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t ! MAffwFfl n A Ml III UU Four-Inch Snowfall Snarls ane Traffic; "Say, In That Moonlight You Look Kind Of Attractive" anhandle Feels .iig of Winter r Idaho Other Eastern Washington Towns Receive Blanket . Gusty Winds, Rain Common in Oregon By UNITED PRESS Winter made a pre-sason bow in Washington and northern Idaho while Oregon got heavy precipitation and forecasts of more to come today. An arctic air mass moved in to the north of Oregon, leaving snowfalls in eastern Washington and northern Idaho and sending temperatures plunged to the low 20s. Snow Snarls Traffic Traffic was snarled over a wide area as four inches of snow fell in Spokane to break an Oc tober snowfall record set in 1933. Lesser amounts were reported at Colville, Ephrata, Moses Lake, Ellensburg and other eastern Washington cities. Washington's mountain passes got a heavy fall, stalling traffic. Streets and highways were dangerously slick and the State Patrol warned motorists to stay home if possible. Schools were closed in the Spokane valley. In northern Idaho schools closed near Bon ders Ferry. Sandpoint. Rathrirum and Post Falls. Snowfalls in the Idaho panhandle ranged from three io 12 inches. The forecast called for mod erating temperatures in that reg ion with highs reaching the 40s Thursday. Rain in Oregon In Oregon gusfy winds and rainfall were common as a Paci fic storm moved in. Gusts up to 50. miles per hour were forecast for the Columbia Gorge today and up to 40 miles per hour off the coast. The weather bureau said pre cipitation would be heavier than normal for the season for the next five davs. Mayor Snider Named Director of League Portland Mayor John Sni der of Medford was elected to the board of directors of the League of Oregon Cities at the final sessions of the group's an nual convention here this mor ning. Robert White, mayor of Sa lem, was elected president, and Ed Harms. Springfield mayor, was reelected vice president. The number of board mem bers was increased from five to seven this year, and it was to one of the new positions that Mayor Snider was elected. Three members of the board now come from southern Oregon Mayor Snider, Mayor Lawrence Slater of Klamath Falls, and W. W. Baldcree. city attorney Grants Pass. at Work Starts on Sewer Lateral on Woodlawn Work on the Woodlawn Sani tary sewer lateral started today by the W. C. Conrad company of Medford. The sewer, to extend from Barneburg rd. to Windsor ave.. will cost S8.425 and is scheduled to be completed in 30 working days. The Eighth st.-Tenth st. storm sewer construction is progressing on schedule, according to Vern Thorpe, Medford public works director. The project, which was started last week near where Tenth st. would intersect Bear creek, will complete its crossing of Riverside ave., today Thorpe said. Half of Riverside ave. was closed to traffic Tuesday. Ontario. Ore. IP Mrs. Rob ert C. Guthberlet, Weiser, Ida was killed today when the car in which she was riding struck a truck. Mo I let Gains Support in Attempt To Form Cabinet Paris 'l? The powerful Workers Force (FO) today sup ported Guy Mollet's bid to be come premier by refusing to join a wave of national strikes while he is trying to form a new gov ernment. But France's two other big unions, the Red-led General Labor Confederation (CGT) and the Christian Workers union (CFTC) pushed plans to demon strate Friday in protest against 52nd Year MEDFORD United Press Full Leased Wire 20 Pages DR. EUGENE BLAKE Speaks at Conference Council President To Speak Tonight At Local Church Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, president of the National Coun cil of Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. and stated clerk of the General Assembly of the Pres byterian church in the U.S.A., will speak at 7 p.m. today at the First Presbyterian church. Dr. Blake!s talk-,will proceed the two-day conference on the use and understanding of the Bible which will be held Thurs day and Friday at First Presby terian church. Last year Dr. Blake headed a group of American Protestant leaders who made a visit to Rus sia. The group held conversa tions with Russian church lead ers and visited points of religious and historical interest in Mos cow and Leningrad. Addresses Kiwanis Prior to the talk tonight Dr. Blake will join the Westminster Fellowship youth group of the Presbyterian church for a pot luck supper and will speak at their devotional period immedi ately following. At noon today he addressed the Kiwanis club. Registration for the Bible em phasis conference will be held at First Presbyterian church Thursday from 9:30 a.m. with workshops scheduled at the church from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. Topics for the Thursday work shops will include Bible and re cent, archaeological finds. Bible translation in many lands, pro phets and prophecy, devotional use of the Bible. Bible