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52nd Year Recommended Price 10c Subscribers To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141. Ashland MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10:30 a.m Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. DFORD A feature story fcont the expansion of businesses and professional offices on East Main sc. Med ford, appears on Pg 12 of today's Mail Tribune. United Pre u!l Leased Wir- United Press Full Leased Wire 46 PAGES MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBEP No. 136 Me HIBUNE Sir v .6? Kill Order Given By Fleet Chief During Exercise Mystery Aircraft Said To Be Russian With U.S. 6th Fleet Off West em Turkey, Sept. 28 OP) U.S 6th Fleet Commander Vice Adm Charles R. Brown ordered his airmen to shoot to kill when mystery plane, believed to be Russian, streaked low over his maneuvering forces Thursday, it was disclosed Saturday. Civ Chasa American aircraft gave chase when the plane a fighter-bomb er headed straight for three 6th Fleet carriers 150 miles away. But the plane escaped the pur suers by swerving to the west before it reached the carriers then disappeared into Bulgaria above the Greek island of Thasos. Brown flashed the shoot down order when the plane roared over the NATO landing exer cise beach in Turkey's Saros bay area at tree-top level at noon Thursday, then headed out to sea toward the fleet carriers Brown told his fliers to use Sidewinder air-to-air missiles to knock down the intruding plane if it threatened the carriers. Identified as Russian The Navy refused to confirm that the plane was Russian. But the pilots who chased it said they had no doubt it was a Soviet aircraft. Thev said it seemed to be a Flashlight fighter-bombers with twin jet engines and swept-back wings. It was painted white. Brown's order was reliably said to be the first shoot-to-kill ' order he has issued since taking command of the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean. Sheepherder Located On Ashland loop Rd. A sheepherder, reported lost at 6 a.m. Friday, was found by a search party Friday aftrenoon about 2:30 p.m. on the Ashland loop road. Jim Forty was reported lost in the Neil creek area between Mt.- Ashland and the Siskiyou summit Friday. He is employed by the Jim Stewart ranch, Ash land. The Jackson county sheriff's office said several search parties were in the area, led by Ste wart. They said Forty apparent ly became lost and wandered until he found the road. Sports Bulletins Portland, Ore. (1PV - Sub quarttrback Ivan Toncic toss ad a 22-yard touchdown pass to end Art Gob with only 22 seconds to play tonight to give Pittsburgh a 6-3 intersection al football victory over Ore gon before 20, 486 fans in Multnomah stadium. West Point. N.Y. ITT) Army's football forces, a pla toon of hard driving backs marched through crisp sun light to overwhelm out-gunned Nebraska, 42-0. Annapolis, Md. (HV A heavily-favored Navy eleven, unleashing a withering offen sive punch powered by full back Dick Dagampat and half back Harry Hurst, romped to a 33-6 win over William and Mary. Football Scores Michigan 16, S. Cal. 8. Minnesota 46. Washington. Oregon St. 34, Kansas 6. Wash. St- 13, California 7. Stanford 26. Northwestern 6 S. Oregon 44. UBC 0. Willamette 26. Whitworth 12 Linfield 33. Lewis & Clark 6 Wyoming 20. Montana 0. Colo. West. 14, Colo. St. 13. AF Acad. 40, Occidental 6. Notre Dame 12. Purdue 0. Wisconsin 60, Marquette 6. Mich. St. 54, Indiana 0. Iowa 70. Utah St. 14. Tex. Christ. 18. Ohio St. 14. Arkansas 41. Tulsa 14. Dartmouth 27, New Hamp. C Columbia 23. Brown 20. Princeton 7. Rutgers 0 Army 42, Nebraska 0. Syracuse 7, Iowa St. 7. Holy Cross 21, VMI 21. Yale 27. Connecticut 0. Villanova 20, Furman 0. Navy 33. William & Mary 6. Duke 40. Virginia 0. N. Car. St. 48. MaryUnd 13. Arkansas Officials Are Blamed By Ike Newport, R. I., Sept. 28 OP! President Eisenhower, backed by secret FBI reports, sharply accused the Arkansas state ad ministration Saturday of encour aging mob violence in Little Rock by using National Guards men to keep negroes out of Cen tral High school. Eisenhower, in a rare display of anger in a public statement, implied strongly the strife never would have broken out if the guardsmen had received differ ent instructions from Gov. Orval Faubus. Faubus Replies Faubus, asked about Eisen hower's charges, replied in Lit Special Session