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llM puns w to to finnn MM m 52nd Year Medford Cnitd Ptcm full Leased Wtr No. 152 Moscow Hatfoerea British Warships Declared To Be On Vay To Israel Russia Might Stumble Over Own Propaganda By UNITED PRESS Moscow Radio said today the United States Sixth Fleet was massing "not far from Syria's shores" and that U. S. and Brit ish warships were enroute to Israel. It was the latest of a series of Soviet statements ' that have aroused fears in Western'nations that Russia might stumble over its own propaganda and touch off World War III. In Cairo the government-controlled Middle East News Agen cy reported from Damascus that Syria's army had been placed in a state of emergency because of the threat from Turkey. It said all Syrian army leaves were cancelled and that the army distributed arms among civilian popular resistance units at Alep po and other points in northern Syria. Verge of War Warning There were no confirmation of the agency reports which fol lowed a series of stern state ments by Syria and the Soviet Union and a warning by Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro myko in the United Nations that the Mid East was close to war. There was no immediate U. S. reaction to Gromyko's harsh statements in the United Nations, but Dulles already had warned that Soviet intervention in any Turko-Syrian action would bring U. S. retaliation against the So viet Union itself. Foreign Troops Concentrated The latest Soviet blast over Moscow Radio against the United States was beamed to North America. It said "foreign troops were being concentrated on Syria's boundaries and not far from Syria's shores ships of the United States Sixth Fleet are gathering." It also broadcast an editorial in the official Soviet govern ment newspaper Izvestia describ ing as "hypocritical" a British Foreign Office statement of Tuesday saying there was no threat against Syria. Turkey remained calm and of ficials in Istanbul said they wel- cornea u.s. assurances u win stand by Turkey in case of at tack by Syria or Russia. Officials said the Foreign Ministry had begun closed door consideration of a "new line of conduct" on strained relations with Syria. Paris (IP A Communist at tempt to stage nationwide dem onstrations against French policy in Algeria flopped today. i : . . t yi MAYOR PAUSES Central Point Mayor Donald E. Faber pauses on the Medford city hall steps before completing sweeping the sidewalk. He swept the walk after he lost a wager with Medford Mayor John Snider that the Crater High school Comets would beat Medford High's Black Tornado in last Friday's football game. Medford won 40 to 14. , MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER o tin rvf JZ - v i? n NEW LOG BARKER A $350,000 log barker unit was put into operation at the Ross Lumber and Olson-Ross Lumber companies at their White City plant yesterday. Chips will be shipped to paper and fiberboard manufacturing firms in Oregon and California. The unit will provide more ultiliza tion of logs, company officials pointed out. Ross Companies Start tew Log Barker Unit A new $350,000 log barker unit started operations today at Ross Lumber company and Olson-Ross Lumber company, firm officials have announced. Additi.on of the log barker, they said, increases the level of utilization of each log reaching the firms. The machine will also produce between five and six carloads of chips a day, worth about $1,000 on the current market, according to Frank T. Olson and Thomas G. RossT The chips will be shipped to Publishers Paper company in Oregon City and to Fiberboard Products in Antioch, Calif., to be used in paper and board manufacture. Seven-Hour Day Olson and Ross also announced that about 300 mill workers in two shifts will start a seven-hour day instead of an eight-hour day. They will continue to work a five-day week, they said. The two companies previous ly planned to cut each shift to Brazil Army Units pre on Strikers Sao Paulo, Brazil OP) Brazil ian army troops fired on strik ers picketing a munitions fac tory near Utinga today, wound ing 12 strikers. Federal units headed by ar mored cars moved in to break u,. strike violence after state po lice under orders of Sao Paulo State Governor Janio Quadros has refused to intervene. 1 wSSuw l'rZs fTiyn j wican 3.0 ..ares three days a week, they said, in order to conserve the firms' timber supplies in the face of a depressed lumber market. The companies' log decks, which at present contain about 25 million board feet of logs, will be increased to about 27 million board feet in the next two weeks, they said. Snow in the mountains is expected to stop log deliveries then. Last year, the firms began winter operations with 32 million board feet in their decks. Syrian Charges To Be Studied Friday . United Nations, N. Y. OP) A meeting of the United Nations General Assembly Steering Com mittee was called for Friday morning to decide whether to list Syria's war charges against Turkey for full Assembly de bate. Sir Leslie Munro of New Zea land, president of the Assembly and chairman of the committee, today summoned the 17-nation group to meet at 10 a.m. Friday for speedy action on the Syrian demand for a U. N. investiga tion of Turkish troop concentra tions Syria charges threatens 'imminent attack." The United States, charged di rectly by Russia with "prod ding" Turkey to attack Syria and touch off a new war, has expressed full support for such an investigation. Three Hearings on Council's Agenda Three public hearings are scheduled before the Medford city council at its 7:30 p.m. meeting today in the city coun cil chamber. One is on a request for