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52nd Year Price 10 Recommended A feature itory on raising puppies for (aide dogs by Jark lon County 4-H club member appears on page 14 In today's Mail Tribune. Subscribers V To report Improper or Bow-deMr-ery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141, Ashland MU 3-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m daily and 1030 am. Sunday. If renrular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. 1V1E1DF0RD RIfiUNE United Pre Pull Leased Wir United Press Full Leased Wire 60 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1957 No. 145 Intervention In Little Legal Channels Considered Best In Tough Issue Federal Judge Orders National Guard Off Washington (IP) President Eisenhower and Attorney Gen eral Herbert Brownell Jr., Sat urday decided against immed iate federal intervention in the Little Rock school integration case. They agreed to give the U.S District Court at Little Rock, Arkansas Gov. Orval E. Fau bus, or the Negro plaintiffs an other chance to settle the ex plosive issue through legal chan nels. Press Secretary James C. Hag erty and Justice Department sources reported the high-level decision, reached in and after a 45-minute White House confer ence. Judge Rules The decision was not changed, Hagerty said, by District Judge Ronald N. Davies' ruling Satur day rejecting the Little Rock school board s appeal for an in definite delay in carrying out the integration order. Eisenhower was informed im mediately of Davies' ruling but he did not confer again with Brownell, Hagerty said. The president broke off his Newport, R. I., vacation to fly here for a day of conferences on the Arkansas school problem and the Middle East situation. . "Hagerty aid ' Brownell dis cussed with the chief executive the alternatives for federal gov ernment action in the face of the governor's continued de fiance of federal court orders to admit Negro students to Little Rock's Central high school. . They also discussed evidence gathered by the FBI on how and by whom the court's orders. have been frustrated. Injunction Possible Officials said a court. injunc tion against the governor s blockade of the school against nine Negro students may be the next step if Faubus refuses to yield to Saturday's ruling. Little Rock, Ark. (IPi A federal judge Saturday insisted on immediate integration of a high school here in a stern or der that gave Gov. Orval E Faubus the choice to remove Na tional Guardsmen from the cam pus or face contempt of court charges. Keeping in Touch President Eisenhower and the Justice Department were keep ing in close touch by telephone with the Little Rock school cris is but no further action was ex pected from the national level for the present. District Judge Ronald E. Da vies bluntly rejected a request for delay in the admission of Central high until and unless the school. Faubus has kept troops there since Tuesday and indi cated they would return next week. He did not comment on the jurists' mandate but will tell his side of the story on a television program (ABC 9 p.m. EDT) today. By late Saturday it began to appear unlikely that any of the Negro pupils would show up at Central high until and unless the National Guard is removed. Sports Bulletins Portland 'IT The Se attle Rainiers nicked four Portland hurlers for 13 hits, including a pair of homers by Hal Bevan. and collected a 9-5 victory oyer the Beavers in a Pacific Coast league base ball contest that went 10 in nings in Multnomah stadium last night. Billings. Mont. UT Portland. Ore., blasted three Greer. S.C.. pitchers last night for eight runs in the second inning and then coasted to a 10-6 win to earn a champion ship berth- against Cincinnati. Ohio, in the American Legion Little World Series. Vancouver. B. C. (TP) The Vancouver Mounties scored six unaarned runs in a wild sev enth inning last night to de feat the Hollywood Stars 7-1 in a Pacific Coast league base ball game before 3.415 fans in Capilano stadium. Roc.. . . uuiem I ' irw IT FIRST M-T CONTEST WINNER Raymond R. Adams, right, of 855 West Second street, Medford, got every answer correct in the first of a series of Mail Tribune picture contests which started last week. He is shown above getting his free one year's sub scription from Larry Jones, who has delivered papers in the neighborhood since July, 1955. Adams, who has lived in Medford since 1947, works for the Post Office department as a special delivery carrier. He said that he gets to know a lot of places and people on his job, which proved helpful in answering the contest questions. Adams, his wife Phyllis and their three children had a lot of fun discussing the contest and answering the questions, but they had no idea they would win, he said. The contest is being conducted in conjunction with the Mail Tribune Bargain Days which will run through Sept. 16. During this period Mail Tribune readers may save S3 on Improvement Hoped For Fair Facilities Salem (IP) "It's been a good fair," Chairman Jack Trav is of the fair board said Satur day 'of the 