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RUSSIAN SATELLITE LAUNCHED Russia has won the race
into outer space by successfully launching the first earth satel
lite. The radio "beep" of the satellite signaled to the world that
man had crossed the threshold into the age of space travel with
an 184-pound, 22.8-inch globe now orbiting the earth 560 miles
up at 18,000 miles an hour. Newsmap shows the approximate
orbit of the Russian satellite by the black line. The proposed
orbit of the satellite the United States will launch will follow
the white line.
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DRAWING OF SOVIET SATELLITE Cross section of interior
of Russia's earth satellite is revealed in this drawing, taken
from Moscow magazine. Radio photo was received in New York
via London. ' (International)
Satellite -Missile
Proposal Rejected
Washington (IF The United
States today rejected Soviet boss
Nikita Khrushchev's proposal
for a separate U.S.-Soviet agree
ment on earth satellites and
pilotless missiles.
The State Department declar
ed that the U. S. will continue
to support an agreement on sat
ellites and other out-space de
vices only as a part of a larger
'California Girls
Apprehended in City
Three juvenile runaway grls
from southern California were
turned over to Jackson county
juvenile authorities early Tues
day morning after city police
stopped a car on North Central
ave. for a routine traffic citation,
according to police reports.
Police said they stopped a car
operated by William James Dar
rah, 22, of Salmon, Ida., to cite
him for permitting four people
more than 12 years old in the
front seat. They said the three
girls matched a description fur
nished of the runaways.
Darrah, told police the car be
longed to his brother-in-law. sta
tioned at McClellen Air Force
base, Calif. He said he left his
brother-in-law at the base, saw
the girls in a parking lot, and
offered them a ride, according to
police reports.
Police said Darrah told them
he was trying to get to Reno but
got "lost and ended up in Ore
gon." He is serving a five-day
sentence for permitting four peo
ple more than 12 years old in
the front seat of a vehicle, police
said.
Stitzer Reported
Improving at Hospital
Sacred Heart hospital officials
have listed the condition of
Harry Lewis Stitzer, 44, as
"improving".
Stitzer was injured in the city
jail two weeks ago when another
inmate attacked him, he told
police. Both were confined on
charges of drunk in public at
the time, police records show.
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disarmament agreement support
ed by" many nations.
Khrushchev, in an interview
with the New York Times, pro
posed that the satellite and other
scientific devices be controlled
as part of an American-Soviet
agreement on the question of
peaceful coexistence.
State Department Spokesman
Jameson Parker noted that U.S
proposals on controlling earth
satellites and other devices were
put forward as a "package plan"
at the recent London Disarma
ment conference. He said the
U. S. "will stand on the propos
als" made Aug. 29 at London
and supported by Canada,
France and the United King
dom.
Parker emphasized that this
Aug. 29 proposal was "multilat
eral," and not just between the
U. S. and the Soviet Union as
Khrushchev now proposes.
Khrushchev Tells
Of Soviet Weapons
Moscow (W Soviet party
chief Nikita Khrushchev said to
day the intercontinental ballis
tic missile is "only one of the
many things we have." He had
described the ICBM earlier as a
"terrible and pitiless weapon."
"The age of bombers is over,"
Khrushchev said. "Our ICBM
shows it is no good to send hu
manly controlled machines
against missiles.
"This all points to the fact
we have even more things up
our sleeve. You cannot send hu
man flesh and blood to fight
things like that."
Khrushchev warned the Unit
ed States and Turkey to watch
their step in the Middle East be
cause it will be too late "once
guns begin to fire and rockets
to fly."
Chiloquin, Ore. ' (IP) Bar
ney Hooper of Midland, Ore.,
and E. H. McEwen of Eugene
have won two Bureau of Indian
Affairs contracts for construc
tion of roads and bridges on the
Klamath Indian reservation
here.
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Retiring Defense
Chief Not Alarmed
By Russ Satellite
Navy Sees Threat
To Western Bases
Washington (If) Defense
Secretary Charles E. Wilson said
today that Russia still does not
have an intercontinental ballistic
missile in its arsenal and has not
jumped ahead of the United
State in the arms race.
The retiring defense chief told
newsmen after a farewell con
ference with President Eisen
hower that Russia's successful
launching of a 18,000-mile an
hour satellite has "not alarmed"
him.
At the same time, however,
the Navy said Russia's "known
possession" of ' a 1,500-mile in
termediate range ballistic mis
sile poses a serious threat to
western bases ringing the Soviet
Union.
