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GETS LOCAL BEEF Ralph
cattleman, and newly elected association di
rector for the Pacific Northwest, extreme left,
looks on as D. W. C ' ; tenden, Kansas City,
Mo., executive sec .ry of the American
Pol'ed Hereford association, left, receives
Polled Hereford Business Great,
Association Man Says At Banquet
D. W. Chittenden, American
Polled Hereford association ex
ecutive secretary, set an opti
mistic keynote during last night's
banquet of the association in the
new National Guard Armory.
Approximately 175 people at
tended the dinner which capped
the first day of the two-day con
vention of the association here.
Chittenden stated emphatical
ly. '"The polled Hereford business
never looked better!"
This he said is due to two
things: The big improvement In
the cattle, and the improvement
in fitting and showing the polled
Hereford.
The association has made large
gains since the organization was
first started, he said. It began
with 11 men and 11 head of cat
tle and increased to 23,000 mem
bers and over a million head of
cattle.
Breeding Emphasized
The motto of the association
has always been "Breed the
beef up and leave the horns off,"
Chittenden pointed out. By ex
perimenting -with feeding and
breeding the polled Hereford
men have boosted the quality of
their livestock. Prices on this
breed have been increased to
such a degree that during one
year at the Great International
Livestock Exposition, the polled
Hereford sold for the top prices
in the show. This trend has con
tinued in many of the present
day shows throughout the coun
try. Chittenden said.
The most encouraging thing,
Chittenden pointed out. is the
large number of new buyers at
polled Hereford sales. The polled
Hereford is continuing to bring
good sale price averages through
out the country, the executive
secretary reiterated.
New Number Given
For Sheriff's Office
Telephone calls to the Jack
son county sheriff's office after
5 p.m. dail and on Saturdays,
Sundays, and holidays may be
made by dialing SPring 3-2800,
county court members said to
day. Only during the work hours.
Monday through Friday from 8
a.m. until 5 p.m. is the sheriff's
office reached through the court
house telephone number of
SPring 3-6211.
County residents were urged
by the members of the county
court to write the two numbers
on the first page of their tele
phone books.
Lodge Challenges Russians
To Stop Stirring Trouble
United Nations, N.Y. (IP)
U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge challenged the Russians
today to start "behaving like
good citizens" and stop stirring
up trouble between Syria and;
Turkey.
Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Gromyko was scheduled to
answer him today when the
General Assembly resumes its
Middle East debate.
Charges Expected
He and Syrian Foreign Minis
ter Salah El Bitar were expected
to press charges that Turkey,
prodded by the United States, is
threatening an attack on Syria.
Gromyko said 10 days ago the
attack was planned for "immed
diately after" the Turkish elec-
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Cook, Medford
some Rogue Valley beef from Mayor John
Sn;der. Looking on, at extreme right, is M.
P. Moore. Circle M ranch, Senatobia, Miss.
An estimated 175 people from throughout the
United States attended the banquet and Sun
day afternoon talks held in the armory.
Business has been so good
Chittenden said, the association
is planning to move into larger
quarters soon. Furnishing even
better proof of the effectiveness
of the polled Hereford in an edi
torial in the Oct. 1 issue of the
Aberdeen Angus journal.
Walter Holt, manager of the
Pacific International Exposition
in Portland, spoke on the bene
fits of showing livestock.
These, he said, include per
sonal advertising for the exhib
itor, promotion of new cattle
breeds, gaining new customers
from the show audience and dra
matically telling the story of
agriculture.
A man from the Pacific North
west became the best known
Hereford breeder from this sec
tion through constant showing
of his cattle Holt illustrated. An
exhibitor can do just as well with
Fund Drive Slated
For Halloween
The operation "The Trick is
to Treat" to aid world children
will be conducted on Halloween
in Medford. The annual oVive
to aid UNICEF, United National
International Children's Emer
gency Fund, will be a commun
ity wide program as last year
with a wider participation of
children, local officials report.
The young masked goblins
and ghosts, identified with of
ficial UNICEF insignia, will be
equipped with milk carton banks
in an effort to top Oregon's last
year donation of , S9500. The
trick will be to treat the world's
children from public gifts to
UNICEF.