a change of zone from class II, multiple family, to class IIIA, limited commercial, in the Fruit dale addition. Hearings also are scheduled on assessing property abutting trunk water mains on Crater Lake ave., from Spring st., to Saling ave.; on Black Oak dr. from Acorn way to Country Club drive, and on .Country Club drive from Black Oak, north, to Black Oak, south. Both trunk mains will be used as la terals to serve the properties. Weather FORECAST: Fair through Fri day. Valley fog by morning. Low tonight 32. High Friday 68. Temp. Highest Yesterday 2 Lowest this Morning 33 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise e- .S:?6 a.m. Sunset 5:27 p.m. Moonrise Friday 1:04 a.i New Moon Oct. 22 PROMINENT STAR Altair. high in south west ' 8:08 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus, and Saturn, low in southwest 6:12 p.m. Venus is. by far, the brighter of the two. Tribune 17, 1957 of Defense Denies Secrecy Order pn Satellite Program Officers Told To Avoid Controversy Washington (IP) The De fense Department denied today it has ordered a secrecy gag on U. S. rocket and earth satellite programs. Army, Navy ' and Air Force orders issued Oct. 9 told officers and men to steer clear of the controversy stirred by Russia's successful launching of a satel lite five days earlier. The orders were released yesterday by the House subcommittee on govern ment information, which plans public hearings on the matter. Orders Interpreted A Defense Department spokes man said today he interpreted the orders to mean military of ficials who weren't informed on missile and satellite matters should not make public com ments. "The orders were intended to say in effect that 'unless you are an expert in the satellite field, keep quiet,' " he said. He contended the nation has been given full information on technical aspects of the satellite by scientists, and that President Eisenhower himself fully dis cussed military implications in a 700-word statement last week. Explanation Didn't Jibe This explanation did not "jibe with dispatches from Barcelona, Spain, on an international scien tific meeting there during the past two weeks. The United Press quoted some of the mili tary's top experts on satellites and space research at Barcelona as saying their lips were sealed on orders from Washington. The fact that all three orders came out Oct. 9 may indicate the subject came up the day be fore at the regular meeting of the Armed Forces policy coun cil. Ike Praised for Choice of USIA Chief Washington (IP) Two Rep ublican members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to day praised President Eisenhow er's decision to replace Arthur Lars6n with George V. Allen as chief of the U. S. Information Service. Democrats long have disliked Larson and voted almost as a bloc in the last session of Con gress to slash his agency's budget. Republican Sen. Homer E. Capehart (Ind.) and Alexander Wiley (Wis.) predicted that the Senate will be glad to confirm Allen, one of the State Depart ment's top trouble shooters. Four Men Fined for Spotlighting Deer Four Medford men were ar dested this week by Oregon state police for spotlighting deer. They were fined $155 each in district court by Judge James M. Maine this morning. Arrested by police were Harry Stanford Pitts, 42, of 1519 Thom as rd.; Jack Eugene Morris, 42, of 375V2 South Central ave.; Ed ward Buchanan Morgan, 30, of 509 Plum st.; and R. B. Bewley Jr., 28, of 2331 Sunnyview ave. They all pleaded guilty to charges. Ships Syria French Author Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature ' Stockholm, Sweden (IP Ex istentialist French author Albert Camus was awarded the 1957 Nobel Prize for literature today. He was the second youngest writer in history ever to win the high honor, with Britain's Rud yard Kipling the only one young er when he won it. Camus was given this year's S40;000 prize for "his important literary production which, with clear-sighted earnestness, illumi nates the problems of the human conscience in our time." Camus has won worldwide fame for a number of novels and Price 10c United Press Full Leased Wire 32 Pages SP Turns Down Porter's Request For Rail Service Can't Compete With Autos, Official Says Eugene The Southern Pacific company, through Vice-President C. E. Peterson, has in formed Congressman Charles O. Porter that it cannot give favor able consideration to his sugges tion that the company inau gurate passenger service by Budd car, or other means, in southwestern Oregon. Peterson informed Porter by letter today that train passenger service, "just cannot economi cally be justified for the short run where the private automo bile is so conveninet to use." The railway official said his company made a study of the cost of operating such a service between Eugene and Ashland with a Budd car "as promised you." He said the results indi cate such an operation would result in a loss in excess of $200,000 a year with a daily operation, aftd more than $100, 000 a year with an every-other-day operation. Trend Away From Trains According to Peterson, the general experience of railway carriers in the United States is that there is no lessening in the trend toward the use of the private automobile and airplane and away from rail passenger service. He told Porter that the diver sion 'has occurred in highly populated areas where the lat est streamlined equipment has been operated and where the probability of a successful opera tion should be greatest." Peterson said he is sending a jcopy of the letter to Oregon Public Utilities Commissioner Howard Morgan. The matter of rail passenger service has been heard and is pending before