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o CO o s c o 2 - 51st Year fetommended Price 10c too Subscribers t o 9 O To report imprMjer or igpn-deliv-ery of the Mail Tribune inMedford phone 2-6141. Ashland 2-1021. Yreka 841W. before 6:45 nam- daily and 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Qo If regular delivery arrive hort lv after fu rail please notify office thus eliminatinC special mcssengcC service. o o The year nd.rnund up f lo- rai vi ttorlet appan on paj 6, and the year end round P sport newi appears on pate 9 of tody .fai! Tribune. O o o 63 United -Full Leased Wirt ess Full Leased Wire 23 Pagvs MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1956 No. 240 w liA IT R NE iwtnnriifi jKiii'iigi ijuMuiiwlrtiiinr' initiiifimirimr'-f ftiiTiffiriiyi jjurr'Tr -'f in Jn"yT"ii"fiirir CALIfOIA BLAZE ft AGES ON Two 0 ho'jjps on Ftamblo Pacific rd. are surrounded OcK? flames as the second of five fires swept 3o down-the hills east of Malibu and burned everything up to the houses on the highway. Fire Area $100,000 Allotted To Malibu Section; Ih Blaze Reported Malibu, Calif. U.P Presi dent Eisenhower declared fire ravaeni areas of Southern Cali fornia a "'major disaster", area Saturday as another major brush fire the ei?hth in the four days since Christmas erupted in drynesa caused by a long drought The President ordered an initial allotment of SlOO.uiKI In federal funrfs throuch th Civil Defense Administration to 3id j the stricken areas bordering Los Aneeles. I The latest fire slarted .about 30 miles north of the blackened 40,000 acres in the Malibu movie playground. The area has been under the siege of three major blazes. r Firebug HunKd A firebug is being hunted in one of the Malibu outbreaks and investigators were seeking an arsonist in the seventh blaze, Wii;cb. brokeout Saturday morn ing Palos Verdcs estates south of Los Angeles but was brought under control quickly. Mr. Eisenhower's action wts in response to a plea from Gov. Goodwin J. Knight of California who already had declared a state of disaster in Los Angeles county. Three .major fires have joined into one" mass with a perimeter covering nearly 100 square miles of the Santa Monica mountain area fronting on the Pacific Ocean playground of the stars. Qifr tlaze began Wednesday in the Zuma Each area and was followed o;t Thursday and Fri day, by firs in the Hume Can yon nd Lake Shenvood regions. They .Save blackened more than 40,OMC acres, destroyed nearly J-3 homes and taken the life of one-man who tr.ed to save his home. (aw Hep La -Angeles Chief Keith Klincero hopc-1 that the Malibu Wrtions of the" fire could be broughVundw control thi week end. However, he warned that any sudden winds could vnip the fires into new fury. A fire broke out before dawn today in tlie Palos Verdcs Es tates section and consumed 1.500 acres before it was controlled. Arson invctigators held a col lection of. oil cans and racs be lieved used to construct a fire bomb they theorized wa used to sjare the fire. More ihan 2.000 f:refigh"icrs have been batUing the three major blres in an area threat ening the homes ct film celehri tiesOJane Russell, Kim Novak. Alan Ladd. Glenn Ford. Eve Arden and Sob Hope. Fire Nedr Astoria Broifiht0Uider Control Astoria - U.R Fire ffght ers brought under confrol Satur daya blaze w hich broke nut Fri day in lofced over land 15 miles east of b(y-e.o A decrease in the east wind which had fanned lheblaze earl ier, led fire fighters to predict the dansgr ws past, barrinE an "Prge of cJne wind again,- Washingt.w iU.R) Presi dent Eisenhower is not consider ing sending an aenbassador to the Ya3;ean. arimiistration of tca'ii )ve gepef'-ed. Gets Federal Aid New York Skyscraper Searched for Bomb New York U.R) Police, run ragged by scores of bomb scares in five days, rushed through a top-to-bottom search of the 102-story Empire State building Saturday on a tip that a bomb had been planted in the world's tallest skyscraper. A two hour and 20-minute search of all 2-million square feet in the building failed to un cover a bomb. A toml of 8fl bombs bad been reported in New York City since Christmas eve, 16 of them Saturday. Searchers were just catching their breaths after combing a super-market, a school and the city's major bus terminal for "bombs'' when a woman tele phoned police headquarters shortly after 11 a.m. She said she had found a note in a Grand Central Terminal telephone booth savins a bomb would go off in the Empire State building.