May Be Called By Gov. Faubus Little Rock, Ark. (IP) Gov Orval E. Faubus disclosed Sat urday that he may call the Ar kansas legislature into special session to consider taking the integrated Central high school out of federal control. Although Faubus did not say so directly, he implied the idea would be to see what could be done, under state law, about putting nine Negro students out. Paratroopers Escort Paratroopers, under Presi dent Eisenhower's orders, es corted the Negroes into the school last Wednesday. Faubus said one "possibility" might be to withdraw all state tax support of Central high and reopen it as a private , institu tion. In answer to a charge by Pres ident Eisenhower that the gov- ! ernor s state administration en couraged, violence at Central, Faubus said, "anyone who gets into . difficulty wants a scape goat," he said- i Favor' Special Session He said he "understood" that a majority of the legislature fa vors a special session and it would take only 24 hours to get legislators into Little . Rock. "I do not want to do anything that jeopardizes the progress that Arkansas has made. And that includes the benefits to our Negro citizens," he said. Central Closed Central was closed for the week end. It was quiet here were no crowds around, and a few troopers guarded it under a warm sun. 'There never would have been mob violence in Little Rock had it not been deliberately stirred up; the governor's actions were primarily responsible for the trouble we're had here," Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann said. Mann last Monday telegraph ed Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., that James T. Kar am, a close friend of Faubus, was a "principal instigator" of violence at Central High the day before the troops were flown in. Conference Request Dropped By British London, Sept. 28 (IP) Au thoritative British quarters Sat urday dismissed as a propagan da move Russia's bid for a Sum mit conference on disarmament. Diplomatic sources said the Soviet offer was designed to distract attention" from Rus sia's stubborn refusal to cooper ate in disarmament talks on the lower level. The British reaction followed Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vasily Kuznetsov's remarks in New York Friday night that the Moscow government would fa vor a new conference of nation al leaders on disarmament. The British foreign office avoided official comment on the Soviet proposal for the time be ing. But the British view was that Moscow was seeking to exploit every possible avenue of propa ganda on the disarmament issue in the apparent hope of reaping world support without engaging in definite commitments. Women Plan March On Governor's House Little Rock, Ark. IIP) A leading woman segregationist said "hundreds" of women ad vised her they would march with her to Gov. Orval E. Fau bus' mansion Saturday to ask him to close integrated Central High School. Mrs. Margaret Jackson, vice president of the Central High Mothers' League, said her orga nization wants to close Central until "things cool off." tie Rock that "anyone who gets into difficulty wants a scape goat." Eisenhower did not mention Faubus by name in pinning the blame for the crisis on orders to the guardsmen to prevent inte gration of Central High, but he said: "The Arkansas National Guard could have handled the situation with ease had it been instructed to do so." The President's statement was made in a telegram to Sen. Rich ard B. Russell (D-Ga.), chairman of the Senate Armed Services committee. Eisenhower obvious ly was nettled by a telegraphed complaint from Russell Friday objecting to the presence of "Hitler's Storm Troopers" in Little Rock. Russell Complained Russell also had complained about "wrong - doing" in Little Rock by the paratroopers sent there by the President to en force integration of Central High. The President assured the sen ator that his charges were being investigated and that Army Sec retary Wilber Brucker would make a direct report to Russell on the findings. Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 28 (IP) Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann said Saturday that Gov. Orval E. Faubus has only him self to blame for the presence of federal troops in Little Rock. v Governor Responsible . "The governor's actions were primarily responsible for the trouble we've had here," the 43-year-old mayor said in an inter view. "There never would have been mob violence in Little Rock had ft not been deliberate ly stirred up." Firmness Shows In Lumber Prices Signs of developing firmness in the lumber market, some of them attributed to lowered pro duction and, scarcity of logs, showed up last week, according to two separate industry sources. Random Lengths, weekly Eu gene market letter, and Crow's lumber market news service, Portland, agreed that weather conditions, including rain late in the week and closure of the forests due to dry conditions earlier, have had the effect of firming prices. The closure cut the flow of logs to mills at a time when many plants were beginning to built cold decks for winter op erations, Random Lengths re ported. Hunting season mill shutdowns, traditional in much of the industry, will further cur tail production, it added, adding that prolonged rainfall would still further tend to slow pro duction. The Crow service said the market held reasonably steady last week, with sharp price de clines of recent weeks leveling off. Neither source saw any great increase in demand, however, -k In plywood, a recent price in crease of from $68 to $72 per thousand square feet for sanded quarter-inch index stock by most producers, appears to be holding up. "Sheathing producers found orders relatively plentiful and prices which have prevailed for several weeks are firm," Ran dom Lengths commented, and Crow's service said "The indus try feels more confident of the future." Prison Is Proposed For Western States Boise (IP) Gov. Robert E. Smylie said Saturday he thought the western conference of gov ernors next spring should include consideration of a proposed joint western states maximum security prison. V.' He said he believed the pro posed intermountain prison would provide substantial econ omies to participating states. He said he would ask Gov. , Steve McNichols of Colorado, chair man of the Western Conference of Governors, to put the propos al on the agenda of the spring meeting. , The proposal was suggested by Gov. Milward Simpson of Wyoming Wednesday and has drawn favorable comment from Gov. George D. Clyde of Utah in addition to McNichols. New York (IP) A 24-hour police guard has been assigned to the Manhattan headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People following two bomb threats in as many days. Troops Mobilized By Saudi Arabia Along Gulf Coast Monarch Pledges Aid, American Sub Seen Cairo (IP) An Egyptian news paper reported Saturday that Saudi Arabia has ordered troop concentrations along the Gulf of Aqaba Coast to parry any Israeli move in the wake of King Saud's pledge to support Syria. The newspaper "Al Hakira," usually well-informed on Saudi Arabian affairs, said in a dis patch from Jeddah that the Saudis had moved troops to the area after receiving "highly im portant" information. Pledges Support The paper said the information regarded after-affects of Saud's stand on Syria. The Saudi Arab ian monarch, following talks with Syrian leaders in Damascus, pledged Friday that his country would give all-out support to Syria in event of aggression against it. "Saud's attitude had an acute effect on the enemies of Arab Nationalism and especially on Israel leaders," the Al Kahira dispatch said. It charged that Israeli leaders had "begun to offer their services to carry out some moves in an attempt to har rass Saudi Arabia." The newspaper said that Israel always has been prepared to challenge Saudi Arabia's stand on "exclusive Arab rights" to navigation in the Gulf of Aqaba area. It added that Saudi Arabian' troops had been ordered massed along the Gulf of Aqaba coast "in readiness for any move which Israel or those backing Israel might be contemplating." Another Cairo newspaper, "Al Shaab" reported Saturday that an American submarine was sighted approaching the Egyp tian coast off Alexandria Harbor last Thursday. It said radar outposts along Egypt's Mediterranean cost coast picked up the submarine and' an Egyptian Air Force jet recon naissance plane was sent to the area. The newspaper added, how ever, that the submarine sub merged before the Egyptian plane reached it. The newspaper also said some units of the U.S. 6th Fleet, now on NATO man euvers in the Mediterranean, were sighted recently about 70 miles off Alexandria. Increase Approved By Manor Trustees More than one million dollars in sales of life occupancy