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Newspaper Page Text52nd Year Price 10e Subscribers Recommended A feature story on square dancing, and factors which help ed brine about it revival in recent years, appears on page It of today's Mail Tribune. To report Improper or non-delivery of the Mail Tribune in Med ford phone SP 2-6141 Ashland MU 2-1021. Yreka 841W before 6:45 p.m. daily and 1030 a.m Sunday If regular delivery arrives short ly after you call please notify of fice thus eliminating special mes senger service. jUF UXUL Uoitd Pre Full Leased Wir- United Press Full Leased Wir 60 Pages MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, r No. 154 ji nn . IUEI II J JLV1JC : ctf . n" v Emphasis To Shift Dn Jackets Probe Washington IF The Senate rackets committee will shift em phasis next week to "illegal or improper activities of manage ment against unions," Chairman John L. McClellan said Satur day. The Arkansas democrat said that more than 50 witnesses will be called in a series .of hearings expected to last two weeks. The hearings, he said, "will center on the far flung operations of Nathan W. Shefferman." Shefferman, featured in prev ious hearings as a friend and admirer of Teamster President Dave Beck, is a labor relations consultant who operates Labor Relations Associates Inc., of Chi cago. McClellan said the com mittee wants to explore efforts by "some of the "largest compa nies and concerns in the coun try" to use Shefferman's firm to: "Avoid unionization by im proper or illegal means," or "Make a 'sweetheart con tract with a friendly union". Committee counsel Robert F. Kennedy said enterprises in 11 states Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, Oklahoma, Michigan, California, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri will figure in the testimony. Shefferman will return to the witness stand towards the end of the hearings, Kennedy said. McClellan said the committee does not contend that all the contacts of the Shefferman firm with some 300 , businesses which include some of the na tion's largest department stores nd other firms are improper, illegal or "questionable." But he aid "numerous questionable ac tivities" will be explored in de tail. Kennedy said typical circum stances to be explored might feature a company faced with organization efforts by a union. The company he said, might em ploy Shefferman's firm and might soon thereafter see an "anti-union" committee arise "spontaneously" among its em ployes. A stranger might show up at the plant, Kennedy said, ostens ibly seeking insurance informa tion. But his analysis of the un ion views of employes might re sult in the firing of pro-union leaders. Meanwhile, Kennedy said, the anti-union committee might get promotions and salary increases and be wined and din ed by the company. From that point, Kennedy Football Scores WEST UCLA 26. Oregon Statt 7 Ortgon 14, Washington St. 13 Colleg of Pacific 7, Idaho 7 Wyoming 0, Brigham Young 0 Denver 12. Utah 7 ' New Mexico 27, Arizona 0 Standford 21, Washington 14 Calif. 12. Southern Calif. 0 SOC 33. OTI 12 OCE 41, Portland St. 0 College) of Idaho 18, Lewis & Clark 13 EAST Vandorbilt 32, Vermont 6 Boston College 12, Villanova 9 Army 29. Pittsburgh 13 Brown 20. Pennsylvania 7 Dartmouth 14. Holy Cross 7 Yale 18. Cornell 7 Lehigh 13, Rutgers 7 Colgate 12, Princeton 10 Harvard 19, Columbia 7 Cincinnati 14, Marquette 0 SOUTH Maryland 21. North Carolina 7 Auburn 3. Georgia Tech 0 Virginia 36. VIP 7 , Duke 34. Wake Forest 7 Navy 27, Georgia 14 VMI 13. William and Mary 12 Mississippi St. 29, Florida 20 Louisiana St. 31. Kentucky 0 North Carolina College 35, Virginia St. 0 Florida St. 34, Abilene Chris tain 7 Marshall 7, Kent St. 6 Wofford 13, Furman 12, Citadel 26, Richmond 0 MIDWEST Illinois 34, Minnesota 13 Purdue 20. Michigan St. 13 Michigan 34, Northwestern 14 Ohio St. 56, Indiana 0 Iowa 21, Wisconsin 7 Colorado 42, Kansas St. 14 Syracuse 26, Nebraska 9 Missouri 35. Iowa St. 13 Carelton 20. Grinnell 7 SOUTHWEST Oklahoma 47, Kansas 0 Texas 17, Arkansas 0 Texas A&M 7. Texas Chris tian 0 Rice 27. SMU 21 Houston 6, Oklahoma St. 6 North Texas St. 14. Tulsa 12 Hardin Simmons 27. Wichita 14 Baylor 15, Texas Tech. 12 said, the circumstances might vary, depending on what the company wanted. A representa tion election might result in em ployes rejecting unionization al together or another union might be approved which would write a sweetheart contract one which provided sub-standard