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o o o O K l ' ' ' i'S to, It 4 'v vw . . x. a TOYS NEEDED Mcdurd firemen, already at work on their annual project of repairing toys ii be donated to ncdy children at Christmas, ill soon tun out of material unless more v are brought in, according to Fire Chief Gordon Barker. He urged residents to bring brnkn toys, regardless of condition, to the U.S. Not Expected To Agree To Big 3 Meeting Very Soon Washington ,U.R) The United State is almost certain to agree to a Big Three meeting with Britain and France on critical norld problems, but not in tht Immediate future, informed ource said today. TlJy declined to predict when conference of President Eisen hoer, British Prime Minister Anthony den and French Pre mier Guy Mollet might be sched uled. Consideration of parley been under way for some 4as. " Reports from Faris said Mr. Xieenhowcr has agreed in prim ciple to another Bij Three meet ing, probably in Washington. ! Plana for Maating But White House spokesman Murray Snyder said Monday that" there ere no plans for such nwetinii "at this moment." His abatement did not rule out a con ference in the coming months. Officials said a Big Three ses ior is certain to be held if the ritish and French want it Blrong'.y. There are two chief reasons the United SUtrs is not rushine into the proposed top - level roiind of discussions on world problem: . It want to concentrate its main efforts for achieving peace in the critical Middle East in the United Nations. ' Gift Fruit Packing In Full Swing Here Gift packing of fruit, a na tional industry which originated irf Rogue Valley, started the sea son about 10 days ago and is now in full swing, it was re ported today. Packing of pears will continue fhr a few more days. Prepara tion of fancy basket's and simitar novelty packagcs'will get under way about Nov. 15 and continue through November. Demand for gift fruit pucks usually tapers off after D?c. 10, it was ex plained. . No call for additional em ployees is fxpected.at plants witrre aifl fruit packing is be ing done. e iL c x fonn jrreer crossing ClosiS for Repairing flap Southern Pacificcrossing at Fouth St. was closed, to traffic Monday v.-hi?e SP crews repair the crossing, according to C. B. Stevens, local SP agent'. The work will continue this week, he said. SP crews have completed relaying and fetying teacks at Stewart -ave. and the Main and Jackson st. crossings. Otto John Didn't Expect Trial for Red Activities Karlsruhe, Germany U.Ri Double defector Dr. Otto John told the West Gcrmaji Supreme Court today he never expected to go on trial for his pro-Communist statements in East Ber lin. To Creat Opportunity - John testified on the. second en;' of his treason trial Jicre he had pretended to work for the Communists during 17 mpnths in Red-run East Germany only in order to create an opportunity for a return flight to the west. John, former head of West Germany s Intelligence Service, is charged with disriosing offic ial secrets' and betraying agents i . - - r r p ' at-'- ..'.'hk fire hall as early as possible, or call the Na tional Guard, 2-4323. and toys will be picked up. Working on toys, above, are Firemen Bob Coash, Al Moulton and Larry Briggs. The men. along with 31 other firemen will be working most of their leisure hours from now until Christmas on the project. Also, the United States, as the only Big Three power which did not get involved in the Middle East fighting, is reluctant to sit down quickly with two of the belligerents. If it did. some oth er nations might suspect that the United Slates really had support ed the British and French in Supreme Court Agrees To Decide on NLRB Handling Unfair Case Washington ;U R) The Su preme court today agreed to de cide, whether the National Labor Relations board is compelled to handle unfair labor practice complaints against unions acting as employers. A lower court has ruled that Elections Slated In Fire Districts An election for two directors in the Medford Rural Rire dis trict will be held Dec. 3. accord ing to Mrs. Floyd Fogclquist, secretary. Nominating petitions for two directors are being circulated. Both are seeking reelection. They are Carl Norris. one of the district's original directors, for a five-year term, and Lou Martin, who was appointed last summer lo succeed Harper Hamilton, re signed, for the rest of the four vear term. Other nominating petitions should be filed by Saturday, Mrs. Fogclquist said. Blanks may be obtained from her at 1312 Queen Ann ave., Medford. Names of 15 electors living in the district are needed. The election will be at the Oak Grove school cafeteria from 2 to 8 p.m. Dec. 3. The district con tracts with the city of Medford for fire