Medford mail tribune., November 19, 1956, Image 1

o o o
o
12 ffl IF
o
O
j C
Oregon Highway
Mishaps Kill Five
By UNITED PRESS
- Five persons died in week end
highway accidents in Oregon
and another was killed when
strucit by a passenger train in
Portland.
A seven-year-old girl, Yvonne
Helmer, was killed and several
other persons were shaken up or
injured in a two-car collision in
Portland last night. The victim
was the daughter, of Mr. and
Mrs. William Helmer of. Port
land. Benjamin Tupper, about 59,
a Seatty, Ore., rancher, was
killed at Klamath Falls yester
day when struck by a car. It was
the 24th traffic fatality of- th
year in Klamath county.
Californian Killed
Robert F. Gray, Sacramento,
Calif., was killed Saturday on
the Mt. Hood Loop highway in a
freak accident about seven miles
east of Government Camp. Police
. said the car in which Gray, his
wife and two children were rid
ing struck a slick spat on a curve
and plunged Over an embank
ment. Gray was pinned under
tha vehicle and a 250-pound
boulder that had been dislodged
by the car rolled. down the bank
and struck him. His wife and
th children suffered bruises.
Herbert William . Lawrence,
27, Mosier, was killed Friday
night when his car struck the
rear of a truck at The Dalles.
- James L. Rowland, 58, was
crushed to death beneath- the
wheels of a locomotive in Port
land Saturday when he fayed to
- hear the passenger train whistle,
The body of a 61-year-old Mo-
Jalla insurance man was found
In his wrecked car in the waters
of Clear. Creek about six miles
east of tie Col ton intersection
early today. :
.' The victim was Curtis Allen
Coanett, who -had been the ob
ject of an all night search.
Wife Becomes Alarmed
His wiie told Deputy Sheriff
Cvid Spear that she began
searching for Connett last night
when he did not return from a
(trip to his ranch east of Molalla.
O Spear said "the car was badly
damaged and that Connett was
C found dead at the wheel. He said
Former Home Agent
Here for, Meetings.
Mrs. Mabel C. Mack, former
Jackson county extension agent
sow assistant director of home
extension service at Oregon
State"' college is meeting with
the Jackson, county Planning
council thie afternoon in the
courthouse auditorium.
She will also meet with Mrs.
John Austerhout, county chair
man of the Great Decisions pro-
gram, Mrs. M. P. O'Harra, home
economics county commission
citiatnship chairman from Ash-
.- land, and Don Hansen, chairman
W the Great Decisions'-program
;- lst year.
Community Prejeci
The Great Decision program,
a community project for the ad
. vancement of discussion of key
I foreign policy issues, will start
I in Jauuary and eight issues will
ha discussed by organizations,
radio and newspaper, before the
project is completed. -
i During November, December
' ( . tM eariy January discussion
groups will be organized. Help-
lag to develop the local pro
grams throughout the state are
HffK. Mack, Mrs. Maude Walker
1 and Warren Rovetch, foreign
policy association adviser from
Portland.
Discussion Slated
During the meeting this after
noon material will be discussed
end- plans made for the entire
i ; project.
The Jacltson county Planning
- council, is composed of the chair
man uf 18 planning committees
cn youth, commodities and com
munity improvement;. Members
will discuss the purpose of th
committees, methods and tech
niques in committee work for
problem solving. The committees
will gather .information, then
make recommendations on im
provement at a public meeting
in February.
Hearing on Land
Withdrawal Tuesday
Bureau of Land. Management
and Unites States Forest Service
proposals to" withdraw 23,358.67
acres along"the Rogue river in
Jackson and Josephine counties
for use as recreational areas will
be'presented at. a public hearing
at 9 a.m. tomorrow.
The hearing will be held in
the Josephine county courthouse
o at Grants Pass.
BLM has requested the with
drawal of 15,488 acres and the
United tates Forest. Service has
asked withdrawal -of 7,780.67
acres all lying along the Rogue
liver.
it was possible that he suffered
a heart attack or had lost control
of the car and plunged through
the bridge.
