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SEEK CHAMPIONSHIP After a rousing pep rally at Med
ford High school early this morning the Black Tornado foot
, feal.1 team was in high sph-its as they boarded a bus for Port
land where Jhey will meet the Marshfield Pirates in the state
chanfpionship football game in Multnomah stadium tomor
row night. Shown above are, at bottom from left, Halfback
Gafy Riley, End Dick Copple, and Guard Tom Merton; in
middle. Quarterback Dick McLaughlin, left, and Guard Bob
Apple: and at top. End Mike Stearns,, left, and Tackle Larry
Slesslr.
Kadar Won't A"ow
UN Observers in
Hungary, Radio Says
.United Nations, N.Y. u.R nesday demanded 'the se'eretary
A radio, Moscow broadcast said! general give it "forthwith." But
today Sovietbacked Prerr'ier Ja-
os Kadar had refused Ut permit
s te entry jf UN observers into
engary.'
g J"h broadcast quetcd Kadar
i,sayirig he rejected the UN
raqu5t "because many people'
! longer atse 'clear about the
difference between American
s id VN Oforces." . -
i VTht Is why the arrival it
" ''UN rtpreserrfaUVes in Hungary
Ould, throw the people into con--j
fusion, Kadar said, according
to the broadcast monitored in
London.
Kadar' s statement cairje in as
interview with the Soviet Cotn
munist Party newspaper Prav
da. He also defended Soviet arm
ed intervention.
Raport Hangs Far
Sources here said Secretary
Cencral Dag Hammarskjolcf def
initely had decided V report to'
the General Assembly on his.
efforts to persuade the Kadar
regime to allow UN observers
to Investigate the situation1 in
revolt-torn Hungary. Mis report
has been hanging fire for sever
al days.
a Jhe sources said Hammar
e skjold would o before the Gen
eral AsBmbly today with a re
port on his negotiations regard
less of whether he receive; for
mat reply from the Soviet-puppet
Budapest regime. .
s Western delegation have been
9 pressing Hammarskjold for the
report. Cuba and Amcntin Wed-
Cbarles Holbrook
Submits Resignation
9 Ctiarles Holbrook. Jackson
county 'veterans service officer,
has submitted, his resignation to
the Jackson county court. It will
become effeetiwe Jan. 1.
Holfcrosk stated in his letter
his reason for resigning is "to
better myself financially." He
added that the financial return
as out of proportion with the
amount of work necessary for
such a job.
e Holbraok, who has held the
post for nine years. has been
commander of the Veteran's of
Foreign Wars post, pesldent
and secretary of Jackson County
Tetcrans' Allied council, anj
urrently commander of Med
ford Post. 1 of the American
Legion. He has also boon active
in other veteran's affairs-and
organizations in the county and
state.
Former Medford Man
Found Innocent by Jury
Oliver Scrugs Fox. formerly
of Mdford and now of Oakland,
Calif., was found innocent by a
diStrict court jury Tuesday on
charges of driving while under
the influence of intoxicating
liquor.
He was arrested by state po
lice Aug. 12 represented himself
at the trial.
Bonn. Germany U.R) Au
thoritative reports from Sofia
said today pwerful new Rus
sian Army units have moved
into Bulgaria to prevent a pos
sible uprising against Commu
nist strongman fodor Shivkofl.
Hammarskjold held off in hopes
of receiving a reply from Buda
pest. " The Kadar regime, .according
to J3test report here, was still
"considering" the request. Ham
marskjold conferred briefly
Wednesday' wfth the Hungarian
delegate. Irnre Horvath, but de
tails -.of the conversation were
wiihheld-.
Rat Problem Shows
Increase in City
Jackson county sanitation of
ficials reported today that the
rat problem in Medford has in
creased with cooler weather. Ro
dents are reported numerous in
some- areas, they said.
Sanitation officials said rats
are drawn 'to homes and areas
closer to town during cooler
weather for food. During the
slimmer months they get food
from fields.
Rat control measures recom
mended by officials include re
moving the food supply. This
would include chicken feed left
in- the open, dog food and gar
bage. Places which could be
used for nests, such as rubbish
and wood piles, and other col
lected ' objects left in the open
also should be removed.
Officials recommended war
frin poison, which may be pur
chased at feed stores, mixed
vj'ith a suitable attractive bait,
for killing rats.
