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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1956
No. 235.
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'"iou Fellows Haven't Seen Any Undue Influence
Around Here,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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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.