protection. Sam Taylor is seeking election as director to fill an unexpired three-year term in the Central Point Rural Fire Protection dis trict election Dec. 3. Other candi dates include Dr. Alvin Roberts, for a five-year term, and Harold Gebh'ard. seeking to fill an unex- pircd one-year term. Candidates for director in the Rogue River Rural Fire Protec tion district have not yet been selected. The district is expected to nominate candidates at a meet ing Thursday. of his "office for the protection of the constitution" to the Com munists. His testimony was the first evidence to be submitted in the trial which started Monday be fore five judges of the Supreme Court. Some 100 witnesses are listed for the case, which is ex pected to run about one month. Expected Committee John said today that when he returned to West Germany., he thought he would be able to go into his story in detail before the special "John Committee" of the lower house of Parliament, the Bundestag'. He never thought he would have to face a regular court, he said. their military' stab into the Suez Canal zone. Despite these factors against an early meeting with Britain and France, there is one import ant factor weighing in favor of the conference. That is the need for repairing the damaged U.S.British-French alliance. the board may properly decline jurisdiction in such cases. Argu ments ou the issue will be sched uled soon and later the high court will fiand down a written opinion. The case was appealed by Lo cal 11 of the Office Employees International union in Portland, Ore. The local has brought un fair labor practice charges against several Teamsters unions and their affiliates. In other major action today, the court: 1. Rejected the appeal of Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard. Cleveland osteopath serving a life sentence for the 1954 bludgeon-murder of his wife, Marilyn. The Ohio Supreme court upheld the con viction earlier this year. 2. Agreed to look into the 1951 loyalty firing of career dip lomat John Stewart Service. Service is seeking reinstatement and back pay on grounds that former Secretary of State Dean Acheson ousted him illegally after the State Department's Lovaltv board had cleared him I of Communist charges. Tax Case Thrown Out 3. Threw out a case started by Gov. J. Bracken Lee of Utah to challenge the constitutionality of using federal tax money for foreign economic aid. The court rejected Lee's request to file a complaint on the subject direct ly w ith the high tribunal. Red Cross Orientation Program Being Held Miss Barbara Hirsch, nursing representative from Red Cross Pacific headquarters in San Francisco, is conducting an all day orientation program on nursing service in Jackson county today. The program includes nursing service in connection with Civil Defense, disasters, community health problems and blood pro grams. Representatives of the Jose phine county Red Cross chap ter, as well as Jackson county Red Cross workers, are attend ing. Mrs. T. R. Florey is chair man of nursing service for Jack son county. Russia Warns Satellites Not To Attempt Revolt United Nations, N. Y. Ol.P.) Russia issued a thinly veiled threat today to its satellites not to attempt a repetition of the Hungarian revolt. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis ter Vasily Kuznctsov. fighting to block another U. N. General As sembly discussion of Russia's re pression of the nationalist revo lution in Hungary, told the U.N. Steering Committee the Russian Army "self sacrificingly carried out the terms" of the Kremlin's I treaty with Hungary. 51st Year MEDFOT? United Pi Full i- 22 Pages D..rr Seekir. Hungarian Rebels New Fighting Told; Refugees Wounded Vienna (U.P.) New fighting erupted today in Budapest where Soviet leaders were reported try ing to quell the Hungarian rebel lion. Reports from an unimpeach able source in Budapest said it was impossible to pin down defi nitely where the battle was rag ing, since it was some distance from the center of the city. It is evident, however, that diehard bands of freedom fight ers were still battling Soviet tanks and troops on. the outskirts of the shattered capital, the source said. He added there was no fighting in the inner city. Refugees Wounded A delegation of top SdViet leaders flew into Budapest in a desperate attempt to find ways of ending continued resistance to the Communist regime. Austrian authorities reported the flood of refugees from Hun gary continued with more than 2.300 men, women and children crossing the frontier into Austria since noon Monday. The Austrian Radio said Hun garian Communist border guards opened fire on a group of refu gees trying to cross near Rech nilz. The radio said two of the