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o o O o o O o o o o o o o f ? Id) v V I Ire mi tiki: I n C o o FROSTY TAPESTRY When freezing fog blanketed the valley recently jinusoal forma tions of frost covered ines and. foliage arid even turned common weeds into things of . -4 beauty with an icyfrosting that bent down ' Duff Authorized lo o Negotiate for Part Of Street Property City Manager Robert Duff last night was authorized1 by the city council to Negotiate for the purchase of parts of the property ! necessary for development of the j arterial street program, o 3 0 Arterial strewt development is one ofCjhrce segments of a cap ital improvement program ap proved by voterj Nov. 6. o Duff will negotiate for prop erty to extend 10th st. cast of Rive)(gde ave. ,V Bear creek. Improvements are being made on propcrtie. adjacent to the proposed extension. Duff said. This could imakei the right-of- way unavailable if improwimit projects were pSpandeaL1he add ed. 0 StatV tax street funds could be used for payment, according to should JjrOied;e &ur- (lase be advisable. Th fund would be reimbursed after bonds are sl for the0artcfial street program. Portiort)of Program o Early in November t!e coun cil cleared (fjpe way4or one por tion Oi the arterial strict pro gram wherr an agreement with Sears-RoebiBk company was au thorized for extending JOth st. between cntr;l and Riversides ves. According to fne agreement;. the company will dedicate a strip of land 86 fgt wide on all align ment recommended by the city. Dedication also will bemade to extend two noth-south alleys to the proposed 10th st. rightK- way. The arterial street prograui will be financed through a $220, 000 general obligation benbVis-. xue and a $143,000 ix levy each3 year for 10 fears. ' a BondQnoney will be usscf to pay right-of-way costs and Other preliminary expenditure Work ing capital for the project from the tax levy will be included in the 1957-58 hsidget and sufficient funds should be. on hand by Jan uary, 1958, Recording, to Duff, to start actual work. . Duff said a report lie has com piled on the Qraodview-Ken-wood district ili-fee, presented to the council for. action at its next meeting. Antwxation wa approved by area residents Nqv. 6. The district's '('abilities and " Assets will show the actual cost Q annexation to the dig. City officials indurated an election may W called in the city for Medford residents t3 vote on the matter. e (Sea Story on Page 14) c Early Mailing Help Speedy Postqrtjister Hamilton has tijeaed Medfrd residents to compile Christmas mailing as ( v, l SCSI? as pOSSip. in oiuei iu wui' tsTe speedy processingana ae- (I)very of mail . Hamilton said residents would ber,'iij( thpjrnseises and the pod off iciP department's service bv using $hree-cent Ramus on Clfias cards ratiier than two-cct staifps. Tlidva8tgcs 9 'of two-centl st-.mps. Jy6s9iare hat under the law they cannot De jorwara 0ect)if people ha ve moved or re Cturned tpothe sender? Each year. (tfSSmlton said, the post office disc tnuusands at cards. O Witmn a week, Hamilton said, labels will be distributed to res Oictents with a il box. .T?ie, lab) are i tended to be attach- "oe e" . Flurries to Continue In Area During Night A, cold front moving south-1 was expected to become more ward brought snow and colder temperatures to southern Ore gon last night; 'and the. forecast calls 'for snow flurries to con tinue tonight. State police said chains were required on all highway moun tain 'passes leading from- the Rogii valley, and fhe Diamond lake highway -was closed at 8 a.m. today because of 14 inches of new snow. Show on highways was ex pected to break 'some about mid day, police sid,' but traveling Tickets on Sale for Band Benefit.Concerf i Tickets went oi. sale 'this morning for thc-faand benefit in strumental aild choral concert Sunday, Dec. 16, at 2 p.m. in the Medford, - High .'school audito rium. . a Proceeds from the concert, to pe presented , by the 98-piece high school band and' -60-v.oice choir,. will.. go into the fund to send the band to the East-West game In San Francisco Dec. 29. T,J"C program will feature a variety of instrumental and vo cal selections, including .several olo numbers. Badio .station KMED will record the concert and rebroadcast portions of it at a later date. No.