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Newspaper Page TextO o O o o o o o 51st Year nO fecommended " A story on letter. frm Mrd foril you rf iters to A an La CUui and a itory o lh Invrntjon of a (Jrw (jraro 'i5 3 thresher df H a Rofu Valley r CfhartJ.U appear on Pa 1o of Mail Tribune. Subscriber Z to c Trim1 o To renort improper or non-liv-ery of r?te Mail Tribune in Meatord phon 2-6141. ASiUnd 2-1021. 7 Yreka 841 W. before 6 45 p.m. dajq' and 10:30 an. Sunday. If r9gulfdellvry acrives ahort Iv after vou call please notify office thin eliminating tdcialnessinger United Presj Full Leased Wirt Ci Unite -U,Wlr 23 Page -w-n MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1956 No. 235. o o o ALA Tt O '"iou Fellows Haven't Seen Any Undue Influence Around Here, o Buy, 3, Found Locked lff iff hy Room for Ppssjbly Two Years Grand Rapk, Mich. (U.R) A threegear-id bag, kep? lock ed in a f$th-smeared0roorif for pibly tw3 years, was under hosf.italQ:are toda His parents face c'JSrgcs of cruelty to chil- 'Police went to the h.ome of GrwJy Hickman. 40, and his wfe, Doris, 33o Ffttfiy ato the com plaint of a neighbor and found theScouple's t(irce-year-old son,0 Stepnen.Qockcd in an "'incrcd- (-riblj foul-smelling" room. - Jhecloy)va3 foud sfcepiog in lignt underwear a bedspring without 9 r,jittrcss and was tak en to nearby hospita? whcr doctors examined him. Po'ice safe tf?e neh8or learn-' ed of Stephen's captivity from his brothers (jft sisters. A sisirg. Linda, told officers "fcer brother had beeno locked in the room for0"a yea?, maybe two." Stephen's parents refused to tell police whyntney kept the boftpenncd up m0the room. The (Sjoor waP $ired shut f gom the outside. Hickmafl's only com ment was "mC wHe eta'cs care of0lkic" o . u Authorises said they would issue a arrant Monday charg ing tlft gman's withcruelty to children. o 4) doctor at St. "Mary's hospit al, where Stephen,, mas taken for observation. aid the boy had ligns which &i)icad he wa a, pastic. le doctor said he could not determine this without "an extensive series of tests tut add- William Roberts Hurt l&MStgrcycle.Mishap William Roberts. 2J1, son of Dr. and Mrs. William H. Rofterts, 60 Rose ave., suffered nead bounds Saturday night when the motor cyc he was opgrating collided with a car operateod by. Willard Clifford B?ewstcr. rt. 1. box 398D, Medford, according to state police. Roberts was taken to Sacred Heart hospital by Medford am bulance service. Hospital attend ants said his condition was not serious. Police said the accident oc curred on the Jacksonville-Central Point highway at Rose Lane where the vehicles crashed head on. Brewster was cited for fail ure to stop at a stop sign, offi cers reported. Christmas Lighting Contest 40 Entries; Judging To End Fortv entries have been re ceived in the Christmas lighting contest sponsored locally by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce, it was reported Sat urday. Juds3 started Dec. 18 and will continue through tomorrow. Entries are being judged on artistic merit, originality, light ing techniques and ingenuity rather than the amount of money involved in the display. Winner of the local contest will be entered Din General Electric s nationwide lighting contest and will compete for $5,000 in prizes. Entries in this year's contest have been made by the follow ing: Mrs Harold Geigle. 1533 iringbrook rd.; Steohen G. Miller, 411 Oakwood dr.; L. A. Mentzer. 