refugees were wounded and the others beaten and dragged back bodily. Khushchey Seeking Order United ' Press correspondent Russell Jones said in a dispatch from Budapest there were re ports a group of Russian leaders, including Nikita S. Khrushchev, flew there to try to restore order and bolster the puppet regime of Janos Kadar. - . -" Hungarian reports told" of continuing resistance throughout Hungary and no sign of an end to the 21-day-old general strike that has produced chaos. ' It wes believed the worried Kremlin leaders might be trying to get former Premier Imre Nagy back into the government. Nagy was discussing Soviet troop withdrawals with the Russians when Soviet tanks and artillery blasted Budapest. General Warming In New England By UNITED PRESS Colder weather hit New Eng land today, but a general warm ing followed the eastward move ment of chilly air out of the Midwest, The cold air mass covered the eastern half of the country from the Atlantic Coast west ward to a line from Wisconsin southwestward through Central Mexico. Nighttime temperatures ranged from around 30 degrees in the North to near 50 in South western Texas. Warmer air, however, was re placing the cold air from the West and raised temperatures noticeably from Eastern Mon tana through Northwestern Kan sas. The general warming was to continue its eastward move ment today, covering the area from the Eastern Dakotas to the Ohio Valley and southward through Texas and the Gulf Coast states. Planning Commission Meeting Set Today The Medford planning com mission will hold a public hear ing on proposed airport zoning regulations at 7:30 p.m. today. Proposed regulations restrict the height of structures and nat ural growth in the Medford air port vicinity by creating an air port hazard area, property, ap proach and transition zones. Existing structures will not be subject to the proposed zone, only future buildings. The commission will also consider sub-division regula tions and zoning southeast Med ford. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York CU.R) Dow-Jones final averages: 30 industrials 486.69, off 0.36; 20 railroads 158.11, up 0.22; 15 utilities 67.17, up 0.16. and 65 stocks 172.05. up 0.07. Sales today were about j 2.140.000 shares compared with 1,600,000 snares Monday. GON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1956 .iet-Trained Premier Fired in Rokossowsky Seen Due Unimportant Academy Office Secret Police Ordered Abolished Warsaw, Poland (U.R) Rus sian trained Marshal Konstantin Rokossowsky was fired as Po land's vice premier and defense minister today in a major shake up of Premier Josef Cyrankie- wicz's government. Gen. Marian Spychalski. a former "Titoist" and friend of United Workers Communist par ty secretary Wladislaw Gomul ka. was named to replace Rokos sowsky in the defense ministry. He had replaced the marshal as commander in chief of the Polish armed forces last month. Secret Police Abolished Rokossowsky was expected to be apponited to the relatively unimpoitant post of command ant of the Warsaw Military Academy. Earlier in the day, the Polish Sejm (Parliament) abolished the Secret Police on the eve of the departure of the nation's leaders for Moscow and top level talks in the Kremlin on Poland's future. At a joint meeting of the jus tice and agriculture committees of the Parliament, a draft law providing for the abolition of the Secret Police,- (UB), was passed, the official news agency Pap reported. The combatting of "hostile espionage and terrorist activity" will henceforth come under the rcnular ministry of justice, P?p said. Purged of Soviet Advisers The UB already has been purged of its Russian advisers by Gomulka, the Titoist who recently took over as leader of the Polish Communist Party. Matters of security would be handled in the future by the ministry of internal affairs. Some UB employees would be expected to transfer to the in ternal ministry, but many secret police who worked under old guard Stalinists would not.' Informed sources said Gomul ka would leave Thursday or Fri day for Moscow for at least a week- of talks on Poland's future with the Kremlin leaders. New Extension Agent Named for County Miss Mary Pat Lucy has been named home extension agent in Jackson county beginning Dec. 1 according to administrators at Oreson State college. Miss Lucv was born and raised on a farm in North Da kota. She was graduated from North Dakota Agricultural col lege in 1954 and has had two years' experience as a North Da kota extension agent. Her main duties will be assist ing Jackson county women with homemaking problems. She also will help Miss Marj one Hatten, countv 4-H agent. She will have her office in the Jackson county extension office at the courthouse. Fear of Sneak Affack From Syria Expressed London (U.P.) British mil itary leaders on Cyprus warned today of the possibility of a "sneak" air attack from Syria during the period a United Na tions police force is taking over the duties of preserving peace in the Middle East. Weather FORFCAST: Partly cloudy evening and foe or low clouds tonight and Wednesday morn ins, becoming partly cloudy Wednesday afternoon. Decreas ing clnudinevs Wednesdav night, r.ow tonight 32. High Wednes day 54. Temp. Hiphet Yesterdav . 