the PUC head. In his letter to the Congress man, Peterson noted that South ern Pacific rail passenger serv ice depends on the volume of business, and is "presently so costly to provide." He added he had been informed that freight service is steadily improving since passenger service has been discontinued. Service ended in August, 1955. He said, "The movement of both loads and empties is be ing advanced from 12 to 24 j hours, more satisfactory switch ing service is being performed, and it is our considered judg ment that the absence of passen ger service on this line, has been a real factor in the adequate empty-car situation during the year." Advaniagei Outweighed The railroad spokesman add ed, "We strongly feel that con tinued and improved freight service and adequate supply of freight equipment to our shippers in southern Oregon greatly outweighs any possible advantage to the communities or individuals which would re sult from the operation of rail passenger lervice." He said that is particularly true in southern Oregon. He told the congressman, "By reason of the physical charac teristics of our line, and the great improvements which have been and are being made on the highway, which generally paral lel our railroad for the entire distance, we could not possibly compete, in time, with the pri vate automobile and adequate bus service now provided." Rep. Porter was in Coos Bay when informed of the letter by his' office. . He is visiting con stituents in Coos, Curry and Josephine county this week. He said he would have a statement to make when he returns to Eugene this week end. plays noted for their bitter out look on life. His best known novel, "The Plague," is typical of his work. It speaks for the disillusioned French generation which grew up just in time to face World War II. Like all the 43-year-old writ er's works, it is marked by de spair and doubt that lif is worth living in a world where he is convinced no God exists. He is best known to American readers for his novel "La Chute" (The Fall), which was published in an English translation and is on current best seller lists. President Greets Queen Elizabeth At Washington Visit Strengthens Ties, Ike Declares Washington (W Britain's captivating Queen Elizabeth II swept into Washington today to the cheers of thousands of her American "cousins" and a warm yet solemn greeting from Presi dent Eisenhower. The President, who went to National Airport to welcome the 31-year-old monarch, said her visit strengthens the ties binding the United States and Britain. "In the warm and strong co operation between your country and ours lies the best hope for the security and peace of the world," he told the Queen. The Queen, responding to the President's welcome, brought greetings from "my peoples of every race and creed in the Brit ish Commonwealth of Nations." Big Airport Hushed All air traffic stopped and en gines were silenced during a 20 minute airport ceremony in which the nation formall rolled out its fanciest red carpet wel come to the Queen and her dash ing consort, Prince Philip. Many thousands lined the road from the airport, along the Po tomac and through Washington to the White House, which will be the royal couple's home in a four-day visit here. There was no immediate crowd estimate. But the turnout appeared to be considerably be low expectations and far less than crowds which have turned out for some presidential in augurations. They drove up to the north portico of the White House at 12:40 p.m. Mrs. Eisenhower came for ward and greeted her most fa mous house-guests with hand shakes. Medford Men to Head Convention Sessions Eugene Robert A. Duff, Medford city manager, and Lar ry S. Horton, electrical engineer with California Oregon Power company, will be chairman of two key sessions at the annual convention of the . Professional Engineers of Oregon at the Eu gene hotel Friday and Saturday. Duff's session, Saturday mor ning, will be on "Servomechan isms". Also Saturday morning is Horton's session on "Automatic Computors." Registration for the conclave, expected , to draw 400 from throughout the state, will be gin at 10 a.m. Friday. Keynoting the meet will be Dr. Joseph Kaplan of the Uni versity of California at Los Angeles, chairman of the U. S. committee for the geophysical year. He will address delegates at a Saturday night banquet. Engineers Schedule Hearing Next August The Army corps of engineers is planning to hold the first pub lic hearing on the corps' report of results of the- flood control survey of the Rogue basin now underway, sometime in August, 1958, according to William Jess, chairman of the Rogue Basin Flood Control and Water Re sources association. The tentative date originally set was in October, next year, and indicated engineers expect to have their survey completed earlier than planned. Jess also reported on a meet ing with Congressman Charles O. Porter at which various dam sites for flood control were dis cussed. Escapees from Federal Prison Caught in Area Two men, who were arrested by state police on a vagrancy charge Saturday and lodged in county jail, are being held pend ing action by federal authorities. Upon questioning, police found they had escaped from the fed eral prison at Leavenworth, Kan., last month, officers said. Arrested were James William Berry, 20, and George Franklin Samuel Titchnell, 23, both of Cheyenne, Wyo. They , were re moved from a Southern Pacific freight train at Tolo rd. over pass by police. Pendleton Guardsmen Become HI After Meal Pendleton -HP) Fifty-nine members of Company G, 186th Infantry, Oregon National Guard, became ill after a turkey dinner in the ONG Armory here, none