Hungary Strikers
Yield To Influx of
More Infantrymen
Budapest (U.R) Striking
Hungarian workers yielded to
day to famine, Soviet deporta
tion threats and the influx of
200,000 Soviet infantrymen and
began a slow drift back to their
jobs.
A spot check of major fac
tories showed at least 50 per
cent of workers still were ab
sent despite the overwhelming
odds against the workers who
have paralyzed the country for
weeks.
. But this appeared partly due
to lack of electric power, raw
material and transportation to
bring commuting workers into
the industrial areas from the
suburbs.
The solid strike front crack
ed while Russia was pouring
20 new divisions into the coun
try to consolidate its conquest
by Soviet tanks. Soviet armored
forces already in Hungary total
some 200,000 troops and 4,500
tanks.
Misery Comes
Spokesmen for workers frank
ly admitted they had capitulated
to hunger, cold and lack of
money rather than the promises
of concessions by the Soviet
sponsored Janos Kadar regime.
"Kadar didn't convince us,"
one said, "but winter is here
and misery comes."
The workers said they have
not given up their demands for
the end of mass deportations,
withdrawal of Soviet troops and
ouster of the Kadar government.
"But the whole country can t
live on relief," one spokesman
commented bitterly. "The work
ers -were so much united by last
week's events they will never
fall apart again. Tile government
must realize by now that the
use of force Is pointless."
Reports reaching Vienna said
that bands of freedom fighters
are still resisting. A refugee
Hungarian Army officer said
partisans battled Soviet troops
in the hills northeast of Buda
pest and in the Bakony Forests
to the southwest of the Hun
garian capital. He said snipers
were active in Budapest itself.
Robber Takes $15,000
From Armored Guard
. Sacramehto, Calif. U.R) ' A
gunman standing in a crowd of
200 persons milling around the
doorway of a California Employ
ment Department building
robbed an armored truck guard
of $15,000 here today.
. The money was being deliv
ered to make benefit payments
to the unemployed workers.
The guard, E. Millert, said he
was out of sight of the armored
truck, parked in an alley. The
gunman was in the line at the
doorway arjd forced him to li
on the sidewalk, taking his gun
and the bag of money.
Millert said the holdup man
escaped in a black and yellow
Buick parked in front of the
employment building in down
town Sacramento. He said the
car was driven by a second man.
. Washington (U.R) The White
House today called for a quick
settlement of the East Coast
dock strike.
"This Time Let's
Khrushchev Blasts
Western Diplomats
At Polish Party
Envoys Walk Out on
Anti-Western Tirade
Moscow (U.R) The West
ern envoys walked out on Com
munist party secretary General
Nikita S. Khrushchev again
Sunday night when he gave
them another tongue-lashing and
hinted that God would be on
the side of the Communists "if
we believed in the existence of
God."
"We will bury you," Khrush
chev told the Western diplomats
at a reception at the Polish Em
bassy to mark the signing of a
Soviet-Polish agreement giving
the right to pursue an independ
ent course of Communism.
"If you do not like us," the
vodka-drinking Khrushchev told
the American, British and other
envoys, "do not accept our in
vitations, and do not invite us
to you."
He also blasted Yugoslavia's
Marshal Tito although he did not
mention him by name.
Encouraged by Leaders
"Those Socialist countries who
boast of their experience and
attempt to extol their forms and
methods have a mistaken atti
tude that does not agree with
the principles of Marxism-Leninism,"
he said.
The red-faced Khrushchev, ap
parently encouraged by the
many top-level Soviet leaders
gathered amound him, delivered
his bitter anti-Western tirade at
a reception given for Polish
Communist Leader Wladyslaw
Gomulka.
He ran the gamut of internal
affairs and the course of Com
munist theory and relations be
hind the Iron Curtain. He
brought God into it when he
said:
"Things are going very well
with us. If we believed in the
existence of God we would
thank Him for it."
Frequently Interrupted
Khrushchev was frequently
interrupted by Soviet leaders
standing around him, but there
was no Indication anyone was
trying to shut him up. They ap
plauded, laughed and encourag-j
ed him as he rambled on about!