Sanitation officials added
that it is almost impossible to
completely eliminate rats but the
number can be controlled by
checking food supplies.
Portland !U.R) Mrs. Charles
Nerh, 95, a native of Oregon and
a descendant of an early day
Lane county medical doctor,
died here Wednesday.
"I Think Maybe I'm
No Information
Seen To Indicate
Outbreak of War
Hagerty Sees Crisis
Materially Eased
Augusta, Ga. U.R) Presi
dent Eisenhower conferred early
today by telephone with Acting
Secretary of State Herbert
Hoover Jr. on the international
situation.
After the telephone confer
ence, White House Press Secre
tary James C. Hagerty said
there was no incoming informa
tion from abroad to indicate that
the tense Mideast situation
might explode into a general
war in that area.
Crisis Seen Eased
Hagerty said Wednesday that
fn his opinion the grave Suez
Canal crisis had eased materially
in the last two weeks. The Presi
dent's spokesman refused, how
ever, to appraise the recently
disclosed shipment of Russian
arms into Syria.
Mr. Eisenhower left his lux
urious cabin on the edge of the
Augusta National Golf course
and went to his temporary of
fice at 8:30 a.m. to receive over
night intelligence reports from
his staff secretary, Col. Andrew
Goodpaster.
Urges Generosity
After the President's morning
in the office, Hagerty had these
news announcements:
1. Mr. Eisenhower urged all
Americans to contribute gener
ously to a special American Red
Cross disaster appeal for $5 mil
lion to aid in emergency relief
in Hungary and for Hungarian
refugees in Austria.
2. The chief executive called
for "organized citizen support"
in all states and communities for
the accident prevention possi
bilities of the highway moderni
zation program passed by the
last Congress.
3. Hagerty confirmed that Mr.
Eisenhower recently sent a per
sonal letter to French Premier
Guy Mollet expressing the Pres
ident's hopes and desires that
Franco - American relations
would continue in the spirit of
friendship and cooperation of the
past.. Hagerty saidthe. note .tW-
Mollet was in' response ttf 'a
message from the Premier con
gratulating the President on his
reelection.
Big ThrM Meeting
4. Asked about a statement at
tributed to Sen. Walter F.
George (D-Ga.), that the retiring
chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations committee expected a
meeting between the President,
Mollet and British Prime Min
ister Anthony Eden early next
year, Hagerty said, "I haven't
got anything on that."
Egypt Says Troops
Strafed by 'Enemy'
London U.F) Egypt re
ported that two "enemy" air
craft strafed Egyptian troops in
the Sinai Desert today, and
there were increasing signs the
uneasy cease fire might explode
into a general Middle East war.
Israeli sources accused the
Soviet Union of conspiring with
Syria to wreck the Baghdad pact
and overthrow the government
of Iraq. Moscow retorted thai
Israel was "digging its own
grave" by preparing a new con
flict in the Middle East.
The threat to the Baghdad
pact was so grave that a top
level Turkish mission flew to
London to seek means of coun
teracting the rapid buildup of
Soviet arms in Syria which Tur
key saw as a threat to it and its
Baghdad pact partner, Iraq.
Going To Enjoy This"
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Puppet kirfie
Decides Against
More Passports
Soldiers Laying
Mines on Frontier
Vienna (U.R) The Hungar
ian puppet government returned
all the way today to hard line
Stalinism.
A government announcement
said the Cabinet of Premier
Janos Kadar had decided not to
issue any more passports or exit
visas. At the same time, refugees
reported that Russian soldiers
were laying minefields again
along the Austrian frontier
across which 96,000 Hungarians
have fled to freedom since Oct.
28.
The new rigid ruling on- pass
ports and exit visas represented
a return to the inflexible Stalin
ist line which the East European
satellites had hoped was gone
forever.
After Stalin's death, the Hun
garian government lifted the
Iron Curtain for thousands of
elderly citizens who had rela
tives in the West.
Mass Arrests Loom
The return to the hard line
inside Hungary was signalled by
the government earlier this week
with indications of mass arrests
and preparation of show trials
for leaders of the rebellion.
A Moscow dispatch today de
nied news agency reports, not
carried by United Press, that
the Kadar regime was receiv
ing advice on its new tough line
from former Russian Premier
Georgi Malenkov. A spokesman
in the press department of the
Soviet Foreign Ministry in Mos
cow said the reoort that Malen
kov was in Budapest was "pure
fabrication.
