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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
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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
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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.