The Navy statement was made
in a one-line comment by Capt.
H. L. Miller of the Office of the
Chief of Naval Operations, in a
briefing for the National Secur
ity Industrial Association here.
"The known Soviet possession
of the IRBM at present seriously
prejudices our tenure of any base
within 1,500 miles of Soviet
launching sites," Miller said.
He did not elaborate.
The U. S. has not yet perfect
ed or put into operation its
IRBM. If the Navy statement
meant that Russia has operation
al IRBMs, it could mean a ser
ious shift in the balance of mili
tary power.
The statements came as con
gressional critics took the first
steps toward forcing a complete
reappraisal of U. S. defense
spending. 4
There ' were these develop
ments in the mushrooming con
troversy over whether the U. S.
is falling dangerously behind
Russia in the arms race:
Senate members of an Arm
ed Services Subcommittee be
gan gathering information from
Pentagon officials on the status
of U. S. and Russian rockets,
missile satellite and related pro
jects.
Eisenhower summoned
and defense leaders to the White
House for a secret conference on
the same questions.
Two more Democratic sen
ators called for action to make
the U. S. competitive with or
reassert its superiority over Rus
sia in missies and scientific
achievement.
-Wilson said Eisenhower had
not given him any instructions
to speed up the U. S. space sat
ellite and rocket-launcher pro
ject. Wilson told newsmen he stood
by his earlier statements that
the U. S. is not lagging behind
Russia in over-all military
strength, including missiles.
A complete reappraisal of the
U. S. defense program in the
shadow" of the Russian earth sat
ellite appeared to be in the mak
ing. Blue Mountain Hunt
For Two Continues
Pendleton (IP) Umatilla
county sheriff Ray Johnson said
Monday a search is continuing
for Lillian Hodges, 16, and Bar
ney Blackwell, 35, both of Ken
newick, Wash., even though the
pair vanished in the Blue moun
tain area over six weeks ago.
Johnsons aid he hoped the
Oregon deer season might result
in the finding of a new clue to
the disappearance.
Last Aug. 24, during a picnic,
the girl disappeared while on a
hike. Blackwell was reported
missing about an hour later.
Capital Punishment Is
Capital punishment should be
abolished in the state of Ore
gon was the panel discussion
topic this morning at the Med
ford Ministerial association
meeting at the First Presbyter
ian church.
In favor of the abolishment
were Robert Duncan, Medford
attorney and state representative
and the Rev. Thomas McCam
ant, pastor of Congregational
church. Against the abolishment
were the Rev. Kenneth Korby,
pastor of St. Peter Evangelical
Lutheran church, and- Walter
Nunley, former Jackson county
district attorney and Medford
attorney.
The question will be voted on
by residents of Oregon in Nov
ember, 1953, when a constitu
tional amendment will be pre
sented to eliminate any mention
of the death penalty from the
state constitution. The law will
include death for treason against
the state, and when a person
while serving a life sentence
commits first degree murder.
Compares Persons
Mr. McCamant compared the
person serving a life sentence
HAROLD JAFFREY
Accepts Chairmanship
Jaffrey Accepts
Chairmanship of
Great Decisions
Harold Jaffrey, assistant man
ager of the Veterans administra
tion domiciliary at Camp White,
has accepted the chairmanship
of the coming "Great Decisions
. . . 1958" program in Jackson
county, it was announced today.
He will head a temporary
committee which will direct the
foreign policy study program
for the third year in this area.
Emphasis in the Great Deci
sions program is on informal
discussion groups which are
formed to study areas of United
States foreign policy, using ma
terial prepared by the Foreign
Policy association. More than
200 persons took part in last
year's program in Jackson
county.
The statewide program is
headed by Mrs. Mabel Mack of
the Oregon State college exten
sion service, and is assisted by
the extension service, the gen
eral . extension division, and
several civic groups, such as the
National Junior Chamber, of
Commerce and the Parent
Teacher associations.
Among those . who will work
with Jaffrey this fall, preparing
for the-study groups which will
meet for eight weeks in Febru
ary and March, are Ron James,
national director for the Junior
Chamber of Commerce; Bruce
Metzger, principal of Oak Grove
school; Don Geren, Eagle Point
dairyman; Mrs. John Ouster
hout, last year's chairman; At
torney William Trout, house
counsel for Bear Creek 'or
chards; Dr. Clifford Miller,
Southern Oregon college; Mrs.