history, composition, content, and an audio-visual workshop. A breakfast meeting will be held Thursday at 8 a.m. at First Christian church for ministers and a men's luncheon at First Methodist church at noon. Dr. J. Carter Swaim, executive direc tor, department of the English Bible, of the council will speak at both meetings. Hymn Festival That evening a hymn festival will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the Medford High school auditorium. Choirs and congregations of 15 Protestant churches in the valley w-ill participate in the festival. Following a talk by Dr. Swaim the award for the oldest Bible will be presented by Dr. George G. Roseberry of First Methodist church. At the 6 p.m. Thursday ban quet at St. Mark's Episcopal church. Dr. Gerald A. Larue, western division director, com mittee on the use and under standing of the Bible, of the council will speak. the rising cost of living Mollet. 51. a Socialist, Tues day accepted President Rene Coty's request that he try for the second time in three weeks to solve France's 23rd postwar government crisis. The wave upon wave of para lyzing strikes, growing public resentment against inter-party bickering in Parliament and a truce with Conservative leader Antoine Finay gave Mollet the best chance yet of success. Jst3fi... & ni, M V j $ If A J, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1957 Syria G Three D Crisis ww United Nations, N.Y. W Syria, which has rejected all mediation efforts in its dispute with Turkey, today reluctantly agreed to give King Saud of Saudi Arabia three days to set tle it. The Syrians did not say they accepted Saud's mediation of fer, which already has been agreed to by Turkey. But they voted for adjournment of the United Nations General Assem bly debate on the Middle East "war crisis" until Friday. The adjournment proposal came at the end of one of the most menacing attacks on the United States Russia has deliv ered in the UN since the height of the cold war. Charges U.S. Instigation In it, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko charged that Turkey, at American instigation, was ready to attack Syria with 1,300 warplanes, 1,400 tanks. 3,500 artillery pieces and other equipment totalling about S2 billion worth supplied by the United States and not yet paid for. U. S. Ambassador Henry Ca bot Lodge, appealing for the assembly to adjourn proceedings to give King Saud time to me diate, accused Gromyko of "play ing a game." Despite "soothing statements," Gromyko said, the United Stales was attempting to have Turkey start a major war and drag in the entire North Atlantic Treaty organization. "Merely for the record," said Lodge, "I will say that the heart of the North Atlantic Treaty is the statement that an attack on one is an attack on all. In other words, we stay where we are attacked . . . "Remember that the North Atlantic Treaty was only evolv ed after the Soviet Union had gobbled up Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Evidence Indicates Visitors at Campus At Southern Oregon Ashland Proof was not positive but plenty of evi dence was on hand this morn ing for Southern Oregon col lege sludents'lo assume that their campus had been visited during the night by represen tatives of Oregon College of Education. The letters "OCE" were cut into the lurf in the center of Fuller field where football teams of the two schools vie on Saturday afternoon. An effigy was hung on the north goal post bearing the names of "Maurer." "Romine," and "Akins." Ron and Larry Maur er and Chuck Romine are play ers and Al Akins is coach of Southern Oregon gridders. "OCE 57 Champs" was painted on the press box and "OCE Champs" on the gym nasium door. A yellow streak was painted down the dressing room door. No one was caught in the act of cutting the turf or doing the painting and, if the cul prits were from, the Monmouth school, they apparently had de parted from Ashland by the time the vandalism was dis covered. The Saturday game is a cru cial one in the Oregon Colle giate conference. City Officials Return From League Convention Roy Bashaw, Medford city at torney, and Vernon Thorpe, pub lic works director for Medford, returned Tuesday evening from Portland where they attended the annual convention of the League of Oregon Cities. Several other city officials, in cluding Medford Mayor John Snider, Richard B. Hogan, pur chasing agent for Medford, City Manager Robert A. Duff. Fire Chief Gordon Barker. Police Chief Charles Champlin, :and several councilmen. are expected to return later today. United ives Sand ays To End ith Turkey Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania and Albania. I am. not sure that I mentioned them all." Paraguayan Ambassador Pa cifico Montero De Vargas final ly proposed an indefinite ad journment in the "hope that me diation will be successful." Syrian Ambassador Farid Zeineddine, expelled from Wash ington earlier