seriously enough to be hospitalized. The county sanitarian said ill ness probably resulted from food poisoning. The only guardsman who didn't become ill was the cook. PRIME MINISTER, IKE SLATE TALKS London (IT) British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan Is flying to Washington next week to discuss world problems with President Eisenhower, it was announced tonight. MacMillan will fly to the U.S. capital late Tuesday night, Oct. 22, and is expected to return to Britain the following Friday. There was no immediate indication of what would be dis cussed, but observers said it appeared certain that the agenda would include the-critical Turkish-Syrian situation in the Middle East and Soviet blustering about warfare in that region. Neuberger Cites Need for Oregon Power Commission Portland OP) The urgent need for a State Power Commis sion to reserve John Day dam kilowatts for Oregon before they are taken by Washington state was voiced by Sen. Richard L. Neuberger (D-Ore.) here today. Neuberger spoke at, a lunch eon 'meeting of the Oregon Building Congress. He said his amendment to the Bonneville Power act providing higher priorities for industrial users of federal power would do little good unless the state quali fies as a buyer of energy under the terms of the public power preference clause. Legislative Responsibility "As one who believes cheap power is our best hope of new payrolls to take up the slack in lost lumber employment," Neu berger said, "I believe no re sponsibility facing the special session of the Legislature ,is nearly so great as making Ore gon ready to establish a State Power Commission at an early date." .He exhorted the builders not to "let Washington siphon off these priceless kilowatts. Put pressure on our Legislature to get a State Power Commission into business soon, so that Ore gon can share in this bonanza for industrial payrolls." He said an enabling act should be passed which would make the State Power Commission ready for business at an early date, if the voters approve it in the 1958 election." Governor Points Up Educational Needs Eugene (IP) 1 Two recent events, the firing of the Russian Satellite and the school integra tion crisis in Little Rock, have dramatically pointed up the need for a revaluation of our educa tional system. Gov. Robert D. Holmes said today. The governor's remarks were made before his committee on education beyond high school here. "The Little Rock crisis in dicates that w,e have neglected to study the nature of man and have forgotten that it is import ant to educate him to compre hend himself," the governor said. He urged educators and scien tists to speak out more boldly for- experimentation, even though what they say may not be popular like the knowledge that Russian technology was able to beat us in putting a satel lite in the sky. Dr. Merkel Returns to Office After Surgery Dr. A. Erin Merkel, public health officer, returned to his of fice this week after convalescing following foot surgery. Dr. Merkel will spend several hours each day in the public health office in the county court house and expects to resume his full duties the latter part of the month. Moonglow "' The announcement of the visit was made in a statement from No. 10 Downing st., the Prime , London m A statement issued from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan'i official residence said tonight that he and President Eisenhower will discuss the Turkish-S y r i a a crisis, implications of Russia's artificial satellite and Brit ain's desire for free exchange of nuclear information with the United States when they meet in Washington next week. Minister's official London resi dence. It said Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, now in the United States for the royal visit of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will join in, the talks. The statement added that "this meeting will be in the tradition of the many talks which have taken place between our two governments." Damage Suit Starts In Circuit Court Robert L. White, Eugene, is asking $50,000 for general dam ages and $874.65 for special damages from Gerald L. Butler, Medford city partolman, in a trial which started this morning in circuit court before Judge Ed ward Kelly., White, who is represented by Medford. Attorney Robert Dun can, was driving a car March 15, 157, when it was involved in a accident with a Medford city police car, driven by Butler, at the , intersection of Court and Manzanita sts. The complaint states that the plaintiff suffered severe injury in the accident. According to city police re ports, the patrol car was travel ing south on Court st., when Butler received a call to inves tigate a disorderly conduct com plaint. Reports show that the patrol car proceeded, with red light on and siren sounding, to the intersection of Manzanita st. The patrol car proceeded through a red traffic light at the intersection where the accident occurred, reports show. Defense attorney is Stanley Jones. Regional Meeting Slated in Medford : Salem The first of three re gional meetings for county elec tions officials has been called for Friday and Saturday, Oct. 18 and 19 at the Umatilla county court house, Secretary of State Mark Hatfield announced this week. The second session will be held Oct. 21 at the Capitol in Salem and the third in Medford Oct. 25 and 26. County clerks will review drafts of election manuals for voters, as well as manuals for candidates and election boards. Films of election procedures used in other states will be shown and the possibilities of producing a film on new Oregon election laws will be discussed, Hatfield said. r