Hungary, Egypt, and the United
States.
Each time Soviet leaders tried
to correct or tone down his re
marks, Khrushchev brushed
them off.
Once Soviet President
Kliment Voroshilov took excep
tion to Khrushchev's remark
that Egyptian President Gamal
Abdel Nasser put Communists
in jail.
"He had to," said Voroshilov.
"Don't try to help me," Kru
shchev answered brusquely.
Bear Creek Bank
Project Completed
Embankment work on the
west bank of Bear creek in the
north Medford area where the
interceptor sewer was washed
out in last December's flood,
was completed last week by F.
L. Somers, Medford contractor,
it was announced today.
Somers was awarded the con
tract on a bid of $19,253 by the
Army corps of engineers, Port
land. The project Included 5,620
cubic yards of excavation, 500
yards of embankment from
gravel borrow and 4,020 cubic
yards of dumped stone revet
ment. Gravel layers six inches thick
were applied to the bank and
a layer of stone from 1V4 feet
to three feet thick topped the
gravel. Work on the project was
started Aug. 29.
Get A New Tire"
51st Year
Medford
United Press Full Leased Wire
18 Pages
Shei UN Police Forse
In Hi lary as Threat To Peace
Russian Troops
To Stay Until
Situation Normal
Mass Deportation
Charges Refuted
United Nations, N.Y. (U.R)
Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri
Shepilov warned today that any
move to send a U.N. police force
to Hungary would endanger
peace. He told the General As
sembly that Russians troops
would not leave the country
until the situation is "normal
ized." The Russian diplomat said
charges of mass deportations of
free Hungarians to Siberia were
an "outlandish invention." He
denounced a Cuban resolution
calling for a halt to the deporta
tions and the immediate with
drawal of Soviet troops from
Hungary.
Little Lobby Talk
There has been no formal
move, and very little lobby talk,
to send a U.N. emergency force
into the Red-overrun country.
Despite Shepilov's pledges and
protestations against any U.N.
action by Hungarian puppet For
eign Minister Imre Horvath,
Cuba demanded that the assem
bly brand the Soviet Union for
the murder of 75,000 free Hun
garians, call upon it to get its
troops out of Hungary immedi
ately and urgj an immediate
halt to deportations into Russia.
Shepilov said a resolution to
this effect submitted by Cuban
Ambassador Emilo Nunez- Por
tuondo "has about it the fetid
odor of provocation."
Accusations Unsubstantiated
"Even back in the worst pe
riods of the cold war," he said,
"one could hardly find another
document which violates as
glaringly the elementary re
quirement of substantiating the
accusations advanced."
Russia, the Cuban said, sent
more than 200,000 soldiers and
5,000 tanks into Hungary.
"We have the slaughter of
more than 75,000 helpless citi
zens, the Imprisonment of a
tremendous number of Hungari
an citizens who have been sent
eastward to Siberia by the So
viet Union simply because they
are guilty of wishing to be free
men."
5 County Officials
Back From Portland
Five county officials returned
to their offices today after attend
ing conventions in Portland last
week.
County Judge - Rodney Keat
ing and Commissioner Chester
Wendt attended a meeting of O
and C counties and a convention
of Oregon county commission
ers. Karl L. Janouch, county
treasurer, attended the conven
tion of county treasurers and
Paul Rynning, county engineer
and surveyor, attended a state
engineers and surveyors session.
Mrs. Bereth P. Hopkins, coun
ty clerk, who attended a state
clerk's meeting, was appointed
to the legislative committee to
serve as a liaison between the
clerk's group and the county
commissioner's association on
legislative matters afceecting the
county clerk's department. She
has also been appointed chair
man for the clerk's organization1
district 4 which is made up of
four Southern Oregon counties.
At all of the meetings legisla
tive matters were discussed and
at the meeting of county engi
neers and surveyors a committee
was appointed to study the qual
ifications for a county surveyor.
Planners to Conduct
Special Meet Tuesday
The Medford planning com
mission will hold public hear
ings on rezoning property in
the southeast Medford area at
a special meeting at 5:30 p.m.
