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Newspaper Page Text52nd Year Price 10 Subscribers Recommended A fur fnrv ahout the nrrt nf tb Rome River p pr on v 14 of today'i Mall Tribune. To report Improper or ncn-deHv-erv of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141. Ashland MU 3-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 10 JO a m Sunday. If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice ' thus eliminating special mes senger service. DFORD IBUM IHiUd Pre Full Led Wir- United Press Full Leased Wire 76 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13 " 1 No. 148 Me Little Etock Citizens Hold Prayer Sheeting Little Rock, Ark. IP More than 6.000 residents of Little Rock, including a man accused of being a .'principal agitator" of anti-Negro violence', prayed at special services in 85 churches Saturday for a peaceful and mor- Solons Ask Halt On Impounding Timber Sale Funds Senator Richard Neuberger and Congressman Charles O. Porter have asked President Eisenhow er to request that "the budget bureau cease its impounding of funds appropriated for access roads and timber sales proces sing by the U.S. forest service" in Oregon. In a telegram to the President, they noted that "Oregon has been harder hit by unemploy ment and declining payrolls than any other state in the union dur ing the past half year and more." They noted that statistics of the Bell Telephone system which indicate a greater drop in Ore gon in demand for new tele phone service than in any other state. "Most of Oregon's decline can be attributed to an aggravated and presistent drop in lumber production, since ours is the lead ing lumber-producing state," they said. "For these reason," they con tinued, "we emplore you to re quest that the budget bureau rease its impounding of funds already appropriated for access road and timber sales processing by the United States forest serv ice in our state. Cuts in this region amount to S28.000 for ac cess roads and $180,000 for tim ber sales processing and will force reduction in forest service timber sales in Oregon by 300 million board feet with worse impact next year. "This makes evident that pres ent alarming drop in Oregon's economy will be prologed with Its attendant adverse impact on federal tax revenues, on welfare ftinds and on such phases of the economy as postal recepits, Ihey concluded. Tossed Eggs Hint Benson 'A Risk' Washington HP) The half dozen eees tossed at Ezra T. Benson Thursday cast a new spotlight Saturday on the em battled Secretarv of Aericul ture's troubles with farm belt politicians. Benson insists his policies have more backing among farm ers and politicians than ever be fore, a belief apparently shared by President Eisenhower. A Republican, a man close to the Midwest farm picture but who insisted on remaining anonymous, countered: "A lot of local politicians out there say Ezra is probably right in what he is trying to do for agriculture but they still think he's a political liability." Reasons include: Farm income, despite some recovery in the last 18 months, remains far below the levels of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Benson's campaign to re duce price support floors and his Insistance that lower govern ment supports will help farmers sell more products and make more money. A waning Republican vote in normally strongly-Republican farm belt areas in 1956. blamed by some politicians on farmer resentment against administra tion policies. Air Force Thor Soars 2,000 Miles Cape Canaveral, Fla. (IP) In formed sourcses reported Satur day that Friday's firing 'of an Air Force Thor missile "exceed ed all expectations"" by soaring nearly 2.000 miles out over the Atlantic. The sources said the big pencil-shaped projectile dropped in to the ocean "several hundred miles'" beyond the intended tar get 1,500 miles away. They said the test, the second successful firing of a Thor in six attempts, was to see how far the missile could go. As . usual, however, the Air Force and Defense Department refused to comment on the suc cess of the firing or even to con firm the missile was a Thor. al end to Central High school's integration crisis. Religious leaders estimated a total of 6,000 to 7,000 persons at tended church and prayed. Ro man Catholic churches, one of the minority religions of Little Rock, reported a total attend ance of 2,053. Other Churches Join Additional churches through out Arkansas and the nation joined in special services. Both President Eisenhower and Gov. Orval E. Faubus praised the serv ices and ministers Saturday in voked a blessing on both of them. The president and Faubus are deadlocked in the crisis. The president refuses to remove the 101st airborne division troops protecting nine negroes at Cen tral High school, because he does not think Faubus' promises to safeguard them are strong enough. Faubus, on the other hand, re fuses to make the guarantees stronger. His attitude is, 'he (Ei senhower) got himself into this mess. Now, let him get himself out." Karam Accused James T. Karam, a clothier and close personal friend of Fau bus, who has been accused of being a "principal agitator" of violence at Central High, slip ped into the First Methodist church, sat in a back pew and prayed with his head bowed. Mayor Woodrow Wilson Mann telegraphed Attorney General Merbert Brownell Jr. on Sept. 23 that Karam was a principal agitator of a near-riot which caused the president to send the troops in. The FBI is investigat ing Karam. Faubus was sick In the guber natorial mansion with flu and a hacking cough. When he was asked whether he prayed silent ly, he said: "They tell me to pray without ceasing." The FBI is Investigating the violence at Central, and particu larly that of Sept. 23 on the the ory that it was organized and only a fraction of Little Rock's residents took part in it. Football Scores WEST Colorado 34, Arizona 14 Oregon State 20, Idaho 0 Oregon 26, San Jos 0 Navy 21, California 6 UCLA 19, Washington 0 Wyoming 27, Colorado St. 13 Washington St. 21, Stanford II College of Pacific 7, Kansas St. 7 Humboldt JV 13, SOC JV 0 Utah 27, Brigham Young 0 Ariiona St. 35, Hardin-Sim- mons 26 Puget Sound 13, Western Washington 7 MIDWEST Michigan St. 35, Michigan 6 Minnesota 41, Northwestern 6 Iowa 47, Indiana 7 West Chester 39, Baldwin Wallace 7 Ohio St. 21, Illinois 7 Wisconsin 23, Purdue 14 Holy Cross 26, Marquette 7 Iowa St. 21, Kansas 6 Southwest Missouri St. 3. Maryyille 0 EAST Dartmouth 35, Brown 0 Pittsburgh 34. Nebraska 0 Penn St. 21, William & Mary 13 . Notre Dame 23, Army 21 Boston College 41, Dayton 14 Yale 19, Columbia 0 Princeton 13. Pennsylvania 9 Syracuse 34, Cornell 0 West Virginia 46, Boston U. 6 Hofstra 13, Temple 7 SOUTHWEST Texas Christian 28, Alabama 0 Abilene Christian 23. Texas Teachers 20 Oklahoma 21, Texas 7 . Arkansas 20, Baylor 17 Duke 7. Rice 6 West Texas St. 27, Trinity 20 Texas A&M 28, Houston 6 Texas Western 27. Texas Tech 14 McMurry 9. Texas Lutheran 7 SOUTH Auburn 6, Kentucky 0 Maryland 27, Wake Forest 0 Tennessee 28. Chattanooga 13 South Carolina 58. Furman 13 VPI 21. Villanova 14 North Carolina St. 7. Florida St. 0 Mississippi St. 47, Arkansas St. 13 Clemson 20, Virginia 6 Mississippi 28, Vanderbilt 0 Louisiana St. 20, Georgia Tech 13 Tampa 39, Presbyterian 14 South Carolina 58, Furman 13 Louisville 35. Murray 0 Memphis St. 40, Tennessee Tech 7 ly ' j LUNCH TIME Foot route postman Jack Lynch, Medford, does not customarily eat his lunch as he is pictured above, sitting in the door of a postal relay box, but warm mid-day sun on an otherwise dampish day recently created just the right temperature for dining outdoors, so he decided to try it. Lynch usually eats his lunch on the porch of a nearby residence to stay out of the rain or the hot summer sun. The relay box above is on the corner of Cottage and East Ninth streets. No Evidence Observed Of Threat to Turkey Washington 0P U. S. dip lomats saw no evidence Satur day that Russia plans to strike at Turkey, despite Moscow's blunt threats that Turkey was inviting disaster. Instead, they saw the Soviet muscle-flexing as having two ob jectives in the tense Middle East. To establish Russia as a Local Unemployed Increases Sharply At Month's End Unemployment in Jackson county increased sharply toward the end of September when woods were closed to logging and the pear harvest was com pleted, according to John J. Pat- ton, Medford manager of the state employment service. After the peak employment of the year early last month, un employment increased to an es timated 1,100 Sept. 30, Patton said. The figure is more than double August's unemployment, and about three times the total one year ago, when the pear harvest was still in progress. Most the increase in unem ployment occurred" in the last week by Steptember when clo sure of forests due to fire hazard brought logging operations to a halt. Many of the firms will re main closed until after the start of hunting season, Patton said, since it is customary with many lumber firms. Patton said that judging by the experience of the year, high er unemployment than a year ago can be expected to continue the rest of this year. The total at first appears high, but it ac tually represnts only about 4 per cent of the Jackson county labor force, he said. Weather and market condi tions permitting, several " firms have indicated they will resume operations after the hunting va cation period, he noted. After hunting season, "outside" em ployment will depend to a large extent on the weather, and the lumber industry generally will continue to depend on market conditions. Jobs will be scare during the next four or five months, he said. The fruit industry will start with Christmas gift packing dur ing the next 60 days, and orch ard pruning will provide em ployment when leaves are off the trees, Patton added. Centennial Plans Sent To Companies Portland W Formal an nouncement of plans for the Ore gon Centennial Exposition and International Trade Fair of 1959 were mailed last week to five thousand industrial firms, manu facturing firms and associations in the U.S. and to givernment officials throughout the world, according to centennial director Floyd Maxwell. Maxwell said the announce ment includes a reprint of Presi dent