- seats' will be reserved. Tickets may be purchased for one dollar each from any band or choir .member. Purucker's Piano house, the Music 'Mart or at the high school office. The band is 'under the direc tion of I. A-. Mirick and the choir i. under tjie direction of Lynn Sjolund. UN Sets Deadline For.'Hungary Consent United" Nations, N. Y. (U.R) The General Assembly demand ed early today that Russia' and Hungry consent by" Friday to let United Nations observers onto Hungarian soil. The" assembly overwhelmingly adopted i 14-nation. resolution containing tbe ultimatum. Hungarian Foreign Minister Inire Horvath relayed the re quest to his .government after a 20-minute conference with Sec retary:General Dag Hammarsk jold Tuesday night. He had hoped to. get an" immediate reply but vher the General Assembly broke up at 1 a.m. (EST) today he still did not have it. Urged to Processing t'cd tb bundles of envelopes to indica.te in-town or out-of-town deliveries. This procedure eliminates two handlings of cards, he said, speeding-up deliveries. Residents who cooperate save the depart ment hundreds of dollars ech year, Hamilton said." ;br'rffmAS I hr'f ma i Crctir S into" graceful shapes. Above, Jack Frost took -a. good .deal of care in outlining, each leaf of a small apple tree with white, creating what ap . pears .to be a design for a living rbojri carpet. (Mail Tribune photo by Bob Vroman) hazardous toward evening. Four Inches at Prospect Four inches of snow was re ported at Prospect and on the Siskiyous, with five inches on the Green Springs. Chains were required on those highways, and on Sexton and Oregon moun tains..' ... The Medford weather bureau station rccprded .03 inch of snow during the stofrri, which started about 9 p.m. yesterday Heavier amounts fell in Ashland and other higher elevations. Crater Lake National park re ported nine inches of new snow in the past 24 hours, bringing the total depth to 24 inches. The road from Annie Springs to the rim was temporarily closed, and chains or snow tread tires were advised on Highway 62 through the park. - " . The cold air .mass is expected to bring cooler temperatures throughout Oregon tonight. The mercury is expected to dip to 5 degrees in some eastern Oregon valley tonight with lows be tween 20 and 30 forecast for western Oregon, the weather bureau said. Residence Destroyed Near Lumber Firm Central Point A residence occupied by the O. D. Privette family off Willow Creek rd. near Double Dee Lumber company was totally .burned about 11:30 p.m. Monday, Central Point rural firemen reported. The firemen said the blaze was caused apparently by a faulty flue. A garage at the house, of Vic tor Jennings, 2772 Howard ave., was badly burned about 11:10 a.m. yesterday. Rural firemen said the blaze extended Into a bedroom and that there was smoke damage throughout the residence. They reported that the fire apparently started in the garage. Medford- rural firemen an swered the alarm. The fire proved to be in the. Central Point district and the Medford crew left when Central Point apparatus arrived. Slash Burning Done In Area last Week Considerable successful slash burning in this area last week has been reported by Curt Nes heim, southwest district warden of the state department of for estry. There was good weather for the burning at higher elevations despite fog in the lower portion of the valley. Nesheim said that rain this week probably has ended slash burning for the rest of this year. Eisenhower To Make Drought Inspection Trip Augusta, Ga. (U.R) The White House said today that President Eisenhower will make an aerial drought inspection trip in stricken areas of the Midwest and Southwest shortly before his inauguration next month. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York HJ.PJ Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 488.55, up 7.17; 20 rail roads 153.32. up 0.87; 15 utilities 67.51. up 0.21. and 65 stocks 171.40, up 1.78. Sales today were about 2.360,000 shares com pared with 2,180,000 shares Tuesday. , Russian Tanks Block Defiant Hungary Women Demonstration of Mourning Continues Budapest ill. P.) Thousands of angry women defied Rus sian tanks today tp stage protest-demonstrations in fiont of the U.S. and British legations here. The women screamed and clawed at Hungarian police and "militiamen" who ran in terference for the Russian ar mor, but there was no shoot ing and no report of serious casualties. Scores of demonstrators were arresJed in front of the . U.S. legation and carted away in trucks. By RUSSELL JONES United Press Correspondent Budapest (U.R) Russian tanks and armored cars roared through the ruhhle streets of Budapest today to oiock a defiant demonstration by Hungarian women The worn. en screamed and shook, their fists at the Soviet troops. It was the second demonstra tion of mourning for victims of Budapest (U.R) United Press Correspondent Russell Jones telephoned his last dis patch lo Vienna today and then made the 125-mile drive to the Austrian border to beat a government imposed dead line ordering him be io out of the country by midnight or face arrest. the Hungarian revolt-in as many days. It occurred on the eve of a mass movement that could touch off a new armed, uprising here. Fewer