Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 26, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texto CD O 0 o o o oo o o o o , o o o o C Cj oo c Women, Children O cV? Evacuated fm Bj D c j 0 oraoa o ' o o " o . I f V jv ' 1J I - I v' ;f W is of - fF-riJ GET SALK KOTS Members of the Med for High school basketball teanj got anti-polio nhotP Monday as pa$t of a program initiated by the Jackson county Medical society to vac cinate every resident in Jackson county under the age of 20. The0 program will get under way Jan. 14. Dr. E'in Durno administered County Medical Society Plans Free- Polio Vaccine Campaign A gigantic program desigied to immuni?e ery child in the county with Salk anti-polio vac cine has been announced by the Jarkson County Mrdical Society. The inoculations will start on Monday. Jan. 14, at polio ac cine stations to be strategically situated throughout the county. First and second 'shots'' of the three-shot series will be given without charge by the doctors and the third siBt, the so-called booster shot, to be given from (even months to a year later, will probably be obtained pri vately by the child's family. Every childQ in the county under age 20 wil'obe edible for the free vaccine. Physiciam Alarmed o Dr. Florian Shasky, spokes man for the JecjiSjil Society, sari the physicians had become larmed by the apathy of parents toward the vaccine, not only in Jackson county but elsewhere in many sections of the na'on. Dr. Shasky said the,-mcmbers of he Oregon Highway Toll Reaches Feur By UNITED RESS A man was killed near Pendle ton and woman died Klamath Falls last night to raise Oregon's highway death Mil for the aSodr day Christmas week end to four. Considering the high national toll and the hazardous driving conditions as the result of fog and ice, Oregon emerge witlt one of the safest driving week ends. Last yea seven persons died in Oregon accidents during a three-day Christmas weelt end.. The late: fatality reported was eight milcg south.of Pendle ton on Hi Away 395where Alf l-elar. Anderson, 32-year-old PJ'.ot cRock school teacher, was killed in a Ijead-on collision. PolicS sak Alice M. Eidy, 81.. Tulelakfp Cslif.. died last "night in Klamatho Valley hospital of (jjijurii suffered in an accident ijday afternoon, one mile so:n of Malin. Ore.Police said the car $i which she was riding failed tonegotiate a irve and went into a ditch. (Se sMry0en page 14) PendMon W.R! Lowell Steen of Pqpdicton has submit ted his resignation as state sen ator from t?matilla county. o Fpg0oBlahkets Planes, Ships oBy UoNITED PR5SS A Chrisrratj hangover fof "sScS-d in" most Oregon air ports tod' and paBfilyzeds!iip pingo in the0 Columbia "river. Twenty ships were frrced to drop aniTior between Portland and storiDto wait for the fog ,'lh't- O ogOHOff et Thick0 o A fog hnk 1100 P-ft thick settled r-o much f western Oregon late fhnstmas cfay and gre-ted motfrists returning to their ;d5 th;s morning. S?ral plangs :at.vd it Bortland Inter national Airport before dawn but the filing soon lowered to 2ero and Nihility was less than ininimum for operations. "Three 1 0 9, I Medical Society had considered several ways 10 increase interest in the vaccine and finally decided to give the shots without charge "in order to head off a possible polio epidemic here next sum mer." The. vaccine will be obtained Eisenhower Hears Nixon's Report on Hungary Refugees Washington iU.R) Vice President Richard M. Nixon to day gave President Eisenhower a "full report" on the Hungar ian refugees. Nixon said after a White House conference he is "confident the United States will continue to do it full share" in aiding them. The President met with Nixon and other government leaders for more than an hour. Nixon safd they explored "various sug gestions" for helping the home less freedom fighters fleeing Hungary, including an increase io the present quota of 21.500 to "be admitted to the United Spates. Nixon dccli- ed To estimate how big an increase is being considered in tl e number of refu gees admitted ti this country. He said he "reported fully on the magnitude of the problem." as he saw it first hand in his pre-Christmas visit to Austria. Top Priority Problem Nixon said Mr. Eisenhower plans to give the Hungarian refu gee problem "top priority" in his meeting with congressional leaders of both parties Jan. 1 to discu.'s his legislative program for the coming