Tuesday.
The commission accepted five
recommendations on rezoning
southeast Medford from a citi
zens' committee last week. The
Medford city council will con
sider recommendations from the
commission on rezoning of the
area at its meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday.
ii
MOON ECLIPSE Valley residents who ob
served the lunar eclipse Saturday night saw
the earth's shadow creep across the face of
the moon, and finally black it out complete
ly in the first total eclipse visible here for
several years. In this series of exposures,
made at ten minute intervals from a point
northeast of Medford, the moon is shown en
tering the earth's penumbra, or semi-shadow.
edford,
To Play Here Friday
ited States
Continues To Shun
Big Three Meeting
Washington (U.R) The
United States is still giving Brit
ain and France the cold should
er on any quick Big Three heads-of-state
or foreign ministers
meeting.
Administration officials said
today that a top-level meeting
between President Eisenhower,
British Prime Minister Sir An
thony Eden, and French Premier
Guy Mollet or their seconds-in-command
in foreign policy will
have to wait until the Middle
East situation has "stabilized."
There was no estimate on how
long this might take.
Last week, the State Depart
ment studiously passed up many
opportunities for a Big Three
foreign minsters' meeting, even
though the British and French
want one soon.
The United States is stalling
on a Big Three conference, par
ticularly with Eden and Mollet,
for these reasons:
Washington is still piqued
that Britain and France secretly
plotted and carried out their
armed intervention in Egypt
The two powers chose to use
force a move Mr. Eisenhower
and Dulles warned would be dis
astrous. Franc Supplied Jets
The United States Is partic
ularly angry with the French. It
is known in Washington now
that the French were working
with Israel long In advance of
the Israeli attack which prompt
ed the Middle Eastern crisis.
The French are reported to have
sent at least 30 Mystere IV jet
fighter planes to Israel just in
advance of the invasion. Eden
is believed to have known about
the probable French-Israeli
moves about two weeks before
the crisis developed.
Any Big Three meeting now
would rata ooubtj and fears,
particularly In the Arsb world,
that the United Ststes after ell
was siding with Britain and
France on Middle Eastern pol
icy. The United States wants
primary diplomatic efforts to
heal the Middle Eastern crisis
to continue to center in the Unit
ed Nations. Three way talks now
would be regarded as undercut
ting U.S. peace efforts.
Once the UN police force is
firmly stationed between the
two sides in Egypt and Allied
troops are withdrawn, Mr. Eis
enhower will be willing to talk
about a meeting with Eden and
Mollet if they still want one.
SP Workmen Repair
Sixth Street Crossing
The Southern Pacific railroad
crossing at Sixth st. is closed
to traffic today while SP crews
repair the crossing, according to
C. B. Stevens, local SP agent.
The work is expected to be
complete by Thursday, Stevens
said.
J, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1956
if
Q
Partial cloudiness in some parts of the valley
made it impossible to view the phenomenon
at its peak, when the moon was in nearly to
tal darkness. This occurred at about 10:30
p.m. Later, clouds cleared away and the moon
was observed to emerge from the shadow to
its full brightnes. The photo was taken from
about 9:10 to 9:40 p.m.
(Mail Tribune photo by Bob Vromau)
Benson Grid Teams
Two Men Arrested
During Burglary
Two Medford men were ar
rested by state police at 2:30
a.m. today while carrying a safe
containing a considerable amount
of money out of Cubby's Drive-
in restaurant, 1275 South River
side ave.
Officers said the pair, David
Walker Laflin, 28, of 1032
Cherry st., am Jack T. Stalls
worth, 29, of 106 Lincoln St.,
were attempting to carry the
safe to a nearby car, which had
been reported stolen. The car
was registered to William L.
Reynolds, 32 Eighth st., Medford.
Officer Gene Hankins report
ed he was driving past the res
taurant when he noticed two
men approach the building. He
parked the police car and ob
served as they broke the glass
building and started to leave
with the safe.
They offered no resistance
when Hankins arrested them.