women turned out to day than the 30,000 who defied Russia's might Tuesday, how ever, and there was no repetition of the Soviet gunfire that wound ed one woman Tuesday. The goal of today's mourners was'Petocfi Square, where' the" October uprising against the Russians began. A few women, in groups of three or four, got through a Soviet armored cor don to lay flowers on the statue honoring a 19-century patriot which gives the square its-name. Call for Revolt Earlier- today, leaflets scatter ed in the streets called for a mighty demonstration Thursday St. Nicholas Day. The leaf lets also called for a new revolt against the Communist oppres sors, but set no date for it. The Russians, who used armored .cars to quell Tuesday's demonstration at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Heroes' Square, turned out their tanks against today's demonstrators. The Soviet armor rumbled for ward behind a screen of Hungar ian "militiamen," the officers loyal to pro-Soviet Premier Jan os Kadar who are all that is left of the Hungarian Army. In most cases, the militiamen used polite persuasion to dis perse the mourning women, but there were scuffles at- some points. Russian Guards Block U.S. Military Convoy Berlin U.R) Russian guards blocked the passage of a U.S. military convoy from Bergin to the West today for the first time since the Soviet blockade of the encircled city ended in 1949. The U.S. Army announced that the Russians halted its weekly truck convoy to the West at the Dreilinden checkpoint, just outside Berlin, and de manded the right to search the trucks for "concealed persons." The convoy commander re fused to allow the Russians to search the trucks, and the con voy returned to Berlin "rather than submit to investigations be yond those in effect for many years." It was just such interference wit hAllied traffic which paved the way for the Russian block ade seven years ago. Keating to Attend Las Vegas Meetings County Judge Rodney Keat ing will attend a meeting of the 11 Western States Association of Public Lands committees Dec. 11 and 12 in Las Vegas, Nev. The Nevada County Official association will also meet there Dec. 10 and 11 and on Dec. 12 the two associations will hold a joint session to discuss mutual problems. Klamath Falls (U.R) An drew Kanna. 38, Klamath Falls truck driver, was killed today near- Bly when a log rolled off his truck and crushed him. 51st Year Masi Troubi afters Waited at Clinton Brownell Warns . Of Prosecutions Clinton. Tcnn. (U.R) A mass federal roundup of segrega tionist trouble makers was ex pected to begin here today. Clinton High school was closed Tuesday after segregationists beat a young white minister who escorted Negro students to the newly integrated ' school. Vio lence erupted again Tuesday night with a dynamite blast in a Negro neighborhood . at rear by Oliver Springs. In Washington, U. S. Attorney General .Herbert Brownell Jr. warned that the. government would prosecute "all persons" trying forcefully to prevent Negroes from attending Clinton High, the first state-supported school in Tennessee to attempt integration. FBI Agents Move In It was' the. strongest federal move yet to back up the U. S. Supreme Court's 1954 arid -1955 school desegregation rulings. School authorities here received the action with obvious relief. It was reported FBI agents had targeted as many as 18 per sons for arrest by this after noon in connection with organ ized molestation of the Negro students and attempts to intimi date their parents. Police said three lo five sticks of dynamite were tossed from a speeding car Tuesday night into the front yard. of a white beer tavern operator; Owen Long, 32, at Oliver Springs. The blast tore a fivc-foot-wide hole and shat tered two windows in the tav ern. No one was Teported hurt. Council Authorizes Legal Proceedings The:Medford city council last night authorized City Attorney E. R. Bashaw to start legal pro ceedings, cither in circuit or municipal court, against one or several of eight liquor-by-the-drink establishments in Medford that have refused to pay the an nual S250 city liquor license fee. Although eight establishments had not paid their license fees by the deadline last night, the council 1 approved renewal of their permits. Three establish ments that had paid the license, fee also had their permits re newed. One of the establish ments paid the fee under pro test. The Oregon Liquor Control Commission, according to City Manager Robert Duff, has re cently challenged the right of cities lo collect the license fees: Liquor establishments pay $400 annually to the OLCC, of which 60 per cent is returned to the city. Duff said, in addition to the $250 city license fee. Detonating Fuses Seen Explosion Cause New York U.R) The devas tating Brooklyn pier explosion that look 10 lives may have been caused by 18.5 tons of detonat ing fuses which were stored on the pier where the disaster occurred.