92nd "Oregon" State Fair which closed Saturday. Travis and Fair Manager Howard Maple both expressed their satisfaction with the eight day event, but hoped some things like facilities for livestock men and the youth division could be improved soon. Attendance, which lagged ear lier in the week, was up to 30, 645 Friday compared with 29, 185 last year. Totals for the week were 301,242, compared with 315,880 last year. Exhibits in the main fair pa vilion remained in place until 9 pjn. Saturday and the rest of the fair's events opened until 11 p.m. McMinnville Future Farmers took a championship for their sheep flock with Suffolks show ed by Dick Latham and Gene and Dick Bernards. Central High school of Inde pendence Future Farmers will represent Oregon at the national poultry judging contest in Kan sas City, Mo., in October. Their winning team of Bob Marquart, Dewey Cummins and Darrell Brandt also took a cup presented by Oregon Egg Producers. Dallas placed second and North Marion chapter third in the poultry event. Suzanne Lozier, Enterprise, 18, won the Oregon State Broad casters' Association 4-H citizen ship award for the fair this year. Champions of the 4-H style revue one of the final 4-H events were Lana Jean Paul son and Sherie Fraser, both of Teamster Candidates Prepare For Campaign Seattle (IP) Two of four an nounced candidates for the pres idency of the giant Teamsters' Union said they would be here Tuesday for a meeting of the Western Conference. Thomas J. Haggerty. secretary treasurer of Chicago Milk Driv ers' Local 753, and Rep. John Shelley D-Calif. plan to make formal bids for support at the 11 - state conference meeting Sept. 10. Some 500 members of the 1,300-man Seattle Milk Drivers, Cream and Dairy Employes Un ion Local 66 met Thursday night to vote overwhelmingly to sup port Haggerty's candidacy. Shelley is a former president of the California State Federa tion of labor and head of the San Francisco Labor Council. Other announced candidates for retiring Dave Beck's presi dency are James R. Hoffa, De troit, and Thomas L. Hickey, New York, both Teamster vice presidents. London (IP) Moscow radio told overseas listeners Saturday of V. M. Molotov's arrival as ambassador in outer Mongolia but left to the imagination- the welcome he received. a year's subscription. Moro. Reserve winner was Car oline Fbssati, Portland. . Other style show victors were Marilyn Reed, Tigardf Carol Baumann, Hoskins; Ardis Henry, Seaside; Donna Ebert, Salem; Carol Watson, Molalla; Bonnie McKean, Portland; Lana Gul zow. La Grande; Linda Long, Portland; and Geranna Stevens, Myrtle Point. Wounded Teenager In Fair Condition A 16-year-old Shady Cove boy was in fair condition at' Sacred Heart hospital Saturday after a friend's .22 caliber pistol acci dentally discharged, the bullet striking the boy in the chest. - Cartee John Wood, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cartee Wood, route 1, box 265, Eagle Point, was transported to Sacred Heart by Medford Ambulance service about 8:37 pan. Friday. State police said the Wood boy and another boy, Larry Knud sen, Eagple Point, were at the Sullivan ranch on Ulrich rd., four miles out of Prospect. Planing to go porcupine hunt ing, they were readying them selves in the living room of the ranch '"hen one of Knudsen's two .22 valiber pistols accidental ly discharged. Wood was wound ed in the chest, the bullet lodg ing near his back. Knudsen rode a horse ' to a Prospect mill for help, and Wood was taken by private car to Shady Cove. There, an ambul ance met the car and transport ed the boy to the hospital. Sacred Heart officials report ed the boy underwent surgery and was in "fair" condition Sat urday morning. Hurricane 'Carrie' Eludes Searchers As 'Debbie' Lunges At Florida Coast San Juan, P. R. W Hurri cane Carrie, packing winds up to 128 miles per hour, eluded an Air Force "hunter" plane in the South Atlantic for two hours Saturday as a new storm threat boiled up in the Gulf of Mexico. The New Orleans' weather bureau warned that a "tropical depression." located 250 miles south of Mobile, Xla., would hit th- extreme northwest Florida coast late Saturday night with squall winds up to 40 miles per hour. The squall area was moving northward about 12 miles per hour. A 6 p.m. (EST) bulletin warned small craft from Mo bile, Ala., to St. Marks, Ala., to remain in port. Finally Located An Air Force B-50, after - a 10-hour search, located Hurri cane Carrie with winds of 128 miles an hour, on its return trip to Bermuda Saturday njght. It Only New Graves Evidence of Revolt In Cuban Port Planes, Troops Crush Revolution Havana HP) Bullet-pocked walls and new graves were the only visible evidence re maining in Cienfugos Saturday of the brief and abortive revolt which ripped that Cuban south coast port city Thursday. United Press correspondent Reeve Waring, who reached Cienfugos at noon, said the sit uation was "normal." Government forces controlled the city where the naval garri son and civilian rebels staged the bloody revolt before they were crushed by government planes and