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Conven Inside Today Section On Womtn'i Ntwi J Editorial 4 Sports 10 Locals, Markets , 13 Section Two Hadio, TV J Comics 2 Classified Ads 4, 5 House Fires Claim 19 Lives in Four Stales Early Today 13 Children Among Victims of Blazes By UNITED PRESS House fires in four states to day claimed the lives of 19 per sons, including 13 children. The two worst blazes took six lives each at Reading, Pa., and Jeffersonville. Ga. Five more perished at Marshall, Mo., and two at Balltown, Iowa. A family of six was killed when flames swept through a frame house rented by A. Lucius Ringwood, about 40, near Jef fersonville. The dead were Ring wood, his wife and their four children. Kerosene Stove Fire which apparently started from a kerosene stove which may have been leaking was blamed for six deaths at Reading. Killed were Mrs. Esther Roth rmel, 48; her grandchildren. Jimmy and Peggy Probst, aged 1 and 3; and her nieces and nephews. Donna Rothcrmel, 2; Carol Ann Fromm, 4. and Eedie Rothermel, 4. Another woman and two children fled to safety. Flames wrecked a four-roon house near Marshall. Mo., and five persons apparently suffocat ed in their beds An overheated stove was blamed. Deputy Sheriff Henry H o f f identified the Marshall victims as Orvell Swisher, 37; his wife, Edith, 34, and three children, ranging from 3 to 9 years old. At Dubuque, Iowa, Frank Cur iel, 41, and his daughter Frances, 15, died at a hospital of burns they received in a fire at their Balltown home Wednesday night. Five other children were hurt, two seriously. Curiel suffered his burns in making three trips into the burn ing house to rescue his children. Five Logging Train Cars Leave Track Five rear cars of a 30-car Med ford Corporation logging train derailed at 4 a.m. today, south of the Little Butte creek tressle near Eagle Point. One of the cars turned com pletely over and logs were scat tered on both sides of the track for a considerable distance. A spread rail was reported to have caused the accident. This was the third derailment in four years at that location, which is a broad, slightly banked curve. Lloyd Breeding, Eagle Point, a member of the train crew, was locked in the caboose for sev eral minutes after the mishap. He had been riding in the caboose when the cars left the track and the impact jammed the door. No one was reported injured. The train was traveling with a load of logs from Butte Falls to Medford when the accident oc curred. Stanley Jones Elected President of Council Stanley Jones, Jr., Ward III councilman, was elected presi dent of the Medford ,city coun cil last night. This is Jones' seventh year on the council. He is a member of the council. Last night was the first of ficial meeting of Mayor John Snider and four new council members. They were sworn into office at a special meeting last Monday. New councilmen are Al Brad ford. Ed Hall. Jimmy Dunlevy and Robert Van Sickle. India's Shifting Attitude on Agenda For Kremlin, Red Chinese Conference London U.R) India's shift ing attitude between East and West will top the agenda of the forthcoming emergency meeting in Moscow between Red Chinese Premier Chou En lai and the Kremlin leaders, informed sources said today. Soviet Russia has shown grow ing uneasiness in recent weeks over Indian Premier Jawaharlal Nehru's policy moves which cul minated in his visit to President Eisenhower lest month. Diplomatic sources said Mar shal Georei Zhukov's scheduled surprise visit to Delhi later this 51st Year United Press full Leased Wira 20 Pages Reds Challenged to Make 'Significant' Peace Contribution Washington (U.P.) Presi dent Eisenhower has challenged Russia to make a "significant" contribution to world peace by pulling its armed forces out of Hungary. The President sent his chal lenge directly to Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin. He did so in replying to a Nov. 17 letter .from Bulganin which called for a five-power "Summit Conference" to end deadlocked negotiations on dis armament. Mr. Eisenhower rejected the idea of a meeting on disarma ment between himself, Bulganin and the prime ministers of Britain, France and India. To Maka Further Proposals The President said continued negotiations within the United Nations "seem more likely to General Assembly Takes Up Problem Of Divided Korea United Nations, N.Y (U.R) The General Assembly's main Political Committee takes up the perennial problem of divided Korea today despite objections by the Soviet Union and India. The United States and its Western Allies were expected to move for adoption of a report calling for continued UN assis tance to the Republic of Korea and a continuation of the 1953 armistice agreement pending a full political settlement. The Political Committee put the Korean question at the top of its agenda late Wednesday, to be followed by disarmament. Al geria, Cyprus, and West Iran, West New Guinea. Disarmament