Eisenhower's letter to Gov. Robert D. Holmes in which the president indicates his personal interest in the centennial. Crowds of several million per sons are anticipated at the centennial-fair, Maxwell said. power to be reckoned with in the area where she has long de sired a foothold. To give Russia a chance to take credit if a Middle East war is avoided and a real peace achieved. The threat was made Wednes day by Soviet Communist Party Boss Nikita S. Khrushchev. He said in an interview with the New York Times that the United States was inciting Turkey to war against Syria. Khrushchev said pointedly that Russia is near Turkey and the United States is not. If war broke out, he said, Turkey would be crushed almost before she knew what was happening. In an unusually tough reply, the United States accused Khrushchev of openly threaten ing Turkey. It promised to stick by commitments to defend Tur key and warned Russia any Mid dle East fighting would not necessarily be confined to the Middle East, a clear warning that Russia might be attacked. While experts here see no sign that Russia plans to strike at Turkey, they considered it essential to answer the Soviet threat with firm language. To fail to make U.S. intentions on aiding Turkey clear might have prompted some Soviet move, they said. Undersecretary of State Chris tian A. Herter, in charge of the State Department while Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles is vacationing, wanted to give the Soviets no chance to mis calculate where the United States stands. No Change Seen As for the Middle East in gen eral, the United States feees no recent change that has eased tensions there. The State Depart ment still views Syria's swing toward Russia with concern. 'American officials were pleased to hear this week that Egyptian President ' Gamal Ab del Nasser has ordered all branches of the Egyptian gov ernment and the press to act more like neutrals. But they said they will wait to see results of the order before passing judg ment on whether the Nasser ac tion means anything. VHF Circuits Set For Crater Lake Columbia Utilities company has been authorized by the Fed eral Communication commission to establish commercial VHF radio circuits between Crater Lake National park and the corn pan's toll center at White City, D. O. Hood, president of the firm, has announced. Preliminary "work has been under way for several weeks, and its is expected to have new toll truck facilities in operation within about 60 days. Dial switching equipment ar rived at the park recently, and is now being installed. Hood said. He added that new equip ment probably will be put into use later this year. A switchboard will be instal led at the lodge prior to next summer's operations, he said, and outdoor tpye public pay stations will be installed at sev eral points in the rim area, at Annie Springs and park head quarters. Indoor public pay sta tions also will be installed at the lodge and the cafeteria. li. ,.rtea Effort Knowland Leads Bloc Seeking Legislation Washington IP) A grow ing demand seemed to be de veloping among Republican sen ators Saturday for federal laws to put new curbs on the activ ities of labor unions. Senate GOP leader William F. Knowland, who was President Eisenhower's breakfast guest Saturday, assumed the leader ship of that bloc by announcing he was drafting labor legisla tion to be introduced after con gress returns in January. He said his objective was to protect democratic processes in unions. The office of Sen. Carl T. Curtis (R-Neb.) said he was study ing legislative proposals to carry out a seven-point program which he recommended in a speech at St. Louis Friday. It was not disclosed whether Knowland discussed labor issues with Eisenhower. He described the meeting as "just a review of domestic and foreign problems." Included Recommendations Knowland's proposals includ ed the recommendations he has been making in his preliminary campaign for the governorship of California. However, they ex cluded a national "rieht-to- work" law of the type he has advocated for his home state but would leave it to the state legislatures. Such laws, in force in 18 states, would outlaw union shop contracts. Provides Secret Ballot Knowland told reporters his bills would call for federal laws to insure that union members could elect or recall officers by secret ballot and to act on poli cies through initiative and refer endum procedure. His legislation also would be aimed at protecting employe welfare funds, preventing the spending of union dues for po litical purposes or personal use of officers, and stopping nation al unions from taking away the autonomy of their locals. Knowland acknowledged that most union leaders would oppose his ideas. He said they had taken the same stand toward the Taft Hartley labor-management act but never convinced the country or their own members that it was a "slave labor" law. Some of Curtis' proposals par alleled those of Knowland. He also advocated strengthening the Taft-Hartley provision against secondary boycotts, a prohibition against transporting "hoodlums" across state lines in labor dis putes, and "antimonopoly laws" for unions. Priority Program Seen For Rockets . Washington nn An ad ministration source predicted Saturday the United States will swing into a top-priority pro gram of missile-biulding as soon as an intermediate range rocket is perfected. That could come as early as the end of this year or as late as the middle of 1958. Until then, these sources said, the defense department will re sist public and congressional pressure to pour more money into the missile race with Rus sia. Already, about 10 per cent of all defense spending is going into missiles. Perfection of a U.S. inter-continental ballistic missile (ICBM) the 5,000-mile "ultimate wea pon" is still further in the fu ture. Russia claims to have suc cessfully fired one, and U.S. sci entists now believe the claim. Most of the problems which have slowed U.S. efforts in the deadly missile race are a matter of scientific know-how, defense department officials insist. They deny that penny-wise economies or inter-service rivalry has been a serious factor. Weather FORECAST: Partly cloudy with scattered shower today and tonight? partly cloudy Mon day, hich today 5. low to night 45, high Monday TEMP. Hirhest Yesterday 57 Lowest this Morning .. . 42 FRECIP. To J p.m. Yesterday .. 12 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:22 a.m. Sunset 5:33 p.m. The Moon rises 8:50 p.m. and rides high In Taurus. SIRIUS rises 12:48 a.m. and well above it appears ORION. These two, the brightest star and the brightest constellation, will be prominent in the even ing sky this winter. S. Satellite Works Sit r While Reds Launch "That Ain't My Style," Said Casey . . And The Umpire Said, "Strike Two!' Ike Will Celebrate His 68th Birthday Washington API President Eisenhower celebrates his 68th birthday Monday in apparent good health but with the prob lems of a restless nation and world weighing on him more heavily than ever before. The President will spend much of the day in his office working. The White House said it would announce later whether he and his family will mark the occasion with any special cele bration, in addition to one plan- Feelings Run High, Search Continues For Paisley Killer Paisley, Ore. OP) The Lake county sheriff's office said Satur day that Donald Ferguson, 32, the Bakersfield, Calif., gunman who helped rob the Paisley post office and kill the acting town marshal Thursday will be moved "to a safer jail." Feelings ran high in this south central Oregon prairie town over the brutal slaying of John Troy Lawson, 60, the robbery and pistol-whipping of the town post mistress, Mrs. Anita Bannister. The man hunt for Ferguson's companion, Jesse Thurman Hib don, Merced, Calif., drew nearly every able-bodied male from Paisley. All were armed with powerful deer rifles and side arms but were hampered in their search by large numbers of deer and duck hunters who were in this wild game center. Summer Lake Lodge, a hunt er's mecca north of here, was the center of the manhunt. A plane brought in for the search used a blocked off portion of highway in front of the lodge for a landing strip but police said aircraft was of little use in the search for Hibdon because of the hunters scattered through the rimrock country. Rackets Committee Seeks Fund Listing Washington OP) The Sen ate Labor Rackets Committee disclosed Saturday it has asked teamsters locals in areas con trolled by James R. Hoffa to produce financial data showing whether the new union president had misused union funds. Chairman John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) said detailed financial questionnaires had been sent to locals in the central and southern conferences of the nation's big gest union. They supplement let ters asking all of the union's 892 locals whether their delegates to the recent union convention in Miami Beach were elected legal ly. Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy said that if any local refuses to produce the data sub poenaes will be issued. Camp Kishine. Japan 1P A Yokohama WAC detachment passed a "tummy in, chest oat" inspection Saturday braced by new girdles and falsies. . 11 -H"EBLOC ned by Republican leaders. For any man, a birthday is a time for taking stock. And as Eisenhower enters his 68th year of life, here are some of the ques tions the people are pondering: What is the state of the Presi dent's health? When he completes his second term he will be 70. The doctors term his health good for. a man of his ."age. He made remarkable recoveries from the heart attack he suffer ed Sept. 24, 1955, and from an intestinal operation in June of the following year. - What are the major interna' tional problems he faces? The most immediate are Russia's- demonstrated advance in the fields of science and tech nology, which means the Soviet poses a greater military threat than ever before, and the troubl ed Middle East wbre there is danger that some sort of local military action could touch off World War III. Td Discuss Satellite Part of the President's birth day work schedule is set aside for an appoinment with new De fense Secretary Neil H. McElroy. They are expected to discuss the