703 Weft Second" St.: Hendrietta 0 A. Mwiynski, 31S Have Yon?" ed "if the boy is a spastic it's nrt a severe case." The doctor said he was un abl to determine as yet wheth er the little boy w.as of subnor mal intelligence because "you don't pften run into kids who have been under those circum stances." He aid the child was aeto mumble .a few words, could use his hnnds but had dif ficulty in walking. He sajd, the -boy was well fed and showed no signs of abuse other than that he was "very dirty." The boy's brothers and sisters were taken to a city emergency shelter, pending the outcome of a complete- police investigation. Car Hits Bus Loaded ith Scout Carolers Los Ajigeles (U.P.) A car smashed into a bus loaded with Christmas-caroling Boy Scouts in the Safi Fernando valley Satur day night, killing a Scout lead er and mangling four boys. The bus contained 41 Scouts and six adults. The dead. Scout leader was identified as Walter Warloe. 41, of San Fernando. Warloe's 12-year-eld son, Kris, had one of his legs amputated and doctors feared he was near death. Dave Staliard, 14. of San Fernando, was critically injured and may lose both legs. Also in critical condition were Richard Pinker, 13. San Fernando, .and Pat Mc Killip, 13, Syhnar. The driver of the car, Alex Saniga,' 30, was booked as a drunk-driving manslaughter sus pect. sSuniga was saved from an angry mob at the scene by police. Tokyo (U.P.) Prime Minister elect Tanzan Ishibashi has run into a stone- wall in his efforts to form a new cabinet. IE WAV No-th Central ave.; W. D. Mat ron. 1036 Mt. Pitt ave.; Thomas Cafdona. 224 Saginaw dr.; Mrs. Grace Fiero, 537 West Tenth St.; Dr. O. A. Welsh. 1300 East Main St.; Edwin T. Hayes. 2823 Table Rock rd.; John M. Lynch, 2148 Woodlawn dr.; Mr. and Mrs. Fred V. Boenig, 316 Ivy St.:- Mrs. J. W. Hodgson. 391 Melrose ave.; George L. Bryant, 3384 Forest ave. H. I. Drews. 1035 Mt. Pitt ave.; A. M. Farfan. 723 South Newtown ;t.: Mrs. W. L. Dun agan, 106 Crater Lake ave.; E. L. Lenox, 2330 Main st.; Mrs. Jack K. James, route 3. box 21 8D: L. E. Bean. 608 Franquet te: Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Gil lispie. route 1. box 369A; Arnold O. Opgrantr, 1424 South Ivy St.; Anne Manno," 646 South Holly St. M. S. Lyster. 1442 Euclid ave.; I CrcctiruM Nixon Convinced Review of Refugee Legislation Needed Vice President Sees Airlift in Operation Munich, Germany (U.P.) Vice President Richard M. Nix on sent off a planeload of Hun garian refugees to the United States Saturday, convinced that Congress should review immi gration legislation in the light of the "whole problem of refu gees." The Vice President followed the refugee route from the foggy Austrian - Hungarian border where they creep across to free dom to the modern Munich-Riem airfield where American planes shuttle them to "freedom, work and a decent life." Saw Airlift Operation Nixon arrived here to see the airlift in operation after a tour of refugee centers in Salzburg,' Austria. There, he told newsmen at the Glasenbach Displaced Persons camp that Congress should con sider "the whole problem of refu gees" and not just the Hungar ian escapees. Nixon said both the adminis tration and Congress should take another look at immigra tion legislation. He said immigration, require ments for Hungarians nad been waived to permit entry of 21,500. But he pointed out that others who fled before the Oct. 23 re volt had to wait "though on ap pearance they are as good a mor al case for admission as more recent refugees." MoTtd by Ordeal The Vice President, who is expected to recommend a large increase in the quota of Hun garian refugees being admitted to the United States, obviously was moved by the ordeal of those who sacrificed their homes and ties for freedom. .... "I well know with what feel ings you have left your home land," he said to 70 Hungarians gathered before an Air Force transport for the flight to Camp Kilmer, N.J. "I can sav that the United States will give you the best it has to give: Freedom, work and a decent life. (In Budapest, the official gov ment newspaper'"Nep Szabdsag" denounced Nixon for the sec ond straight day, charging that his visit to refugee centers was "theatrically staged," to encour age the 146,000 refugees to leave Hungary forever), Talent Man Injured In Crane Accident Vernon Reh. 41. route 2, box 393 Talent, was in critical con dition at