troops. Waring re ported an official death toll of 62, with unofficial estimates that the casualty toll probably was close to 200. Forty-One Buried Forty-one persons, 33 of them civilians, were buried in a com mon grave in Azea cemetery late Friday. Townspeople were indignant over the common bur ial, since many of the dead had no part in the revolt but were caught in the open and were killed by aerial bombing and strafmg. Reports from Cienfugos said Cmdr. Roberto Comesanas, com mander of the south naval dis trict, had been brought here to "report" to the navy general staff. ' Rumors of a new revolution ary "landing" at Cairbarien, on the north coast of Las Villas province, got wide circulation in Havana Saturday but were quickly proved false by a Unit ed Press telephone check. The rumors of a "disembark ation" were believed, to,, have stemmed from the forced landing of a Cuban Navy flying boat in Caribarien harbor late Thurs day. The amphibian was trans porting navy reinforcements to Cienfuegos from Havana when it ran out of fuel. Four Officers Credited For Check Artist Clues Eugene (IP) Four Lane coun ty law enforcement officers Sat urday were credited with much of the crime detection that final ly led to the apprehension of Charles R. Speedie, 51, San Fernando, Calif., described as "the. nation's most wanted check writer." ' . ; Deputy Sheriff Claude Ro maine, Shirley Johnnsen, and James Misner, and State Officer Lerop Carstensen, all of Eugene, apparently uncovered the first leads to the indentity of the forgery suspect who is accused of passing bad checks worth al: most half-a-million dollars in the past years. By using a composite' drawing of the suspect and showing it to motel operators, the four officers finally found a motel registra tion card giving Speedie's name and license number of his car which was traced to the San Fernando address where check writing equipment was found. Handwriting on a driver's lic ense application matched, in Ro maine's opinion, that on some of the bad checks passed in Eugene. Speedie is now held in lieu of $50,000 bond in Cleveland but has pleaded innocent of a fug itive warrant issued , in Los Angeles. A federal warrant against him charges Speedie with illegally transporting check writing equipment across state lines. pinpointed the storm's center at 17.3 degrees north latitude and 42.6 west longitude, or about 1,540 miles east of San Juan. The plane left Bermuda at 8 a.m. and reached the area where the hurricane was supposed to be at around 4 p.m. There was no sign of Carrie and the plane failed to pick up anything on it- radar scope after flying due east for another hour. The flight was the furthest east any hurri cane hunter plane has attempt ed before. Hits Storm Returning to Bermuda, the big four-engine craft ran into the storm, which was described as "very small but dangerous." In a special revised advisory at f p.m. (EST) the weather bur eau said, highest winds at the center of Carrie are about 128 miles an hour. It said "they ex tend outward for a radius of 50 miles from the center." Gale winds extended outward in a radius of 75 miles from the Mod Postal Pay Raise Vetoed By Ike, Said Inflationary Two Bills Passed Easily In Congress Washington dp) President Eisenhower Saturday vetoed as infalionary two bills to raise the pay of more than 1,500,000 pos tal and civil service employes. The raises would have cost the Federal government 817 million dollars a year, according to ad ministration estimates. Eisenhower announced he was killing the bills by pocket veto because they would spur infla tion and might force him to ask for another increase in the-Fed-eral debt limit now 275 bil lion dollars. Congress passed the bills by heavy margins shortly before ad journment. One would have given 500,000 postal emploes a a pay increase a verging 12V2 per cent, includ ing a flat $546 annually to all field service employes except rural carriers. The other would have given an 11 per cent pay rise to one million Federal Civil Service workers. Eisenhower said the govern ment would be setting a bad example in the fight against in flation if it granted the raises. Republican national chairman Meade Alcorn had charged prev iously that the Democratic-controlled Congress played "callous politics" in approving the raises. "Government cannot in good conscience ask private business and labor leadership to negotiate wage adjustments with full re gard to the- whole nation's in terest in price stability while at the same time approving the en actment of these wholesale sal ary increase bills," the President said. He said claims that the raises were necessitated by spiraling living costs "have not been sus tained." He promised, however, that if a study ordered by him of the Federal pay structure showed a need "for logical, fair and . discriminating" salary in creases he would "recommend them to Congress next year. Twenty-Four Killed On Marseilles Train Marseilles (IPI The Nimes- bound Southern Express, travel ing at 60 miles an hour and jammed with week end passen gers jumped the