year. Nixon declined to predict what specific recommendations Mr. Eisenhower will make re garding changes in the basic im migration law or in emergency refugee entry provisions. He listed three possible steps which this country might take: Increasing the quota above the present 21.500 limit. Establishing an "open end" quota with no definite ceiling. Agreement to take a certain percentage of all refugees leav ing Hungary. West Oregon; at Standstill inbound planes by-passed the city and went to Seattle and a Northwest Airlines plane landed t Troutdale. West Coast Airlines said there was dense fog at Yakima. Spo kane and North Bend on its routes. Freezing Temperature The iog was accompanied, by freezing temperatures during the night and driving conditions were doubly hazardous. Baker had a nighttime low of 9 de grees. Burns 18. Klamath Falls 19. Portland 30. Salem 32, and Astoria 23. No chains were needed on Oregon highways although low temperatures made many of them icy in spot. the vaccine before a Tornado practice session at Hedrick Junior High school. Getting his shot, above, is Frank Albert, while Mike Stearns, Dick Copple and Dick Puhl, in the front row. and Bilbce Lane, Don Peek, Dick McLaughlin, Neil Plumley and Larry Sless Icr in the back row, look on. from allotments purchased by the government for use in wel fare programs. The demand for tax-purchased vaccine has dwin dled to a point where a large amount will become outdated and have to be discarded if not used soon, according to Dr. A. Erin Merkel, county health offi cer. Dr. Merkel said vaccine manufacturing houses have stopped packaging vaccine until the demand increases. Vaccine used in the Jackson county pro gram will help to ease the gov ernment stockpile, he said. Jerry Gastineau, county chair man of the March of Dimes, said his organization had pledged wholehearted cooperation in the Medical Society's program. "After all," Gastineau said, "the March of Dimes raises money to prevent polio as well as to care for its victims. The Salk vaccine is our means of forever stamping polio out in this country." Urschel Kidnaping Figure Succumbs Birdgeport, Tex. ;U.R) R. G. (Boss) Shannon, who was a fig ure in the sensational kidnap ping of millionaire Oklahoma City oilman Charles F. Urschel in 1933, died Tuesday in a Bridgeport hospital. Shannon and five others were found guilty of the successful kidnap-ransom of Urschel July 23, 1933. They, demanded and got S200.000 ransom for his safe return, but Urschel's memory and a plot worked out while he was held prisoner on Shannon's farm proved the downfall of the kidnapers. Urschel. who now lives in San Antonio, was kidnaped by noto rious George (Machine Gun) Kelly and Albert Bates and tak en to Shannon's farm. They held him bound for 12 days before the ransom memey was handed over to a stranger on a Kansas City street. Smith To Appoint . Tooze Successor Salem (U.R) Gov. Elmo Smith said today he would ap point a successor to Supreme Court Justice Walter Tooze soon probably before Saturday. The governor said a large number of good candidates had been considered and that the list had been narrowed to three chief candidates. Justice Tooze, 69, died here last Friday. The governor said the names of several Circuit Court judges were among the candidates orig inally suggested to him. He said he would not name the three chief candidates at this time out of fairness to those who might not get the appoint ment. Pendlefon Burglars . Show Lack of Fear Pendleton (U.R) A burglar or burglars took more than S20 from a cash register at a shoe shine shop directly across from the Pendleton police station last night. Israel Informs UN Forces Will Be Withdrawn Clearance Due To Be Expedited London (U.R) Orders have been given to start clearing the Suez Canal, an official source in Cairo said today. The source did not say wheth er the clearing would start im mediately. But he did say Israel had informed the United Nations its forces would be withdrawn from Egyptian territory by Jan. 7, 1957. The State Department in Washington said the United States has received word that work on the clearance of the canal "will go forward expediti ously." Assurance From UN State Department Press Of ficer Lincoln White said "infor mation" on clearance of the canal had been received by the U. S. government "from New York." He would not elaborate, but it was known that