benefits for the employes. Kennedy declined to name the dozen firms that will be featured in the hearings. McClellan said, however, that officials of many of them "have been less than co operative" in dealing with the committee staff. ' Kennedy confirmed that eight or 10 witnesses have beer, cajled to testify on 1955 efforts of the AFL-CIO packinghouse workers union to organize a plant of Morton Frozen Foods, Inc., Web ster City, la. The company recog nized a local of the bakery work ers union in 1956. Kennedy said the witnesses in clude represenatives of the two unions, the company and Shef merman's firm. Merkel To Appear On Program Friday For Health Group Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson county health officer, and Ryder Berg, instructor at Medford High school, are on the program for the annual meeting of the Oregon Public Health associa tion which will be held in Med ford Thursday and Friday, Oct. 24 and 25. Dr. Merkel will preside at the second general session which starts at 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the county court house assembly room. Berg will discuss "myster ies of the Atom" at the first gen eral session which starts at 10 a.m. Thursday. ' . Featured topic at the meeting this year will be "Atoms and Health" with presentations and discussions to give a layman's explanation of atomic energy as it applies to public health. Dr. E. M. Berg, president of the association, will preside at the first general session, at which time County Judge Rod ney Keating, Medford Mayor John Snider and Dr. Merkel will welcome delegates. Dr. Charles F. Blankinship, regional medical director, public health service, San Francisco, will discuss "Goals for Public Health in the West" at the Thurs day morning session, Dr. Thomas Colasuonno, representing the OPHA program committee, will discuss "Setting the Stages." Participating In the Thursday afternoon general session will be Dr. Jack C. Halderman, chief of the division of general health services, public health service, Washington, D.C.; James G. Ter rill, chief of the radiological health program Washington, D.C.; Dr. Ralph R. Sullivan, di rector of occupational health section, state board of health, Portland; and Connie James, di rector of public relations, Ore gon Tuberculosis and Health as sociation. Portland. A social hour is scheduled at the Rogue Valley Country club at - 6 p.m. Thursday, with the annual banquet starting at 7 p.m at the country club. New officers will be introduced and the OPHA award will be pre sented at the banquet. Dr. Clair V. Langton, vice president of the association, will preside at the third general ses sion Friday morning. Participants in the Friday morning will include Curtiss M. M. Everts Jr., director of the di vision of sanitation and engine ering, state board of health, Port land, who will discuss "Federal Water Control Program." Panel discussions also are scheduled Friday morning. The meeting closes Friday afternoon with a general busi ness session which starts after a conference summary by Dr. Blankenship at 1:30 p.m. Coyofe Skin Needed For Bounty Award Mrs. Bereth Hopkins, Jack son county clerk, reminded hun ters that the entire skin of coyo tes must be presented before bounty is paid. She said several hunters have presented coyote heads, but bounty cannot be paid for the head only. The entire skin, in cluding head and tail, must be presented, she said. Farmingdale, N.Y. (IP) A beauty queen was killed today in the crash of a helicopter car rying her to her coronation. Sev eral thousand persons gathered to watch the ceremonies saw the crash. British Planning NewJei Airliner, Like Helicopter Should Fly By 1968 Aviation Expert Says San Francisco OPS Plans for a 1.500-mile-an-hour jet airliner, which will take off and land like a helicopter, are now taking shape on the drawing boards of the British aircraft industry, a leading English aviation expert said here Saturday. Edward Bowyer, director of the Society of British Airplane constructors, said, the industry which gave the world its first commercial jet transport expects to have the first supersonic air liner in the air within 10 or 12 years. Research Being Done He said seven major British plane builders, plus the Royal Aircraft establishment, a gov ernment research organization, are currently doing basic re search on the plane which may provide the next revolution in commercial air travel. Bowyer, who attended the In ternational Industrial