First Soviet Deputy Foreign Minis ter V. V. Kuznetsov insisted that disarmament be discussed first and the Korean question be placed last on the agenda. But U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. apparently mindful of President Eisenhow er's latest letter to Soviet Pre mier Nikolai Bulganin on the question, said the United States would not be readv to discuss disarmament until next week. He favored placing it second. Indian sources said their dele gation wanted postponement of the Korean discussion because it could not get instructions from New Delhi soon enough on how to handle their end of it. Mayor Too Speedy, Police Officer Says Mayor John Snider last night presided, for his first time as mayor, over a meeting of the city council. It was a quick job, and tha meeting adjourned about 35 minutes after it was called to order. With many things on his mind (including, perhaps, tha dispatch with which tha meet ing was conducted), tha mayor sped homeward too rapidly. As his car neared his resi dence, he heard a siren and saw a red light, and pulled So tha side. Ha was presented with ,a citation for violation of tha basic rule. 40 mph in a 25 mph xone. Ha dutifully took tha sum mons (on which his occupa tion is listed as "MAYER") and drove back to the city hall (slowly) to post S10 bail. month has spotlighted Moscow's mounting anxiety over India's possible westward shift. India's criticism of Russia's in terference in "Hungary was said to have added to Moscow's mis givings and fears of a possible change in Nehru's attitude to wards the Eastern bloc. The dispatch of Zhukov, Rus sia's defense minister, to Delhi so soon after the return of Nehru from his extensive talks with President Eisenhower is consid ered a highly significant move on the part of the Kremlin. Zhukov's prestige is high produce" results and that the United States will make further disarmament proposals there. He also rebuked what he call ed Russia's attempt to dismiss as a "slanderous campaign" the "world's indignant reaction to the Soviet armed actions against the people of Hungary." The President told Bulganin that if Russia wants to make "a significant step toward reduc tion" of world tensions, it should bow to a United Nations resolu tion and pull its troops out of Hungary. He noted that Britain, France and Israel have abided by U.N. demands to end the Suez fight ing and said Russian should fol low their example. Take Issue With Statement Mr. Eisenhower also noted that Bulganin's Nov. 17 letter suggested that the strategic ad vantage in Western Europe now lies with Russia. "TTlis statement does not seem calculated to relieve inter national tensions," the President added. "Moreover, I am con vinced in the light of my long association with the North At lantic'Treaty Organization that it is fully capable of carrying out its mission of collective defense" of Western Europe. Three Districts Elect Officers for Year Directors o ,three irrigation districts, Medford, Talent and Eagle Point, all voted to retain Leland Knox as auditor this week at their annual meetings. The Medford Irrigation dis trict reelected Paul Culbertson, president; J. G. Cameron, vice president; Jack Hoffbuhr, sec retary-manager; and Neff, Frohn mayer and Lowry as legal coun sel. Directors of the Talent Irriga tion district reelected Homer Moore, president; David Holmes, vice president; Walt Hoffbuhr, secretary-manager, and Frank Farrell, legal counsel. The Eagle Point Irrigation district reelected J. H. Stanley, president; C. J. Greb, vice presi dent: Thelma Short, secretary; Ted Flury, manager; and Frank Farrell, legal counsel. The Rogue River Valley Ir rigation district will hold its an nual meeting on Jan. 8. Canadian Pacific Tied Up by Strike Montreal, Que. U.R The coast-to-coast operations of the Canadian Pacific Railway were tied up today by a strike of 2,800 firemen. Picket lines were honored by all other operating employees. Prime Minister Louis St. Lau rent, who spent the holiday in Quebec City while his cabinet aides tried unsuccessfully to per suade the Brotherhood of Loco motive Firemen and Enginemen to call off the strike, listed the rail dispute as the top item for discussion at the cabinet's first 1957 meeting today. The strike began Wednesday afternoon. The strike issue centered around the use of firemen on diesel trains. Salem (U.P.) Richard C. Rice, 32, a Pasedena, Calif., Boy Scout leader, has been named the new scout executive for the Cascade Area Council. abroad and he has seemingly kept aloof from the present struggle in the Kremlin. It will be the first time since the war that the marshal will represent Russia alone outside the Iron Curtain. At the summit conference in Geneva in 1955, he accompanied Premier Nikolai Bulganin and party chief Nikita Khrushchev. Zhukov may have been chosen also to explain the Red Army's intervention in Hungary on pure ly military groups. His visit will follow