assurances came from UN officials. ' Anglo-French forces already have been withdrawn from Egypt. But work on clearing the canal and restoring the flow of Mideast oil still had been held up pending the evacuation of Israeli troops. In Damascus an official Syrian government communique said today that Syria will not permit repair of damaged oil pipelines running across its territory until Israeli forces have been with drawn from Sinai Desert and Gaza Strip. In Cairo, the acting secretary general of the Arab League, Raif Bellama. said that "unless Is raelis withdraw behind the 1949 truce demarcation line in com pliance with the UN resolution, the Arabs will not allow resump tion of the flow of oil or clear ance of the Suez Canal." Agreement Reached The sources said the Instruc tions were given Ho UN and Egyptian officials on the scene on the basis of an agreement reached between UN Secretary general Dag Hammarskjold and the Egyptian government. The source said orders for clearing the canal have been given to retired U.S. Lt. Gen. Raymond A. Wheeler, placed in charge of salvage operations by the United Nations and to Col. Mahmoud Younis. general man ager of the Egyptian Suez Canal Authority. The source said Egypt would "never enter any direct talks" with Britain or France on the Canal. He said any future dis cussions would be "only through the United Nations." Train, Section Crew Car Crash Kills One Klamath Falls (U.R) One man was reported killed and five others were injured today fol lowing a collision between a north - bound Southern Pacific train and a section crew car at Bray, Calif., about 45 miles south of here. The accident occurred at 11:08 a.m. T. J. McAry, district freight and passenger agent here for the railroad, said the coroner at Yreka, Calif., had been called.- The five injured men were being brought here aboard the train, the northbound Klamath, for hospital examination. "Oh, You Mean THAT Salvage Job" 51st Year Medford United PreM t ull luiM Wire 20 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1956 No. 237 TRAFFIC California Leads With 73 Victims; Fires Claim 48 Road Toll Far Above Estimate by Council By UNITED PRESS The nation today counted more than 700 fatalities in its most deadly holiday week end on the highways. The number was far above the National Safety Council's esti mate of 660 for the Christmas holiday period. The previous hol iday high was 609 set during last year's three-day Christmas week end. Council officials sought to de termine the cause of the high death count, but for the present ascribed it primarily to the fact that motorists were out in over whelming numbers. They esti mated 7 billion miles were driv en by motorists in the United States during the week end. 48 Die in Fires A United Press count at 9:30 a.m. (rST) showed 707 dead in traffic from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Christmas. Another 48 died in fires, 9 in plane crashes. and 130 in miscellaneous mis haps for an over all tolal of 894. California led' with 73 highway deaths. Illinois came second with 55, five of them in a single col lision Tuesday. Texas had 41, Ohio 40, and New York and Michigan 36 each. The Safety Council has esti mated that the traffic tolls in a similar non-holiday period of four days at this time of the year would be about 420 lives. Only Maine, North Dakota and Wyoming failed to record a sin gle traffic death during the holi day. Even before Christmas, how ever. North Dakota already had set a new state record for high way fatalities in a single year, with 166. Ned H. Dearborn, president of the Safety Council, said "one ray of hope emerges" from the highway "horror," that the "shock" of the toll will result in a low New Year's holiday death count. Dearborn said law enforce ment agencies had waged a "strenuous" fight to keep down the Christmas toll. "But in the final analysis, it's up to the drivers," he said. No Christmas Babies Born in Area Yesterday No babies were born in Med ford or Ashland on Christmas day, according to hospital of ficials in the three Medford hos pitals and the Ashland General hospital. , Three babies, two boys and a girl, were born on Christmas day a year ago, all of them at Sacred Heart hospital. Washington (U.R) The Agriculture Department has an nounced a national allocation of S750.685.000 for participants in the 1957 soil bank program. CRASHES LH-w - : 1 ri-i . J iH?h5i5' : .ft -. : vdf.lv. 