Develop ment conference here this week, flew to Washington Saturday to confer with heads of the Air craft Industries association. The AIA is the American counter part of Bowyer's organization which includes same 600 of the Empire's top aviation firms. Current research into the sup ersonic transport, Bowyer said, include such factors as aero dynamics and structural prob lems. Planned for 1970 "Our target is on the order of 10 years from now," the British aviation leader said. "We may expect to have such a plane in service by around 1970." As presently outlined, he said, the British supersonic program will cost about 200 million dol lars. Bowyer said the plane was being envisioned as a vertical take-off type, "possibly with swiveling engines" which would allow it to rise into the air like a helicopter while the passen gers remain in a comfortable horizontal position. Man's Body Found Near Bear Creek The body of Benjamin Eugene T a t o m, 44, recently released from the Barnes Veterans hospi tal in Vancouver, Wash., was found near Bear creek about 200 yards east of Earhart st.by a hunter about 10:30 a.m. Satur day, according to state police reports. The Jackson county coroner's effice said Tatom had been dead about 30 to 45 days when found. He apparently died of natural causes, they said. The body was first discovered by William R. Glass, 425 Earhart st. while he was walking in the fields alongside of Bear creek on a hunting trip. Glass said he saw a pile of papers in the brush and when going over to investigate, found Tatom's body. State police said Tatom had built a camp which had a straw mattress, a supply of canned food and a bundle of clothes. His pockets contained several recent rent, electric and water bills which indicate he had not been living in his "camp" very long, state police said. When found he had several coats pulled over him for use as blankets, said police. He had laid a number of sticks to start a fire but had not lighted it, they said. Police said that he most likely had been working on the fruit crop. His body is being held by the county coroner at the Conger-Morris Funeral home pend ing additional investigation. Secret Meet Held On Atom Program Princeton. N.J. (IP) The United States and Britain may have scored a first step victory in efforts to harness hydrogen bomb power for peaceful uses. U.S. and British scientists emerged Friday from a hush hush two-day conference at Princeton University with word of their findings, but said only further experiments would con firm their beliefs. A joint announcement by the United Kingdom and U.S. spokes men said a comparison of results of "essentially distinct approach es" to harnessing H-bomb pow er 'suggests achievement of neu actions, but more experimental work will be necessary to es tablish this as a fact." Reds Accuse With Attack -urge Ankara, Turkey (IP) A gov ernment spokesman accused Rus sia of spouting "nonsensical lies" with its charge that the United States drew up a blueprint for a joint attack on Syria by Tar key, Iran and Jordan. The spokesman, Gundog Ustun, said the "absurb" Soviet claim was beneath the dignity of a formal government denial. It was one of the strongest-worded Statements by a Turkish official since the Syrian-Turkish border dispute flared less than one month ago. Tureky, which as denied gen erally all Syrian charges of border violations, permitted Us tun to replay specifically to the Soviet charge that U. S. diplo matic troubleshooter Loy W. Henderson brought brought the "blueprint" for attack during his August trip to check up on expanding communist influence in Syria. The Soviet charges are "non sensical lies," Ustun said. "It is not necessary to com- Iment on these riduclous state ments. It is not worth our while to react every time they are made." Ustun denounced the charges as "absurb, not even reasonable," and "ridiculous." "We pay no attention any more," he said, "because we are used to these fabrications and absurdities." Ustun, a representative of the Turkish foreign office, said this was just the latest in a series of outrageous Soviet charges. In Amman, Jordanian officials also denied the charge as "none sense." Turkey appeared calm despite reported from travelers that Sov- Doctor Gives Plans To Build Hospital Costing $175, Dr. Paul T. Rutter, owner of Medford Osteopathic hospital, has announced, plans to construct a new 26-bed hospital costing about $175,000. The new building will be con structed on the present