- Climax of Week The threat marked the climax of a week of following up re ports from men, women and chil dren some of them described as holiday pranksters who have disrupted activities in mid town Manhattan with .bomb scares. They have reported bombs about to go off in thea ters, hotels, office buildings, schools, terminals and other buildings. The FBI was reported to have entered investigations of bomb threats in bus and rail terminals, because interstate commerce was involved. Police officials bolstered their New Officers to Be Sworn In Monday ! Mayor-elect John Snider and ! npw members of the Medford j cif" council will be sworn into otlice at a special meeting Mon day ncxin in the city hall. Earl Miller-is retiring mayor. New councilmen are Al Brad ford. Robert Van Sickle. Jim my Dunlevy.' and Ed Hall. Re tiring from the council are Har old Frye. Jack Fitzeerald and D. Arnold Depner. Snider also was a councilman. They will hold the first of ficial council meeting of the flew year at 7.30 p.m. Wednes day. Jan. 2. Sports Bulletins Prospect Prospect High school defeated Butt Falls. 62-53, here last night in a non league basketball game. Pros pect led at halftim 36-17. Oregon 57. Tulsa 53. Southern Cal. 58, San Francis co 52 (consolation. Western Classic). " Denny Moyer. Portland, won unanimous decision over Johnny Green, Roseburg. in the 147-pound bout and Clyde Williams. Portland Pal club, took a split decision over Larry Lewis. Medford, Pal club in the 115-pound match of the double main event ama teur boxing card at Hedriclc Junior High school last sight. The houses were saved when firemen sprayed water on the roofs and surrounding yards. The first blaze, which started Dec. 26, has consumed 35,000 acres and destroyed at least 60 houses forcing 2,000 persons to flee. 1 detective guard of movie thea ters and other public places in an attempt to cut down on the bomb threats. Two bombs actually have been found since the first bomb scare Christmas eve. Five other devices were planted by hoax ers. ' Ike Sending New Letter to Bulganin Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower is sending Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Bulganin a new letter stating that easl-west disarmament talks should be continued inside the United Nations. High administration officials disclosed the gist of Mr. Eisen hower's letter Saturday. It amounts to a rejection of Bulganin's Nov. 17 proposal that the United States, Russia, Brit ain, France and India -hold a "Summit'' conference, on dis armament. Mr. Eisenhower takes the view that top-level negotiations on the long - deadlocked disarmament issue offer no prospect of suc cess at this time. " His letter to Bulganin was said to be "ready to go" to U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen in Moscow for delivery to Bul ganin.' Offices, Stores Will Be Closed Tuesday ' City, county and federal of fices will be closed Jan. 1, New Year's Day. Downtown Medford stores will also close for the holiday, according to members of the Medford Retail Merchants as sociation. Also closed Jan. 1 are state liquor stores and agencies. Re tail licensees may sell alcoholic beverages if a 1957 license cer tificate has been issued them by the Liquor Control Commission. The commission noted that all current licenses expire midnight Dec. 31, and no sale or service is legal after that time unless the licensee hold a 1957 license certificate. Phoenix Post Office Will Observe Its 100th Anniversary Thursday, Jan. 3 Phoenix Thursday. Jan. 3 will mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the Phoe-. nix post office, according to con firmation received from the Na tional Archives and Records ser vice in Washington D.C. by Phoenix postmaster Mrs. Marie Furry. The small post office was es tablished soon after the end of the Rogue Indian wars, when the first mail route was set up between Portland and Sacra mento. Samuel H. Miller was the first postmaster. It is one of three early day post offices established in Jack son county that are still in ex istance today. Jacksonville was the first in 1854. and Ashland, the second in 1355. Three oth- lers, Dardanelles in 1852, Man- Number of Highway Deaths Off to Slow Start on Week End 83 Reported Dead Early Last Night Br UNITED PRESS A slow rate of traffic deaths during the New Year's holiday heartened safety officials to think that their prediction of 490 fatalities for the four-day week end would be "ridiculous ly high." Ned H. Dearborn, president of the National Safety Council, said he was aware that snow, freezing rain and colder temp eratures in parts of the eastern half of the nation could boost the highway death rate rapidly unless motorists excersized ex treme caution. 