Sacred Heart hospital Saturday evening after under line emergency surgery for a skull fracture sustained in an accident at the Medford Con crete Construction company plant. Reh was oneratinz a crane at the plant near Bear creek when he was thrown- against some heavy equipment. The accident occurred about 9:15 a.m. Med ford Ambulance service took him to Rogue Valley hospital, then transferred him to bacrea Mean hospital, where surgery was im mediately performed. FIRE IN RUG Fire originating in a rug which had been placed on a stove burned holes in the floor, wall and ceiling of the Don Wil liams residence. 4007 South Pa cific highway, Friday, city fire men reported. The rural pumper truck was dispatched at noon. Attracts Tomorrow Mrs. Charles E. Snedden, 1200 Mt. Pitt ave.; Mr. and Mrs. Wil bur E. Fish, 1757 Roberts rd.; Mr. and Mrs. George W. Wil liams, 1216 Murray st.; Mrs. Pat Martin. 33 Lincoln st.; Tom Flynn, 1301 East Main st.; Scott V. Davis 1914 East Main st.; Fred H. Craten. 1411 Euclid ave,: Gerald Darland. 922 Park st.; Bruce Moffatt, 2178 Spring St.; A. P. Butler, 23 North Barneburc rd. James A. Elliott, 715 South Holly st.: Howard Bush. 202 North Barneburg rd.; Kenneth Nolte. 335 North Ivy st.; Paul G. Bauer, 1522 Terrace dr.: W. E. Hcrcher. 1608 Stratford ave.; R. M. Brock. 1104 East Jackson st.. and W. Kenneth Johnson. 1809 East Jackson St., all Medford, nd Mrs. E. W. Segessenman, post office 1, Shady Cove. Eisenhower's Fiscal 1 95P Jget To Call For Huge Increase in Federal Spending Florida Negroes Join in End To Boycott of Buses Montgomery Whites Plan Own Bus Club Montgomery, Ala. (U.P.) Negroes of Tallahassee, Fla., joined those here Saturday in calling off a bus boycott on the grounds they can now "sit any where they like." But in Mont gomery, whites planned a coun ter boycott through the use of private buses. As Montgomery's second day of bus integration proceeded j without incidents, the Negro Inter-Civic Council in Tallahassee ! announced the end of a seven- months boycott. The boycott here had lasted more than a year. Council Help Asked The Council asked the Talla hassee city council to provide help in "maintaining order and preventing violence of any sort as our people returned to the buses in an unsegregated fash ion." The Rev. C. K. Steele, presi dent of the Negro group, said a mass meeting will be held to night to set a date to return to the buses, probably Monday. The Council will urge its members to resume riding and "sit any where they like," Steele said. Tallahassee Police Chief Frank Stoutamire said he is watching the situation "closely" and will personally handle any incidents if they develop "but -there have been none so far." Membership Basis A reliable source said in Mont gomery plans "are just about completed" -for - a white - bus "club" seeking to boycott Mont gomery's integrated buses. A new bus line will be oper ated by a member of the White Citizens Council, the source said. Passengers will be con veyed on a "membership basis," with only whites eligible. Foggy Christmas Promised Medford Medford may have a white Christmas this year, but it won't be because of snow. Weather bureau officials at the Medford airport said the five-day forecast calls for fog and low temperatures on Christ mas day. Fog is expected to move in sometime today. There was some indication it would be clear on Monday but foggy again on Tuesday at least until mid day. Temperatures were expected to be below freezing at night, but may climb to 40 during the daytime. Meanwhile, local stores were packed with last-minute Christ mas shoppers. Police Chief Char les P. Champlin cautioned mo torists to be especially careful during the remainder of the holiday season traffic while traf fic is heavier than normal. He particularly asked that pedes trians cross streets only at inter sections and marked cross-walks. The police chief also stated, "People who