location and two additional sites adjacent to the hospital on north Bart lett st., Dr. Rutter said. Plans are for a one-story, modern fire proof building he said. Construc tion is expected to start next spring. The new hospital will be fi nanced through private funds, Dr. Rutter said, and no dona tions are being solicited. The present hospital was es tablished in 1935 by Dr. W. W. Howard. It was enlarged in 1953 to 17 beds with modern facilit ies, including laboratory and X ray facilities. The hospital was purchased by Dr. Rutter in 1953. Medford Osteopathic hospital is registered with the Oregon State board of Health and with the American Osteopathic asso ciation. There are 10 physicians on the staff. Dr. Rutter said the present hospital, which will not be structurally connected with the new building, will be used as office facilities. Sports Bulletin Phil Moyer, of Portland, cored a TKO over Roy Ray, San Francisco, when Ray was unable to come out for the fourth round bell in a sched uled eight round event in last night's professional boxing card at Hedrick junior high school gym. Moyer had floor ed Ray at the end of round three but the bell sounded as referee Earl Yoakley sounded the count at eight. Queen Elizabeth Views Market And Football Game As Maryland Defeats North Carolina By 21-7 Count Washington (IP) Queen EI izabeth inspected Saturday two of America's most cherished in stitutions football and a food supermarket. It was an All-American Sat urday afternoon for America's favorite British cousin. Saturday night the young Queen returned to the elaborate formalities of her tour and en tertained President and Mrs. Eis enhower at a glittering dinner at the British Embassy. On the way to nearby College Park, Md., for her first footb"all game, the Queen asked her State Department whether she could see how American housewives shop for food. At game half-time, a .detail of police went to the nearest big supermarket a giant food iet technicians were stringing a communications system includ ing radar outposts along the 400 mile Turkish-Syrianb order. Turkey was assured of United States support as a member of NATO. Its seaport of Smyrna was playing host to the U. S. Navy guided missile cruiser Can berra and two destroyers. Namal officials emphasized, however, that the visit was not prompted by the new Mideast flareup. Israeli Fighters Fire On Airliner, American Reports Cario (IP) Egyptian airport officials said Saturday night that Israeli fighter planes fired on an American-piloted Jordanian airliner flying 14 passengers from Jerusalem, Jordan, to Cario today. ; The officials said the plane j safely here with no injuries to anyone on board. They said the plane was carry ing 14 passengers including five Americans and had an American pilot. The crew was Egyptian. The pilot was identified as Jess Stallworth, of Pine Bluff, Ark. Airport officials said Stall worth told them a French-built Israeli Mystere jet fighter made five passes on his plane while inside Jordan territory. He said he thought the pilot was trying to get the airliner to fly over Israel, the official said. Fired Canon Shells They quoted Stallworth as say ing the plane fired canon shells on each run but none hit the airliner. The pilot said his passengers were "bady shken up" by his desperate maneuvering to avoid the Israeli fighter with his twin engine Convair. Stallworth ' told airport of ficials the Israeli plane jumped him 25 miles from the Israeli border over Jordan. He said the plane came from the direction of Jordan's interior. Made Six Passes He said it first made six passes without firing, circling the slow airliner and waving its wings in a signal that the liner should follow. He said the first burst was made up of about 25 rounds and exploded about 500 to 1000 yards ahead of the Convaire. i He said he started to descent toward Aqaba to make an emerg ency landing but the Israeli flyer came up under the Convair and forced it to stop descending. "It was quite fantastic," Stall worth said. "I could not believe it was happening." Lakeview Killer i To Be Sentenced Lakeview (IP) Jesse Thur man Hibdon, 30, Medced, Calif., pleaded guilty to second degree murder Saturday in a circuit courtroom here for the shotgun slaying of John Troy Lawson, 60, during a post office holdup in Paisley nine days ago. Hibdon will be sentenced to mandatory life imprisonment on Oct. 28. Lawson, acting town marshal at, Paisley, was shot to death , while attempting to stop the