83 Highway Deaths A survey by the United Press at 8:30 p.m. (PST) showed .83 persons killed in highway ac cidents. Besides, 11 persons were killed in fires and miscellan eous accidents took the lives of 10 others to bring the overall count to 104 since it got under way at 6 p.m. Friday. In the traffic tally by states. Pennsylvania held the lead with 11 dead. Michigan and Ohio had seven fatalities apiece. Texas registered six. The council's predicted 490 auto deaths was 83 higher than the all-time New Year's total set during a four-day holiday in 1952-53. But safety experts gambled that the record Christ mas holiday slaughter of 713 traffic fatalities would "shock" motorists into traveling care fully and taking no chances. Pleads With Motorists President Eisenhower also pleaded with motorists to make this week end the "safest New Year's on record" and to fol low the rules and courtesies of the road. Meanwhile, roads became haz ardous in parts of Indiana, Ohio. Pennsylvania and New York in the wake of a storm which mov ed into the Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic coast. It spread from the Great Lakes to New England and southward into North Carolina. One to four inches of snow fell over the area, creating dan gerous driving conditions on the Chicago-to-New York turnpike system and on state trunk routes. Freight Train Cars Derailed in Mishap Boardman '(U.R) A 116-car Union Pacific freight train broke into at a bad coupling between cars late Friday night and three units were derailed 14 miles west of Hinkle, Ore. Union Pacific spokesmen said normal traffic was resumed to day but all trains were halted for several hours, including the west-bound City of Portland domeliner and the St. Louis bound Portland Rose. Two diesel locomotives and an oil tanker left the tracks as a result of the mishap. Babson's Predictions To Be Pubisried Jan. J Whal is the World War ni outlook for 1957? Will the cost of living continue lo go higher? Will business continue Jo be good in the next year? These and 47 other impor tant questions are answered in Roger W. Babson's annual New Year predictions, to ap pear in ih Mail Tribune on Tuesday. Jan. 1. Jakarta, Indonesij (U.R) Indonesia is ripe for a bloody civil war, sources here said Sat urday. senega in 1853. and Gold River in 1855, were discontinued with in 10 years. Lacks Nam The story goes that postmast er Miller, lacking a name for the newly established post office, hung an insurance sign in the window which read "Phoenix." the sign may have had some bearing on the town receivinc that name a generation or so later. The original site of the post office was across the street from the old Phoenix grist mill, and has moved several times since then. It was located in the Phoe nix Mercantile building, t h e Engle building, and a building built by G. G. Skinner in 1943. Old records show that Phoe nix postmasters from 1882 on Portland Attorney Named Justice of Oregon High Court Randall Kester May Be Youngest to Serve Salem KU.R) Randall B. Kester, 40-year-old Portland at torney, was named Saturday as an associate justice of the Ore gon Supreme Court to succeed the late Walter L. Tooze who died Dec. 21. Keslcr's appoint ment is effective Jan. 3. Gov. Elmo Smith said the new justice has been a partner in the Portland law firm of Maguire, Shields, Morrison and Bailey since 1940. He has been an ac tive member of the Oregon Bar in general practice and trial work and is just completing a term as president of the Multnd mah Bar Association. May Be Youngest At 40, Kester is believed by Capitol observers to be one of the youngest, if not the young est, associate justices to serve on the Stale Supreme Court. The governor said of his ap pointment: "In seeking a replace ment for this position, I was looking for a relatively young man of unimpeachable character who is held in high esteem by his legal associates for his pro fessional ability and who is re spected by the public as well as by members of the Bar." Kester was born in Vale, Ore., Oct. 20, 1916, and spent his early life there before moving to On tario. He went through grade school in Ontario and moved to Bloomington, Wis., while a high school student. He was graduated from Bloom ington High school and returned to Oregon in in;i3. J lis legal edu cation was obtained at Willam ette university here and from the Columbia university law school. He joined his present law firm in 1940. Other Organizations In addition to being president of the Multnomah Bar associ ation, he has been chairman for the past three years of the com mittee on continuing legal edu cation for the State Bar associ ation and a member of the Am erican Law Institute. Salem U.Rj Justice Wil liam C. Perry was chosen as chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court by his fellow justices Fri day. Perry, who has served four years on the Supreme Court, will succeed Chief Justice Harold J. Warner Jan. 7 and will serve two years. The post of chief justice is rotated among members of the high court. Justice Walter L. Tooze had been elected Oregon's chief jus tice by his fellow jurists. Christmas Trees To Be Picked Up Today A county-wide Christmas tree pickup, to benefit the March of Dimes, will be held today. The project is sponsored by the Med ford Moose Lodge. Those desiring to have trees picked