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MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1956
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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.
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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
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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.
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