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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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