Parent groups are to be at the
eight school gymnasiums which
will be opened at 6:30 p.m. on
Halloween evening, Oct. 31. They
will give out official cartons
and tags and instruct the chil
dren before they go out for col
lections. The Medford service clubs
will cooperate by providing re
freshments when the children re
turn to the schools with their
donations.
The committee planning the
program this year is the Med
ford Chapter. Oregon United Na
tions association, with Mrs. Har
lan P. Bosworth, chairman. She
will be assisted by Mrs. E. E.
Kelly, Mrs. Carl Bismark, Mrs.
Moore Hamilton, and Mrs. H.
W. Morrow.
Cartons for the collection will
be furnished by Jorgenson's
dairy.
tions. The elections were held
Sunday and dispatches from
Istanbul today said there were
no indications of such prepara
tions. Resolution Sponsored
Seven nations, supported by
the United States, were ready
to present a resolution asking
Secretary General Dag Hammar
skjold to start mediating the
Turkish-Syrian crisis, on the
spot if necessary. The sponsors
were Norway, Japan, Canada,
Spain, Peru, Paraguay and
Ghana.
Syria already has said it
would resist this move even
though the Syrian Speaker of
Parliament, A k r a m Hourani,
first suggested it.
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a few head of cattle as a train
load he added.
Follow Type Changes
By following opinions of show
judges the public can follow
the type changes in livestock,
Holt explained. The show ring
is the best place in which to
compare cattle, he said. It's much
more difficult than travelling
from farm to farm.
"We must keep before the
American people where food
comes f.-om and the cost of pro
ducing it," Holt emphasized.
"That makes up the story of
American agriculture, the fourth
largest industry in the United
States."
Grass is the greatest natural
resource in the nation, and par
ticularly in the west, Holt said.
Importance of the grassland
products cattle and sheep, are
emphasized in the Pacific Coast
states where population is rapid
ly expanding and requires more
and more food.
Grass-land products would
probably surpass timber in Ore
r.o if rnmnared on a finished
product basis as timber is, Holt
added.
Feedlots Increase
The increasing number of
feedlots on the Pacific Coast will
probably overcome the hardship
now being worked by differential
freight rates favoring the mid
west. Holt predicted.
The banquet wound up Sun
day afternoon events which in
cluded speeches from F. L. Rob
inson, Robinson's Polled Here
fords. Kearney, Neb.; Russell
Pfieffer, Carnation Milk farm.
Duval, Wash., and Freeland
Farnsworth, Acehi Polled Here
fords, Porterville, Calif.
A number of talks were sched
uled for today's session to be
followed by viewing polled Here
fords at the county fair grounds.
A panel discussion on breeding,
feeding, testing and selling was
scheduled for 1:30 p.m. today.
Cattle demonstrations and a sum
mary of the conference was to
follow. The two-day session was
to adjourn at 4 p.m.
Subdivision Talk
Sei For Wednesday
An informal discussion of the
proposed city subdivision ordi
nance has been scheduled by the
city council and the city plan
ning commission on Wednesday
at 7:30 p.m. in the council cham
bers, according to Mayor John
Snider.
Snider said the meeting is not
a public hearing. The purpose is
to familiarize the council with
portions of the ordinance before
the public hearing at the next
council meeting on Nov. 7.
The mayor said several in
terested citizens will sit in on
the discussion.
WEATHER
FORECAST: For or low clouds
in the valley tonight and
Tuesday morning. Partly
cloudy Tuesday afternoon.
Low tonight 38. High Tues
day 55. Temp.
Highest Yesterday 58
Lowest This Morning 37
Our Skies Tonight
Sunrise :40 a.m.
Sunset 5:11 p.m.
Moonsrt 10:10 p.m.
First Quarter Oct. 30
PROMINENT STAR
Fomalhuat. due south 8:37 p.m.
VISIBLE PLANETS
aiurn, sets . 6:38 p.m.
Venus, low in
southwest S:?8 p.m.
Jupiter, rises 5:?7 a.m.
Mars, between Jupiter and the
Sun.
By UNITED PRESS
Syria and Russia signed
agreement today
Damascus that tied Syria firmly
to the economy of the Soviet
Union. This is in addition to
vast military aid.
The agreement, including a
Soviet loan estimated at S100
million, firmly- entrenches Rus
sia in Syria as a builder of dams,
railroads and deep water port at
Latakia capable of handling
major vessels.