holdup. Donald Lee Ferguson, 35, Ba kersfield, Calif., Hibdon's ban dit partner, is held on an assault and robbery charge in the coun ty jail here. Lake County Dis trict Attorney Julian Herndon said today he will seek a grand jury indictment for murder against Ferguson. chain store in Queenstown shop ping center, just outside Wash ington. The startled assistant manager had only an hour to get ready. His customers were not alerted. Elizabeth and Philip walked in and spent 15 minutes talk ing with customers and studying the food packaging and mass sales operation. Philip shook hands with many and chatted with Mrs. Frank Riccardo, who was wheeling a baby. Someone offered him a sample of fresh cheese and cracker. He took the snack, munched and commented, "good for mice." The Queen got an explanation of the checkout system from the assistant manager, Don Davan zo. The Queen told her hosti she Russians Suggest Meet To Settle "Welcome" Democrats Is Neglecting Defense Washington (IP) The Democratic party high command attacked the Eisenhower admin istration Saturday on grounds that it placed its budget goals ahead of national security. . The .Democrats, said the result was a one-sided disarmament program at the expense of sound national defense and foreign pol icies. This broadside came from the opening session of a two-day meeting of the Democratic ad visory council, set up by the Democratic National committee as a between-conventions voice of the party. Chairman Paul M. Butler said the foreign policy declaration was supported by former presi dent Truman, who was unable to attend. Sixteen of the 24 coun cil members were present, in cluding Adlai E. Stevenson, 1952 and 1956 presidential nomintee; Sen. Estes Kefauver, 1956 vice presidential nominee; Gov. Av erell Harriman of New York, and Gov. G. Mennen Williams of Michigan. Saturday's statement was based on a draft presented by former Secretary of State Dean Acheson, chairman of the coun cil's advisory committee on for eign policy. "The administration's present policy, if continued, will by 1960 take the United States far to ward political isolation, continue to weaken our military position relative to the Russians, and leave those nations of the still free world which are capable of industrial development, looking to Moscow for capital and tech nical assistance," the council said. It said Democratic foreign pol icy aims should be in the re building of confidence and in strength in U. S. alliances, re building military strength and encouraging allies to do the same, helping free nations de velop industry, and regaining the respect of free men. "The overwhelming need of the United States at this time is enjoyed the football game. But it was not apparent to newsmen nearby that she shared with 43,000 other spectators the ex citement aroused by Maryland's 21-7 upset victory over North Carolina. She was amazed that no one was hurt. The game, and the unschedul ed supermarket tour, were among the few moments on her American tour that she express ly requested. Saturday was as busy as any other day in the royal couple's schedule. Elizabeth temporarily laid aside her role of state vis itor this morning and presided on British soil at a regal cere mony in which she presented Empire awards to 15 Americans. Th ceremony took place in Three Top Budding Crisis Claim GOP to restore the vitality, cohesion and strength of the alliance of free nations," the Democrats said. "The administration has brought to a low point the con fidence of our allies in the in tegrity and responsibility of its conduct." Several Events Set For UN Week Here Several events have been scheduled for the observance of United Nations Week in Med ford this week, the 12th anniver sary of the founding of the Unit ed Nations. Tuesday, Miss Irene Blumen thal, professor of political sci ence at the University of Ore gon, will talk on Russia and the UN at a public meeting of the local United Nations chapter at St. Mark's Episcopal church. Miss Blumenthal, Dr. Arthur Kreisman, professor of English at Southern Oregon college, and foreign students from the college will appear on a panel discus sion between 5 and 5:30 p.m. on station KBES-TV. The local UN chapter will ob serve the week at its regular Tuesday night meeting with a birthday cake especially prepar ed by Johnson's Model bakeries. Attending the meeting will be members of t h ie International Relations club of the high school. Dr. Ralph Victor, United Na tions specialist