rights in Rogue Valley Manor have been made so far, trustees of the non-profit retirement manor were told Friday night. The trustees, meeting at the Ashland - Elks club, heard a re port from officers which reveal ed that $1,003,316 has been paid in by men and women who plan to live in the $5,000,000 struc ture to be build on top of Barne burg hill in southeast Medford. At the same meeting, the trus tees unanimously voted to in crease by 5 per cent the rates for occupancy rights, effective Dec. 1, of this year. Inlationary trends in prices were cited as the reason the increase will be neces sary. Plans call for construction to begin as early as possible next year. The manor recently . com pleted arrangements for the pur chase of the 15-acre site on top of Barneburg hill. Trustees of the non-profit, church - sponsored organization include a number -of business and civic leaders of southern Oregon. M. H. Hogan is presi dent and Walter Higgins is ex ecutive director. Offices are maintained in the First Meth odist church ere.' San Francisco Col. David A. Myers, 82, a pioneer in the field of aviation medicine and former chief surgeon of the Army Air Corps, died Thursday. Motor Vehicle Director Lashes Insurance Roanoke, Va. (IP) Oregon's Motor Vehicle Director James F. Johnson Saturday lashed out at the American Association of Casualty and Insurance Com panies for what he called a "de liberate false attack against com pulsory automobile insurance." Speaks. Out Johnson spoke out against the insurance companies' general counsel Ray Murphy at the an nual vehicle administrators here. He- charged Murphy had "re sorted to absurd illogic and scare - words in a harangue against the desirability of com- Co A For jfted Teamster Union Hoffa Questions Steppage Attempt, Predicts Triumph Rackets Committee Adds 48 Charges At Hearings' End Miami Beach, (IP) James R. Hoffa charged Saturday the un successful attempt to block the Teamsters election of new of ficers was a "power plan" by his opponents to win votes. Hoffa predicted he will win the Team sters presidency next week "on the first ballot." Vote Scheduled Hoffa, front running candidate to succeed Dave Beck as $50,000 a year president of the huge trucking union, told newsmen immediately after a Washington appeals court set aside the at tempt to block the election that the convention will vote on new officers on Thursday. Delegates milling about the plush Oceanfront hotel lobby cheered and shook hands upon hearing the announcement that a circuit court of appeals had set aside an injunction that would have blocked the Team sters election of officers at next week's convention. Blasts Members Hofa, midwest Teamster bcfes who is front-running candidate to succeed the 63-year-old Beck, blasted the New York rank and file members for filing the suit. Hoffa said that with the suit out of the way "if the delegates vote the way they say they will, the first ballot should be the last." , . Hoffa said he believed he has sufficient votes "to be a deter mining factor" in the first roll call of the 1,929 delegates. Inquiry Launched In Injury Case An invesigation has been start ed into an injury suffered by Harry Lewis Stitzer, 51, of 33 South Front st., Medford, while he was in the Medford city jail. The incident was referred to District Attorney Thomas Reed- er by city police. Reeder asked that a complete investigation be made. Acbording to police reports, Stitzer was in jail on a charge of being. drunk in public when he complained about stomach pains. He ' was examined by a physician at the request of po lice, and later transferred to a local hospital where he under went surgery for a ruptured spleen, police said. Police said another man, ar rested and held in city jail over night recently on similar charg es, has been identified by Stitzer as the person who injured him. Stitzer, in a statement to police, said he was kicked in the stom ach by a man who earlier was involved in a fight with him at a local rooming house. Stitzer's condition- has been listed as serious and he still is confined to the hospital, police said. . Proposal Rejected By German Head Bonn, Germany HP) West German Chancellor Konrad Ad enauer Friday night flatly re jected a proposal to create a neutral or demilitarized belt in Europe between east and west. He told the Foreign Press As sociation that in the light of de velopment of modern arms such