-Fire Commissioner Ed ward F. Cavanagh Jr. said to day. Cavanaugh said the presence of the fuses, which are used for dynamite work, on the Luchen bach pier were revealed by the recovery of a water-soaked bill of lading from the wreckage The pier, largest covered struc ture of its type in the world, was virtually cut in two by the blast Monday afternoon. Veather FORECAST: Considi-fahlf cloudiness and occasional snow flurries tonipht and Thursday. Continued rold. Low tonight 22-25. High Thursday 35. Temp. Hi chest Ye-sterday 4fi Lowest this Morning ; 29 Prec. to 10 a.m. Today .05 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 7:35 a.r unset 4:39 p.r Moonset R:fll p.r First Quarter 8:01 p.r First Quarter Dec. 1 PROMINENT STARS Fomalhant, due south 6:07 p.r Siriui. in the south east . ....10:57 p.r VISIBLE PLANETS Mars, in the southwevt 9:29 a.t Jupiter, in the south east 4:57 a.r 5:i a.r IESDAY, DECEMBER 51956' " No. 220 Ve Can Sure Do Some " " Contributions Being: Taken for Refugees Mayor Earl Miller announced lat night that he; will accept contributions on behalf of Med ford residents for the Oregon Committee for Hungarian Refu gees. Mayor Miller was notified by Paul Ousley, chairman of the executive committee, that mpne tary contributions are needed to provide transportation for refu gees moving from the east coast to Oregon. All contributions ad dressed to the mayor's office will be forwarded to the com mittee's headquarters in Port land. Ousley told the mayor the com mittee also is serving as a clear ing house for families wh6 wish to offer their home as a shelter to one or more of the refugees. Transporting Cost Cost of transporting one refu gee' from the east coast to Ore gon is 5100, Mayor Miller said. The goal for the Oregon cam paign is $15,000. Contributions from the campaign will be made available to refugees as loans when they arrive in" Oregon, Ousley said. . Individuals, committees, com munities, businesses or organi zations subscribing $100 or more to the campaign will have sent, at their option, a. cablegram to the central committee of the Sprague Chairman Of Rhodes Group Portland (U.R) ' Former Governor Charles A. Sprague has been named chairman of Oregon's committee to select Rhodes scholars. Dr. Courtney Smith, president of Swarthmore college' and American secretary of the Rhodes scholarships, said the Oregon' committee would meet Dec. 12 to interview Oregon can didates for the 32 scholarships to Oxford university. Other members of ' the com mittee are Professor Maure Goldschmidt, Reed College; Pro fessor P. B. Means, University of Oregon; Dr. T. C. Ruch, Uni versity of Washington medical school, and President O. Mere dith Wilson of the University of Oregon. Family of Four Dies As Fire Ravages Home.' Bellingham, Wash. U.P.) A family of four persons was wiped out by a fire that ravaged their small farm home just north of here early today, the sheriff's office reported. Deputy Sheriff Gus Johnson said the bodies of Frank Jack son. 24; his wife, Dawn, 21; an 18-month-old daughter, Shawn, and five-month-old son, Scotty, were found about 11 a-.m. (PST). Alcoa To toy Off 200 At Vancouver, Wenatchee Vancouver,. Wash. (U.R) . Aluminum Company of America said today it would lay off 200 production workers at midnight Friday because of loss of inter ruptible power supplies. About 100 workers each at Al coa's Vancouver and Wenatchee. plants will be affected, the com pany said. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Ueaaeo Wir ., o Liberating Over Here" 1 Communist party in Mosco no- ting that expenses have been paid for another refugee to com to Oregon. The Oregon Committee for Hungarian Refugees fiasjjeen cleared by the United Fund oijd appointed by. hil HitchcocR, Governor Elmo Smith's repre sentative 'to coordinate Hungar ian relief. . . A review of activities and ef forts by various lical organiza tions to provide for refugees ap pears on page 9 of today's Mafi Tribune, Plan Presented for Revefment.'Prbject A plan was presented t the Medford cjty .council last night whereby 225 feet of revetment work- would iDe done long tie Bear creek bank bordering on South. Riverside ave. between Eighth and Ninh stl. Otto Fronnmayer, Medford at torney rcp'resenliog Medford Motors Inc., Sixth and Ivy sts., told the council tifat the city first rriust abandon its easement ono the properly before construction can begin. . Medford Motors recently pur chased the propefty, Frohn mayer said, and intends to move, their sales firm there. Conruc .tiorr of a sales and scrvjf e build ing on the site is also proponed, he ?dded. " The revetment construction plan will be submitted for coun-1 cil approval at "its next meeting, he said. In exchange for the ease ment, according Jo Frohnmayer, Medford Motors will finance the project. Hearing on Evergreen Bus Request Thursday A public hearing on an appli cation, from Henry J. Huber, of Evergreen bus lines, to transfer the permit and operating privi leges of Valley Transit company will be held in the Jackson county, courthouse at j) a.m. Thursday, Dec:. 