'Jri 1 ft iJJ?f 1 1 v . ' 5' "i - -.. CHRISTMAS LIGHTING WINNER A. M. (Dutch) Farfan of 723 South Newtown st., Medford, is shown above as he reeeives his prize, a dishwasher, for winning the residential Christmas lighting contest sponsored by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce. Greg Orr, left, and Jay Pierce, cochairmen of the contest, made the award. Farfan's display included a Nativity scene and giant candy canes that lined sidewalk to his home. Nativity Scene Wins Decoration Contest A Nativity scene and giant candy canes along the sidewalk at the home of A. M. Farfan, 723 South Newtown st., Medford was judged winner in the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce Christmas decoration lighting contest. Four judges considered artis tic merit, originality, lighting techniques and ingenuity in judg ing more than 40 entries Sun day and Monday. Judges were Charles Jones, Hal Gardner, Jay Pierce and Greg Orr. Pierce and Orr were cochairmen of the proj ect. A display at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Williams, 1216 Murray st., Medford, won second place, and decorations at the home of' Dr. O. A. Welsh. 1300 East Main st., won third prize. Five runner-up prizes' were awarded Mr. and Mrs. Delmar Gillispie. route 1, box 369A; Mr. and Mrs. W. Kenneth Johnson, 1809 East Jackson st.; Gerald Darland, . 922 Park st.; Bruce Motfatt. 2178 Spring St.; and W. E. Hercher, 1608 Stratford ave. Farfan's decorations will be entered in the General Electric nationwide Christmas Lighting contest. Prizes' for winners in' the national contest total 55,000. First prize for the local con- Volunteer Fireman Breaks Leg in Fall Jacksonville Lloyd Hack worth, 28, of the Jacksonville volunteer fire department, suf fered a broken leg about 2:30 a.m. today when he fell off a roof of a Jacksonville residence while fighting a flue fire. He was taken to Rogue Valley hospital by Medford Ambulance service. He underwent surgery immediately, according to hos pital attendants, who said his condition this morning was fair. Harkworth fell while cutting 3 holo in the roof at the resi dence owned by Lois Fritwall. fine ronm in the residence was damaged considerably, firemen said. Two pumpers of the Jack sonville volunteer fire depart ment were used in extinguishing the blaze, they reported. Fraser, Colo., Said Coldest Spot in Nation New York (U.R) The Weather Bureau reported that Fraser, Colo., was the coldest lo cation in the nation this morn ing, minus 23. The warmest tem perature recorded Tuesday was 84, at Long Beach, Calif. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York (U.R) . Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 496.74, up 2.36; 20 rail roads 152.74. off 0.96: 15 util ities 67.69 up 0.03. and 65 stocks 173.01, up 0.26. Sales today were about 2.440,000 compared with 2,238,000 shares last Friday. Price 10c Tribune United Press Full Leaea Wit KILL 707 test was a portable dish washer, second prize was a portable tele vision set, and third prine as a portable transistor radio set. Runner-up prizes were mixers. New Maps of CityV County Available New combination city-Aunty maps, published by the Jack son County Chamber of Com merce, are available at several downtown business firms and at the Chamber office, lfth st. and Central ave., Don McNeil, man ager, has announced. The map, done in two colors, includes a Medford and vicintty street plan on one side.and the county road map on ttie reverse side. A thumb-nail taile of eco nomic statistics also is included in the map. The map folds into a standard 4-by-9Jnch size suitable for mail ing in regular busines envel opes. The Chamber plans to re vise the maps periodically to keep changes in street and other information up-to-date. The 25-cent map is available at the Medford hotel, Jackson hotel, Robinson hotel, Swem's, Sam's Sporting goods, Central Drug, Western Thrift store, Wainscott's Pharmacy, Office Stationery, Jewett Office supply, Medford Stationery, Linden Trailer park. Motor Haven mo tel. Crater Inn motel. Holiday Inn motel, Browncll motel. Mud ford TraveLodge, Wholesale dis tributor for Texaco, Mobilgas distributors and Olympic Pe troleum and Equipment com pany. They also are available at the Medford city hall. McNeil said other business firms desiring the maps may contact the Chamber office. Moscow Names New