Roy Elmgren and Miss Mary Pat
Lucy, who will represent home
extension units; Prof. Richard
H. Byrnes, Southern Oregon
college, and Mrs. Justin Smith,
Medford High school faculty
member.
Jaffrey, who has been at the
domiciliary for two years, is ac
tive in Rotary, the Masonic
lodge, the state and national hos
pital associations, the Eagle
Point Parent - Teacher associa
tion, and is also attached to the
local Air Force reserve squad
ron. An early meeting of the Great
Decisions . . ., 1958 temporary
committee is expected to be held
soon to make preliminary plans.
GERMAN AWARD
Frankfurt, Germany (IP1
The German book trade award
ed its annual peace prize Sun
day to American dramatist
Thornton Wilder for his works
based on "spiritual power in our
confused age." Seven previous
winners of the prize included
Dr. Albert Schweitzer and German-Swiss
novelist Hermann
Hesse.
to "lost sheep" saying that Jes
us was concerned about those
persons who were rejected by
society.
The majority of the men who
are put to death for capital
crimes, the minister said, are
those without money and
friends. It has been said in many
cases that the wealthy are able
to appeal, eventually having the
sentence changed to life impris
onment. .
"The only argument for capi
tal punishment," Mr. McCam
ant stated, "is that it saves the
state money. But relatively few
of the persons convicted of capi
tol crimes are executed."
Executing Punishment
"Responsibility of executing
of capital punishment is some
thing that should not be left up
to society," he concluded.
"Capital punishment has ob
viously failed as a deterrent
when a murder is committed,"
Nunley explained. "We can num
ber the failures but not the suc
cesses of capital punishment as
a deterrent, for we have no way
of knowing how many people
have refrained from murder be
cause of the fear of execution."
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binmittee Named
or Reorganization
Nine members and five alter
nates were selected here last
night in the county courthouse
to form a committee to act on
the reorganization of school
districts.
The meeting and the resulting
organization is mandatory under
the law enacted by the last state
legislature.
Purpose of the committee will
be to study reorganization of the
county on the basis of what is
considered to be the most effi
cient district according to Jim
McDonald of the county school
superintendent's office. The com
mittee's recommendations will
be submitted to voters in the
school districts
Members Listed
The nine members elected last
night were D. H. Barber, Trail;
Archie C. Fries Jr., Ashland;
Glenn W. Smith, Jacksonville;
J. A. Hoffbuhr, Medford; Wil
liam H. Prentice, Medford; Otto
H. Bohnert, Central Point; Keith
N. Hockersmith, Medford; Doug
las B. Finch, Butte Falls; and
R. C. Gail, Gold Hill.
Alternate members selected,
ranked according to eligibility,
are Dr. J. Robert Tolle, Apple
gate; Dr. F. Lee Mellish, Med
ford; Cecil Kee, Shady Cove;
Arthur MacKintosh, Phoenix;
and Dale S. Collins, Gold Hill.
The alternates will serve when
and if a vacancy occurs on the
committee.
Within 10 days, according to
law, the county superintendent
must notify each officially of the
selection. Members have 10 days
in which to notify him of accep-
School Girl Denies
Charge by Faubus
'Little Rock, Ark. OP) Gov.
Orval E. Faubus' charge that
paratroopers have invaded the
girls' dressing room at Central
High school was denied today by
a girl student who said she may
have been the original source of
the charge.
Catherine Craighead, 16, an
orphan who is a sophomorel at
Cental High, told reporters she
believes Faubus' charge may be
an "exaggerated" version of
something she said. 1
Faubus made the allegation
Monday. School officials termed
it "ridiculous." The White House
said it was "completely untrue
and completely vulgar."
The governor retorted' that
"we will prove it when the time
comes."
Jim McDonald Leaves
For. Georgia Meeting
Jim McDonald, of the Jack
son county schools superintend
ent's office, was scheduled to
leave today for a meeting of
the Georgia Educational associ
ation in Atlanta, Ga.
McDonald, president of the
student division of the National
Education association, will ad
dress the students attending the
convention. He will return Mon
day, he said.
Salem (IP) The State Agri
culture department condemned
1,775 milk cans during the first
eight months of this year com
pared with 3,168 . cans for the
same period last year.
Discussed
He added that in the United
States an average of one mur
derer in 85 has died.