the talks in Moscow between Chou and the Soviet leaders. A1AXT MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1957 TOO Trial of Ambuehl Ordered to Resume On Friday Morning State Awaits Arrival Of Los Angeles Woman Circuit Judge Orval J. Millard has ordered a recess until 9:3d a.m. Friday for the trial of Don ald LaVerne Ambuehl, 31, of 1615 Crater Lake ave., charged with unlawful possession and control of narcotics. District Attorney Walter D. Nunley requested the recess un til a state's witness, Mrs. Wilma Scott of Los Angeles, could ar rive in Medford to testify at the trial. He said Mrs. Scott was report ed to have left Los Angeles for Medford on Jan. 2. Five men and seven were sworn in at 10:56 a.m. today as jurors in the trial. A new venire of jurors was called to. fill the jury panel this morning by Judge Millard, Jose phine county circuit judge who is presiding at the trial. Defense Attorney Edward Kelly exer cised all six of his peremptory challenge rights and Nunley ex ercised all three of his during the jury selection, which started yesterday. A peremptory challenge al lows an attorney to dismiss a prospective juror without giving reason for the dismissal. At the close of the morning session Nunley stated that at the request of Tom Reeder, district attorney-elect, be had agreed to remain on the Ambuehl trial as a special deputy appointed by Reeder if the trial continues aft er Nunley is scheduled to leave office on Monday. Trapped Ships May Move in Four Days Cairo (U.R) Thirteen ships trapped in the Suez Canal more than two months will be able to move out of the waterway into the Mediterranean sea in about four days, the general manager of the Egyptian Suez Canal Co., said today. The vessels of various types and nationalities were caught in the canal between El Ballah and El Cap last Oct. 31 when Anglo- French planes carried out the first attacks on Egypt. General Manager Mahmoud Younic said salvage operations in the northern stretch of the 10-mile waterway would shortly permit the ships to sail south wards to Lake Timsah where they can turn around for the run northwards to Port Said Workers Council Defies Red Regime Vienna U.R) Rebellious workers councils are openly de fying the the communist regime by refusing to fire idled em ployees in the nationalized Hun garian factories, it was reported today. The Soviet-backed Janos Ka- dar regime ordered more than 200.000 workers fired New Years day. Virtually all of Hun gary's industry has been para lvrpd for weeks bv a Dower shortage caused by coal short ages. Reports reaching Vienna indi cated worker councils in many plants ignored the government orders. In some instances, they seized factory funds in order to keep employees on full pay. New County Veterans Service Officer Named The county court today an nounced appointment of Jerry V. Bianconi. 145 North Third St., Central Point, as veterans' service officer for the county. Bianconi is commander of the Myers-Holland American Legion post at Central Point. He is a re tired logger and received a per manent disability in a logging accident several years ago. He succeeds Charles Holbrook, who resigned recently. Salem U.R Street and highway crashes killed at least 417 persons in Oregon during 1956. the State Traffic Safety Commission has reported. "They'll Never Building Permit Fee Schedule Amended The Medford city council last night adopted an ordinance re ducing building permit fees for structures in which construction costs exceed S500.000. The previous ordinance pro vided, a S3 per S1X000 building inspection fee for each 1,000 of construction costs. Under the new ordinance the fee is S3 for the first S500.000, S2 per S1.000 for the second S500.000. and S1.50 per $1,000 for more than 51,000.000. The amendment was proposed at the last council meeting fol lowing comments from several representatives of the Rogue Discharged Captain Faces Felony Charge Corvallis (U.R) James A. Steadman, 28-y e a r-old dis charged Philomath police cap tain, today faced a felony charge of assault and battery against Benton County Sheriff C. N. Lilly, 62. Steadman is accused of "beat ing and bruising the head and body" of the sheriff early New Year's Day. The sheriff suffer ed a heart attack after the altercation and remained in criti cal condition in a local hospital. Lilly had Steadman under ar rest for being' drunk and dis orderly when Steadhan allegedly attacked him in front of the Ben ton county jail. Philomath of ficers at the scene pulled Stead man away and jailed him. In District Court yesterday Steadman pleaded guilty to a charge of being drunk in a pub lic place but asked for a pre liminary hearing on the assault charge. Ships Collide in New York Harbor ' Kew York (U.R) A U. S. government ship with 145 pass engers aboard and a Venezualan vessel collided "in perfectly clear weather" at dawn today off the entrance to New York Harbor, the Coast Guard reported. It