Warning To West
Premier Sabri Assali, in an
nouncing today's signing, warned
that Syria will not be affected
by threats or pressures from the
West and that "it's high time im
perialists reconsidered their
policy toward Syria after their
failure to make Syria deviate
from her sovereign policy."
The trade pact took on un
usual significance because of the
joint Soviet and Syrian charges
against the United States and
Turkey and their insistence that
Turkey with U.S. backing plan
ned to attack Syria.
Both Syria and Russia were
expected to . air the charges
further in the United Nations
today with answers to Henry
Cabot Lodge's blistering attack
on Russia last Friday.
New Syrian Charges
There were new Syrian
charges against Turkey over the
week end. A foreign ministry
spokesman said 100,000 Turkish
troops were poised to strike
against Syria and that border
violations .were a daily occur
rence. And in Cairo the Egyptian
Middle East News Agency quoted
a Syrian spokesman as saying
an armed Turkish patrol crossed
Ithe Syria border Saturday and
opened fire on a village near the
frontier. The agency said the in
cident occurred at Amouda, near
Kamishly.
Russia has charged that Tur
key planned its alleged attack
on Syria immediately after Sun
day's" Turkish parliamentary
elections, but Istanbul dispatches
said there was no sign of mili
tary activity.
Training Classes
To Slarf For UMC
.More than 100 United Med
ford Crusade workers are
pected tomorrow morning
ex
for a training session on the Home
Crusade portion of this year's
drive.
The meeting, which gets
underway at 10 a.m. at the Red
Cross Building, 60 Hawthorne
st., will be held to instruct the
workers on fund raising pro
cedures and acquaint them with
their team captains and co
ordinators, it was explained.
Bob Johnson, general chairman
of UMC, will be on hand to
familiarize the workers with the
UMC picture and the standing
of this year's campaign.
Workers will see a series of
slides presented by Dick House.
The slides show the work of the
various agencies supported by
the United Medford Crusade.
Mrs. Ray Reeter will instruct
the workers on procedures and
distribute the campaign sup
plies. Mrs. Eugene Devoe and Mrs.
Jo Herrin are co-chairmen of
the Home Crusade division.
Another Class Sei
For Driver School
Medford's driver improve
ment school will begin another
session on Nov. 6 at 7:30 p.m.
in the council chambers, accord
ing to instructor Clyde Fichtner,
city police captain.
Fichtner said five students
have been recommended to the
school by the municipal judge.
He said anyone wishing to at
tend is welcome to do so by
calling him at the police station.
The school was first started
in September to improve the
traffic and driving attitude of
drivers. The school is not in
tended as punishment, but as a
help to drivers, Fichtner said.
Message Calls for
Increase in Basic
School Support
Adjournment by
Week End Urged
Salem (IT) The first special
session of the Oregon Legisla
ture in 22 years opened shortly
after 10 a.m. today. The Sen
ate adopted two resolutions,
one designating all officers of
the 1957 session lo serve in
the special session and the
other providing for the joint
session in the House chambers
to hear Gov. Robert D.
Holmes' message.
In the House, Rep. Clarence
Barton, Coquille Democrat,
was re-named chairman of the
Tax Committee which will
consider Gov. Holmes' two
bills.
Salem (If) Gov. Robert D.
Holmes today urged the Oregon
Legislature to pass two bills cut
ting personal income taxes 10
per cent and increasing basic
school support S10 per census
child, and then adjourn by the
week end.
In a message to both houses
gathered in the first special ses
sion in 22 years, the governor
outlined his tax reduction plan.
He said the tvo bills embody
ing them were already prepared.
When the; governor called the
special session last summer he
planned to reduce income taxes
by S6 . million a year and in
crease the basic school support
fun by $95 to $105 per census
chfld.
But the governor said the lar
ger income tax cut was the out
growth of subsequent confer
ences with legislative leaders. He
said the tax commission had ad
vised him there will be a state
surplus of $69 million as of June
30, 1958. '
GOP View Differs
Republicans advocate return
ing all but $10 to $20 million of
the surplus to the people.
The governor defended his
plan by saying it would balance
receipts and expenditures so
that taxpayers will pay no more
than the current costs of govern
ment. Secondly, the governor said,
the state should have at least a
$50 million cushion of surplus
so that taxes would not have to
be raised again in 1959.