6, according to Charles H. Heltzel, puBljc utili ties commissioner. The Valley Transit company is presently authorized to trans port passengers between Med ford, the Medford airport Camp White and Eagle Point. Ever green bus fines carrys passen gers between Medford, Jackson ville, Ashland, and Central Point, and within Medford. North California Counties Talk 'Secession Movement' Redding, Carif. U.R) A Northern California group, to split off several counties, and form a new state. The group said it planned to form the new stale of "Shasta" by getting eight Northern Cali fornia counties to secede from the state because of "aggression" on the part of southern. Calif ornia. . The group met at Dynsmuir, Calif.., Tuesday night and agreed on its action because dry South ern California, with a vote-heavy representation in the Legislature Q O O C-Q C(ppleli6noo( I WitKdwal.uio Two Weeks Seen Anti-Western 0 cFeel'aigs Increase e iondon (U.P.) - The.nglo French invasion S:orce bega a q mass ;jthdrawal togay rom9 Egypt. The Moslem world turned to Irajin an effort ijn force th) downfall of pro-Westegn'renger Nouif El-Said, oo o Jnfjprmed sources in Port Said said all of the lj.000 Anglo- LFrcftcb-troops will leave Suei within tovo weckso The Wig for eign colon ""Por Said was showing sns of (jpanic as anti 3Wo$tcrn feelings increase. British authorities 2,500 of teir troops0 would be re moved during the day. The French were expected lo be carrying out theQ 'withdrawal in a similar fashion. o Jiritish Show Distaste Briti.'A military authorities showed their distas for the wirVigrawfH by nicknaming it "Operation Haidan." Webster's definesoharrida as a worn outg strum Ot. "o Egyptjjin troops vere report ed moving intg the Sinai Desert between Israel troops and Yueo- sl-o armored forces of the Unifed Nation Emergency jreffi There was no explana tion of the Egyptian troop move eift. o o She?kh Abdelo Rahman Ta? jeetor of $ie ?J300-year-old El i'Ahar university in Cairo, the principal theological institute in tne Moslem worig cauea ior ac tion against Iraq.o lplit Sharpens Q His appeal climaxed an Egyp tian press and Qfadio campaign against the Iraqi government and haiOened the split in the Moslem Middl East. It coincided with new alarms, well-scoured- report today from Ankara said the four Mos lem members of the Baghdad anti-Communjjt Pact will meet again in Ankara later this month o plan joint strategy against the camjj-u'gn. They are Iraq, Iran, Pakistan and Turkey. Britain is the fifth member of the pact, which has U. S. support. The shcikhcSki not refer to Iraq by name in his appeal, but hi reference to Iraq's Baghdad Pact alliance with Britain was obviouP He-referred to "trait ors' the word the Arab nations have used in describing Nouri El-Said's dealings with the West. Begin Ouster Move Both Egypt and Syria have begun campaign to oust Nouri El-Said And Moscow radio has f"backed their claims that Iraq is in league with Israil, Turkey and Britain to overthrow the Communist-influenced Syrian government. Midffle East) experts in Lon don regarded with utmost grav ity the use of the rector of El Azhar in the anti-Iraq campaign. Hfc voice carries weight with the Iraqi masses who have shown signs of ferment under' the con centrated barrage of anti-government propaganda. W. f. McSpadden Fined In District Court William James McSpadden, 51, Camp White resident former ly from Vancouver, Vash., was fined $255 in district court on a charge of driving while intoxi cated. His driver's license was sus pended for 90 days and he re ceived a 30-day suspended ail sentence. McSpadden was arrest ed by state polite Saturday on Highway 62. Bulletin Budapest (U.R) "Jhe Com munist ra'Hio announced to night U. N. Secretary-general Dag Hammarskjold will not be allowed to risit Hungary Dec. 16. . . was trying'to get Northern Cali fornia water. They, said they would ask the boards of supervisors in the reight counties to hold plebiscite ejections to decide whether to sflTt from the state. The coun ties include Siskiyou, Modoc, Del Norte, Humboldt, Shasta, Trinity, Lassen and Plumas. Seventegn counties, including two in Southern Oregon, started a secession movement to form a state of "Jefferson" late in 1941 but the move was cancell ed in fSvor of unity when Pearl Harbor -was attacked.