said the collision was not "too serious" although the 9,-978-ton Cristobal of the Panama Line had plates and railings smashed on her port side and had to be towed to the Todd Shipyard for repairs by a Moran Towing Company tug. ' The other ship, the 4,214-ton Ciudad de Barquisimeto, pro ceeded to the 'harbor from the collision scene off Ambrose Lightship under its own steam, he said. There were no injuries. DOW-JONES AVERAGES New York U.R) Dow-Jones final stock averages: 30 indus trials 499.20. up 3.17; 20 rail roads 154.86, up 1.34; 15 utili ties 68.74. up 0.41, and 65 stocks 174.54. up 1.19. Sales today were about 2.260.000 shares compared with 1,960,000 shares Wednesday. IRIBUNE Take Us Alive 91 ii Valley Memorial Hospital asso ciation. They told the council they be lieved the fees were "excessive" for the new $2,000,000 hospital under construction at Barnett and Murphy rds- ....... Feet for Hospital - A resolution was passed that the Rogue. Valley hospital build ing fee be payable within the new fee schedule. City Attorney E. R. Bashaw pointed out since the hospital fee had not yet been paid it would be collected under the amended ordinance anyway. The hospital's building fee as a result of the new ordinance will be $4,000, City Manager Robert Duff said. Under the pre vious fee system the cost would have been $6,000. Non-Profit Basis Duff added the city building department does not operate on a profit basis. Oniy purpose of building fees are to recover city costs of building inspection, he said. In this case, the city man ager said, city inspection costs will be about the same as the $4,000 hospital building fee. Duff said that for buildings in excess of $500,000, the previous building fee was too high. It was his opinion the new fee schedule is "fair and reasonable," regard less of any consideration of building permit fees for the hos pital, he stated. At a previous council meeting the Rev. George V. Bolster and Eugene Thorndike, of the hos pital association, requested the city to waive building fees "in exchange for the benefits the hospital will bring to the city, (See story on page 14) Four of 20 Convicts Start Eating Again Salem !U.R) Four of 20 con victs in the segregation block at the Oregon state prison gave up a hunger strike this morning but the other 16 refused breakfast for the fourth straight day. The 16 convicts had missed 10 straight meals. Writer Says Marines Are Armed With Atom Weapons Washington (U.R) U. S. Marines aboard ships in the Med iterranean have been armed with "live" atomic military equip ment, a reporter for the Scripps Howard newspapers said today. Staff writer Jim G. Lucas said his information came in an exclu sive interview with Gen. Ran dolph Pate, Marine Corps com mandant, published today in the Scripps-Howard newspapers. He said Pate told him the Sixth Fleet Marines, have a "ground atomic capability," ex plaining that this meant they have atomic warheads for their artillery.. They soon will be armed with Honest John rockets, also having atomic warheads, Lucas quoted Fate. Price 10c United Press Full Leased Wira No. 244 Rescue Attempts Halted on Snow Covered Mountain Helicopters Take 8 Rescuers from Scene Chamonix, France U.R) The agonized parents of two holi day mountain climbers today reached a decision which doom ed their sons to a frozen death high up the side of snow-shipped Mont Blanc. They refused a daring pilot's offer to attempt to land his light, ki-equipped plane beside them in a last ditch rescue attempt. Their decision meant that all hope had been abandoned for the two climbers, trapped on the peak for 13 days. Eight other' men who almost lost their lives in other attempts to save Jean Vincedon, 24, and Francois Henry 23, were, brought down from the mountainside to day by daring helicopter pilots. ine 15,781-foot mountain is the tallest peak in Western Eur ope. French authorities had forbid den their men to make any fur ther try to reach the pair strand ed by storms on Mont Blanc since Dec. 22. Parents Reject Offer Swiss mountain rescue pilot German Geiger offered to make a desperate last ditch attempt to land beside a wrecked heli copter In which the two men lie helpless. . - But Geiger said he dropped his plans because the parents of the two young climbers opposed the try due to the risks involved. Most mountaineers here be lieve they already are dead. The last time they were seen alive was Tuesday. Then they were wrapped in chemically-treated blankets by would-be rescuers, provided with food and placed in the cabin of the wrecked heli copter. Both were in critical condition. Vincedon was reported so badly frozen he could not move enough to feed himself. The rescuers themselves were forced to retreat from the risky perch where the two men lay, and no on has been able to reach them since. Vincedon and Henry started their climb against the advice of local guides, who warned them of the treacherous storms