45 Lowest thi Morning - Prec .to 4:30 a.m. Today 28 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:00 a.m. Sunset '4:Sl-5.m. MnonsM Wednesday .... 3:11 a.m. Full Moon and total eclipse of the Moon Saturday night SIR Its, the brightest star, rises Ift:3S p.m. U will be due south .... 3:12 a.m. and tn h uthwest in the morning twilight. Tribune Polish Shakeup "Thing Are Still A Little Up In The Air Here" Berrydale Residents Lay Plans for Second Annexation Attempt About 80 residents of the Ber- rydale area met last night to lay plans for a new attempt at a smaller annexation to the city of Medford. Most of those attending fa vored such a move, although a few opposed to annexation at tended. Nick Gier was elected chair man of a Berrydale committee, with Mrs. Carroll Johnson as secretary. Nine men were named delegates to work with the city in setting up annexation plans. They are Eugene Austin, Claude Ingram, Carroll Johnson, Lee Graham, VV'aldon McBee, James Wicker, Tom Graves, S. H. Oet inger and William Graham. To Attend Meeting They will meet with the Med ford planning commission at its 7:30 p.m. meeting today to pre sent their views on the sanita tion problems of the area, and ask help in solving it. Most of them are convinced that annexa tion to the city is the only prac ticable way of doing so, accord ing to Gier. He said that because of the de feat last week of an annexation proposal for a relatively large area, those supporting annexa tion for a portion of that area are going to work hard to con vince residents that annexation is imperative for reasons of health, and that the costs would not be prohibitive. He said it is Elvis Presley Effigy Hanging Brings Death Chicago (U.R) Fourteen-year-old Martin Ritchie joined five other teen-agers Monday night in a joking attempt to hang Elvis Presley in effigy. ' The prank cost Martin his life. Police learned the story from Edward Grant, 14, and his com panion. "We had nothing to do so we decided to make a dummy and hang it from a light post," Ed ward told them. "We got some old rags and newspaper and things we found around. Then we got a five-gallon can for the head and somebody said, "Who will it be?' " "Somebody said, 'let's make it Elvis.' So we got a cardboard and wrote 'Elvis' on it. The kids got a rope and strung it around the dummy's head. Marty climb ed the pole with the rope in his hands." When young Ritchie .touched the lightshade. police were told, he stiffened, slid halfway down the pole and fell to the ground. A bureau of electricity official said 5.000 volts of current pass ed through the boy's body. He died soon afterward at Holy Cross hospital. Washington (U.R) President Eisenhower will hold a news conference Wednesday. Price 10c United Press Full Leased Wir No. 201 planned to hold a series of meet- ings to discuss all the aspects of tlie situation and the' implica tions of annexation. Charles Clark, newly-appointed county sanitarian, attended the meeting and offered his co operation and assistance in work ing to solve the sanitation prob lem in the area. The new plan involves th area of the original sanitary dis trict, and is the same area' pro posed for annexation before the planning commission expanded it prior to the general .election. Canvass of Votes May Be Complete Thursday ' Canvass of votes in the gen eral election is expected to be finished in Jackson county on Thursday, according to election i department officials. Official canvass of votes in the race for the second legisla tive seat from this county be tween Republican 'Al Littrell and Democrat Robert Boyer showed Littrell the winner by a .124 vote margin. Littrell re ceived 14,068 votes and Boyef received 13,944 votes. Demo crat Robert Duncan led In the legislative contest. Today election department personnel were making the offi cial cojint of voles in Ashland city contests. Number of write in votes cast in the general elec tion is reported lower than the number of write-in in the pri mary election. Total of write in votes counted to date was not available. Borders of Hungary . Opened To Red Cross Vienna -(U.R) Desperate Hun garian Communists threw open the country's frontiers to West ern Red Cross ajd tonight. The International Reda Cross announced that the Soviet spon-, sored government of Communist Premier Janos Kadar has given "blanket approval" for continu ous movement of IRC relief. continents voys from Vienna to Budapest. Eden Appears in Complete Control of Conservatives London V.Pj Prime Minis ter Sir Anthony Eden appeared today to have regained complete control of the Conservative party, which split three weeks ago over his policy in the Middle East. Parliament prepared to wind up debate today on the Suez Crisis. Eden, bolstered by his third confidence vote in three weeks, was expected to make a major policy speech later today His government won Ihe third vote of confidence. 