a proposal would be "sheer al lusion." jpulsory insurance and the mo tives of those -who are conscien tiously working for it." "It is shocking that the AAMVA should allow a private interest lobbyist to speak unre futed," Johnson continued. He said this could be partly explained from the fact that the companies pay 81 per cent of the expenses of the AAMVA and urged that the organization be made self-supporting. . The ' object of a compulsory insurance law;. Johnson said, was to make certain that every motorist privileged to use the al Permission Is Granted "How Do You Get Him Back In?" Permission For Grade The Oregon Public Utilities commission has granted Medford authority to construct a grade crossing at Eighth st., City Man ager Robert Duff announced Saturday. Work on the crossing is ex pected to start this fall, Duff said, and wil form part of a one way couplet with West Main st. Duff said he hoped work would be completed by early next sum mer. Traffic will be westbound on West Main st. and eastbound on Eighth st. , . The project is part of the ov erall 10-year arterial street pro gram approved by Medford vot ers last November. The Eighth st. crossing was requested by the city earlier this year, and a hearing held here this summer. City. State Share Installation of signals and pav ing will be financed by the city and state, Duff said. Signals on the west side of Main st. will be Gold Hill Resident Fatally Injured Jewel Valline Robertson, 24, of Gold Hill, was fatally in jured in a one-car accident early Saturday morning just east of Savage Rapids dam on Highway 99 near Rogue River. State police and the Jackson county coroner's office said there were no witnesses to the accident. The car, which was travelling toward Medford, went off . the right side of the high way, police said. Miss Robert son was pinned under the car, the coroner's office said. The accident was reported to state police by a truck driver about 6:55 a.m. Saturday. The coroner's said the accident prob ably happened between 1:30 and 2 a.m. Saturday. The vehicle travelled about 240 feet off the highway before it came to a stop, police said. The fatality was the 22nd in Jackson county since the first of the year. The body was taken to the Jackson County coroner's office. Banning, Calif. (IP) A coun ty and state Democratic party leader Saturday announced she was changing her registration to Republican because she was "un able to stomach any further af filiation with a political party which claims among its firm adherents southern protagonists of school segregation." public highways if financially responsible for injuries he may cause. Most state laws now pro vide for compulsory insurance only after an accident has oc curred. "Never was there a clearer example of locking the barn door after the horse is stolen," Johnson said, adding that the injury was no less whether it is the first or second accident. Contends Diversion Murphy had contended that compulsory insurance would di vert enforcement officials from the primary jobs, that it was V ? Granted Crossing relocated to the west side of Eighth st. The state will partici pate in financing since West Main st. from Riverside ave, serves as Highway 238 to Jack sonville. The state pays 75 per cent of the cost, said Duff. Under the commissioners or der, the railroad will install ties and tracks necessary, and the city would construct the rest of the crossing. Ultimate plans for the couple would provide for extending Eighth st. west to at least Lozier lane, but until traffic warrants extension, tha western terminus on Eighth st. will be Columbus ave. Total Cost The total cost of the project has been estimated at $189,200, with much of the expense in con struction of a bridge across Bear Creek to extend Eighth st. to East Main st. The latter exten sion is not planned immediately ' Duff said the Holly-Grape sts. one-way couplet may be estab lished sometime next summer, Paving of Grape st. to Stewart ave. was completed recently. Blast Rents Skies In Atomic Testing Atomic Test Site, Nev. (IP) Atomic test shot "Charleston" rent the western sky with the fury of more than 20,000 tons of TNT early Saturday silhouetting in the brilliant fireball the 11, 9 10-foot desert peak for which it was named. The 23rd device of the Atomic Engery commission's nearl: com pleted summer series sent its erie glow over Mt. Charleston, 60 miles from