Refugees reported the Russian
mine-layers most active in the
Tegiit:;TO3lecIiiat2i;0: miles-
southeast of Vienna.
Shooting Protested
It was in that region that Aus
trian- frontier police shot and
killed a Russian infantryman
who chased and molested a flee
ing Hungarian girl inside the
flag-marked Austrian frontier.
Russia Wednesday night formal
ly protested the Nov. 23 shoot
ing, charging that the Austrian
police "virtually murdered" the
Russian.
Already Russian patrol activ
ity was so intense that only
3,700 refugees crossed into Aus
tria during the past 24 hours. A
week ago the 24-hour total aver
aged 10,000.
Hunter Shot When
Mistaken for Deer
Albert Floyd Johnson. 36, of
2877 Springbrook rd., Medford,
suffered a shoulder wound when
his hunting companion, Scott
Leonard Atkinson, 22, of 910
West 11th St., Medford, mistook
him for a deer early yesterday
afternoon, according to state po
lice. The men were deer hunting
near the Blue Moon ranch north
of Central Point. Atkinson was
using a 30-30 rifle, police said.
Johnson was shot in the left
shoulder.
He was taken to Rogue Valley
hospital by Medford Ambulance
service, which met state police
on Highway 99 and transferred
Johnson from a patrol car.
The special deer season in the
northern part of Jackson county
and parts of Josephine county
along Rogue River will end Dec.
2.
Start Proceedings
Against Stumbos
Salem (U.R) The State High
way Commission late yesterday
filed condemnation proceedings
in Douglas county court against
the Stumbo brothers of Wolf
Creek to obtain a title to a 16V4
foot stretch of the Pacific high
way. Robert L. May Jr., assistant
chief counsel for the commis
sion, said the fact that the Stum
bos were selling four-square-inch
tracts of the busy roadway
property made it necessary for
the commission to act quickly
before they had to sue hundreds
of property.
Property under condemnation
cannot be sold. May said.
Salem-UR) Public Utilities
Commissioner Charles Heltzel
has filed a petiton before the In
terstate Commerce Commission
protesting increased rates re
quested by eastern and western
railroads.
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WINNING FLOAT Shown above is the
Medford Jaycettes float that won the grand
sweepstakes award in the Christmas parade
yesterday. The float depicted a Christmas
dream. Because of fog only nine floats en
tered the parade, which was about half of
what had been planned. Winner of the youth
division was the First Methodist church float,
and in the adult division the Medford Public
library float took first place. About 9,000
pieces of candy were distributed by Santa
No Relief From Smog
In View, Bureau Says
A high pressure area, extend-'
ing from northwestern British
Columbia to 500 miles west of
San Francisco, has created smog
conditions in Pacific northwest
jsallejtsV including Rogije, yalley.
Weather bureau officials at
Medford said the condition will
exist until a severe storm front
forms in the Pacific and creates
high winds to carry the smog to
sea.
For about two weeks the stag
nant condition has kept smoke
and other particles from leaving
the valley, and as the moisture
content of air in the valley in
creased, it was attracted to small
particles, causing dense fog, or
a non-toxic smog.
Caused Condition
The condition is caused when
cold air settles in the-valley, and
is held there by warm winds
aloft. Bob Church, meteorologist
at the Medford weather bureau
office, said the temperature
about 700 feet above the airport.
or the upper edge of the smog,
was 43 degrees early this morn-
New Traffic Light
To Start Operating
The new traffic signal at Oak
dale and Stewart aves. will be
gin operating at 8 a.m. Friday
according to Vernon Thorpe, city
public works director.
The light, with a semi-actuated
control signal, is set so it
will remain green on Stewart
ave. The light will change to red
only when vehicles approach the
intersection on Oakdale ave.
and trigger a magnetic detector
under the pavement.
For pedestrians crossing Stew
art ave. two push button con
trols are available to stop traf
fic. They are located on the traf
fic signal posts on the west side
of Oakdale ave. and on each
side of Stewart ave. and will
control the walk-wait signal. No
push buttons are required for
pedestrians crossing Oakdale.
Friday a city policeman will
be at the intersection the ma
jority of the day as well as Jef
ferson school patrol members.
