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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 $ass's
terms, the polic army whkjii,
would replace their owrf forces!
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in ine cvnai zone waseenu
both Londnti and Paris.
French I erejgn JlgrKte o
Christian Pineau said the joihV
forces would "rcanain g the ca- O
hal zone unftl we are relievedpQ
exactly by an inteenatgnsi po
lice at every essential point."
London ouies3 safil "?3ri,ii
could not accept any "watering
down" of the U.N. ftsolution set-
tine un the Tiace force.
Both said a major role of &.
U.N. force should be to insure
freedom of navigation through
Uhe canal. - n.
Both were disturbed at vfa q
terms of iise agreement an
nounced Monday night in Cairo
between Nasser and Haromar
skjelri. The agreei!int gave fii?ypt
the right to ordej- tfie peice
army out a any time and to sag)
where its units wilPbePIocatd.
It also stipulated" that the U.N.
forces will -withdraw from Xbi'1
canal zone al soon as the Anglo
French forces leave, a8d then to
take up positions along Othe O
Egyptian - Israeli demarcation
line. " 0 O O r
Sovit 'VoIanlMn1
In the British Houss of Cc- q
mons, Colonial Secretary Alan
Lennox-Boyd said OBritain is
"deeply., disturbed" by the JBo- q
vlet threat to send) "privg.'C
armies" to "volunteer" in
Egypt. He-described is ai a Vfa
vorate Communist method of
pursuing hostilities," and cited
the previous cases it Korea aiWf q
the Greek civil war. o n
He said th Agto-Frenchin-
vasion of Egypt had had the et
feet of bringing about a U.ff;
supervised cease life attd dis
closing the extent; of Russian
penetration ot the area.
Thursday Is Deadline
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ror hi rijmzm o
Jackson" county tax opayers
were lining rrp n largeQnunjberjS
at the iourthouse today to psyo
personal and Teal p&perty tjfces o
before the Nov. 15 deadline.
Thoseowho pay tax; onrjOt q
before this Thursday will be en
titled to a 3 per centQliscouflt. o
Tax department o.cia Ad
this istheDfirst d$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
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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
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