this year, tacked on an amendment that the ad journment be not longer than three days in effect, Friday afternoon. The Syrian amendment was approved, 33-32 with 15 absten tions. Juvenile Office to Move to Detention Home Next Tuesday The Jackson county juvenile office will be moved into the new juvenile detention home on the fairgrounds starting Tues day morning, Mrs. Kay Crowell, juvenile officer, informed the county court this morning". Depending on the arrival of special institutional furniture, the home will not be ready for occupancy until some time in December, she said. Prior to the opening an open house will be held for three days for the pub lic and officials from Oregon, Washington and California. A special ceremony is also planned for the opening, but de tails are yet to be worked out, she said. Grading Around Home Grading of the area around the home has been completed. A parking lot has been pre pared also, she said. A concrete base for the fence around the maximum security unit is ex pected to be erected soon. The concrete base is now being set. The telephone system is al most completed. One line will connect with the telephone of fice and the other will be an extension from the new Jackson county courthouse switchboard. Kitchen furniture is about in and assembled, Mrs. Crowell said. Mrs. Maude House, Phoe nix, is chairman of the subcom m i 1 1 e e on landscaping the grounds. Working with her is Larry Tweedy, juvenile counse lor. The remainder of the com mittee is yet to be selected. Bill Scibert, local architect, is donat ing a landscape sketch for plan ning the grounds, Mrs. Crowell added. 400 Cases of Flu At Fairview Home Salem OPi About 400 cases of what was thought to be Asian flu were reported at Fairview home for the mentally retarded here today. x Dr. Weldon C. Boge, the insti tution's medical director, said that mentally deficient children do not resist infection as well as normal children do. He said the medical problem was complicated by the fact that delivery of vaccine against the flu was delayed although it was ordered through the State Fi nance Department several months ago. Because not enough of the vaccine was available, Dr. Boge said the state had had to spend larger sums of money on anti biotic drugs to fight the flu. Radios, Iron, TV Set Taken From Local Store Three radios, a steam iron, and a portable television set were stolen from. Home Appli ance company Bargain Store, 303 South Front st., sometime Monday evening . or Tuesday morning, city police reported. The theft was discovered Tues day at 8:53 a.m. by the store manager, Randall Martin Gif-ford. Price 10 Cents Tribune Press Full Leased Wire No. 157 United States To Reappraise Aid To Yugoslavia Final Decision Yet To Be Made Washington OP) The United States announced today that it is "reappraising" its military and economic aid programs for Yu goslavia. But State Department spokes man Lincoln White said that so far as he knows no final decision has yet been made. He said previ ously planned shipments of jet aircraft, spare military parts and surplus agricultural commodi ties are proceeding to the Tito government. White said the reappraisal is taking place because of "recent developments." He did not spell these out but presumably re ferred principally to Yugoslav ia recognition of the Commu nist puppet government of East Germany. Move Approved West Germany has broken off diplomatic relations with Yugo-1 slavia as a result of the Yugoslav action. The United States has ex pressed general approval of West Germany's move. . U. S. authorities feared the ac tion by Yugoslavia might set off a chain reatcion in which other governments would recognize East Germany and" "thereby perv petuate the division of Germany. White said that although the United States is taking a new look at its aid programs for Yugoslavia, as far as he knows scheduled talks with the Yugo slavs on possible new shipments of U. S. surplus farm commod-1 ities will proceed. He did not know when those talks would begin. To Discuss Aspects White was asked to comment on the Yugoslav aid program as a result of a London report that the State Department already has decided to suspend all economic and most military aid to Yugo slavia. He said, "In the light of re cent developments we are reap praising our program with Yu goslavia. We expect to discuss the various aspects of this mat ter with the Yugoslavs but when this will take place I do not know at the moment." Motorcyclists Hurt In Accident Today Central Point Kenneth A. Lewis, Empire, Ore., suffered minor injuries about 11 a.m. to day when the motorcycle he was riding and a vehicle collided at the intersection of Highway 99, north, and Pine st., Central Point, according to Central Point police. Lewis, who is serving with the United States Navy in San Fran cisco, was taken to Rogue Val ley hospital by Medford Ambul ance service. Driver of the vehicle