that sweep the gigantic moun tain. The day was clear when they started, but soon the region was swept with a fierce fall of snow, zero temperatures and winds of gale velocity. The two youths were trapped. Holmes' Plan to Attend Ike's Inauguration Salem (U.R) Gov. Elect and Mrs. Robert D. Holmes have accepted an invitation to attend the inauguration of President Eisenhower in Washington Jan. 21. The Holmes' will make a quick trip to Washington for the af fair and return immediately. Holmes himself is scheduled to be inaugurated as governor Jan. 14 and is expected to be in the midst of pressing legislative duties at the time of the presi dent's inauguration. Lucas said Gen. Pate also re vealed: 1. That two reinforced Marine battalions secretly put to sea, one each from Norfolk and Ja pan, during the Middle East cris is with orders to proceed to the Mediterranean and Persian Gulf and stand by for orders. 2. That a reinforced company was flown to PCrt Lyautey, Mor occo, after the Mediterranean area naval commander, Adm. Walter F. Boone, received a tip that Arab extremists might try to storm the big U. S. naval base there and seize its ammunition, '3. That Marines attached to the Sixth Fleet were prepared to fight their way into Cairo "if necessary" to evacuate Am erican civilians at the start of tha Suez fighting. Middle East Policy, Civil Rights Top Issues at Session Lausche Votes With Party, Assures Control Washington U.R) Fresh man Sen. Frank J. Lausche nail ed down Democratic control of the Senate by voting with his party today in a suspenseful opening session of the 85th Con gress. Democrats organized the House with no trouble. But in the more closely divided Senate there had been anxious mom ents among the Democrats about Lausche's intentions. The Ohio Democrat hinted last summer he might vote with Re publicans on organization of the Senate. Had he done so, it would have been possible for President Eisenhower's party to control that chamber. Priority Items Both houses convened with civil rights and middle eastern policy high priority items for early debate. Northern senators promptly offered a motion aimed at curb ing filibusters. A showdown was postponed until 3 p.m., (PST) Friday when the Senate will vote on a move to table" the antifili buster proposal. President Eisenhower will go before a joint session at 9:30 a.m. (PST) Saturday to ask early , congressional approval of the ad ministration's new Middle East policy. He wants the two houses to authorize $400 million in eco nomic aid for that area and use of U. S. troops, if necessary, to deter Russian aggression there. Indications are that Congress will give him substantially what he wants. House Speaker Sam Rayburn said that because of the special message on the Middle East there is some doubt that the President will deliver next Thursday's State of the Union Message in person. Not until the actual voting on organization did Lausche defin itely commit himself. When he voted with the Democrats for Sen. Carl Hayden (D-Ariz.), against Sen. Styles Bridges (R N.H.) as president pro tempore, the suspense was over. The vote was 49-46. In the House, to nobody's sur prise, Rayburn was reelected speaker. Rayburn, who will be 75 Sunday, has held that post longer than any other man. (Sea Stories Page 6, Section 2) Experts Say Ship Could Have Survived Washington (U.R) A group of maritime experts reported to day that the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria which sank after a collision last July 25 "would have survived" if she had been in compliance with U.S. safety standards. The experts were appointed by the House Merchant Marine Committee to make a study of the collision of the Andrea Doria and the Swedish ship Stockholm off Nantucket Light in the At lantic. ' The experts, who filed their report with the House, did not draw any conclusions as to which ship was to blame for the collision in which 50 persons lost their lives. Portland Woman Named to Post Washington U.R) President Eisenhower today designated Mrs. Dorothy McCullough Lee, former mayor of Portland, Ore., as chairman of the Subversive Activities Control Board. Mrs. Lee, who has been serv ing as a board member since Aug. 21, was named to succeed Thomas J. Herbert whose resig nation is effective Jan. 21. Mrs. Lee served on the Justice Department parole board from 1953 until she was named to the Subversive Activities Control Board. Weather FORECAST: Cloudy tonight and Friday with a slight chance of light showers Friday. Low tonight 34, high tomorrow 42. . TEMPERATURE , Highest Yesterday 38 Lowest ThU Morning . 33 Our Skies Tonight ADD PI "WEATHER The Earth today is in Peri helion, the point on it orbit nearest, the Sun. and the Moon lonipht is in Apogee, the point on its orbit farthest from the F-arth. Moon's distance .. 252.400 miles S(in distance. 91.347.000 miles Sunrise 7:41a.m. Sunset 4:51 p.m. Moonset 7 48 p.m. Tirst quarter Jan. 8
