at the irrigation district office. Since candidates in other irri gation districts are unopposed there will be no directorship election in the Talent, Rogue River Valley, Medford or Gold Hill districts. Unopposed for' director posi tions in the other districts are Otto Bohnert, Rogue River Val ley district; Paul Culbertson, Medford Irrigation district; Les ter Parks, Gold Hill Irrigation district; Homer Moore and Evan Rasmussen, Talent Irrigation district. Rasmussen's term will be for one year. He was appointed to fill the vacancy on the board created when Henry Owens moved out of the district. Administration Said Revamping Power Policy By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent . Washington The defeat of ex-Secretary of Interior Douglas McKay by Sen. Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), along with a general pattern of Democratic congres sional election gains in the West, has convinced high officials of the Eisenhower administration that they must now revamp the administration's electric power policy in order to have it meet with public approval in the western states. A revision of the "partner ship'' power policy, if not an outright scrapping of it. has al ready been ordered and is ex pected to be carried out before Congress convenes Jan. 3, in formed sources have disclosed. Vice President Nixon is un derstood to believe the contro versial power policy cost the Republicans heavily in the west in their unsuccessful attempt to win enough seats to control the new Congress. Secretary of In terior Fred A. Seaton, who in herited these policies when he Eisenhower Rejects Immediate Summit Meeting With Reds Believes UN Place To Handle Threats Washington U.R) President Eisenhower Saturday rejected an immediate summit meeting with Russia. He said the United Na tions is the best place to handle current threats to world peace. His firm declaration that this country prefers to work through the U.N. to meet the current crises in the Middle East and Eastern Europe was specifically addressed to a Swiss proposal for a five-power conference of U.S., Russian, British, French and Indian chiefs of state. But it carried the further im plication borne out by diplo matic sources here that the United States also is opposed to an early big three meeting which Britain and France have been urgently seeking. Russia Threatens Switzerland suggested the five-power summit meeting ear lier last week when Russia was openly threatening to move into the Middle East with force. In dia had accepted the proposal and British prime minister Sir Anthony Eden Friday night termed it a "helpful" idea. ' lie told Swiss officials he had given "urgent and sympa thetic" consideration to the pro posed five-power meeting and that he appreciated the sincere "concern for the preservation of peace which inspired it." "However," he said, "the United Nations is actively seized with the various problems pos ing a threat to world peace and I believe that the interests of all will be best served by carry ing these initiatives to a success ful conclusion." It was noted that the presi dent's language did not rule out the possibility of a. big pow er meeting later, when the im mediate crises in the Middle East and Soviet satellite coun tries have been resolved. " ' T- t- ' ' -v- ' ' Parade to Hn Yets Day Celebration All schools, federal, county and city offices and banks will be closed tomorrow in obser vance of Veterans Day. Although Veterans Day is to day, Monday is considered a le gal holiday. Highlights of the celebration will be at 7 a.m. veterans break fast, sponsored by the American Legion, at the Legion hall, 531 South Riverside ave., and a Vet erans Day parade through downtown Medford, starting at 11 a.m. Members of the Retail Mer chants association agreed earl ier this month to remain open during the day. Veteran em ployees, however, will be per mitted to attend the breakfast and participate in the parade. Foreign Minister Levels Charge Toward Russia Jerusalem, Israel Sector U.R) Israel Foreign Minister Golda Meir charged Russia Sat urday with "sowing seeds of ha tred and aggression in the Mid East in the hope of reaping the fruits of wrath." The former Milwaukee school teacher's charge echoed the statement of another Israeli gov ernment source that the Russi an's "are trying to talk Syria and Jordan into some provoca tive action against Israel." succeeded McKay last spring, is said to agree that a revision is needed. Both Nixon and Seaton did much election campaigning in the western states this fall in behalf of local GOP congression al candidates. Presumably, policy changes will be a question for cabinet discussion shortly. The first clear indication of any funda mental changes in policy are likely to be made in President Eisenhower's state of the union message in January. The impetus for this policy revision stems directly from the outcome of key congressional contests in the West, especially the Pacific Northwest where Democrats won their most sig nificant victories. Specifically, these contests were: In Ofegon, where McKay, the ex-cabinet official who ran on the record of .his resource de velopment policies, was defeated by Morse, one of the most out spoken critics of those policies; and where two Republican con gressmen Reps. Harris Ells UN Investigators Seek Cause of Crash of Multi-Jet Bomber Navy Seamaster Goes To Earth in Delaware Wilmington, Del. (U.R) A shroud of military secrecy hung over the wreckage of the Navy's So. 6 million Martin Seamaster Saturday as investigators sought clues to the cause of the fiery crash of the multi-jet bomber. The huge four-engined craft crashed into a farmer's potato field near St. Georges. 