was Fre dia B. Peoples, route 1, box 202, Gold Hill. No citations were is sued, police said. Explosion Rocks Home; Murder-Suicide Blamed Portland (IP! An explosion rocked a southeast Portland home today killing a young man and his estranged wife in what police said apparently was a murder-suicide. The victims were identified as Donald Bunker, 21, and his wife, Barbara. Bunker was said to have been discharged from the Army recently. WEATHER r FORECAST: Mostly cloudy 'with occasional rain tonight and Thursday. Low tonight 45. High Thursday 60. . , Temp. HiEhPst Yestrdav Lowest this .Morning 47 Our Skies Tonight Sunrise 6:34 a.m. Sunset 5:i8 p.m. Moonset 5:44 p.m. First Quarter Oct. 30 PROMINENT STARS-" Square of Pegasus, high in south 9:32 p.m. VISIBLE PLANETS Venus and Saturn, low in southwest 6:07 p.m. Jupiter, rises 5:43 a.m. Registration Starts Thursday for State Health Meeting Here Registration will start tomor row morning for the Oregon Public Health association's an nual two-day meeting at the Jackson dounty courthouse. Topic for the convention will be "Atoms and Health" with presentations and discussions to give a laymen's explanation of atomic energy as it applies to public health. Sessions also are scheduled on new health legis lation and other health prob lems affecting Oregon. The first general session will start at 10 a.m. Thursday with Dr. Charles F. Blankenship, re gional medical director, U. S. public health service. San Fran cisco; Dr. Thomas Colasuonno, OPHA program committee, and Ryder. Berg, ; Medford High school instructor, participating. Thursday Meeting Dr. Jack C. Halderman, chief of the division of general health services, public health service, Washington, D.C., will lead the Thursday afternoon session, over which Dr. A. Erin Merkel, Jackson county health officer, will preside. Others on tomorrow after noon's program include James G. Terrill, chief of the radiolog ical health program, Washing ton, D. C; Dr. Ralph R. Sulli van, director of occupational health section, state board of health, Portland; and Connie James, director of public rela tions. Oregon Tuberculosis and Health association, Portland. The annual banquet, at which time the annual OPHA award will be presented, will be held at the Rogue Valley Country club starting at 7 p.m. Thurs day. New officers will be, in troduced and distinguished guests recognized. Third General Session ' ,. The third general session, scheduled Friday morning, will include panel discussions and a talk on the "Federal Water Con trol Program" by Curtiss M. Americans Stay Home As Saigon Celebrates Saigon HP) Americans, alert ed by sabotage bombings of three U.S. buildings, stayed off streets this morning while thou sands of Vietnamese massed in the City Hall to celebrate the first anniversary of the Hungar ian revolution. Saigon's 2,000 Americans all but about 200 of them employed by the United States government received strict instructions limiting their movement. United States officials told Americans to stay home except for going to and from work. The orders followed the bomb ings Tuesday of two American Army billets and of the United States Information Service (USIS) library in which 13 American military personnel were injured. The Vietnamese government believes the bombings were engi neered to embarrass the South Vietnam government. Economics Professor At Willamette Dies Salem iff) Dr. William M. Merrill, head of the economics department of Willamette uni versity here, collapsed and died a't his home this morning as he was preparing to leave for classes. Cause of death has not yet been determined. Dr. , Merrill was appointed Willamette professor of eco nomics in June. Everts Jr., director of division of sanitation and engineering, state board of health, Portland. The conference will end Fri day afternoon with Dr. E. E. Berg, president of the . Oregon Public Health association, pre siding, a conference summary by Dr. Blankenship, and a business meeting. Survey of County Wages Is Slated A representative of the Ore gon state civil service commis sion is expected to confer with the county court some time next week on a wage and employee survey of the county offices. Commissioner Ralph James said today. ' Aim of the survey is to equal ize salaries of Jackson county employees with the average salaries paid for similar jobs throughout the state, James ex plained. Such a study would in clude an examination of work loads in each of the offices, James added. ' Cost is estimated at $1,500. A total of 53,500 is allocated in the current county budget. This study will be similar to the one made in the city offices approximately two years ago, James said. Time required for the on-the-spot study will be about three weeks, he said. Lucas Quits State Liquor Commission . Salem iff) B a r n e y Lucas, Seaside, resigned today as a member of the S,tate Liquor Con trol Commission. Gov. Robert D. Holmes said