on India, will ap pear in an assembly at Medford high school Thursday morning, and will attend a plaque presen tation by Mayor John Snider at Hedrick. Junior high school at j 11:30 a.m. Tnursday. Dr. Victor will discuss UN problems at a dinner meeting at the Medford hotel at 7 p.m. Thursday. Mayor Snider will in troduce the speaker. Reserva tions should be made at the ho tel, according to those in charge. the mirrored ballroom of the United Kingdom embassy, which in the tradition of diplomacy is as British as 'Buckingham pal ace. The Queen presided, wearing a coral rose wool suit and pearls another outfit in her seeming ly boundless wardrobe. At the same time, Prince Phil ip, resplendant in an honorary Captain General's uniform of the Royal Marines, reviewed U. S. Marines at their historic barracks here. Afterwards he had coffee and sherry at a re ception in the 153-year-old of ficial residence of the Marine Commandant, Gen. Randolph MCC. Pate, which the British neglected to burn when they sacked Washington in the year of 1812. Power: Soviets Hint Plan To Accept Proposal With Denunciation British Press Ponders Possible Parley Result London (IP) The Russians Saturday suggested that Presi dent Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Harold Macmil lan invite Nikita S. Khrushchev tto their summit conference to settle" the Syrian-Turkish crisis. A hint that the Soviets would accept such a proposal was sand wiched between a fresh denunci ation of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and charges that the Eisenhower-Macmillan meet ing in Washington next week was brought about by "serious defeats" for western policy in such areas as the Middle East. Broadcast Intimates A radio Moscow broadcast in English intimated that only a meeting with Russia's leaders could solve current world is sues. Commenting on next Wednes day's big two meeting in Wash ington, the radio said: "If they really want to bring the mid east back to normal, why don't they invite other countries to confer? After all, there is not a single international problem that now can be settled singly.' The broadcast hinted that Khrushchev would accept an in vitation to a summit meeting. Presumably, Premier Nikolai A. : Bulganin also would attend such meeting. Although the foreign office has denied that there will be a summit meeting with Russia on the Middle East, the British press still was speculating that such a parley might develop. The Syrian-Turkish crisis had reached the point where Russia was warning it would send its own armed forces to Syria to pro tect it in case of aggression. A Turkish government spokes man in Ankara denounced a fur ther Soviet charge that the Unit ed States was promoting a Turkish-Jordanian-Iraqi attack on Syria as "nonsensical lies." In Cairo, the Turkish charge d'affaires complained to the gov ernment about Egyptian press re ports that Turkey was massing troops on the Syrian frontier. There were other reports that King Saud of Saudi Arabia was acting as behind-the-scenes me diator. H&was reported to have been in contact with Turkish President Celal Bayar and to have received assurances that Turkey plans no attack on Syria. U. S. To Review Aid To Yugoslavia Washington (IP) The United States is expected to review its military and economic aid pro grams to Yugoslavia as a result of Marshal Tito's recognition of Communist East Germany, it was learned Saturday. Officially, the state depart ment had nothing to say about what effect the Yugoslav move would have on U.S. relations with that nation. . But the U.S. government, through White, did express "un derstanding" of West Germany's severance of diplomatic rela tions with Yugoslavia. West Ger many took the view that any government recognizing Soviet controlled East Germany would hamper the future reunification of Germany. White said this government was consulted in advance about West Germany's move. So were Britain and France. WEATHER FORECAST: Increasing- clouds with chance of few showers, mostly over the countains hy late morning, clear and cold cold tonight, fair Monday, high today 58, low tonight 30, high Monday 60. TEMP. Highest Yesterday S2 Lowest this Morning 30 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:30 a.m. 5:22 p.m. Sunset The Moon rises Monday 4:43 a.m. and is in Perigee. PROMINENT CONSTELLATION Orion, high in south 3:50 a.m. (the shooting stars now seen moving in swift streaks across the sky are mostly of the Orion id meteor shower)