drive vehicles while intoxicated can be fined jailed, injured or killed." Uock'Wiitney-Io Be British Envoy . Washington U.P) Presi dent Eisenhower has picked his good friend and golf companion. New York financier" John Hay (Jock) Whitney to be the new United States ambassador to Britain, administration sources said Saturday. He would succeed ambassador Winthrop Aldrich. Whitney's nomination has been rumored for months. It is expected to be sent to the sen ate in January for confirmation along with several other diplo matic appointments. Whitney, 52. was born in Ells worth, Me., and attended Oxford university in England in 1926-27. He is senior partner of J. H. Whitney &. Co.. New York, and a director of other corporations. He was an Army Air Force col onel in World War II and later served the state department as a special adviser and consultant on public affairs. f -- TTr,i, - .. , IS I """wg CAROL SINGERS About 90 members of the vocal music department of Hedrick Junior High school, under the direction of instructor Rampton Barlow, brought Christmas music to the ears of many hospital patients Friday night as they toured the city singing familiar carols. The children, bundled in warm cloth Last Anglo-French Troops Evacuate in Blaze of Gunfire Port Said U.R) The last Anglo-French troops evacuated Egypt Saturday in a blaze of gunfire. Tlie 47-day occupation of Port Said and the twin city of Port Fuad at the northern terminus of the Suez Canal came to a close when British and French troops boarded landing craft under a cover of low-flying war plants and left the city in the contr. p the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF). British Positions Attacked During the night, Egyptian Nationalist gunners attacked two British positions. UNEF troops were forced to fire repeatedly to prevent infiltrators from getting into the tiny evacuation perimeter enclosed in barbed wire. Firing continued in Port Said throughout the morning. Cairo radio reported two Bri tish soldiers were killed in the skirmishes. Jubilant Egyptians filled the skies with tracer bullets as darkness fell and the last of the British left to the skirl of Roy al Scots bagpipers playing the lament "First Farewell to Egypt." Orders Ignored Egyptian Nationalists ignored orders from Cairo to release a British Lieutenant kidnaped 11 days ago as he drove alone in a jeep in Port Said. The Guerrillas refused to hand over Lt. Anthony Moorhouse, but sent word to the British via the U.N. command that he was alive and well. The British, who had threat ened to hold 200 Egyptian pris oners hostage for his safe re turn, said that when Moorhouse is released he will face court martial on charges of being AWOL, driving a jeep without escort and alloying himself to be kidnaped by Egyptians who seized his weapon. Malmedy Massacre Perpetrator Released Heidleberg, Germany (U.R) Nazi Col. Joachim Peiper, per petrator of the Malmedy mas sacre of 142 American soliders, has been paroled from prison after serving 10 years of a life sentence. The Allied - German mixed clemency board recommended his parole from the U. S. war crimes prison at Landsberg. The parole hadtjeen expected a year ago but was blodked by strong congressional objections in Wash ington. Weather FORECAST: Variable clniid) n with; mild temperature tndav. posnthlv a few lirht Khimers tonitht. Partly cloudy Mnndav. Hlifh tndav rar 45, low lonirht 34. High Monday 40-45. Temp. Hlehft Vesterdar - 42 Lowest yesterday 27 Our Skies Tonight 1:1 a.m. Snnspt 4:4J p.m. Th mnnn rltt Morula v 12:1 a.m. Near it appears the planet, Jup iter. Last Quarter Monday 2:10 a.m. PROMINENT STABS Retelfciisi-. low in east S:27 p.m. Striui. ri p.m. n4 will be in th loutb at mofmris. eiHaiaaManpaB)uu jpf v'-i3 1 . -I I '-it , .1 ? r .... ' - v V ' ! Hazardous Conditions Mar Holiday Travel; Highway Toll Mounts By UNITED PRESS Gray skies and hazardous travel conditions