he was accepting the resignation reluctantly and expressed his ap preciation to Lucas for work he has done with the commission and the amount of time he had devoted to the problems of re organization. Lucas, with Hugh Kirkpatrick and Martin Buchanan, were ap pointed to the commission last February. In his letter of resignation, Lucas said: "This is in accord ance with the condition I ac cepted the appointment, namely that I would give as much of my time as was necessary until the commission was reorganized." Lucas told the governor he thought the reorganization was "an established fact." Overhulse Ruled Eligible To Remain as President Salem 0P Attorney Gen eral Robert Y. Thornton said today that state Senate President Boyd Overhulse, Madras, would continue in office without being reelected "as long as the mem bers of the Senate do not deter mine to select another to take his place." Late News Washington IP The While House today announced the resig nation of Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. Washington ill The Defense department today announced the successful lest launching of a Vanguard earth satellite rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla. Washington (IP Federal Judge F. Dickinson Letts today barred James R. Hoffa from the Teamsters Union presidency but refused a request to place the union under direct court supervi sion. Washington IP Defense Secretary Neil T. McElroy revealed today that some Navy anti-submarine planes of the Atlantic fleet are armed with a recently developed atomic depth charge. Sputnik, Syria Will Be Topics For Discussion Proposals Planned To Strengthen Position Washington Iff) British Prime Minister Harold Macmil lan and President Eisenhower flew here today for summit talks on Russia's twin challenges Sputnik and Syria. Eisenhower returned from a New York speaking engagement with ilans to lead a "chin up" campaign to bolster America's confidence in its economic, sci entific and military strength. Macmillan landed 30 minutes later, on a direct flight from London. It was reported that he carried concrete proposals for Anglo-American partnership in space missile development, stronger inter-Allied scientific cooperation through NATO, and a common front against Russia's Middle East propaganda offen sive. Met at Airport The two leaders will meet in three days of informal talks be ginning this afternoon. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and Adm. Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy commission, met the British Prime Minister at the airport. Both Eisenhower and MacMil lan gave advance signs of offer ing concrete proposals to strengthen the West's position. Macmillan is expected to pre sent now proposals for Anglo American scientific cooperation, 'centering on nuclear weapons development. Eisenhower has in dicated he will seek better scien tific teamwork between the two nations. Both American and British of ficials hoped to capitalize on the goodwill created by Queen Eliza beth's visit to this country to hammer out important new Anglo-American accords on ma jor world issues. British Foreign Minister Sel wyn Lloyd, who has been here several days, and Dulles were scheduled to attend the opening meeting and an informal dinner to follow. Macmillan's visit was arrang ed soon after Russia's earth satellite was launched Oct. 4. It was announced while Britain"s Queen Elizabeth II was visiting North America. ' While the "big two" talks were expected to place consid erable emphasis on speeding Western military and scientific advances in the ligh,t of the So viet achievement, the occasion will give the two leaders and their advisers a chance to can vass the explosive Middle East situation. Oppose Summit Talks Diplomats were cool to a re port from London that Macmil lan will urge a new top level meeting with the Russians. The Eisenhower administration op poses three-power "summit" talks at a time when the Reds are likely to be tougher negoti ators than before their satellite success. It seems likely President Eis enhower is ready to assure Mac millan the administration will seek amendments in the 1946 Atomic Energy act when Con gress convenes in January. Such amendments would clear the way for closer nuclear coopera tion with Britain and other t ree Nations. Southern Pacific Court Case Upheld Salem OP) The State Su preme Court today upheld a Douglas County Circuit Court decision for Southern Pacific company, despite a jury verdict of 55,000 for Harry C. Marks. Marks was executor of the will of John E. Marks, who was killed when his truck stalled on railroad tracks and was hit by a train. In an opinion by Justice George Rossman, the court held that the train had given repeat ed blasts with its whistle, but that Marks had failed to get out of his truck until it was too late. The court said that Engineer Clarence W. Wilson did all he could to avoid hitting Marks. Bulletins