up have been asked to place them in the front yard and to attach a contribution, in an envelope, for the March of Dimes. Boy Scouts will assist in the pickup. Moose planners said. The trees will be taken to a site on Agate rd.. just east of the Crater Lake highway in the Camp White area, where they will be burned about 7 p.m. to day. The public has been invit ed to the burning. were C. S. Sreent, 1386; V. L. Towne, 1901; W. R. Coleman, 1832 1836 1901 1906. and A. H. Hearn, 1910 to 1943. ' Mrs. G. G. Skinner was appointed to the job in 1943 and at that time Phoenix be came a third class post office. Mrs. Furry Appointed In 1943 Mrs. Furry was ap pointed postmaster, and in 1952 it became a second class post office. In December' of 1955 the office was moved from the Skin ner building to its present quar ters. Like most post offices in the county, receipts increase each year at the Phoenix post office, and this Christmas season was the biggest so far, according to Mrs. Furry. "Good To See Fog May Usher in New Year in Medford Area Medford area residents will probably celebrate a chilly New Year's eve under a blanket of fog, weather bureau officials said Saturday. They indicated that fog, which has been in the area for several days, might lift Sunday after noon and Monday morning. However, it is expected to re turn Monday night and remain at least through Tuesday. Temp eratures are expected to remain hclow freezing. Sun Shines The sun broke through the week-old fog shortly after 11:30 a.m. Saturday in the Medford area. The Medford weather bureau said it may break up Sunday, and that a low-pressure "trough" is moving this way. On Satur day, meteorologists reported, it was only about 600 feet- thick in Medford. However, there was a cloud seeding attempt just a few mo ments before the fog broke open Saturday. A crew of Mercy Flights, Inc., pilots drove to Ashland where one of the non profit corporation's planes had been located since a flight to San Francisco earlier in the week when it could not return to Medford. They took aboard 100 pounds of dry ice shreds', and scattered it on top of the fog over the air port. They reported that they could see resulting turbulence and that visibility rose to land ing minimums within a few minutes more. They landed at noon. The entire Medford area had partially cleared by early afternoon. Express Hope Law enforcement agencies ex pressed hope that fog, heavy holiday traffic and drinking dri vers would not combine to spoil Oregon's comparatively good traffic record since the holiday season started last week end. While the national traffic death toll reached more than 700 for the four-day Christmas period against 609 for the three day 1955 holiday. Oregon's fa talities dropped from seven to four for the same extended week end. A repeat of last year's New Year's holiday in Oregon would mean four people would be kill ed celebrating the arrival of 1957 and festivities would be marred by nearly 700 accidents, according to the traffic safety commission. All available state police officers will be on duty in an effort to curb drunk driv ing and -other violations, ials said. offic- Weather FORECAST: Continued foecT in the valley through Monday; partial afternoon rlearlne from Medford south. Hich cloudiness at hicher elevations Sundav, clearing Mondav. l.om 2n-?., hichs 30-35 in fog, SO 55 else where. TFMPKR TfnFS: HicheU Ytrday - 51 Lowest Yesterday - 22 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise -. m- Sunset 4:48 p.m. Moon rise Monday a.m. New Moon Monday nisht Mars continues to move east ward among the stars of Pisces. A line drawn from this planet to the North Star now passes throufh the center of the con stellation, Cassiopeia. You, Old Boy" Though weather may keep many residents home on New Year's eve, most local night spots, restaurants and dance halls are planning special enter tainment for the evening. Pri vate parties will be held by Granges and other organizations. Polish Endorse Yugoslav Policy Warsaw (U.R) The Polish Communist party Saturday en dorsed Yugoslav resident Tito's policy of "separate roads to so cialism." But the Poles, in a formal com munique issued at the end of 10 days of talks with -Yugoslav party officials, withheld com- , ment on Tito's complaint that the Soviet way to socialism was one of the causes of excesses under Stalin's regime. c "Both sides agreed that vari ous countries may reach social ism by following differed ways," the communique said.