52nd 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.