321 to 259, during a debate ilonaay oa a O ' Britain, France Hint Rejection Of Nasser Terms0 Hammarskjold To Fly On Delicate Mission London 4U.E Britain and France hinted today they would reject Egyptian President Gamal Adbel Nasser's terms for eab lishing a U.N. police force in Egypt. New snags, both diplomatic and mechanical, arose to plague U.N. peace efforts in the Middle East even as U.N.0Secrctary-gi-eral Dag Hammerskjold pre- Dared to flv. '.o Roe. Naolei0 and Cairo, on his most) deficate O mission. The Secretary planned to leave his U.N. headquarters O at 2 p.m. (PSTi lo meet UP 0 Pnlipe PVirre CommAnder Mai. Gen. E. L. M. Burnt in Roaae.0 Danes, Ondins on Waf O Units 'of the U.N. police aern trickled slowly -is toQlhe gaples staging area. Pne grouS of 3lt) Danish soldiers was. being air lifted from Corenhacen todav and about 35 Canadians alsw were en route by air. InoNaples already were 165 Danes0 Njwe- gians ana ioiumuians. w The first Units hud been ex pected to fly t Ciia today. Later it was announced? there q would be a delay ancPvfeat tlyy Q may leave Naples Wednesday. The delay was said3to be t'jc re sult of k last minut decision 9 UC take the troops to n airport in o the Suez Canal Zone, "probtdlfcO near Ismailia" irwtead ot) to Cairo. o Franco-British SUand The possibility thcoFr,nch and British mjiy o reject $ass's terms, the polic army whkjii, would replace their owrf forces! , P L n.. in ine cvnai zone waseenu both Londnti and Paris. French I erejgn JlgrKte o Christian Pineau said the joihV forces would "rcanain g the ca- O hal zone unftl we are relievedpQ exactly by an inteenatgnsi po lice at every essential point." London ouies3 safil "?3ri,ii could not accept any "watering down" of the U.N. ftsolution set- tine un the Tiace force. Both said a major role of &. U.N. force should be to insure freedom of navigation through Uhe canal. - n. Both were disturbed at vfa q terms of iise agreement an nounced Monday night in Cairo between Nasser and Haromar skjelri. The agreei!int gave fii?ypt the right to ordej- tfie peice army out a any time and to sag) where its units wilPbePIocatd. It also stipulated" that the U.N. forces will -withdraw from Xbi'1 canal zone al soon as the Anglo French forces leave, a8d then to take up positions along Othe O Egyptian - Israeli demarcation line. " 0 O O r Sovit 'VoIanlMn1 In the British Houss of Cc- q mons, Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd said OBritain is "deeply., disturbed" by the JBo- q vlet threat to send) "privg.'C armies" to "volunteer" in Egypt. He-described is ai a Vfa vorate Communist method of pursuing hostilities," and cited the previous cases it Korea aiWf q the Greek civil war. o n He said th Agto-Frenchin- vasion of Egypt had had the et feet of bringing about a U.ff; supervised cease life attd dis closing the extent; of Russian penetration ot the area. Thursday Is Deadline s ror hi rijmzm o Jackson" county tax opayers were lining rrp n largeQnunjberjS at the iourthouse today to psyo personal and Teal p&perty tjfces o before the Nov. 15 deadline. Thoseowho pay tax; onrjOt q before this Thursday will be en titled to a 3 per centQliscouflt. o Tax department o.cia Ad this istheDfirst d$y therehis been a sizableoinejunD of ta payers, though manyQi&ve come irf individually recent days.Q Officials had no i'iof thg total number who havsoalrOdy (gari their 0taxes, omany of them by maiL Today' line-up extended considerable distance dow.Cthe hall from the tx office. An estftnatcd ti'3,578 tax stale- were seat out for tea 1956-57 fisI year. , q Socialist amendment criticizing government econmic policy. Observers believed the gov ernment stopped a Conservative party "revolt" by owing to a United Nations demand for a cease fire in Egypt and agreeing to pull Anglo-French forces out of the Suez Cana Zone when thi U.N. police force becomes effective. The government also regained some of its former support with disclosures that Russia has been aiding Egypt to an extent un known before.0 d O C? O o o o o c