tracks and ov erturned Saturday at the Noz-ieres-Brignon railway station near here. Authorities said 24 persons were killed and 70 injured. Two of the victims died in a hospital. All were French. It took workmen with cutting torches six hours to release six persons trapped in the wreck age. Railroad officials said the cause of the accident, which oc curred 11 miles northwest of Nimes and 75 miles northwest of here, appeared to be ''exces sive speed." Twenty-miles-an- hour was the recommended speed for the stretch. When the train, which was fifteen minutes behind schedule, hift the switch from single to double tracks outside Nozieres Brignon the mail, baggage and five passenger cars were derail ed. eye of the storm. The weatherman said Carrie was no immediate threat to any land areas but urged all vessels in the area of the storm to "ex ercise extreme caution." Second Storm Threatens Miami (TP) Tropical storm Debbie, expected to reach land with 50-mile-an-hour winds, lunged toward the northwest Florida coast Saturday night while hurricane Carrie, packing winds up to 130 miles an hour, churned far out in the South Atlantic. ' The New Orleans' weather bureau alerted the gulf coast from Mobile, Ala., to Tampa, Fla., as Debbie fizzed its way to ward the coast at 15 miles per hour. It was carrying winds of just 35 miles an hour at 11 p.m. but the weather bureau said that it would probably have 50-mile-an-hour winds by the "time it moves inland near Fort Walton Beach, Fla., early Sunday." las t Way Down Ceremonies Scheduled For Red Cross Offices Ceremonies at a luncheon, Thursday, Sept. 12., will dedi cate a new American Red Cross building at 60 Hawthorne st. The building was donated to the Red Cross by Mr. and Mrs. Al fred S. V. Carpenter, Old Stage rd. Mrs. Carpenter has been a member of the Jackson County chapter of Red Cross for a num ber of years. The building contains about 5,200 square feet of floor space, and consists of administrative ofices, conference room, kitchen,' laundry, auditorium and disaster warehouse. For Many Uses It will be used for blood bank operations and training classes in first aid, home nursing, moth er and baby care, and will be available to all non-profit com munity service organizations. The emergency warehouse con tains furniture, clothing, bed ding, wheel chairs, cots, crutch es, hospital beds and household equipment. Together with the auditorium it can be used in time of emergency as a shelter. Kitchen Equipped The kitchen has been equipped for emergency mass feeding, a service in which Red Cross can teen workers have been trained. Red Cross chapter administra tive ofifces have been -naintain-ed in the county court house. The emergency warehouse was established at Camp White. Blood bank operations have been carried on at the Elk's temple. With the new building, all these activities will be consolidiated in one place. Abandoned Child Given To Welfare A seven-year-old Grants Pass girl was turned over to the Jack son county welfare commission Saturday after her mother left her at a Medford home and never returned. Belle G. Jones, 15 Quince st., called city police at 10:08 a.m. Friday to report that a woman left the child at her home. Mrs. Jones said ,the child's mother came to her residence about 8 p.m. Thursday and asked to borrow the phone. After us ing it, she asked Mrs. Jones to keep her daughter for two hours. When the woman didn't re turn, Mrs. Jones called the po lice, the mother, Mrs. Eethel V. Kirby Schermerhorn, Grants Pass, called police at 1:50 p.m. Friday and asked for custody of her child again. The girl was turned over to the welfare commission and po lice expected a court hearing would be held concerning the case. Weather FORECAST Partly cloudy this morning, becoming fair this afternoon through Monday. High today 88. low tonight 52, high Mnoday 90. TEMP. Highest yesterday 84 Lowest yesterday 58 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 5.44 a.m. Sunset 6:34 p.m. The Moon rises 6:05 p.m. and will be Full 8:55 p.m. This is the Harvest Moon. PROMINENT STARS Spica, sets 7:16 p.m. Antares. sets 9:09 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, right above Spies. Saturn, above Antarm. Aid East Russia The luncheon, at noon Thurs day, is open to the public and reservations may be made with the Red Cross chapter office, telephone SPring 2-4405. Clearing Started For Shopping Area Preliminary ground-clearing operations on the new shopping center site at the corner of Jack son st. and Biddle rd. started last week. J. E. McClellan, chief develop er of the SIV2 million center, announced in August that it was hoped construction would get started after Labor Day. Heavy equipment is now on the site, and last week the clearing work be gan. Meanwhile, records In the county clerk's offive revealed that the purchase of the property from Dr. I. D. Phipps has been recorded. Size of the transaction has not been revealed, but tax stamps on the warranty deed which total $215.05 indicate the price was in the neighborhood of $200,000. The site, now in the city