military overtones of Russia's launching of an earth satellite and the U.S. lag in the missile satellite field. What are President's major problems at home? Eisenhower himself has said the overriding one is inflation. He will spend part of his birth day wrestling with this. Anotheri ssue which confronts Eisenhower for the remainder of his second term is integration. No solution is in sight for the high school ampasse at Little Rock. There are other pressing do mestic problems corruption in some labor unions, the farm situation, federal aid for schools construction, for example but none appear more difficult to handle than inflation and inte gration. Alternates Needed For Murder Jury Los Angeles HPi Four al ternate jurors remain to be cho sen Monday before testimony begins in the trial of dapper L. Ewing Scott, 61, charged with murdering his wealthy wife and stealing from her $600,000 es tate. A panel of seven men and five women was chosen late Fri day before Superior Judge Cle ment D. Nye recessed the trial until Monday. However, the four alternates must be selected. The jury was seated after five days of questioning by attorneys The first panel of 40 persons was exhausted and a new group of prospects had to be called in. Scott has denied the. charges and said he believes Mrs. Eve lyn Throsby Scott, who was 63 when she disappeared more than two years ago, might be alive somewhere. No body ever has been found and the only trace of the missing woman included eye glasses, dentures and parts of clothing discovered on the groundi of their Bel-Air home. Sputnik Army Rockei Group Reveals Bitterness Oyer Checkmates Missile Said Better Than Russian Type Huntsville 0PI An Ameri can satellite assembly complete with an instrumented baby moon, lies untouched at an Air Force base on a Florida beach while a U.S. Army rocket team labors on and nurses its bitter ness in the north Alabama hills. Newhere did the Soviet satel lite launching strike closer to home than at nearby Redstone arsenal where the German-American team, led by brilliant Dr. Werner Von Braun, prides itself as best in the field. As far back as six months ago, it was learned. Dr. Von Braun put together a "Jupiter C" guid ed ballistics missile and equip ped it with what would have been the first manmade "space ball" had the device been fired successfully. The sphere is re ported to weigh about 20 pounds and is about 20 inches in diame ter. Now, the defense department has hung a tight curtain of sec recy around operations here and and has forbidden Redstone sci entists to speak in any way about satellites or missiles. The Von Braun "moon" rock et was put together with availa ble materials and within limita tions of the Jupiter C project which called for a high velocity test weapon. An earlier Jupiter C is reported to have been fired 3,500 miles to a height of 650 miles. Rejected Five Times Five times the Army offered to undertake the satellite launch ing, each time coming up with a project more ambitious than the previous one. But the role ultimatey was assigned to the Navy, and the Von Braun team hid its disappointment and con centrated on perfecting the Jupi ter, an intermediate range ballis tic missile of a "different con struction than the Jupiter C. Meanwhile the Jupiter C with the "moon" was shipped to Pat rick Air Force base at Cape Canaveral, the nation's big se cret missile testing center where all types of rockets are sent soar ing over the Atlantic. Still Sits There it still sits and the So viet Sputnik launching has plunged German and American scientists here alike into emo tional turmoil over what might have been had the Von Braun "moon" gone up. Von Braun him self has gone into seclusion and is reported hoping secretly that the Air Force at Cape Canaveral will strike a match to the "wrong" rocket and his satellite will take its place in space. The nose-cone (last, or war head stage) of one Jupiter C was recovered in the ocean, proving not only that the launchers knew just where it was going but that it conquered the critical "re-entry" problem and avoided being burned to a crisp in flight. It was reported that the space sphere developed by Von Braun has its own "telemetry" instru ments for sending back direction signals, air pressure, roll and pitch and the like. Such instru mentation is standard for the simulated warheads of test mis siles, it was understood, and ap parently is ahead of anything carried by the Russian "moon." First Airline Flight Goes to Antarctica San Francisco W The first commercial airline flight to Antarctica took off from here Saturday morning with 37 Navy men aboard, all loaded down with cold weather gear. The plane, a Pan American Airways Strato-clipper, headed for Honolulu on the first leg of its 9700-mile flight. Aboard were replacements for men stationed at McMurdo Sound, less than 850 miles from the South Pole. From Honolulu the clipper will fly directly to the Antarc tic with refueling stotps at Can ton Island, the Fijis and New Zealand. In Fiji the first women to ever fly to Little America, Pan-American stewardess Ruth Kelly and Patricia Hepinstall, will board the plane.