They were taken to state police
headquarters, where officers
said they confessed the burglary
and car theft. They were taken
to the county jail where they
are awaiting arraignment some
time today on charges of bur
glary and larceny of an auto.
Portland (U.R) Jantzen of
Portland sold nearly $45 million
worth of swim suits, founda
tions, brassiers and casual ap
parel all over the world during
fiscal 1956.
Weather
FORECAST: Fair through Toes
day except for patches of
valley foe Tuesday morn Int.
Cold aerxln tonight. Low to
night 25. Hlfh Tuesday 4S-50.
Temp.
Hi eh est yesterday SO
Lowest this morning 23
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise ,
1:C8 uru
4:4
:19 P-m.
Sunset .
The moon rises .
fd rl htgh Between
siars. Einatn ana
Betelreuse. .
Lost quarter . Not. 24
VISIBLE PLANETS:
Mars, in the so' west 10:14 p.m.
Venus, rises 4:29 a jn.
Jupiter, In the so'east 5:54 a.m.
(All times Pacific Standard)
Most of Europe Bracing for
Rationing; Keating Fuel Shortage Seen
London (U.R) Most of Eu
rope braced today for gasoline
rationing and shortages of heat
ing fuel because of the Suez
Canal crisis.
Blockade of the canal and
sabotage of pipelines leading
from Iraq through Syria to the
Mediterranean have cut off more
than 75 per cent of the crude
oil supply which normally flows
into Europe's refineries.
In some parts of Europe, in
dustries which normally use oil
are switching back to coal, cre
ating the prospect of reduced
coal supplies for home use.
Price TOc
Tribune
United Press Full Leased Wire
No. 206
Night
Reserved Tickeis
Will Go on Sale
Tuesday Morning
Reserved seat tickets for the,
Benson - Medford High school
football game will go on sale
at the senior high school office
here at 6:43 a.m. Tuesday.
Nov. 20.
Medford Principal Lester
Harris said that persons who
had season tickets for Med
ford's regular home schedule
will have until noon on Thurs
day, Thanksgiving day. to pur
chase their same seals. Other
reserves will go on sale to the
public tomorrow morning with
a limit of four to a person.
Reserve tickers cost $2 for
the slate A-l play-off semi
final. General admission tick
ers will cost $1 -end student ad
mission will be 50 cents.
Portland-aR) Medford and
Pendleton will play host to Ore
gon state high sckool class A-l
semi-final football games this
week end, the Oregon School
Activities asociation decided to
day. Benson of Portland will play
at Medford Friday, Nov. 23 at
8:15 p.m. and defending cham
pion Marshfield travels east of
the Cascades to meet Pendleton
Saturday afternoon at 1:30 at
the Eound-Up grounds.
The winners meet for the state
title in Multnomah stadium here
Nov. 30 at 8 p.m.
The OSAA also selected sites
for class A-2, ll-man"B and six
man playoffs.
Reedsport meets Centra high
of Monmouth-Independence in a
Class A-2 semi-final game Satur
day night at North Bend. Silver
ton meets Eagle Point Friday or
Saturday hight at the South Sa;
lem field in the other contest.
The class B semi-final game
locations were set with times to
be decided. Colton will play at
Monroe and Sherman high of
Moro at Stanfield.. .
The class B six-man title game
between Alsea and Culver will
be played Saturday at Corvallis
at 2 p.m.
Salem (U.R) Gov. Elmo
Smith today observer! his 47th
birthday.
Britain and France, the na-1
tions whose intervention in the
Suez Canal Zone sparked the
crisis which cut off the oil sup
ply, were hardest hit. France
ordered gasoline stations closed
during the week end and plan
ned to start issuing ration cou
pons Jan. 1.
In Britain, Minister of Fuel
Aubrey Jones appealed to driv
ers 10 days ago to reduce weeK
end pleasure driving and said
"even sterner measures" may be
introduced next month.
Most countries of Western Eu
rope report enough gasoline on
f t : :
'5 " .