"There is too much gushing
sentimentality over prisoners,"
Nunley continued. "Society has
taken the view that everything
must be pleasant."
Power, Right, Duty
He1 concluded that the power,
right and duty under law has
been given by God to govern
ment, to kill if necessary, in or
der to suppress resistance to law,
and in order to maintain individ
ual security under law. Many
New Testament references recog
nize the divine appointment of
government, but the right to kill
has been denied the individual
by God, he said.
"Protect society by isolation,
not by death," Duncan advised,
"society can not assume the guilt
of committed individuals. Rec
ords show that innocent persons
have been punished."
Many capital crimes, Duncan
continued, have been committed
as crimes of passion or are pre
meditated. In these crimes, cap
ital punishment did not act as a
deterrent.
He added that in states which
have abolished capital punish
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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1957
tance. The committee must hold
its first meeting Nov. 7, or with
in 30 tlays after the first meeting
to plan the group organization.
Thursday Meeting
Compliance with another new
law relating to the rural school
board will start Thursday night
with a meeting of members of
the rural school board and
boards of first class districts in
the county. The meeting will be
held at 8 p.m. in the Medford
High school cafeteria with Glenn
Smith, chairman of the rural
board, in charge.
The purpose of the meeting
will be to elect two temporary
additional members-at-large to
the rural board.
The revised rural school law
provides that two major changes
in the operation of the rural
school board. They are to create
a county-wide educational board
to deal with all educational mat
ters at the county level, and to
provide partial equalization of
tax levies for school operational
costs at the county level.
The revised law will be ex
plained at the Thursday meeting
UMC Contributions
Behind Those Last
Year At This Time
Contributions to the United
Medford Crusade are behind last
year's donations as the campaign
goes into its fourth week, UMC
officials reported yesterday.
Workers at yesterday's lunch
eon reported contributions total
ing about $11,000, to bring .the
total to $40,177, or 32.7 per cent
of the $123,130 goal this year.
Last year, $42,670, or 36 per cent
of the goal, had been reached
by the third week.
Robert A. Johnson, campaign
chairman, praised Ed Chavis,
chairman of the public works
section of public employees, who
reported an increase of 800
per cent in contributions; and
Charles Hill of the retail divi
sion who reported completing
all but one account in the office
section. Hill's section showed an
increase of 120 per cent more
than last year.
Commercial Division
. The commercial division, head
ed by Emmett Bullard and Bert
Wright, received the UMCky, a
monkey presented to the group
which reports the lowest amount
each week. Last week, the mon
key went to Bob O'Sullivan's
distribution division.
The public employees group,
of which Elliott Becken is
chairman, reported 74.4 per cent
of the group's total. Other re
ports were from the professional
group, 52 per cent; lumber work
ers group, 34.4 per cent; retail
division, 33.8 per cent; service
division, 31.5 per cent; and spe
cial gifts, 67.3 per cent.
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New York (IP) The Brook
lyn Dodgers announced today
Ihey are shifting their fran
chise to Los Angeles.
By Panel
ment the capital crime rate in
many cases is far lower than in
those which still have the law.
Explaining the constitutional
amendment that will be voted
on next year, Duncan recom
mended that all voters study the
proposed amendment.
Speaking against the abolish
ment of capital punishment, Mr.
Korby said "murder is the taking
of life which belongs to God.
Therefore, God takes the life of
the murderer. The law is a law
of retribution."
Protects Life
He continued tjhat in an or
derly society which protects life
and executes justice, man as an
executor merely puts divine law
into effect.
Justice, Mr.- Korby stated, as
used by government, is return
ing to man a comparable portion
to his deeds. The remaking of
men's lives and motives is the
work of the Gospel, he stressed,
the government is not committed
with the task of preaching the
Gospel.
Delayed justice is no justice,
according to Mr. Korby, this has
often been the terrible weakness
in dealing with murderers.
United
The Arkansas Traveler
Investigators Wait
Teamster Records
Washington (IP) Senate In
vestigators waited . impatiently
today for delivery of teamsters
convention records to see wheth
er they are getting evidence or
ashes. i
Chairman John L. McClellan
(D-Ark.), of the Senate Rackets
committee said a union attorney
reported Sunday night that doc
uments subpoenaed by the com
mittee "had been thrown down
the incinerator." The attorney
blamed a night maid at the Eden
Roc hotel in Miami Beach, Fla.,
where the recent teamsters con
vention was held, McClellan
said. , , . . .. - , . .