marred the first day of a long Christmas hol iday week end with a climbing highway death toll traffic ex perts said was "right on sched ule." Before the four-day week end started at 6 p.m. Friday, the Na tional Safety Council predicted 660 persons would die on the nation's roads. The Council's forecast warned of an all-time all-holiday death record. ' Illinois Leads Nation Illinois led the nation with 20 traffic dead followed by Texas with 11 and California with 10. Wisconsin was fourth with nine highway victims and Michigan tied with' North Carolina with eight fatalities. A safety council spokesman said the figures indicated the death rate was rising according to the council's grim schedule.. Head-on collisions were blamed for a number of the fa talities, especially in the east where fog, freezing, drizzle and rain turned roads into slippery lanes of disaster. Plane schedules were disrupt ed, flooding railroad and bus ter minals with passengers trying- to reach their destinations in time for holiday gatherings. Typical of the fatal accidents was one in Florida, where four persons were killed and four children injured in a three-car collision near Clearwater. Po lice said one car apparently veered across the center line into a second, and a third plowed into the two wrecked autos. At Pueblo, Colo., two men died and four others were in critical condition today from drinking a mixture of wood alcohol and Chinese Alien Prison Inmate Returned Home Washington (U.R) A Chinese alien serving a manslaughter sentence in a New York prison has been deported to Red China, U.S. officials have, disclosed. He was the only one, out 6f 24 imprisoned Chinese aliens interviewed by the Red Cross, who chose life in Red China over an American jail. aWllWWW)lU4wlli'iJililia) 0"l ')U'l J'W eiiiMaiini nmm m i.innnimiiiwi i . Lli i HEAD TEENS PROGRAM Jerry Lausmann, left, and Nancy Adams will head the Teens Against Politj campaign in Jackson county in January. Their appointments were announced yester day by Jerry Gastineau, county March of Dimes chairman. Laus mann will be adult advisor of the group while Teens activities will be directed by Miss Adami. . I ing, filled two flatbed trucks as they wgre transported from place to plaoe6 Afterward they were rewarded with refreshments, furn ished by the Medford Kiwanis club? and a special dance was held tot them at the school. They -are shoivn above" as they sang on tlej; front steps of Sacred Heart hospital. corla rtnr, -1 4li Pimhln HrrtPl nance depoC. SomelO men work ing at the depot stirred aip the "holiday punch" before finish ing work Friday, and practical ly all became ill but were ablej to make it home. Officials vre checking the employees who1 might be sick and not realize i the seriousness of their illness. Large Area Togged Most of New Eijgland and the lower pants-of Hie- Qhio-Valley were blanketed wilh fog.oFof gy conditions also wefe prevalent over tbe Mjdwcsl and otfier East ern sections ol ihevnalion as a freezing drizzle spread g haz ardous blanket of thin ice across roads from the eajjern DakotS? across Minnesota and Wisconsin into Michigan. Heavy fog foregd theo close down of numerous 0a imports, in cluding all of thftse ir the Met ropolitan NewYork and Chicago areas, stranding thousand Qof holiday travelers. 8 o Gift Bike License Tags Now Available . Bicycle license tags will be sold to idults who 'Jfave pur-J chased bicycles for Chrislgnas presents until Dec. 24,,ccord ing to Mcdfcfd police, o A sale for licease tags num bered 1 to 100 will start t 8 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2& aid continue until they are sold, po lice said. Officers urged bicycle riders to buy their license tags during the Christmas acatien. . Licenses are, not reqifired on bicycles outside tha Medfbrd limits, officers reported. They added, however, that, bicycle riders from the county that use Medford streets often