10 miles south of here Friday afternoon. The four man crew bailed out. Air Police from New Castle Air Force base blocked off the accident scene, which covered a quarter-mile. The wreckage was reported "unrecognizable" and in pieces no larger than three to five feet square. Plan Study CAA and Navy inspectors and engineers from the Glenn L. Martin Co., Baltimore, builders of the plane, planned to recover all the pieces of the jet for study. The crew parachuted to safety and were carried by a strong wind into marshlands bordering the Delaware River. A chase plane, observing the routine test flight of the Seamaster. directed volunteer firemen to the scene. A flight test engineer. William Compton, Lutherville, Mr., suf fered undertemined injuries and was exacuated by helicopter to Baltimore. The three other crew mem bers, pilot, R. S. Turner, Balti more; co-pilot, W. E. Cunning ham, Towson, Md., and flight test engineer, Thomas .Kenney, Towson, escaped injury. 'An eyewitness said she saw a "ball of fire" in the sky just be fore the craft plunged to earth. A state policeman said the Sea master exploded in midair short ly after the crew parachuted. The plane was the Navy's sec ond and only remaining multi jet, water based bomber. Man Arrested for KF Bank Robbery Klamath Falls (U.R) A 28-year-old Klamath Falls electri cian, scheduled to be married Saturday was taken into custody shortly before the ceremony and charged with the S2.700 robbery of the Klamath Falls branch of the First National Bank of Port land last Thursday. JoseDh F. Santoina Jr.. special agent in charge of the Portland office of the FBI identified the man as Paul James Lambertson, a resident of Klamath Falls for about 10 years. Lambertson was to have been married yesterday afternoon. Wedding guests waited at the church for the bridegroom until police came to inform them he had been arrested. U.S. Commissioner Bert C. Thomas ordered Lambertson held in lieu of $10,000 bond and bound the case over to the U.S. Grand jury in Portland. Santoina said that a large por tion of the $2,700 taken in the robbery was recovered. Rome (U.R) A bomb ex pl6ded outside the Soviet com mercial office here last night. No casualties were reported.- worth and Sam Coon, both of them champions of the adminis tration's "partnership" power policy were defeated by Democrats who were equally critical of that policy. Washington State In Washington state, where Gov. Arthur B. L a n g 1 i e, a staunch advocate of this power policy, was snowed under by Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D Wash.); and where the Republi cans lost a seat in the House from the resource - conscious Southwest section of the state where the Columbia and Snake rivers join. In Idaho, where Republican Sen. Herman Welker was un seated by a Democratic newcom er, Frank Church, after a tough campaign in which power policy figured prominently. In addition,' Democrats won senate seats in Nevada, Colo rado and Arizona, while Repub licans held onto their seats only in Utah and California. In con tests for House seats, Democrats knocked off a total of seven Re Lighthouse Berrydale Residents Make Second Attempt To Annex to Medford A number of residents of the Berrydale district, which turned down annexation to Medford last Tuesday, are going to make another try at annexing a smal ler area, it was announced Saturday. Nick F. Gicr, one of the lead ers of the annexation movement, reported that the annexation proposal originally suggested to the Medford planning commis sion will be made again. The original proposal was ex panded by the planning commis sion to include more territory, and many Berrydale people be lieve it was residents of the longer area included by the plan ning commission who defeated the annexation last Tuesday. Meeting Scheduled A meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Monday at the Friends church, Merriman rd, and De Barr ave., to discuss the cut down proposal and to muster support for it. The group also plans to attend a meeting of the planning commission Tues day evening in an attempt to get that organization's approval for the revived plan. Principal aim of those seek ing annexation is to obtain city services for the installation of a sewer. The present sanitary dis trict there does not have the banding capacity for construc tion of both a sewer line and a disposal plant, and under city policies use of Medford's dis posal plant is no longer being extended to districts outside the city. Those supporting the plan are worried about an extreme health hazard in the area, Gier said, a statement borne out by Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health of ficer, who has pointed out that several cases of infectious dis eases have been reported there in recent months, and the danger of contagion is high. Septic tanks have overflowed, and the ground in much of the area no longer will absorb the sewage being poured into it. The larger annexation pro publicans in the West and held the line on all their incumbents. Picture Changes Administration officials real ize that in the past four years they have lost the great mea sure of political influence they gained in the West during the 1952 Eisenhower landslide. After that election, Republicans held a majority of the House and Senate seats from the West 38 to 19 in the House and 12 to 10 in the Senate. But the 1954 and 1956 elec tions have drastically changed this picture. Now the Democrats hold a majority of the western senate seats, 13 to 9, and the GOP margin of control over House seats has dropped to 32 to 25. ' Looking ahead to the elections of 1958 and, more importantly, of 1960 when Eisenhower will not be on the ticket, Republican officials recognize that they must start now to woo tne West with resource policies that are more favorably received by the majority of western voteri; kssemh'ks , - o r-' I O posal was defeated. 