and zoned for limited commercial use as a result of recent city council action, will be the loca tion for a new Sears, Roebuck and company store, a Safeway store, and several others. Local Man Appointed As Research Advisor Salem OPl Three appoint ments to the Forest Products Re search Advisory committee were made by Gov. Robert D. Holmes Saturday. '- They were Dr. S. J. Robinson, general manager of Publishers Paper company, Qregon City; Lewis L. Simpson, forester and secretary-manager of the South ern Oregon Conservation and Tree Farm , association, Med ford;' and Fred Sohn, a director of the Western Forest Industries, Roseburg. They will all serve until July 1, 1961. Miss America Ends Week-Long Pageant Atlantic City, N.J. W Miss Colorado, 20-year-old Mar ilyn Elaine Van Derbur of Den ver, a - statuesque blonde with green eyes, was named Miss America Saturday night . in the climax of a week-long beauty pageant at Convention Hall. The five-foot, eight-inch Miss Colorado, who played an organ recital to win the talent divi sion, was crowned the nation's beauty queen for 1958 after win ning over 50 other young lovely girls in three gruelling nights of competition before tonight's semi-final and final rounds. The fairest beauty in all the land weighs 130 pounds and has measurements of 35-25-36. She was the choice of the judges over four other finalists. Trailing her in order were Miss Georgia, Jody Elizabeth Shattuck, 20, of Atlanta; Miss Oklahoma, Mary Nancy Denner, 21, of Alva; Miss California, Lorna M. Anderson, 18, of Sacramento, and Miss Florida, Dorothy Maria Steiner, 20, of Boca Raton. I Mist Colorado was crowned 1 Soft Action Promised Against Threat To Oil Countries Supplies Rushed In To Syria's Neighbors Washington (IP) President Eisenhower Saturday pledged the United States to go to the . aid of Syria's neighbors if Rus sia pushes its Middle East ally into "an act ef aggression." He said he intends to "exercise as needed" his authority to send American armed forces or mili tary aid to the Middle East in response to requests by victims of aggression. This authority was given him by the congressional "Eisenhower Middle East Doc trine" resolution. He indirectly called on Syria, whose Soviet arms build - up and border activities have alarm ed neighboring countries, "to al lay the anxiety caused by recent events." Eisenhower's warning was ex pressed in a statement read tn newsmen by Secreteary of State jonn oster Dulles after a two hour White House conference on the new Middle East crisis. It was the latest in a series nf U. S. moves to check Soviet penetration of the oil-rich and strategic crossroads area be tween Europe, Asia, and Africa. On Friday the State Depart ment announced the United States is airlifting arms to Jor dan and rushing military sup plies to other neighbors of Syria. The President expressed the hope that the International Com munists would not push Syria into any acts of aggression against her neighbors, and that the people of Syria would act to allay the anxiety caused by recent events. Eisenhower broke off his va cation at Newport. R. I., to flv here for a day of conferences on major issues. Meanwhile. Syria's leftist re gime lashed out angrily at the United States Saturday for its plans to airlift arms to Jordan and other anti-Communist Mid dle East nations. At the same time, King Saud of Saudi Arab ia made a surprise flying visit to Lebanon for talks on the tense situation. An official Syrian eovernment statement issued in Damascus warned the United States that Syria "will not tolerate anv ac tion against her security." It . was Syria's first official reaction to the announcement that the U. S. would beein airliftinff of arms to Jordan Monday. Simultaneously. Syrian Presi dent Shukki El .Kuwatly was quoted in Cairo as saying that Syria would "tear ud the belt being clamped around it." "Syria does not intend to at tack anybody," the statement said. "All that Syria is doing in the armament field is for purely defensive considerations. Syria, however, will not toler ate any action against her secur ity." In Moscow, the Soviet Com munist party newspaper "Prav da" declared that Russia's new Middle East note was a "serious warning" to the West to keep out of Arab affairs. Selection by Marian McKnight, Miss Am erica of 1957, before an approv ing crowd of 20,000 in Conven tion Hall and a television audi ence numbering an estimated 40 million. The new Miss America was crowned after each of the five finalists answered two questions they had drawn from two fish bowls. . Her first question was wheth er she thought it proper for a lady to propose marriage in our modern day and she answered quickly: "No, I definitely do not be lieve that a lady should propose to a man. This is definitely the man's place in the home and fam ily." "The woman tends to take over the man's position," she added. "It should begin when proposing and go right on through with his being the head of the family." She named the airplane as the greatest invention world his tory in answer to her second question. .