'Nothing Wrong' Hoffa Say
But. President-elect James R.
Hoffa said in Miami Beach on
Monday-night . the - documents
were on their way to Washing
ton after being "temporarily
lost." He said there was "noth
ing wrong."
Committee counsel Robert F.
Kennedy in turn challenged Hof
fa or any other teamsters of
ficial to give assurances that the
documents were intact. He said
John F. English, union secre-trary-treasurer
"could not give
assurance that all the documents
were there."
It was not clear whether any
of the papers actually had been
burned. Hoffa's comment indi
cated they had not, but Kennedy
quoted the union attorney as
saying the committee could see
for itself the documents had
been in the incincerator.
McClellan said when the at
torney was asked for the maid's
name so that she could be in
Diplomats Annoyed
By Syrian's Attack
United Nations, N.Y; (IP)
U.S. diplomats expressed frank
annoyance today at Syrian For
eign Minister Salah El Bitar'
slashing attack on U.S. policies
and Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles.
Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge Jr. noted that Bitar did
not even mention the U.S. lead
ership of the opposition to the
invasion of Egypt last year by
Britain, France and Israel.
"This leadership, as well as
the long history of American
assistance in the Middle East,
and elsewhere, to peoples seek
ing independence, makes it in
conceivable that we should now
be guilty of the type of 'colonial
ist' activity with which we are
charged by the Syrian foreign
minister," Lodge said.
No Hasty Action Said
Caused by Satellite
Washington (IP) The White
House made it clear today the
administration is not being
thrown into hasty action by- the
Russian satellite now spinning
around the globe.
President Eisenhower plans to
discuss the satellite with the Na
tional Security Council Thurs
day amid mounting pressure for
a drastic reappraisal of U.S. de
fense policies.
But presidential press secre
tary James C. Hagerty said Mon
day there are no plans for the
President to receive a special
briefing on the Red satellite be
fore the security council meeting.
He said the President is being
kept informed on developments,
but regarded the launching as
no surprise.
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terviewed, he reported that she
had suddenly died of a heart at
tack.
"The committee will be In
terested in determining wheth
er this incident is just another of
the many strange coincidences
that the committee has encount
ered in trying to secure team
sters records, or if it is in fact a
wilful defiance of the commit
tee's authority and an attempt
to obstruct its investigations," he
added.
The documents in question
are records of the convention's
Credentials committee. The con
vention seated hundreds of dele
gates despite the Senate commit
tee's statement it had evidence
they had been chosen illegally.
Election Thursday
In District 6C
Central Point Patrons of
school district 6C, which in
cludes Central Point, Gold Hill
and Sams Valley schools, will
vote Thursday on a $160,000
bond issue for additional high
school classrooms.
The election was called by
the school board Sept. 16 to
help relieve congestion at Cra
ter High school here.
If the bond issue is approved,
funds will be used to construct
seven general purpose class
rooms and one art room. The
construction also would provide
needed space for more lockers,
school officials said.
Enrollment at Crater High,
school this year reached 652
students, school officials noted.
Last year there were 585 en
rolled. Working capacity is con
sidered about 500 students.
Polling places will be at the
Gold Hill school gymnasium, the
Sams Valley school, and in the
gymnasium at Central Point
Junior High school. Polls will
be open between 2 and 8 p.m.
Satellite Pays First
Scientific Dividend
London (IP) The Soviet
earth satellite paid man his first
scientific . dividend today.
Soviet scientists checking the
satellite's flight through outer
space said they have discovered
"changes in the absolute in
tensity of the electro-magnetic
pole."
A. broadcast by Radio Moscow
heard here said this was learn
ed "by means of the short wave
transmitter" aboard the man
made moon.
"A device for research in the
propagation of radio waves was
used to obtain this information,"
the broadcast added.
Weather
FORECAST: Cloudy with occa
sional light rain tonight and
Wednesday. Gusty southerly
winds tonight. Low tonight
48. High Wednesday 60.
Temp.
Highest Yesterday 62
Lowest this Morning 46
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise
6:16 a.m.
5:42 p.m.
5:31 p.m.
Sunset
Mnonrnse -
Full Moon fHlintjrc
Moon) 1:42 p.m.
PROMINENT CONSTELLATION
Cassiopeia, in the northwest at
sunset, will be high in north at
midnight.
VISIBLE PLANETS
Venus, low in south
west '5:56 p.m.
Saturn.' sets 7:50 p.m.