Troop Withdrawal
From Canal Zone
At Once Demanded
Renewal of Request
for Volunteers Hinted
London ftj.PJ Egypt warned
the world today of a "great c
tastrophe" unless Anglo-French
forces withdraw at once from
the Sue2 Canal 2Jone where they
landed two weeks ago. It was
indicated Egvpt would rnew o
its request- for. volunteers to
fight .Britain, France and Israel.
The Mideast remained tense.
TTjere were reports of Egyptian
firing on Bntist and French
forces in their frontline posi
tions south o of Port Said an
from Moscow came a new blast
at West "coWnialism" by Soviet
Communist party boss Nikita
Khrushchev.
U.N. Secretary - general Dag
Hammarskjold returned to New
York from a series of confer
ences in Egypt, where he work
ed Out details for operation of
the U.N. Emergency force Qt
up to supervise the cease fire.
Egyptian Warning
Hammarskjold toSd newsmen
that he had "no coKiment" on
his missiont He returned imme
diately to U.N. headquarters 5?d
went into session with Maj. Gen.
K. L. M. Burns, commander of
UNEF. There were no plans at
present for him to report to
the. U;N. General Assembly.
In a statement broadcast $9?r
Cairo .Radio, Winn Commander
Ali Sabry saW Egypt Mexpects
British and French trocs to
withdraw from the SuezjCand o
Zone immediately, this week, if
possible. Anything eise, St said,
would be a violatioti of the U.
cease fire resolutions.
Khrushchev followed u hisQ
insults to the West Saturday
night with another coutburs) at
a Moscow reception Sunday
night, inaicatlng the Kremlin
was ready to go through wltSb
its offer of "volunteers"oif nec
essary. -
Troops Open Fire
He sarcastically denounced q
British Prime MinistercAnthony q
Eden's description of the Anglo
French" landings in the Suez
Canal Zone as a "police action."
"Wherf the British French and
Israelis cut the hroata of the
Egyptians, this is orily a police
action aiied at restormgorder," O
he said. 0
The Anglo-Ftench command O
in Port Said, meanwhiie,Gchrg-0
ed that Egyptian troops opened
fire twice in 12 hours on British
and French forces inCirontline
positions near El Cap in the q
(Suez Canal Zone. In ithei)
case, the French and ijtfh
said, did their troops fire back. O
But U.N. observers vftre asked
formally to investigate the inci
dents. The Ciro International Air- q
port, closed since British-FrencrP
air attaScs nearly three weeks
ago. Was optfied toO dgylight O
flights by certain foreign air- u
lines. Officials in London sKd (
that airlines intending to touch
Sown at Cairo were advised by
Egyptian, authorities that uarfr Q
no circumstances nu British,
French, Ifraeti andNAusgalian
assengeTs3 be rgided there.
O
Favorable Wealher
Predicted for Holiday
Good weather for the Tha:s- g
giving (day h.oliay rai lndi
cated today by th$ weather bu
reau in ts five-day forecast for
western Oregon. q
Some rain is predicted about
Wednesdy and again tord Q
the week nd but the Medf or1
weather station said that most
of the rain ill be tSne north
with little anticipated in this
area. o
Temperatures are expecOd to
warm after tonight and near
normal for the period.
dow-jones Averages
New York (U.R) Dow-Jones
iini stock averages: 30 indus
trials 474.5S, off 8.11; 20 rail
roads 154.21, off 2.30; 15 utilities
66.78, off 0.03, and 65 stocks
168.41, off 1.83. Salefc today
were about 2,560,000 shares
I compared with 1,820,000 shares
Friday. o
Gasoline
hand to lat tnree monuis. now
ever, salvage engineers nave esu-
mated it will take at least six
months to clear the5 Suez Canal
of sunken vessels and eopen
the waterway to fuel tankers.
Rationing of gasoline and fuel
oil appeared a certainty in Brit
ain, France, Ireland, Eemmarl)
and The Netherlands. Rationing
went into effect in Spain today.
Gerrwany has increased prices
for. fuel to pay for shipjltng it
around ttife Cafe? of Good Hope.
Switzerland has curtailed pleas
ure driving to conserve its supplies.
O
O
o
O
o
O