"Neither your legislative lead
ers, the chairman of the tax
commission and the director of
finance and administration, nor
your governor, has any desire,
. ... either for political gain or
for political acclaim ... to offer
the people a tax gift now that
would have to be paid for in
1959 by increased tax burdens,"
Gov. Holmes said.
1959 Tax Raise Threat
"Without an ample reserve,
the 1959 Legislature would al
most certainly have to raise tax
rates," he said.
The governor also defended
keeping a $50 million surplus
on grounds that it would be
needed for deferred building
programs for both state institu
tions and higher learning.
He also foresaw the possibil
ity that estimated state revenues
might shrink considerably be
tween now and January 1959
due to economic conditions.
"In view of these' facts, pru
dence will insist that we retain
a large financial cushion against
the threat of a depression, the
prevention of which rests with
the national administration," he
said. Oregon's economic slump
w-as not due to its tax structure,
the governor said, but rather to
the Eisenhower administration's
tight money and power policies, i
DOW-JONES AVERAGES:
New York (IP) Dow - Jones
final stock averages: 30 indus
trials 432.14, off 3.01; 20 rail
roads 111.23, off 1.18; 15 utili
ties 64.41, up 0.43, and 65 stocks
147.12, off 0.76. Sales today
were about 1,800.000 shares
compared with 2,400,000 shares
Friday.
Taxation Committee
Unable To kg
eeommetinations
Salem (IP) The Legislative
Interim Taxation committee met
here Sunday and after an hour's
discussion adjourned, unable to
agree on a committee recom
mendation for disposal of the
state's $69 million surplus.
Democratic Sen. Walter Pear
son, chairman of the committee,
said with a grin:
"I don't suppose there is any
chance of this committee coming
up with a recommendation for a
tax reduction. However, we
might introduce the governor's
proposal as a committee bill."
Sen. Rudie Wilhelm Jr., Port
land Republican, said he had a
"batch" of bills, and suggested
that all tax bills be introduced
without recommendation.
Lively Exchange Held
But nothing came of the dis
cussion other than reiteration
that a bill would be introduced
Eisenhower, Top
NATO Commander
Schedule Meeting
Washington (IP) President
Eisenhower brought in the top
NATO military commander to
day for a discussion expected to
cover reported plans for a "Sum
mit" NATO conference to deal
with Russia's military and
scientific threat.
Eisenhower scheduled the
White House meeting with Gen.
Lauris Norstad, commander of
the North Atlantic Treaty
Forces, at a time when drastic
new programs were afoot or in
prospect to meet the challenge of
rocketing Russian science.
The United States entered the
fourth full week of the new
space age with new moves ex
pected toward greater U.S. ef
forts in basic research, which
underlines all major break
throughs in military sicence. The
President was reported today to
favor more government spending
on basic research.
May Hold NATO Talks
An official announcement also
was expected this week that Ei
senhower will attend a "sum
mit" meeting of heads of the
NATO alliance in Paris in mid
December. .The aim of the meet
ing would be to strengthen allied
unity and set in motion new
ways for Western scientific and
weapons pooling.
The Air Force said Sunday
night it had successfully tested
a new long-range guided missile,
the "Rascal." The missile is
carried by bombers for strikes
at targets miles away.
And Vice Adm. Thomas S.
Combs, deputy chief of Naval
Operations, said the Navy soon
will be able to launch its Polaris
intermediate range ballistic
missile from submarines far be
low the surface of the sea.
ulletins
Madrid, Spain m An Iber
ian Airlines DC3 plane with
22 persons aboard crashed to
night on the outskirts of
Madrid. An airlines official
said that all on board, includ
ing several foreigners,
killed.
were
Washington OP The Army
today announced development
of a new antiaircraft missile
and reported encouraging pro
gress in perfecting a rocket to
intercept and destroy enemy
ballistic missiles.
Washington (IP) The AFL
CIO will launch a $1,200,000
public relations campaign next
year to restore organized labor's
reputation.
ree on
in the house to correct a flaw in
the excise tax bill.
Liveliest exchange of the
meeting came when Sen. Lee
Ohmart. Salem Republican,
asked Richard Eymann, execu
tive secretary of the State Tax
commission, if the commission
w-ould furnish the committee
with figures of a probable sur
plus on June 30, 1958, and on
the following June 30 as well.