487 to 240, at last week's election.. The large Grandview-Kenwood an nexation, however, was passed by residents there. (See Map on Page 2) Students Celebrate Oregon State Win Corvallis Bedlam broke loose in CorvaLis, the home - of Oregon State -col lege, last night in the wake of Oregon State's stunning 20 to 19 win over Stanford at Palo Alto which virtually, assured the Beavers a place in the Rose bowl New Years. . Thousands of students and football fans converged on downtown Corvallis. Traffic was jammed for blocks and wildly shouting motorcades paraded through the city. The traffic situation lead po-' lice Sgt. Charles Adams to com ment, "If somebody doesn't get killed I'll miss my guess." In spite of the noisy celebra tion and general disorder that reigned, no injuries were report ed. Observers said that it appear ed every person in the city who had a car was in on the noise making. Those who didn't have cars were piled on the tops and hoods of the vehicles belong ing to their friends. Official Count Gives GOP Lane County Seat Eugene OI.R) The official count of the state house of rep resentatives vote in Lane coun ty Saturday reversed a previous ly announced unofficial tally and showed Republican Edwin E. Cone of Eugene had been re elected to the legislature. An earlier unofficial count had Democrat Charles Paddock winning one of the five Lane county seats. But Lloyd Payne, head of the county elections department, said Saturday official figures gave Cone 29.147 votes against 28,392 for Paddock. Washington !U.R The Agriculture Department has set Dec. 11 for a referendum in which farmers in 24 states will determine the kind of corn pro gram to be in effect for the 1957 crop. Weather FORECAST: Foggy In the valley through Monday with only partial afternoon clear ing. Considerable high cloudi ness at higher elevations to day, rlearing Monday. High to day SO. Temp. Hirhent yesterday S Lowest yesterday' 39 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise fi:57 a.m. SumH 4:$3 p.m. Moonset Monday -1:08 a.m. Full Moon and Tfttal Eclipse of she Moon Saturday night PROMINENT CONSTELLATION Orion, in the southeast at? moonset. VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, in the southwest - 10:41 p.m. Venus, rises 4:10 a.m. Jupiter, high in southeast at sunrise. 6,000-Man Force j o Flown to Naples; oo Prepare for Egy o Formal Clearanc o o o Noedtd for Mbvfrrent' ,o London (U.R) Thef!feV) units of a United Nations police Q mice Degan assemDIii, in Naples Saturday and preparedQ to start flying to Egypt Tueji) day on an urgent mission tS oc cupy the Suez Canl zone and prevent a general mideast war. An American airlift carried the advance guard of the 6,000 man international0 force o QhC Italian staging area.- Swiss air and' .United Najlons signed an agreement0 for fl)e transportation of the troops to Cairo. U. S. planes willCpot ma in. O Shuttling Troops A Swiss air announcemeiQ) in New York said three DC-6B transports will begin (Shuttling the troops, 75 at a time, from the staging area Tuesday moitg) ing. Giant V. S. "flying boacars" airlifted 100 Danish and Norwe gian soldier to Naples. Fra there." Swiss planet; were ex pected to fly the advance con tingents to the Suez Canal zone as soon, "a Sgypt gives formal clearance probably today. The Egyptian government Sat urday accepted the policP fp) ce in principle. 0 Officials said the Ameroican part of "the airliftG would end in Italy because the rival O of U. S. transport planes on Egypt ian soil might crfttei "toucjjy" situation. Additional Conflngnts Additional cogtingent? for the international force were expect ed to follow within the next 48 hours from the Scandinavian countries, Columbia, Canada id India. o O Britain, Fraice and Israel have promised to withdW their troops from Egypt soon a? the international police force takes over effective control. In Cairo; Maj. (Cen. E. L. Burns,"ocommander0of the $N Peace force met with Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoimd Fawzi to nwkes last-minuteCar-rangements forothe arriva of the."UNforce. 0 Brig. Abdel Kadpir HaiemP head of the Egyptian govern ment Information office, said tl international police force wou'd be stationed on tra 'temporary basis'" along the truce liS set q up irt f949 Middle East armistice agreement. L Toys Being Tabn For Holiday. Gifts o Toys are now being ccepted at the Medford fire department for repair and distribution to needy children at Christmas time". About 570 chiTrJren received toys for Chris'tmaslast year as the result of an annual joint project of the Medford city fire men and the Medford Lady Lions. -This year firemen and Lady Lions have expressed hope of furnishing eveg more chil dren wtth toys through the pro ject and cooperation of the pub lic in donating used items. Firemen repair othe toys and the Lady Lions distribute them. Firemen" have asked that those "desirinf to give articles should bring, them to the fire hall, Third and Front sts., so repairs can be completed by Christmas. AH types of toys are acceptable, including doiO, tri cycles, wagons, scooters and complete puzzles. Gifts such as old portable ra dios and costume jewelry are needed for older age 'groups. The aniTual fireman's ball to help raise funds for the toy pro ject will be held0,Shanksgiving night", 'Nwv. 22, at Rogue Vley ballroom. o Television Highlight i'Werld in Crisis," a CBS television program outlining 'the current situation in world affairs thro-egh on-the-spot re porting will be seen o: tele vision station KBES at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, it was reported today. The program was formerly entitled "Satellites in Revolt," but the sprcd of unrest and armed conflict to the Middle East caused a broadening of the scope of the program. 'A O ! I