must con form to the city ordinance de manding bicycles be licensed. Police said that licensed bi cycles are an aid to them in find ing lost bicycles as well as traf fic violators. Nicosia, Cyprus (U.R) Six young Greek Cypriots have been sentenced to life imprisonment for possessing arms and conspir-e. ing to overthrow the British re gime by force. Balance Assured Fdr fhirtfiear; Tax Cuts Said Out EJetaHs of Budget O Under SecrecYfjWraps0 Washington (U.R) resi dent EisnBwer fiscal 1958 budget is expegtcfl to ;S for more than $72 billion of federal spending, an increase of possib q $3 bfllion over this year, it was learned Saturday. The budget will bailee for tfle third strajjjlit y&P, inform sources sairj, but substantial tax cuts jwe out, ior vme time being. This Thclude's theosnll business uix n;uei propose Dy a presi dential cabinet comm&ee last summetf o ' 0 n EWiaili in Secrtfcf O 0 E.-t details of othe Jmdcet ar under secrecy wAa until President Eisenhower submits it 'fcrtaintot. include bigger JiguresPfor defense, atomic ene .. C. (2 : vJ KJ, aim pi usirtins aim roieren orf the public ebt. O ?he projected increase for de- ,ense is rgughly2 bilHon. o gongress will again be askedr to increase revenues by raisif postal rales. o o q q TneDagct is lor the " (12 months startingunext July 1. It yill be the largest in peacetime history o Tax Income May Swell q q In, the cifrrent year J?ie gov-O bernmftit is spcioting almost $70 Dinien ana taicing in aDout $vio billion in axes and other rev enues, (jne economic ooom may iurr?i)r swell tax inconjl The latest official of igures published l August eslineiQ-d expendi ture at o$693 bilason and in coftie at !59.(f rlion. This would Q haveQ meanta $700 njpiion sur plus f?ij will fQvalificd analystQ nowosay these totals are tc low'o .o 0 No .budget figures O are crete Jjintil Congftss arjrojges. InPnresentins the fiscal 19hR cast- nine to Cnngress, Mr. Eisr8hoer h . - u ,, , ,. . .o -,i neisi in eiieci preoirej wnai win happen in the following 18 months, with no sure knowledge of hSvv fte economy r the if totiaUffial siftiatfin will turn. Defense Bigest lem Stalest iiamfn ftie nw budget 6a defense 5a8 bjjlior?0 Th Middle J-asj crisis nas nog alter ed defenseQspAding pt&ns butj rising prices and developmental better weapVis haf?. O 3 Their Force will gO most of the $jObillion delete inftease ( over this ygar and half oT tj defense total. Q vJ tTieolfcvy w5?l get about $10 billion and the Army about9 billion. O Tha atoic energy commission is spending about $2 billion this year. It will get a li'.le more for fiscal 1958. O Foreign aid spending will con tinue at about the current level $4.2 billion. Reports the gov ernment is considering a little Marshall plan to help western Europe in its post-Suez financial dilemma have been squelched. The government's agreement to lerjl Great Britain $500 mil lion through the U.S. Export-Import bank will add to spending if the British draw on it. Interest Payments Mount The second biggest budget item, interest payments on the national debt, will rise $200 or $300 million over this year's $7.1 billion. The debt the end of this fiscai year, rtxt Jun30, is ex pected to be slightly more than $271 billion, and should be down somewhat by the end of fis cal 1958. But tight money and higher interest rates maka it more expensive to finance the debt. Faftn programs are on the books for the current year at $5.7 billioaj. Expansion of soil bank participation and increased prii, support payments for this year's record crops are expected to push the total higher. 47 Prominent Syrians To Be Court-Martialed Damascus, Syria (U.R) Forty seven prornment Syrians will be court-martialed on charges of instigating "armed revolution" against the present regime it has been announced. The men are accused of con spiring to set up a government friendly to Britain and Iraq, an official announcement said.