Greyhound Bus Drivers
Halt Salt Lake Travel
Sale Lake City (U.R) Some
40 drivers for Northwest Grey
hound lines left their jobs early
today, halting the company's
bus travel between Portland,
Ore., and Salt Lake City.
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Bade To Staiiiism
The low in Medford this morn
ing was 25 degrees, compared to
Crater Lake's low of 31. Med
ford's high yesterday was 37,
compared to 55 at Crater Lake.
Ihe condition is known as a
temperature- -irrversiort as where
warm air rises, and cooler- air
clings to the floor of the valley.
Church said a warm wind
yesterday blew from the south,
through Ashland and into the
central part of the valley, but
failed to break the pocket of
cold air settled there.
Watch Pressure Area
Church said weather bureau
officials are watching a low
pressure area in the Pacific. He
said, however, the front probab
bly will circle the Pacific north
west high pressure area to the
north, move south through cen
tral Canada and result in winter
weather in the mid - western
states. Previous fronts have
moved the same way, he said.
The moist cold fog has caused
icy conditions in some valley
areas, and has caused several
minor automobile accidents and
closed the airport to traffic.
Weather
FORECAST: Clear above 2.000
feet mean sea level. Con
tinned foggy in valley through
Friday. Low tonight 25. High
Friday 38 in tog, 60 in sun
shine. Temp.
Highest Yesterday 37
Lowest this Morning . 23
Our Skies Tonight
The Sun rises 7:19 a.m.
and sets 4:41 p.m.
The unseen stars In Its back
ground are now those of the
constellation, Scorpio.
Moonrise Friday 5:43 a.m.
New Moon Dec. 2
PROMINENT STARS
Alrlebaran, hifh in
south 12:08 a.m.
Capetia, hifh overhead-
12:54 a.m.
Chamber Approves Suggestion for Jab
Evaluation Survey for County' Employees
The Jackson County Chamber
of Commerce today approved a
suggestion that the'eounty court
obtain a job evaluation and pay
rate survey for employees of
the county.
The action was taken by the
board of directors in the recom
mendation of , the chamber's
committee on governmental op
erations, which has conducted a
year-long study of county gov
ernment. The ''ommittee was au
thorized to make the recom
mendation to the county court,
and if necessary to the budget
committee, on behalf of the
chamber.
The committee's report, which
was approved unanimously by
the chamber board, follows:
Honorable Occupation
"Public employment is an hon
orable, useful and worthwhile
occupation. Public servants pro
vide services for the community
which can be obtained in no
other way.
If the public is to be well
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Claus and his helpers, to children watching
the parade. Judges of the floats were Cather
ine Fonkin, art instructor at Hedrick Junior
High, and Steve Bayless, art instruoror. at
McLoughlin Junior High. Other winners in
the youth division were Roosevelt Girl Scouts,
second; Griffin Creek Girl Scouts, third: St.
Mary's Girl Scouts, fourth; Pilgrim Holiness
church, fifth; and Roosevelt Girl Scouts (sec
ond float) sixth. Pilgrim Holiness church took
second place in the adult division.
Emergency Fund
Drive Set by RC
For Hungarian Aid
A campaign for emergency
funds to aid Hungarians will be
held in Medford Wednesday,
Dec. 12, officials at the Jackson
county Red Cross chapter said
today.
The one-day drive for $1,633
will be known as "Tag Day'
Red Cross -officials and volun
teer workers will ,be on street
corners to accept Contributions.
Donations also may be made a't
the Red Cross office on tlie first
floor of the county courthouse.
The drive will be similar to
the tag day held last year for
benefit of eastern flood victims.
Medford reached its quota in
the one day that drive was con
ducted. Nation-Wide Basis
Mrs. Helen Wilson, chairman
of the Red Cross chapter here,
said the tag. day campaign is be-,
ing conducted on a nation-wide
basis and total goal is $5 mil
lion. County Red Cross board mem
bers will make final planS for
the drive at a meeting Satur
day, Dec. 8. Mrs. Wilson saifl
volunteer fund solicitors are
needed and requested those in
terested in helping with the
campaign to call the Red Cross
office, 2-4405.
Officials in the local office
received first notice of tag day
plans today in a telegram from
national American Red Cross
headquarters.
The one-day emergency drive
has been approved by the
United Medford Crusade, .UMC
officials- said this morning.