Group To Attain Industrial Goal Moscow W.R) A new seven man "brain trust" began map ping today an economic program aimed at eliminating admitted mistakes and speeding the Soviet Union to its avowed goal of in dustrial superiority over the United States. The government, in a major shakeup of the top economic planners, Tuesday fired First Deputy Premier Maxim Z. Saburov as chairman of the State Economic Commission. Saburov, who had held the post since 13o3, retained his nign cabinet rank. Troubleshooter Named To replace him, the presidium (cabinet) named 52-year-old Mi-. khail G. Pervukhin, an industriaf troubleshooter who has held a number of important post in gtata industry, government and Path of Flames o o -'ocs Valuable trof9rtf Gos Up in Smokf By HARHY OLE United Press Correspondent Malibu, Calif. $rP All women -and. children were or dered evacuated frsm tl danger q area today as a 500-acre 90 hour fire roared unchckec aqc 6,600 acres of th Snta Mogica mountains bordering 0 a famed movie colony b?ach frgpt. At least 50 homes have been d) strayed. 0 co Tne inferno took the fe of ong mn who ww; line flames and ordered his wife and year- olif child ta fl1 while he r( jnained in n attempt to saveO his home. His charred body was found lafe in an automobile in wjiich he apparently tried to escape. He was identified by sheriff's Officers as Frik L. Dickover, Zuma Bcch. More man 50 structSfres. some valued . more than S100.000, were d&troyd as nearly 1,000 men fought theire. Fire officials ordered all worn- ert and children removed from the are between Latigo and Ramero canyons. Men were per mitted to remain near their homes "if they have a clearing arouni the hjse and can be of any help." Calls for addftional help were sent out by units on the scene vHich included Los Angeles and Ventura county and city crews. Forest Service personnel and Navy units from Port Hueneme and Port Jlugu. The plea for help went out to every South ern California county and those areas were responding with all available equipment and man power. The S30.000 beach home of "?adio-TV star Ralph Edwards was reported destroyed and the $24,000 home of Harvey Knox, father of controversial football star Ronnie Knox was burned to the ground. The $75,000 estate of Metro- Goldwin-Mayer film producer Arthur Freed, and his $150,000 orchid collection, went up in flames. 0 Flames were visible from Los Angeles nd San Fernando Val ley as they billowed 100 feet into the fy, spreading in every direction and in one instance leaping across the Pacific Coast Highway. Evacuation of residents in Newton, Ramera, Latigo and Trancas canyons began at dawn. Sheriff's deputies of Los An geles and Ventura counties were aided by the Highway Patrol. T)fc fire burned southwest of Malibu Lake and due north of Point oDume and Zuma Beach. The pacific Coast Highway was shut to north and southbound traffic becaus ofsmoke and emergency traffic. - Gusty morning winds whipped the flgmes in the tinder-dry area nn the weather Bureau pre dicted the winds would continue. coujiVd with lc humidity. The season s total rainfall in this area has fceen less than one-hal inch. cr Weather- FCJRECAST: Valley fof SntgSt and Thtimday morninjc, -1ar-ln partially Thurtiv after noon. Little temperature rhange. l ow night 200 High Thursday 45. Hiffhrst testerday 48 Lowest this Mooning 21 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise Sunse .... MoonrUe ....... 7:39 a.m. ,1:4 3:35 a.m. Dec. 31 New Moon PROMINENT STAR O Altair, low In west . 7:01 p.m. Prorvon, low In past 7:50 Ptf. VISIBLE PLAN DTK Mart, high in soul- 0 west .. , J!:T3 p.m. Jupiter, low in east 12:18 am. Venus and Siturn, rie fouo aAi. the Commuist Cart;?. ike S9bu rov, Pervukhin is a memSr O at the presidium .aid a ferst deputy premier. o Qo Saburov came under heavy criticism during the recently concluded .meeting of the Cen-o tral Committee of the Q013 munist .Party for the failure of industry to jneot quotas of the 1 current five-year-plan. 0 Mere Criticism ' The State Economic Commfs- o sion is chaged with short-rageO planning. The State Planning Commission 'mays Ifng-range plans. The lattr commifcign also 0 came in for criticisms. 0 c The reshuffle followed dis closure that .while overall crc duction was increased 1 1 per cent, quotas in such vital in- o dustries as metal, cement, tim ber' aid coal were "unfulfilled." O o o o o o o O r.