the Yucca Flat platform where it burst forth from about 1,500 feet .in the air underneath a tethered balloon. "Many of the tests carried out by the Nevada test organization since 1951 have been viewed by observers from the lofty moun tain. The AEC said "Charleston" had a wide range of possible yields, but laboratory technic ians had fixed , its most likely power at "above nominal," or well over the estimated strength of World War II atom bombs unleased over Japan. San Francisco If) Don Courtney of Culver City Satur day was chosen president of the California Moose association at its 24th annual" convention here. He succeeds Arnold Wattie of Richmond. unnecessary because only a small percentage of automobiles in volved in accidents were unin sured and that such insurance would not cover out-of-state drivers, those who deliberately drove non-registered vehicles or hit-and-run drivers. Johnson said a compulsory law could be made to cover out-of-state drivers and that as. far as law violators were concerned Murphy would probably say that there should be no law against rnurder because it wouldn't stop those who commit . murder anyway." Balloting Lower Court Order Cancelling Voting Temporarily Stayed Credentials Group To Check Seating Washington, Sept. 28 (IP) The U. S. Court of Appeals Sat urday gave conditional permis sion to the teamsters union to go ahead with election of new offi cers at its convention opening Monday in Miami Beach, Fla. It stayed a lower court order cancelling the election. But it said it was doing so on condition that only those delegates select ed "in accordance with" the teamsters constitution may be "eated at the convention. Thirteen rank-and-file team sters who sought to stop the election had claimed more than half the delegates were improp erly selected. They charged the convention was rigged to assure the election of Vice President James R. Hof fa midwest teamster boss, as suc cessor to retiring "president Dave Beck. Committee To Rule The appeals court left it up to the convention's credentials, committee to see that delegates were properly selected. It said, the preliminary injunction is sued earlier today by Federal District Court Judge F. Dickin son Letts barring the election altogether went too far. In Miami Beach, Beck hailed, the Appeals Cour decision as a "full and complete" victory. Thomas J. Dodd, attorney for the rank-and-file group, said he would ask the Appeals Court Monday for a rehearing. He also said he is considering asking a Supreme Court Justice to set aside the stay "as a last resort." The group represented by Dodd contends that a large num ber of delegates selected for the convention were not selected in accordance with the teamsters constitution. . Governor Praises Public Agencies Salem IP) Cooperation of forestry and public agencies on surveys concerning opening o thp deer season won the praise Saturday of Gov. Robert D. Holmes. The Governor said efforts of officials of the Bureau of Land. Management, State Forestry de partment and U.S. Forest Serv ice in securing and supplying in formation of forest and weather conditions were largely respon sible for the decision to open the deer season on schedule Satur day. "The quick, dramatic and un expected weather change called for equally quick action to pre vent any inconvenience of the hunting public," the Governor said. "I am sure the hunters are as grateful as I am for these ef forts." Bloodmobile Coming To City Wednesday The Red Cross Blocdmobile has scheduled a visit to Med ford on Wednesday, October 9, from 1 to 6 p.m. , The bloodmobile will be at the new Red Cross building at 60 Hawthorne st. The quota will be 290 pints, said officials. About 350 donors will be needed, they added. Red Cross officials said there is adequate free parking for don ors. Appointments, through not necessary, should be made by by calling SPring 3-3819, of ficials added. Weather FORECAST: Cloudy Sunday morning, partially clearing this forenoon and afternoon, clearing Sunday evening, fog Monday morninr. Hich Sun day 70, low Sunday night 42. TEMP. Hichest Yesterday 62 Lowest this Morning 46 PREC1P. To Midnight Saturday trace. Our Skies Tonight OUR SKIES TONIGHT Sunrise 6:06 .ra. Sunset ... 5:57 p.m. Moon rides low and sets . 10:26 p.m. VENUS has now moved into the constellation, Libra. It is the first "star" that can he seen after sunset, appearing In the southwest. j