Salem iU.R) Fog settled over
southern and ' eastern Oregon
again today as highway depart
ment maintenance crews report
ed icy spots on many routes.
served, our public servants must
be of high caliber. If public
service is to attract high caliber
people, they must bo compen
sated adequately and in terms
comparable to the 'rewards
both financial and otherwise
available in other fields.
"It is not within the province
of this committee to conduct a
survey of employment compen
sation and conditions in the Jack
son county government, but the
contacts which we have had in
recent months have convinced
us that such a survey should be
made. Recent resignations in de
partments of the county indicate
some dissatisfaction a con
clusion borne out by other evi
dence. Job Evaluaiioni
"We believe that such a sur
vey should include not only
rates of pay, but also job evalu
ations to go with them, provid
ing county executives, taxpay
ers and the employees them
selves with an indication of ex-'
Officials Await
More Evidence of
Traop Withdrawal
Definitive Statemdt
From Llcsd Awaited
Washington (U.R) Ameri
can officials said today they are
jrepared 19 work out plans for
emergency oil shipments to
Europe as soon as they get more
concrete evidence of British and
French plans to withdraw from
Egypt.
The U.S. position was made
known tg porters after a State
Department spokesman said this
country is awaiting a "defini
tive statement" from London on
Suez withdrawal plans.
State Department Press Offi
cer Lincoln White told reporters
tlje United Spates is awaiting a
more Retailed British statement
tfian th ofie British Foreign
Minister Selwyn Lloyd made to
the. House 0ofCchmons today.
Lloyd said Britain and France
are still standing by flans jr a
"phased , withdrawal" of their
troops from Egypt. But h re
fused o commit Arifcin to nur
ried wflhdrawal pending new
consultations with France.
British Ambassador Sir Har
old Caqcia called on Acting Sec
retary of State HSrbert Hoover
Jr. almwt simultaneously to ex
plain that the Lloyd statement
was designed oftly as "an inter
im" report. Cuccia sait another
statement' vactild be maie in
commoos Monday. e
While told rejjorters"we are
awaiting Sis (LloytiS) definitive
statement expected Monday."
.French Foreign Minister Chris
tian Pineau ivilf fly h$re Friday
lor emergencS- talksoon lher
imtrtank 'Yncitters "
. jbe new Isu? of Sogiet inf il
t(ation into .Syria w;. also on
the a(;na far these talks. A top
level delegation from Turkey
arrived here thisnorninj? to dis
cuss - the Syrian- 'situaftont-'wfti
Woyd. 0
CevancMakes Debut O
Left winger Aneurin Bevan.
making his debut as the Labor
party's official candidate for
foreign secretary should it re
gain control of the government,
immefltetely attacked Lloyd's
"sinmter -juxtaposition" of the
three conditions or Ango
FrencB withf rawal: Phasing of
the pullout with fte arrival of
U.N. police trops, clearance of
the canal blckade, and a settle
ment for its fute.
"Is it not a fact that our in
sistence of having a Aar declar
ation of the future of the canal
was one of the chief causes of dif
ference between us and the
United Statv?" B&an ated.
"Was it not through our use
of force that difficulties have
arisen?"
McKay ReturningVo
Washington Next Month
. Salem (U.R) Oregon's "for
gotten man," Doug McKay, is
going back t8 Washington ne.
month.
But on this trip, the former
governor and interior secretary
will just close up his Waftiing
lon apartment and tien return
to Salem.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York (U.R) Do
Jones final stock averages: 30
industrials 466.62, up 0.52; 20
railroads 150.44, off 0.71; 15 ut
ilities 65.97, up 0.04;- and 65
stoks 165.45, off 0.05. Sales to
day were about 2,440,000 shares
compared with 2,190,000 shares
Wednesday.
pected terms of employment,
both now and in the future.
"Such a service was recently
provided the city of Medford
by the state civil service com
mission, for a fee of S1.000. City
officials say the resulting sched
ule of duties, qualifications,
rules, and pay scales has paid
for itself many times over in
employee satisfaction, in job se
curity, in administrative con
venience and in other ways. (It
should be noted that while the
new system is of a "civil service"
nature, it docs not have the lim
iting and complicated procedures
of some other civil service or
ganizations with regard to the
discharge of sub-standard em
ployees.) "Because of these findings, we
most respectfully recommend to
the county court that a job
evaluation and pay rate survey,
either through the state civil
service commission or otherwise,
be undertaken for the personnel
employed by Jackson county."