"We do not have the histori
cal background in view of the
recession taking place in Oregon
to furnish such figures," Ey
mann answered.
"We were brought here in spe
cial session," Ohmart declared,
"on the supposition there would
be a $70 million surplus, give a
million or two either way, by
June 30, 1958. Now we are told
by the tax commission that they
cannot produce a figure on that
date, nor for the year follow
ing." Gloom in Jobs Seen
Ohmart asked Eymann how
he expected members of the
legislature to work out a tax
reduction program without the
information concerning both
years.
Eymann finally said that if
economic Conditions did not
change. too greatly there would
be a $69 million surplus by
1958 and at the end of the next
year there could be an addition
al $10 million surplus.
Myron Katz, economic coordi
nator for the committee, pre
sented an economic indicator for
Oregon which showed a large in
crease in unemployment for the
state and a drop in many indus
tries compared with a year ago.
Two Said Injured
When Car Hits Pole
Two persons were injured
Sunday at about 6:40 a.m. when
their car left the highway and
struck a power pole in the 5000
block of South Pacific highway,
according to state police.
Both were taken to Rogue
Valley Memorial hospital. The
driver, Dwight Kenneth Horton,
16, of Rogue River, was treated
for lacerations about the head.
His passenger, Wayne Dunagan,
30, of 905 Reddy ave., was treat
ed for bruises of the legs and
cuts about the head, according to
the hospital. Hospital authorities
said both were released after
treatment, but Dunagan was
later readmitted about 10:30
p.m. Sunday. He was still con
fined this morning, they said.
State police said Horton
aparently fell asleep at the
wheel.
"Yoo Hoo,
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Pravda Editorial
Follows Pattern
Of Other Upheavals
Khrushchev Seen as
Victor in Struggle
London (IP) Western dip
lomats predicted today that the
dismissal of Marshal Georgi K.
Zhukov as Soviet defense minis
ter will be followed shortly, pos
sibly within the next few days,
by additional changes in Soviet
leadership.
They expect the changes to
establish Communist party lead
er Nikita Khruschev firmly in
control.
That probability seemed to be
forecast in a long editorial in to
day's issue of the Communist
party newspaper Pravda. That
editorial stated in the wake of
Zhukov's "release" from his job
Saturday that 'party direction"
has been and still is the only
source of strength in the Soviet
Union.
The editorial made no mention
of Zhukov or his future. But
there have been predictions
ranging from a report that he
would be named premier of the
Soviet Union to one that he
would be appointed ambassador
to Washington.
It was noted that the Pravda
editorial was similar in tone to
editorials that have preceded
other recent major reorganiza
tions in the Kremlin high com
mand. Pravda made it clear that the
Communist party was the chief
architect of the victories of the
Bolshevik revolution 40 years
ago, the civil war and World
War II.
There was no official or un
official Soviet guidance on what
if any new post was planned for
Zhukov. But diplomatic obser
vers noted that the Pravda edi
torial went out of its way to
emphasize that the party was the
supreme authority over the arm
ed forces.
This seemed a clear indication
that Khrushchev, as head of the
party, was the victor in what
may have been the latest struggle
for power in Soviet ranks over
Zhukov, as head of the armed
forces.
It also may have been only
coincidence, but the last time
Pravda spoke so strongly of
"party unity" and the major role
of the party in all affairs, a num
ber of top officials were re
moved from their posts. These
included former Foreign Minis
ter V. M. Molotov and Dmitri
Shepilov, former Premier Georgi
Malenkov and Deputy Premier
Lazar Kaganovich.
The latter four men were
castigated later for alleged
"anti-party" and "anti-state"
activities and exiled to minor
jobs. Whether that happens to
Zhukov remains to be seen.
No one in western capitals
had any firm idea of what the
future held for the Soviet World
War II hero, who was "relieved"
from his post Saturday.
(See story on page 6)
Turk Voters Return
Menderes To Power
Istanbul, Turkey (IP) Turk
ish voters returned Premier Ad
nan Menderes' ruling Democratic
party to power today but sharply
slashed its majority in Parlia
ment. The Socialist-minded Republi
can People's Party cried foul
and declared itself "moral vic
tor." But a government spokes
man said it was a triumphant
vindication of Menderes' pro
Western policies abroad and pri
vate enterprise system of govern
ment at home.
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