- But Poland under its new. independent-minded leaders, faced heavy going in its . efforts to' achieve its economic goals. The new national economic chief warned that the country will suffer industrial shortages and already has instituted- gaso line rationing because of the re volt in Hungary and the Suez Canal stoppage. Governor's Ball . Slated January 14 ' Salem 'ill.R) The inaugura tion of Democratic Gov. Robert D. Holmes will be cefebrated here with the first governor's inaugural ball since the war years. Oregon's last" governor's ball was for Charles A. Sprague hi 1939. Preliminary plans call for, the formal ball in the Marlon' hotel here Jan. 14. State Demo cratic Chairman Robert fcoyer said the party affair wduld cost $5 a couple. He added that it w-ould be held on schedule whether or not the evenly divided state senate i able to organize. Technically, Gov. Elect Holmes cannol take office until the senate is organ ized by either Republicans or Democrats. Business Firms 6.6 Per Cent in The number of business firms in Medford increased 6.6 per cent over those in 1955, accord ing to .J. Harry White, district manager of Dun and firadstreet Inc., Portland. The increase is on information compiled by Dun and Bradstrcet in the November. 1956, Refer ence Book. In 1955, Dun and Bradstreet listed 710 businesses here, compared to 757 now in Medford. Each January Dun and Brad street requests business con cerns throughout the United States to submit financial state ments. Dun and Bradstreet re quests this year total about 000.000. White pointed out the Refer S T Us R T S May Take Year toQ Get Canal Into 0 o o Full Operations o Crew Dismantling Egyptian Frigate o Cairo U.R) The job of clearing the wreck-filled Suez Canal got underway Saturday. At 2:15 a.m. (PST).a Dutcho Q diver went down at ctlie soidh- o em end of the canal to start o O work on dismantling he 1.200-. ton frigate Abikir which block- Q 0 ed the channel. n The task of reopening thg vi- 0 tal waterway to world shipping Q was begun by a UniteH Natiittis Q salvage force directed by retired 0 C? U. S. Gen. Kaymond 4. heeler? Estimates Long Titne Estimates of how lorig it wi take to raise the 50 "ships , to repair and replace S40 ttfS50 million worth of wrecked cangj u installations rangecf from two u months to' a year.o o It was announced IftSoWed-O O nesday 'that a clearing agree- o ment hd beeit reached in talks n New York betavyen Egyptian Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi and U..TJ. Secretary Gen eral Dag Hammarskjold. The next ' day Whefrler s;orb work would, start Friday. But wordQ never reached Egyptian Jpcal officials at Suez, and th tSsk was delayed until yesterday. The Dutch ealva-ge vessel Tyne.and th Danish shin Pro tector had been in positron at Suez for daysEgyptiar divers already had started cubing up the freighter ZamSlck which, was blocking 111 entrance to Suez harbor. Wheeler dwJ not make any public estimate about how lorn; it would tak'e lear the cans?. But informed srirces irrjnome who holpcdo survey the damage said it will take a long tn;.0 Clear Chnnel 0 O The sources estimated that if OO Wheeler's men canQ preyed quickly, tli'ey probably can clear O a 25-foot channej for the snjj eSt ship "within tyo orcfhreeoO montiis. o rr-1 ;SaSi 11 -t,ffl Hivy cainiiditu it wvuu win four to 'stx 'months to ctjear the full 36-foot channel, ajut, notig q that the candl worksnops seQ wrecked, its big craiw.s aye down, the lighting system plant o at Ismailia is destroyed andoSMy 0 one tug rgjfiains o hejp ships o through Jhe canal, thr5y said0it would be at least a year lfore0 fullcoperations Sre rcstceed. Two Are Killedln o Oregon Accidents c ByUNITED PRESS Twyj pft-sAis weakill the first night of the img New Years week end in OregonoFatal colli sions in Mjijfland an cilverton k alreSdy accounted far half sji many deatts rccorded (jriff the q Cl-istnas eek end when fouro died. o 00 EleverejgSr-old KeitfioWridge, O Portland, was killed just oiside0 Portland city limitg Friday nignt , wien the motor sc.ootc he ana his 16-yea-old brother were nflh ing struck from Lhe rear q a car driven by (Jarroll Conrad Haase, also of ruHland.OPoe cited Haase )r negffgent homi- o cide. o Another yRiVt) 1 8-year-oy) q Tommy E,gne Johnso(j)of Ams ille,0was killed near l-Sfrton when the3 car in tBhich heA'as q riding collidedowith a laigin O truck and. a parked car. Ro aid Joe Swjns8n of Silverton, driver of the car, and true?, driv er Carl Skirvin Of Silvertor were not injured. Increase, Medford ence Book fists only manufactur ers, wholesalers, retailers, and several service companies such as-laundries afld gasoline serviceO stations. Fo that reason the total number of businesses in Medford and Jacksoh county w-ould be higher than the figures quoted. White said during the past year 520 changes were made in Refereqce Book listings of Med ford businesses. The changes re sulted trom adding new busi nesses, deleting discr tinued ones and accounting for changes in ownership, trade names and credit ratings. Eusijiesses in other major county cities total 211 in Ash land, 65 in Cer.al PoinS and 41 in Rogue River, according to the Reference Book. rPo' o o O o f U O o O O O O O o o o o i
